How I Make Money Online: CGM Technologies

Well, I stopped getting my Adsense earnings from the first of my ClassHelper Proxy Networks that I sold for a nice chunk of change.  It was really fun watching the earnings go from $.14 to $1.50, then $2.00, then top off right above $3 in one day.  I’m now back down to $.03 earnings today, which is actually kind of depressing.  I earned a nice $1.10 off one click yesterday, but today just isn’t very good.  The good thing, however, is that my traffic is starting to increase to the proxy site, and I still have it being sent out in a newsletter on 3/2.  Until then, I just have to wait.  I don’t really have any more money in my Paypal to build any more sites or buy promotion, since I finally treated myself to a few things, but I have 2 high-dollar programming gigs that I’m working on.  I’m going to focus my time on those, and work on getting a little more money together.  Once I finish that work, then I’ll probably work on building about 3 or 4 more proxy sites, and then work on what I believe is going to be my major money-maker.  Actually, I have 2 things that I believe will earn me the majority of my money this year.  One is a membership site, but I haven’t worked out all the details yet.  I’m also planning on getting into Affiliate Marketing.  After reading up on several blogs, this proves to be something that can really take you places, if you dedicate the time and money to learning how to do it effectively.  In fact, the guy over at uberaffiliate.com recently posted regarding his one year anniversary in affiliate marketing.  In one year, he went from $0 to over $500,000 per month in earnings.  Now, this is where I want to be.  Yes, you can earn great money from proxy sites, and from website flipping, and even Adsense, but how many people who do that stuff full-time can say they earn 1/2 a million dollars per month?  Not that many.  I have a couple checks coming in that I plan to use to start out with my affiliate marketing business.  I will try and update things here, passing on little tidbits of information that I uncover along the way.  There’s no reason that anybody can’t make obscene amounts of money online, if they just put their mind to it.

You may or may not know, but I had a few proxy sites that I tried to start.  Well, shortly into it my hosting crashed a couple times.  After some bad luck with the host, I left my sites down for about a month.  I decided to give it another try, after I found some more proxy hosting.  It’s still kind of a gamble, since I only had to pay $12 for hosting for the entire year, so I’m not sure how reliable it’s going to be.  It’s worth it to try, though.

I set up these proxy sites with a very, very, basic format in order to try and maximize my click-through rate.  After that, I also did some promotion on 3 of the 4 sites by having them sent out in newsletters to proxy groups.  One cost $2.50 and the other cost $5 for 2 sites.  Since that point, my Adsense earnings have grown to an average of $2.50 per day on just those 4 sites.  This month, I’ve made $12 in Adsense from those sites, so I’ve definitely made my money back.

Something came up, though, that is causing me to slightly regret a decision.  One day I was suddenly unable to access any of my sites, or even the main site of the host.  I got frustrated and posted the 4 sites for sale as a network on DigitalPoint.com.  Those sites look like they’re going to earn an average of $75 - $90 per month, and the bid is only up to $70, so somebody’s getting a hell of a deal right now.  I have a BIN of $125 on them, so I’m hoping that it keeps going up and hits that amount before it sells.  Yes, I could hold onto them and earn the money myself, but since I posted it I’m hoping to make the most from them now.

My point in this, though…  It appears that my proxy sites are barely using any of my bandwith of the server.  Therefore, I have an idea.  I know 2 methods of promotion that really help a site.  I also have another newsletter that I can send it out to for $6.  So, I can send it out in 3 newsletters for a total of $11.50.  The price of a new domain is $7 now through GoDaddy.com, using the code CJC695DOM.  I bought a new domain GymClassHelper.com, and set it up just like my other proxies.  This should be really easy to remember, and should cause it to be passed around quite easily.  I’m positive that after sending it out to the newsletters, I’m going to be able to start earning $1 per day easily.  All it takes is 20 days of $1 per day in order to make all my money back.  I would like to be able to start up at least one new proxy per week, using these steps.  If I can manage that, then by the end of March I should be able to pull in $5 - $6 per day, and receive a check from Google each month.  Once I get to a better point, maybe 2 - 5 new proxies a week would be in order.  If I can get up to 100 proxy sites, each averaging $1 per day, then that’s $3000 per month.  Even if they average $.50 per day, then I would still be earning $1500 every single month, on top of my regular job.  I’m going to try this for a couple weeks, and then I’ll let you know the results.

Well, as 90% of the other online marketers will do, I’m placing a record of my earnings for January online. January was a great month for me, as I met every one of my goals for the month. Granted, I don’t set my goals too high yet, but the main premise is to grow my earnings every single month. I’ve been successful in doing that except for one month, I think it was October. Anyway, without further ado, here goes.

$30.35 - Adsense Earnings

$21.21 - Ebay Sites (GucciGallery, etc…)

$100 - Affiliate Earnings (Web Hosting Sale)

$42.90 - Affiliate Earnings (Earn10Cents.com - One Aff Site)

$14.2 - Affiliate Earnings (Earn10Cents.com - Won’t get this money until the account gets to $50)

$14.75 - Affiliate Earnings (Earn10cents.com - Another Aff Site)

$185 - Sale of 2 Websites

$45 - Building Ebay Sites For People

$30 - PHP Repair Work For People

$75 - Freelance Web Programming

$10 - Moola.com

As you can see, I’ve had a really good month. Granted, I haven’t actually received all the money yet, but if I can keep the earnings consistent then the money will be too. My biggest bonus was the Adsense earnings. I’ve finally pushed over the $100 mark to be able to receive my check. I’m expecting that in the next couple months. Do you guys who actually read this blog like seeing the pictures of checks? Even the small checks? Leave a comment and let me know if they help motivate you, and I’ll make sure to take some as they come in. Anyway, my Ebay Sites are really taking off too. The last day of the month brought in a surprise $5.40 commission from one of them, which shot the total up by 30%. I have some work to do to the sites, because I changed a few things around on one of them and it has really helped it gain traffic and sales. I’m going to make the same changes on the others and watch the earnings just grow. Earn10Cents.com was an experiment for me in building and running an incentive site without shelling out the $150+ for a script. I built it on Wordpress and wrote a plugin that allowed me to track the leads through Commission Junction. I paid out approximately $30 in incentives, but at least $10 of that was for link building. That meant that about $20 in payments brought about $60 in earnings. The sites also brought in some really good Adsense earnings as well, helping me out by about $10 this month. I then sold the site for the most I’ve ever earned so far for a site. All together, this one site that I built earned me over $200 this month. I also get asked to do some PHP work for people that I have dealt with in the past. I’m slowly charging a little more for my services, and they’re gladly paying, so I’m realizing that I’m worth a lot more than I think. I don’t plan on raising my prices any more, though, as I think $15 for fixing a simple issue is a great balance. I do some contract work as well, which comes closer to paying me what I’m worth, but still pays well.

That’s it for the month of January. As always, my goals for this month are to exceed the previous month’s earnings. For affiliate commissions, I’m not planning on trying to beat that because I don’t have the power of an incentive site to help me, so my goal is to earn anything again. I have placed a few affiliate links nicely in my ebay sites, which means that if people click through them and make a purchase, I’ll actually earn more than if they buy through ebay. I’m expecting them to really help out with the earnings. I also built 6 new Ebay Sites, with 2 more left to create. 3 of them are real tight niches, africastamps.info, buyaustraliastamps.info, and buychinastamps.info. Another nice site that I built is buydinaronline.info. I’m hoping to start showing in the search engines real soon (2 already are after less than a week), to start ranking well, and to start getting some sales. Along with those sites, I threw up a couple anime related sites, because they seem to be extremely popular right now, and I’ll be more than happy to join the others making money from it. Animeauctions.info and buyanimedvd.info should really start bringing in some decent money by the end of the month.

I never know how to end these posts, so I’ll just leave you by wishing you the same success that I’m experiencing in my online business.