Roundup - 112 Experts Share their First Online Income - Promote and Amplify your Content with Amplify Blog

• Updated on: 2017-10-12
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Do you remember your Very first Online Income?
Have you always wondered about increasing your Income Sources?
Then you have arrived at the right place!
When I started my online business, one of those things that were right at the top of the priority chain was to increase the number of sources from where I get my money. After all, you shouldn’t keep all your eggs in the same basket.
Here, we are presenting 112+ experts who share their very first online income, that is as many as 100+ new ways you can diversify your own income streams!
Income Roundup
1) Ted Rubin | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Ted Rubin
@TedRubin http://amplifyblog.com/ I earned my first “online income” when I went to work in 20 years ago working with best selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change Seth Godin at Yoyodyne.  Tweet this
I earned my first “online income” when I went to work in 20 years ago working with best selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change Seth Godin at Yoyodyne, which was acquired in Q4 1998 by Yahoo! In 1997 I was looking for something exciting and new and was determined to move back to NY from South Florida and get back into the action. I decided this new thing called the “Internet” was the way to go. I read an article about Seth Godin and since he mentioned he was always on the lookout for talent I was determined to work with him at his start-up Yoyodyne. I sent resumes to probably 100 companies and when Yoyodyne called I knew it was meant to be.
I’ve had a front row seat to the evolution of online marketing from what was traditional media and commerce first experiencing the move to digital, which was nothing more than simple communication and catalog tools, to full fledged digital commerce and communication… and now scaled Social Communication which so wonderfully incorporates this Relationship component that is for me, the ultimate value. #NoLetUp!
2) Caz and Craig| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest
Caz and Craig
@yTravelBlog http://amplifyblog.com/ I’ll never forget the first $75 I made online through a sponsored giveaway! It was like winning the lotto!”
– Tweet this
I’ll never forget the first money I made online. It was $75 for sponsored content to promote a giveaway. It was a win for me and my readers as it was a great prize. I was contacted by the hostel, and without knowing what I was doing, I negotiated the deal with them. My blog was only 6 months old so it was a promising sign that I could turn this into a business. This was back in 2010 when travel blogging was still knew and there was not much information around on how to monetize.
3) Andy Nathan | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Andy Nathan
@andynathan http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first income online income was for a sale of my parents piano on eBay in 2006. Tweet this
My parents were moving from my childhood home, and needed to get rid of some items including the piano. I encouraged them to use eBay. It sold quickly for a few hundred dollars. Life was good!
4) Anh Nguyen | Blog | Facebook | Twitter
Anh Nguyen
  @4nhNguyen http://amplifyblog.com/”My first income online happened in February 2016 and the exact amount is $9.41.” – Tweet this
“My first income online happened in February 2016 and the exact amount is $9.41. It comes from an affiliate sale I made for a product on ThemeForest. I only discovered it about a month later when I went on the site to check something. When I saw on the upper right corner a number that’s not $0, I was absolutely thrilled. I mean, almost 10 bucks! Making money online used to sound like a fairy tale, and I made it.
As for the process to earn that, I’m fairly sure it’s thanks to one of my social media channel. My blog was fairly new back then and there weren’t much in terms of organic traffic. Nowadays, my main source of income comes from SEO and keyword research.”
5) Lilach Bullock | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Lilach Bullock
@lilachbullock ://amplifyblog.com/ My very first try at making a living online was years ago, when I started creating and selling ebooks for virtual assistants. – Tweet this
My very first try at making a living online was years ago, when I started creating and selling ebooks for virtual assistants. Basically, they could use this book to help them generate more clients; it was quite lucrative, but then I noticed social media’s huge potential – and I had to get right on that.
6)Bill Gassett | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Bill Gassett
  @massrealty http://amplifyblog.com/ One of the smartest things I have ever done for my business is creating a well optimized real estate blog. – Tweet this
One of the smartest things I have ever done for my business is creating a well optimized real estate blog. This in fact has been the foundation of my success for many years. Entering the blogging world before many other real estate agents even considered it has been a God send. Given the length of time I have been pumping out quality real estate content, my digital footprint online can be seen in many places. The income I have generated from my blog has been phenomenal. In fact, I can attribute around a six figure income yearly to my real estate blogging efforts.
One of the things I would like to focus more on this year besides evergreen content is more community based information. While evergreen continue will continue to be useful for many years, local content has a place for capturing business as well. One of the better ways to do this is by creating well optimized local community pages. Consumers love to deal with a local real estate expert. Community pages allow you to show off your real estate expertise. Here is an example of a Realtors guide to Westborough Massachusetts Real Estate. Wouldn’t you agree if you want information on Westborough real estate or just some sound local advice, this would come in handy?
People love to work with people who are knowledgeable with their craft. My blogging will continue to provide information that answers peoples questions. I expect the income to follow.
@zacjohnson http://amplifyblog.com/ The first money I made online was through affiliate marketing. – Tweet this
The first money I made online was through affiliate marketing.
Atish Ranjan
@TechTricksWorld http://amplifyblog.com/ First income is something you never forget. Do remember it to motivate yourself. Tweet this
When I started blogging, I was not known to the earning capability of blogging. I just started out to learn and share. Moreover, I later learned about Google Adsense, and technically the first earning started to come from Adsense but the first cheque I got of 9,898 INR after around 8 months. That means earning started in cents earlier but I got the amount after 8 months when the Adsense account reached in 7th month around $95 and in next month more to reach the threshold.
Apart from that, after starting out the blog, and working on it for around 5-6 months, I was contacted by a guy who offered a sponsored blog post. I didn’t have any idea about that but he did tell me that he will pay for posting article with his client’s link. That offer was of $40, and I consider it as the first earning which I got from the Sponsored post.
I was not known to the process but when the guy contacted, he told me that this is how a sponsored post deal is done. So, I did and made my first income online.
9) Roxana Nasoi | Blog | Facbook | Twitter | Linkedin
Roxana Nasoi
@roxanasoi http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first online #income story: 2009. online #freelancing through a marketplace (now gone) – Tweet this
I’m not new to working for myself or freelancing gigs. The first time I made real money, I was 10years old. My dad’s associate would ask me to go do his grocery shopping and tell me to keep the change as a way of payment for the service. He explained to me that nothing is free and everything had a cost. And that it was natural in the business world. I was used to making pocket money even in elementary or high school, from guided tours to sponsored chess tournaments. But when I left for university, that secondary income stream disappeared. I was in a new city. I knew no one there. My scholarship would cover the housing expenses in the dorms and maybe some of the books and courses I needed. But pocket money? No way. So I remembered my brother’s stories from Uni of how the IT guys were making money working online on freelancing platforms. I thought, “Does it really have to be IT?”, and started looking for online gigs. My very first project that I won on my own was a copywriting project, that paid like crap. I worked so hard for 1 week to make my first $50 online. It was 2009. I then told myself, “There’s no way people are writing content on the web and get paid this little. I must be doing something wrong”. So I started looking for a better client. And found him. We worked together for about 4 months, until he told me I’m too smart to be writing crappy articles for him. Fast forward, 2017. That sentence got me where I am today, in a way. Thanks, Shaun, I’ll #neverforget.
10) Uttoran Sen | Blog  | GuestCrew | Facebook | Twitter | Google+ | Instagram | Linkedin  | AmplifyBlog
Uttoran Sen
@uttoransen http://amplifyblog.com/ My first online income came from a survey site that sent me a $1 check, that was 2004 and I still have it somewhere … – Tweet this
Ages back, perhaps around 2003 – while checking my emails I saw an ad on the top that said we can have a free blog by clicking here. I thought I could write something and share it with the world, people will be able to read it online. I quickly jumped on it, it was a blogspot blog but I looked more and even found out Yahoo’s GeoCities free blogs which had been shut down some time back.
That was the time when I researched more about it all and found a survey site that used to pay money for surveys. I signedup and earned a dollar and wanted to verify if it was legit – so I quickly withdrew it via. check. Weeks later I got the check but you can’t get an international check cleared unless it is about $12, because there are some fees that needs to be cut … and the check was returned back to me. I worked on the site a bit more and reached $100 and made another withdraw – this time the check got cleared and I finally had the money!
From this I learnt quite a few things, firstly – as an Indian you are likely to get less survey offers so rather than doing the surveys yourself if you can refer people from the Western Countries then you will earn more. Money provides motivation like none other – and by the time I got the money cleared, I had already started making niche blogs and started several other ventures and startups that I had completely forgotten about those early incomes! Trying to remember about those now is like going through a really old memory lane!
11) Corina Ramos | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Corina Ramos
@NotNowMomsBusy http://amplifyblog.com/ When you have an engaging community and busy blog, you can make money blogging as an influencer. – Tweet this
My first online income was for paid content.
I was searching for ways to make money blogging when I came across a blog post that showed readers how they could monetize a blog by becoming an influencer and work with brands to promote their product. But there were some requirements I had to meet in order to be able to participate in influencer campaigns.
But it wasn’t until my second year of blogging when I finally qualified for my first sponsored campaign with a cereal brand. Before then I had worked on meeting the requirements they were looking for.
So I focused on growing my blog by engaging with other bloggers by reading and sharing their content, writing guest posts for other blogs in the same niche and sharing my content and other blogger’s content on social media.
@davidhartshorne – Tweet this
My first online income came via affiliate marketing. Soon after starting my blog I started writing about some of the products I was using.
I’m still a big fan of the themes and plugins from ThriveThemes, so it’s appropriate that my first online income came from their affiliate scheme.
It’s always easier to write about products that you like and trust yourself. And when your audience sees your genuine enthusiasm then they’re more likely to buy the products, too.
13) Minuca Elena | Blog | Facebook | Twitter  | Instagram
Minuca Elena
  @MinucaElena http://amplifyblog.com/ If you want to earn money online providing services is the fastest way of building an income source. – Tweet this
I am a freelance writer specialized in creating expert roundups. I provide quality content, bring huge traffic and get backlinks. When I started I first created an expert roundup to launch my blog, and one of the experts that contributed to my post liked it and later she became my first client by hiring me to make a similar post for her. That roundup was very successful and things kinda took off and I started making roundups for other bloggers and companies.
If you want to earn money online providing services is the fastest way of building an income source.
Of course, you can monetize your site through other methods, like Adsense or affiliate links but it will take more time to get a consistent income from which you can support yourself.
It all depends on your skills. SEO is a great way of earning money as it is a very well-paid job but also pretty difficult. Other options can be graphic design, social media management (maybe it seems hard to believe but there are people that pay others to manage their Pinterest, Instagram or Twitter account or to moderate Facebook groups).
There are many ways of earning money online, you just need to work hard, keep learning and persevere.
@lorrainereguly http://amplifyblog.com/ Don’t make these mistakes when you’re earning online! Tweet this
My first online income came from Greg Narayan from Dear Blogger.
I had been reading articles on his site and I eventually caught his attention through all the comments I left. I then noticed he had no posting schedule and so I offered to help him develop one.
Ultimately, he hired me to help him with various things.
I did social sharing for him as well as blog post writing and editing.
I was a new entrepreneur at that time, and there are a few things I wish I would’ve done differently.
I shared the lessons I learned about earning online in 10 Lessons Learned from My First Freelancing Client (who was both My Worst and Best Client).
I am now a successful freelancer (and author!) who runs Wording Well. I offer four different services, and I help others become authors too.
15) Emory Rowland | Blog | Facebook | Twitter
Emory Rowland
@emoryrowland http://amplifyblog.com/ “Wow, this stuff is real. They actually pay me for just pasting an ad on my site.” Tweet this
I remember getting my first check from Commission Junction in 2002 and thinking “Wow, this stuff is real. They actually pay me for just pasting an ad on my site.” I kept testing advertisers and researching what people were saying about the best affiliate networks on forums, directories and review sites and dived in. That was a long time ago but thinking back, that very first check had a huge impact on me and pushed me into a career in digital marketing.
Donna Merrill
@donna_tribe http://amplifyblog.com/ Your first online income is your Self-Proof that You Can Do It! – Tweet this
I remember earning a very tiny commission for an affiliate product I was promoting to my very tiny email list.
Not a big deal, right?
Well it was.
I earned a couple bucks and proved to myself that “Yes, I Can Do It.”
I didn’t have a product yet, my email list was under 100 people, and I didn’t know anything about affiliate marketing.
Yet, I sent out an email to my list and made a few bucks.
Although I don’t recall the exact product or commission amount, I remember the “Yes, I Can Do It” feeling like it was yesterday.
I always infuse that “feeling” into everything I do in my online business.
It always reassures me, that whatever I’m working on… a blog post or a new product launch of my own… that I’m going to make it happen in a big way.
Ever since that first commission, my online business has been simply a matter of refining, redefining and scaling.
And a wonderful journey it has been.
17) Erik Emanuelli | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Erik Emanuelli
@ErikEmanuelli http://amplifyblog.com/In 2010, I earned my first 10$ online selling a banner space on my blog. I was excited! – Tweet this
It was middle of 2010 when I started blogging and I earned my first online income with the
sale of a banner space. 10$ for one month. I was contacted directly by an advertiser via e-mail.
It was not that much, but I felt excited at that time,
because I realized making money with the internet was indeed possible!
18) Erika Mohssen-Beyk | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Erika Mohssen-Beyk
@ErikaMohssenBey http://amplifyblog.com/ Getting traffic to a website by building an audience with a Facebook page works. – Tweet this
My first income online was from Adsense.
I have a website which I put Adsense on it. and it made 30C$
I was not even thinking that it will make money, but I got an email from
Google, they wanted me to put my bank account information.
Which I did, but it took quite a while until it made enough money to get paid,
because the threshold is 100C$.
I started another website and a Facebook page and put Adsense on the site.
I did post the content on Facebook and when it I had enough likes I boosted the post.
I got good traffic and my first money from Adsense was around !60C$.
This was the first money I made online.
Getting traffic to a website by building an audience with a Facebook page works.
19) Christopher Jan Benitez | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Amplifyblog |
Christopher Jan  Benitez
 @christopherjanb http://amplifyblog.com/ My first online writing gig in 2007 paved the way for my success as a freelance writer. – Tweet this
My first income online was from Adsense.
I have a website which I put Adsense on it. and it made 30C$
I was not even thinking that it will make money, but I got an email from
Google, they wanted me to put my bank account information.
Which I did, but it took quite a while until it made enough money to get paid,
because the threshold is 100C$.
I started another website and a Facebook page and put Adsense on the site.
I did post the content on Facebook and when it I had enough likes I boosted the post.
I got good traffic and my first money from Adsense was around !60C$.
This was the first money I made online.
David Leonhardt
@amabaie http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first online sale was my book on happiness. Tweet this
My very first online sale was my book on happiness. I had a makeshift website that I hand-coded using tables. This was back in 2001, long before anybody envisaged HTML5. The first sales were actually by driving traffic to the book’s pages on Amazon and iUniverse. I made $3.00/sale on iUniverse, and $2.00/sale on Amazon.
I followed up with Ezine adds and Clickbank (yeah, that was before the word “blog” existed).
I went on to hand-code two more websites before succumbing to more complex coding through CMS’s and professional help.
The book went on to sell several thousand copies. Enough to buy a few dinners, but not enough to make me rich. Most importantly, it was the foundation for an online career as a writer and as the head of a writing agency.
What’s the moral of the story? That first sale can be very important. It can launch a career. Don’t worry if you make only $2.00 or $3.00.
21) Evan Carmichael | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Evan Carmichael
@EvanCarmichael http://amplifyblog.com/ “I sold biotech software, sucked at the start, eventually built it to 30 counties and got acquired.” – Tweet this
“I sold biotech software, sucked at the start, eventually built it to 30 counties and got acquired.”
22) Janice Wald| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest
Janice Wald
@MrsPaznanski http://amplifyblog.com/ One of the reasons I moved to a self-hosted site was so I could start monetizing my blog. I soon started a blog coaching service. blogging tools ! How can I pick a few? I’ll try. – Tweet this
One of the reasons I moved to a self-hosted site was so I could start monetizing my blog. I soon started a blog coaching service.
I had a reader who had a friend who kept pestering him to improve his blog, so he hired me for blog coaching!
It was really rather funny. Instead of telling me what he wanted help with, he had his friend tell me what aspects of his blog to help him improve, so it was a three-way arrangement. That reader became a good friend of mine. He has since passed away, but I will never forget he was my first paid client.
23) Karola Karlson | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Karola Karlson
@KarolaKarlson http://amplifyblog.com/ If you want to get your first online income, don’t expect it to find you – you’re the one who should make the first step and reach out to people. – Tweet this
For me, the online income’s always revolved around copywriting – it’s the best way I know to mix my passion for playing with words with work. I guess for most people, getting their first job happens via their network. It was kind of the same to me. After my first 12 months working as a marketer, I reached out to a marketing blog with a guest blogging idea. Turned out they loved the first article so much they wanted to hire me as a freelance writer. For rookie me, just 22 years old and living in Estonia, writing for one of the world’s top marketing blogs was huge. And it paid well. So here’s my recommendation: If you want to get your first online income, don’t expect it to find you – you’re the one who should make the first step and reach out to people.
Chris Lee
@ablogonblogging Lee http://amplifyblog.com/ My first sale was $0.87c, and those 87c changed my life. – Tweet this
My first sale online was a life-changing $0.87c which I made as an Amazon Associate – and when I say they were life-changing, I really do mean it!
It was only after months of hard work that these few cents came in and as of how the Amazon Associates works, it wasn’t even from products that I was promoting at the time.
I see those 87c as life-changing because I was days away from giving up once and for all but that sale came in and it immediately gave me the hope to keep going and keep growing. Thanks to those 87c, I now have multiple online affiliate incomes.
25) Joy Healey | Blog  | Facebook | Twitter
Joy Healey
@Joy_Healey http://amplifyblog.com/ In a successful #MLM business you don’t need every #InternetMarketing skill. Do what you do best. – Tweet this
My first online income was with a UK network marketing company selling Lottery syndicate memberships. A trusted friend introduced me, and with the aid of my team I built a full-time income. That company closed, but I’m still working in an online MLM with many of those from the same team.
As I had very limited Internet skills, what I liked most about it was that all the technical bits of online marketing were done for me and I could just concentrate on promoting it by the method I enjoyed. At the time that was article marketing. Now it would be blogging. Other members of the team had different skills, so we all worked together with our own different marketing preferences. With the new company there’s even more “technical stuff” done for us, and it’s global. Also there’s free training to learn more about promoting the business.
26) Ron Stefanski| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Ron Stefanski
   @RStefanski http://amplifyblog.com/ My 1st source of online income was an affiliate link, but it was the best $2.50 I ever made. – Tweet this
My very first source of online income was from an affiliate link to a service that helps people find lawyers. It all happened because I wrote a blog post about how Getty Images will threaten to sue people who use their images in an unauthorized manner and started ranking immediately for the subject in search engines. Within a few weeks, my website was the top result in Google for the topic and I remember looking at the page (which was about 80% of all of my website traffic) and trying to figure out how to monetize it. I knew about affiliate marketing from a job I previously had, so I searched for programs and found one that paid $2.50 per lead. It wasn’t much, but I was able to make $12.50 my first month with the link on my website and to be honest, that was the most excited I’ve ever been to make so little money as it proved the concept.
27) Lisa Sicard| Blog  | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin | Google+
Lisa Sicard
  @Lisapatb http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first online income was with a retail store I had online called Fancy Scrubs. I found about it through Stores Online. They did local seminars and I attended. – Tweet this
My very first online income was with a retail store I had online called Fancy Scrubs. I found about it through Stores Online. They did local seminars and I attended.
I sold the biggest online order via Twitter. I was tweeting with a doctor about the NCAA scrubs the website carried and made the sale via it.
From there I began to blog as friends asked how I did it all with the online store and Twitter. So InspireToThrive was born out of that. I never stop learning and find the more you learn, the more you need to learn in this business ????
Ravi Chahar
  @ravichahar27 http://amplifyblog.com/ “Success kisses those who value Consistency” – Tweet this
Making money in this era of the internet is easy yet hard depending on your strategy and hard work. I made $200 when I was just a novice blogger a few years back.
I wasn’t so skilled to understand how affiliate marketing worked. I earned it by winning 10 days blogging contest which required the bloggers to contribute.
$200 for a beginner means a lot. After that I entered in the affiliate marketing and coding has always been my playful source of income. I develop custom WordPress themes from the scratch and use those on my clients’ website.
There are different options depending on your interest and skills.
Building a blog isn’t enough until you build your brand.
Affiliate marketing is easy only if you know your audience.
Freelance content writers are on demand but you need to build your portfolio first.
Web developers are having a fortune these days.
Learn to deal with the people, win their trust.
The biggest challenge is to face the ups and downs. Most of the people give up in a few months which is really disappointing.
Lunaria Moon
 @lunarialmoon http://amplifyblog.com/”My first online income was a promoter job. I found it through problogger.” – Tweet this
My very first income I ever made through my online endeavors was a promoter job for a company I can’t name as I work for them still, and they don’t want me advertising my position. I work for $500 a month. I found this position through the problogger job boards. This job was like a love match! Best first online income ever! I run this company’s twitter account and Facebook.
I first ventured into this journey when I lost
my job in December 2010 and right away I introduced
to A Top Tier Opportunity, Carbon Copy Pro and fell
in love with the concept!
So I dug out my credit card and got started, but after 16 months
with no success I met a guy on Skype who introduced to
Millionaire Marketing Machine Yet another Top Tier Opp!
I remember it was February 2012 when I made my very
first big ticket sale online.
It was a sale that put $3200 in my pocket.
This was from “One” Sale!
This sale and the ones that followed came from my Blog! I just got
this set up around Thanksgiving and in February I ran a Valentines
Day Special with my new business, of course from there, I shared
on FaceBook, Linkedin and Twitter.
I didn’t have any of the skills I have now.
Not a single one. I didn’t even know what a Blog was! But I knew
people were making money online and I for one knew I could to.
So I dug in and started training with some of the top marketers,
attending events and learningeverything I could about personal development,
marketing and mindset.
It has been a wonderful journey and I’m happy to say I am still making
sales and enjoying what I do here online and I don’t plan on stopping
anytime soon.
31) Jeremy Rivera | Blog | | Twitter | Linkendin
Jeremy Rivera
 @JeremyRiveraSEO http://amplifyblog.com/I still have the custom tailored two piece suit that I bartered a talented local tailor in exchange for getting him to rank number one on Google. – Tweet this
I still have the custom tailored two piece suit that I bartered a talented local tailor in exchange for getting him to rank number one on Google. He’s still number one for Riverside tailor BTW.
When I was just getting started in the world of SEO, I was learning and testing my theories like crazy. I happened to be getting measured for my wedding tuxedo and the tailor overhead my conversation with my wife about SEO. He asked if I could help him come up on Google when people searched. He agreed to cut, fit and tailor a custom suit for me if I could “tailor” the results to show his business.
I still own the suit and he still ranks number one for Riverside Tailor in Google.
32) Ali Raza | Blog | Facebook | Twitter  | Linkedin
Ali Raza
@aarsheikh http://amplifyblog.com/ My First Earning was $68 from Adsense back in 2006 using a mobile ringtone website. – Tweet this
My first earnings was from a mobile ringtone and theme website back in 2006 and it was through Google Adsense. Google used to send check of $50 that time via postal. I was under 18 and i got it on the name of my mother and it was for $68. I still can’t forget that great feelings.
I used microsoft frontpage to design the website, at that time, it was pretty easy to get rankings, all you need to do was just some directory submissions and voila! traffic was all the way from Google.
33) Gill Andrews | Blog  | Twitter | Linkedin | Google+
Gill Andrews
@StoriesWithGill http://amplifyblog.com/ Hate chasing down clients? Create 10x content and use content marketing, and they’ll be chasing you.- Tweet this
I earned my very first money onilne as almost every business owner out there: I was hired by a friend before I even officially launched my business.
My very first money paid by a total stranger, though, was not an accident but a result of planning and targeted efforts.
My plan was (and is) to have a conversion-optimized website with minimum distractions and compelling copy, and then consistently publish 10x content based on thorough keyword research also actively sharing it on social media.
One morning three months after I launched my website, I woke up to an email inquiry about a website review from someone who read one of my posts on Google+. I ended up not only doing a website review for him but also implementing the changes I suggested on his website.
So if anyone still needs proof that content marketing works for small businesses, here you have one.
34) Ahron glazer| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Ahron glazer
@ahronglazer http://amplifyblog.com/ From $500 to $5million. I am grateful for your first business steps because they gave me the stability to run. – Tweet this
About 5 years ago, I left my job where I was working as a marketing manager and decided that I wanted to start my own Social Media Marketing business to help individuals and small businesses make a stronger impact for their brand using social media.
I had never started my own business before and the tools were familiar, but the process of being on my own was new to me.
I built my website, notified my network and within a couple weeks, I had my first client.
It was a small campaign, but it was the first $500 I had made using my own resources, my own strategy, and my own efforts as a social media marketer.
Now I run an international, boutique marketing agency, managing millions of dollars in advertising spend. However, I am grateful for my first sale as it was that which gave me the perseverance to push forward and allowed me to springboard my growth to where I am today.
Vishwajeet  Kumar
@imbloggingtips http://amplifyblog.com/ Choosing a right product is very important to become a successful affiliate marketer. – Tweet this
I remember the days when I started blogging and earned $300 as a commission by promoting a web hosting company. It’s really motivates me a lot.
Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. I have started going affiliate marketing since the first days of my blogging. To become successful in affiliate marketing you have to first understand the needs of your users and then provide them with relevant and quality products.
Choosing a right product is very important if you are doing affiliate marketing. Many bloggers and marketers failed in affiliate marketing because they haven’t choose the right product.
I usually promote products by writing a review about them. I always try the products myself first and have mentioned everything thoroughly in my review posts like pros and cons etc. I am also using banner ads on my blog as it converts very well for me.
Email lists also help me to make money from affiliate marketing. I have started collecting emails since the first day of my blogging and it is very important if you are doing affiliate marketing or promoting anything else.
These are some of my proven methods to make money from my blog and affiliate marketing. Now I am also making money by selling ad spaces and sponsored posting. I hope it will encourage and motivates you as well.
36) Adam White| Blog |  Twitter
Adam White
@seojetdotnet http://amplifyblog.com/ I started my first internet business back in 2000. I built a site that was a directory of lawn care service providers in the US. – Tweet this
I started my first internet business back in 2000. I built a site that was a directory of lawn care service providers in the US. I had no idea what I was doing and also didn’t know how to get traffic, much less turn that traffic into money. A friend of mine introduced me to SEO and everything changed. Once I could see what people were searching for I customized my content around those searches. I started to get real traffic, but I still didn’t know how to profit from it. I put some Amazon ads on the site and then my mind was blown when I saw a deposit of about $35 hit my account from Amazon. I couldn’t believe I had made money online. I was hooked and have never looked back. Luckily my monetizing skills have increased and I have been able to make a great living online since about 2006.
37) Hans van Gent | Blog | Facebook | Twitter
Hans van Gent
– Tweet this
Maybe not my first, but for sure one of the most interesting ones.
After hosting workshops for founders offline, a couple of years ago one of my co-hosts and the original founder of these workshops, had the idea to take the experience online.
Building a community that helps founders help each other, learn and grow by paying it forward and sharing knowledge.
Of course, being big followers of the Lean Startup, we did not just want to build a product hoping people would come (and in case they didn’t lose a lot of money).
So we thought to ourselves, what could be the minimum to try and test the hypothesis if founders were willing to pay it forward and help other founders.
We had a Slack channel we used to communicate with ourselves around the workshops, and we decided to open it up for the world…putting a barrier in the front of a form people had to fill in with a motivation why we had to let them in.
Three days, a product hunt and some PR as a result later, we had around 1K of motivations to read through.
So we came up with the option to pay and skip the queue and earn some money for the non-profit we were running the community for. The problem? Everyone started paying, so we increased the price and eventually made the payment mandatory for everyone.
By now, it’s the biggest global startup community on Slack, nearing 7K members and still growing.
Himanshu Gupta
@blogrags http://amplifyblog.com/ My Blogging Journey started with a blogspot site. – Tweet this
My Blogging Journey started with a blogspot site. It was about 3G Tricks n all. The first income was 100$ and was from Adsense. I still remember it took almost 6 months.
But still, first income is very special ????
39) Hazel Jarrett | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin | Google+
Hazel Jarrett
@SEOPlusMore http://amplifyblog.com/From hotel chef to founder and MD of SEO+, a successful SEO company and source of my 1st online income – Tweet this
I started my working life as a hotel chef in Devon, that was all I’d wanted to do for as long as I can remember.
Life had other plans!
I was involved in an horrific head-on car accident at 19, caused by a drunk driver, and broke what felt like every bone in my body – both arms, both legs all in various places, some ribs and my back.
I was out of action for quite a while and due to my injuries, I was an insurance risk so unable to work in a kitchen again. It was a really tough time.
Years later, after a few dead-end jobs, I decided I needed to retrain. I was interested in computers and did various diplomas, one being in web design and html. Shortly afterwards I landed a job in a local web company and began my journey into the world of SEO.
Search Engine Optimisation was all quite new back then. Would you believe that not every business even had a website?! As you can imagine SEO was so much easier as the competition wasn’t nearly as fierce as it is today. SEO has changed enormously in the last 20+ years.
I learnt a lot about SEO during my time with the web company and became a real Google geek, staying on top of all the latest information, doing my own experiments and watching as the sites I worked on hit the first page of Google for their best search terms. Life was good.
6 years ago the web company went bust and I lost my job just like that – no warning, nothing.
It’s safe to say I was more than a bit worried. I spent two days deliberating, before deciding to do it on my own. SEO+ was born (Google+ was quite a recent thing back then so I jumped on the ‘+’ bandwagon!!)
I worked hard, very hard and SEO+ began to grow and became a thriving and successful SEO UK company that competes with the bigger and well known SEO companies.
SEO+ is now a powerhouse of talent and works with clients in various industries and sectors throughout the UK. We have a reputation for providing no-nonsense SEO that works and I’m very proud of the results that we achieve for our clients.
40) Maria Johnsen| Blog | Facebook | Twitter 
Maria Johnsen
@iMariaJohnsen http://amplifyblog.com/ 3 months after Twitter got created, I landed my first sell which was SEO for a Danish ecommerce company in Denmark. – Tweet this
When I got my masters degree in computer engineering, Europe faced with financial crises and as a result it affected on
Norway’ economy as well. I applied for jobs 24/7, but i kept getting rejections. Unemployment rate was very high back then. I was working on a humanoid robot project called “majo 3” who could talk in two languages Norwegian and American English and walk. I notified Toyota company in Japan in order to send them my first prototype. They agreed. I finished the programming part but for silicon body parts i needed money to purchase from the U.S. I came across a new microblogging social site called Twitter. I became a member and started Tweeting about everything. I tweeted about SEO, motivational statements and my robot project. Nobody was thinking of selling anything on Twitter back then.
Three months later I landed my first sell which was SEO for a Danish ecommerce company in Denmark. He signed a 3 months contract to test the water. I worked very hard on his SEO project and landed some sales for him. He became so happy that we signed a two years contract. And this is how i became financially independent. Later my Danish client referred me to other ecommerce owners and I was able to expand my business beyond Europe. Then i got a major project which was outsourced to me from a media agency in London. It was a multilingual SEO project for Expedia. Today my clients are from everywhere Europe, North America and even Asia.
Thrive Content Builder on the other hand makes your content look so much better, it makes your site look like a professional blog, and doesn’t have a very long learning curve.
41) Jordan Kasteler| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Jordan Kasteler
@JordanKasteler http://amplifyblog.com/ My only regret was not stopping affiliate to focus on school. I should have keep riding the Wild West train. Tweet this
I was 13 years old and didn’t even know what I was doing at the time was SEO + Affiliate marketing because they really didn’t have “terms” then. What I would do is newsjack any hot item (e.g. clinton/lewinski scandal) and create a splash page for it with an “enter”her button like all old sites used to do. This site would rank in webcrawler.com real well with just a few meta data tweaks. People souls find the site, click to enter, and then go to a porn affiliate. I got .50 per click which was great when I was coming home with $20 checks monthly at 13. My mom had no idea where the money was coming from.
42) Venchito Tampon | Blog | Facebook | Twitter
Venchito Tampon
@MikeKhorev http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first online income was earned while I was a freelance virtual assistant 7 years ago. Tweet this
My very first online income was earned while I was a freelance virtual assistant 7 years ago. I’ve been applying for content writing jobs in Odesk (now Upwork) to get a few writing gigs in college then I stumbled upon a content writing opportunity from an Asian employer. Grabbed it and had my first income – $100 for 50 hours of work. Nothing huge at the start.
The process that I used to get my very first online income:
Choose a niche that you think you can deliver an output (doesn’t necessarily be your expertise already, but is something you can start right away with your basic skills).
Apply to freelancing platforms like Upwork. Don’t create a website if you haven’t developed skills yet unless you have basic web development/design and blogging skills to start a new website.
Get your first freelancing job and grow from there.
43) Susan Dolan | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Susan Dolan
@GoogleExpertUK http://amplifyblog.com/ “Saw a #practicaljoke in USA so replicated, practical joke #scratchcards! I sold them on eBay and through a website” http://jokescratchcards.co.uk/ – Tweet this
“Saw a #practicaljoke in USA so replicated, practical joke #scratchcards! I sold them on eBay & through a website” http://jokescratchcards.co.uk/
44) Junaid Shahid | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Junaid Shahid
@MrJunaidShahid http://amplifyblog.com/ When I was started my online career, I was nothing. I have read many blogs which refers to work online. I have to get started will freelancer.pk after learning graphics tools from Lynda. – Tweet this
When I was started my online career, I was nothing. I have read many blogs which refers to work online. I have to get started will freelancer.pk after learning graphics tools from Lynda. My very first project is of 10$ and after that, I have done 2 more projects of 50$ and have 5 start rating still on my freelancer account. Now I’m doing freelancing directly and not using any platform. Because when creating good terms with your clients they will give you more work without any bargaining’s. After that started the blog after a long time I’m able to earn some dollars but still, it’s not enough to discuss.
Now it’s become easy to learn online and earn money from that. If you really wanted to get started will online earning then first learn some professional skills.
Before creating the aim, try to create the name. It will help you to stay in the market
Dawn Boyette
@valeomarketing http://amplifyblog.com/ Be nice to your VA!- Tweet this
My first online job was as a virtual assistant. It was thankless work that didn’t pay much. But, I did learn quite a bit. I found it on a job search site.
46) Louie Luc | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Louie Luc
@Buzznitrous http://amplifyblog.com/I started making money online as an affiliate marketer promoting online casinos back in distant year of 2000. Tweet this
This “How did you make your first dollar online” kind of topic will make a great episode for my online business podcast and the story I have to tell you is a very cool one indeed. Mainly because I started making money online even before Google existed! (Needless to say, that makes me feel really old.) It was through affiliate marketing and I was promoting online gambling.
Back then, when it started for me, I began looking for ways to make money online. Most of them came from MLM (multi-level marketing) companies where you had to get referrals to sign up via your unique link.
Your referrals would try to get their own referrals that would become your sub-referrals and the cycle would continue on. This kind of marketing wasn’t so controversial at the time (maybe because they were just starting out) but it wasn’t really paying off so I tried different possibilities.
I found out that some online casinos had affiliate programs and decided to join them. I promoted my unique affiliate URLs, got them to reach the top rankings in the pre-Google search engines (yes, that was possible then) and started earning my generous commmissions. Unfortunately today, their commission model along with many online gambling companies is long gone.
47) Anil Agarwal| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Anil Agarwal
@bloggerspassion http://amplifyblog.com/ “I made my first $100 from Google AdSense, it was a lot of money when I started blogging.” – Anil Agarwal, Bloggers Passion. – Tweet this
I first started making money online using AdSense (which was around $100) and that was a lot for me back then.
Since then, blogging has evolved a lot. AdSense is not a viable option for most bloggers now a days unless they are in a news or technology industry. For me, as someone who’s into marketing industry, affiliate marketing works really well.
But you’ve to be really careful while using affiliate marketing. It’s not easy to make money from it but if you write really good in-depth case studies like this one, you can definitely drive more sales and traffic from search engines.
48) Ross Simmonds | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Ross Simmonds
@TheCoolestCool http://amplifyblog.com/ My first form of online income came from selling a variety of things like video games and specialty clothes over eBay. – Tweet this
When I first got into online sales, it wasn’t because I thought my career would be in digital marketing – it was because I wanted to make a quick buck and get rid of some of my stuff. I heard about this site called eBay and had used it a few times to buy posters and a few shirts but had never sold anything myself. I always had a pretty strong collection of video games and thought one of the best ways to make a quick dollar might be to flip them. So, I set up an account, listed the games and within a few hours they were sold. I was hooked.
49) Tyler Hakes | Blog |  Twitter
Tyler Hakes
@TylerHakes http://amplifyblog.com/ I earned my first $100 in ad revenue from an online rap magazine when I was 19! – Tweet this
My entrepreneurial journey started when I launched an online rap magazine back when I was still in college. I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, and I would have done things so much different knowing what I know now. I just had some basic AdSense ads on the site and hoped to make money that way. It took me at least 6 months to get enough traffic to even earn $100 in ads. After that, we did have some growth and even sold some direct ad placements and sponsorships. The site’s still up for nostalgia’s sake, but I haven’t worked on it for several years.
50) Amy Sincock | Blog | Facebook | Twitter
Amy Sincock
@amysinanutshell http://amplifyblog.com/ Desperately Google the phrase “ways to make money with writing”, and sign up to a pay-per-click hospo review website to make it rain $9. – Tweet this
When I first graduated, I had very little experience in, well, anything really, but I did spend a lot of time exploring my city. My own blog reviewing city hotspots, Hungry Canary, was getting a reasonable amount of attention, but not to the point where I could actually wring any money out of it. In desperation, I turned to Google to try and find freelance work, and ended up signing up to WeekendNotes. My first article was simple but won an award, and earned me a grand total of … $9. What a windfall! Small beginnings, but 4 years later and happily employed as a copywriter, I look back on those times as a lot of fun and the first step to getting to where I want to be.
51) Zubin Kutar | Blog | Facebook | Twitter
Zubin Kutar
@WebTrafficROI http://amplifyblog.com/ “Want to make an Income Online, start with Forums ” – Tweet this
My first online income was by selling an ebook on the Digital Point Forum , where I was one of the influencers commenting and conversing with the audience. It was an ebook from Joel Comm – Adwords Secrets, the year was 2007. Since then I’ve been an influencer on various digital marketing forums, I also run a digital Marketing Blog www.WebTrafficROI.com
52) Harris Schachter | Blog |  Twitter | Google+ | Linkedin
Harris Schachter
@OptimizePrime http://amplifyblog.com/ My first online business was a small site in a large niche which earned revenue via Adsense. – Tweet this
My first online business was a small site in a large niche which earned revenue via Adsense. It taught me how to earn more traffic, and to pick a smaller, less competitive market!
53) Allan Pollett | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Allan Pollett
@allanp73 http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first business online income was possibly the hardest dollar I ever earned. Read story – Tweet this
My very first business online income was possibly the hardest dollar I ever earned, yet the experience taught me how to make a fortune online.
In 1999, I launched the site UCanBuyArt.com, which was designed to showcase original art from artists and galleries from around the world.
There were a few problems with the business idea. First, I didn’t know anything about art and second, didn’t know any artists. However, I was very determined to make the business successful. The business model at the time was to charge artists a small fee to list their art on the web site and a small commission if that artwork sold. To find artists I made hundreds of cold calls and literally drove to artists homes and asked them to join the site. It was time consuming and most artists at the time didn’t even understand what the Internet was. Also, I had to convince them to join a site which needed visitors and I had no money to pay for advertising for the site. I had a little experience with SEO and was able to get the site to rank for many art related keywords. So it was getting about 3000 unique visitors per day and managed to get about 300 artists to join. After a year’s work I was able to eek out a small living from the memberships and sales. However, the skills I learned in marketing and driving business to the site turned out to be extremely value. The art site’s online exposure lead to companies asking if I could do the same for their businesses. Since that time, I have marketed thousands of businesses and become the SEO guru of marketing. All this came from hard work and persistence and learning what works and what doesn’t online. Now it is much easier to get the same success as I had to work years to achieve. There are vast amount of resources to learn the skills I had to learn from painful trial and error. Overall I wouldn’t have changed the experience, though sometimes I wish I could have had a mentor like myself, instead of having to learn things on my own.
54) Joe Gallant | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Joe Gallant
@jgchurchcomms http://amplifyblog.com/ My first online income was editing concert footage for a DVD – worlds apart from what I provide now! – Tweet this
This had me scratching my brain to remember, but my very first online income involved editing concert footage for a DVD release. I seem to remember it was quite out of the blue, friend of a friend sort of thing.
Since then, I’ve learned many times that these happy coincidences can’t be relied on to make a living in the online world – marketing yourself online take real intentionality. For word to spread about your service, you need to nail two basics – create a fantastic service that has benefits that immediately set you apart from the competition. Then get people talking about it – it doesn’t matter how brilliant you are if they haven’t heard of you. I’ve found that taking the time to reach out on an individual level makes all the difference to how you’re perceived – be genuine! If you’re not, people will see straight through your sales talk.
55) Promise Excel | Blog | Facebook | Twitter
Promise Excel
@MaverickExcel http://amplifyblog.com/ ” My first income online was about $3 from freelance writing. After that time, I realized that I could actually make money online with my gift” – Tweet this
“I made my first money online two months after blogging. I started blogging 4th March, 2015 and I made my first money online, May 31st, 2015.
I saw an advert on a forum where someone was looking for a writer to write for a tech blog.
I knew nothing about tech blogging or writing web content but I applied to write for the blog.
To my surprise, the guy accepted that I write for him. I was given 5 topics to write on and submit.
At first, I thought it was a scam but the guy assured me that he could be trusted.
He agreed to pay #600 ($2) for an article. So, the five articles were priced at #3000
($10). I was so excited because that was my first time of writing for a pay.
At that time, I was still on my day job, so, I submitted the first article very late.
Though the client was impressed by my work, he was displeased that I had submitted it rather too late.
The contract was terminated. I was paid for just one article.
Instead of $2, I was paid $3 because my work exceeded his expectation.
That is it.
My first income online was #1000 ($3) from writing. It took me a very long time to make money again because, at that time, I was still working as a classroom teacher.
I quit my day job over a year ago to focus on my online business.
Right now, I’m a full-time blogger.”
56) Terri Maurer | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Terri Maurer
@tlmaurer http://amplifyblog.com/ Maybe a $0.45 online sale isn’t much, but everyone has to start somewhere to monetize their website. – Tweet this
“If we are talking strictly about eCommerce, I have to admit that my very first online income was a $0.45 ‘commission’ from the sale of a used book on Amazon.com. Not an impressive sale, but everyone has to start somewhere. After a lot of procrastination, I finally decided to monetize my website in an unobtrusive manner. Adding a list of recommended business books to my Resources page, someone bit within a couple of days and purchased one of my recommendations via my link to Amazon.com. I have received far more significant amounts by driving traffic to my small business management consulting website. Potential clients, sales of my book on case studies of successful business models and a number of paid speaking engagements all came my way via social media searches and relationships.”
57) Rajesh Namase | Blog  | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Rajesh Namase
@TechLilaBlog http://amplifyblog.com/ My advice for new bloggers would be to never spend 100% of your energy on earning money. Money should be the consequence of the work you do. Love what you do and do what you love. All the best. – Tweet this
I still remember those awesome days, I had just started writing a blog on Namase.com (later rebranded to TechLila.com). At that time, I had published many articles related to Mystique Theme modifications. Unlike many bloggers, my first online income did not come from Google AdSense, it was from Mystique theme modification work.
My first client checked the Mystique theme modifications articles on my blog. Then. he contacted me to do some quick fixes in his theme that his local developer had failed to do. I fixed everything as per his need and earned 75 USD for 90 minutes of work. After a few days, this client hired me again for another work.
58) Babanature | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google+
Babanature
@proudlyonenaija http://amplifyblog.com/ I started my blogging journey wayback July 2010. Without any mentor or tutorial from experts on how to make money online as a blogger, I made my
first cheque on my first 2 weeks as a blogger.;) – Tweet this
I started my blogging journey wayback July 2010. Without any mentor or
tutorial from experts on how to make money online as a blogger, I made my
first cheque on my first 2 weeks as a blogger.;)
What was the source of your first online income and how did you find out
about it and the process to earn it.
My very first source of income was through Google AdSense… I was
introduced to AdSense at that time by a very good friend. Making money
using AdSense is not that hard, the simple step is get a blog> write
quality content > drive traffic to the blog > apply for AdSense… use
responsive ads and place strategically, and you’ll start earning in no
time…
59) Matthew Kaboomis Loomis | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest
 
Matthew Kaboomis Loomis
@buildurownblog http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first online income was through freelance writing five years ago. I made $450 writing a press kit article. – Tweet this
Yes, I can still remember that first client back in 2012 who paid me $450 to write an article for his press kit. That was when I first began self-employment. I opened up my PayPal account for the first time to receive that first payment. Felt good. Excitement with a dash of freedom. The client was a referral, and turned into a good connection. He gave me additional work during the next couple of years following that.
60) Casandra Campbell| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Casandra Campbell
@Casandra_Camp http://amplifyblog.com/ My very first online income came from a content site running Adsense in the pet niche. Tweet this
This was more than five years ago but if I recall correctly, I think the bulk of my early learning came from Niche Pursuits and Smart Passive Income. The business model was quite simple. Find a topic that’s not too competitive to rank for on Google, and run ads on your content site to make money. I still drive quite a bit of revenue from content sites but these days I only monetize through products and affiliate links.
Hussain omar
@HustawSEO http://amplifyblog.com/ Very high skills don’t make the online money, dedication and determination do. – Tweet this
My very first income was 200$ for selling a hosting reseller account. The hosting service I had was promoted locally, I wanted to increase my income. I decided to create reseller plans and promoted them on reputable forums. It takes a relatively longer time to land the first client online, but it deserve the effort, as a new business line is created and more money will start to flow.
Then, I moved to other ways to make money online, some failed, and the other some paid dividends, providing effective seo services is one of these great ways.
People think of making money online as a very hard to achieve thing. But it just needs you to put it in your mind, and dedicate your time and efforts to get it done.
62) Arman assadi | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Arman assadi
@ArmanAssadi http://amplifyblog.com/ My first income online was via information products, I created a digital course called Effortless Email. – Tweet this
My first income online was through information products, I created a course called Effortless Email and created a membership site. I did everything myself, including all the front end development, which was very challenging as I had zero tech experience. I didn’t even understand how to create a website, let along what “hosting” was. It’s been 6 years since that time and today I am thriving. It took about 3 years to really “get it”. Today I am co-founder and CEO of Project Evo, and now have experience in blogging, ecommerce, consulting, and now mobile apps. My blog is now the #1 education resource online for solopreneurs, and I’ve built an incredibly engaged audience that I share weekly videos and articles with on the blog and social media accounts.
63) Susan Poggio| Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest
Susan Poggio
@SimplySundays1 http://amplifyblog.com/ Simply Sunday’s first online income was from Amazon Associates. Apply on Amazon.com for a unique product link and purchases can be made directly from your blog off of Amazon. Your profit is a small percentage of the sale. – Tweet this
The very first online income for Simply Sunday’s Food Blog was from Amazon Associates. We heard about it from bloggers in the industry. There is a simple application that can be found on Amazon.com and once you are accepted, you can use the unique link code they provide. We mainly use the links in our blog posts for tools that we have used to make our recipes and occasionally for hard to find food items. The profit is only a small percentage of the sale which we use to purchase additional kitchen tools from Amazon.
Alok Rana
@Alok88rana http://amplifyblog.com/ “Always have short-term goals to get motivated in your long blogging journey” – Tweet this
My very first online income was something around $100 for around my first 10 months of blogging.
Just to let you know I skipped my blogging for straight 6 months right after my 7th month of blogging. But later on back to work with more dedication and strategies.
Google AdSense was the source of my first online income. Before starting my blogging career I was into SEO job for around 2 years and that is where I find out about AdSense and other online income sources.
To be very frank the process to earn my first income was not so struggling as I was not doing it in the right way. But the actual struggling part is going on right now as I am fixing my past work which was not on the right track.
My blogging startup was aimless but now I have a list of my short term and long term aims right in front of me.
It’s been more than two years since I have quit my 9 to 5 job and started with blogging. Blogging is time-consuming and this is the fact that can’t be ignored.
Blogging is easy if you go by rules and be ethical with your SEO. But it is also the most difficult thing to achieve if you are aimless or try to achieve it the unethical way.
My past job background was in SEO. I know how Google update can take down a well settled SEO firm over a single night. That’s was the strongest reason I choose to start with blogging.
My blogging rules are simple I only do pure blogging, it will take time but it will be a strong one. I only do required SEO optimization on my blog without any tricks, to avoid Google penalties.
Never break your blogging rules for money, Never forget your goals behind blogging. You’ll definitely achieve one day.
65) Eva Schafroth | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Eva Schafroth
@evaschafroth http://amplifyblog.com/ When I first heard of affiliate marketing and how it works, that was a real eye-opener. – Tweet this
When I first started in SEO, I fell into the profession like many of us. I had no idea how Google even makes money, so when I found out about and built some affiliate websites, I found it pretty mind-blowing how much money can be made by helping someone else sell their products or services. All you have to do is blog, mention said products, and cash in on commissions when your users click through and buy. Oh, and making that blog rank helps ????
Emily Davis
@emilyssoaps http://amplifyblog.com/ SEO, keywords and stellar pics make all the difference. – Tweet this
My first online income came from a listing I had placed on Etsy. I still remember being so thrilled by the “cha-ching!” sound that came from the Etsy app on my phone letting me know that someone had made a purchase. It made me so proud that someone wanted to pay for something that I had created from start to finish.
My first stream of income from an online source was via Etsy. I’d known about Etsy for a long time, but it took a lot of reading up on various blogs about the subtle nuances of making each listing “pop.” I quickly learned about how SEO, keywords, and stellar pictures make all the difference in getting my product in front of as many people as possible. There are so ma