How I Make Money Online: CGM Technologies

Well, it seems like one thing that happens when you own proxy sites at Christmas time is that kids no longer need to use proxies.  This causes a decline in Adsense earnings from proxy sites.  I thought I might be able to actually hit $20 this month, but I don’t believe that’s going to be the case any more.  I should hit $15, though, which still beats my earnings for any month so far.  I think that now I need to start focusing on changing my plans, and trying a different approach to building my business.  I have just a couple more websites that I need to finish making, then I’m going to focus my efforts on doing some articles to promote the sites that I have.  If I can get them to show up well in the search engines, then I know I’ll start getting some really good results.

I haven’t done anything with most of my sites this month, and I’m just over $8 in Adsense earnings for the month.  I know my goal was to earn more each month, but I’m quite happy with the results so far, considering I did almost nothing to earn it.  All I need to do is multiply my efforts, and watch the earnings continue to grow.  My surveillance site could really use a few more articles, but with just 3 of them it’s still not doing to bad.  In fact, that site alone made me a little over $1 this month.  It has a lot of potential, and I seem to earn around $.50 per click from it, so some day I need to sit down and work on it.  The text messaging site that I have has only averaged about $.30 per click, but at 20 clicks for the month it’s brought in almost $6.  This site is going to be the big earner for me, I think.  I still need to promote it some more, but I have a total of 158 people that are signed up at the site.  Those people are sending an average of 700 - 1000 messages per month from the site, so far.  I have 3 things that I’m thinking of doing with the site that will help it grow, and start bringing in more money.  For starters, I plan on creating some sort of way for people to use it in their MySpace profiles.  This would allow them to let people text them from MySpace, and would be somewhat customizable.  It would have a way for them to only allow certain people to text them, or anybody, and would keep their phone number private.  I feel that this would attract a lot of people, and really help the site grow.  I’m also thinking about selling a little bit of the text message space.  I could add a website url (a small one), and add it to the end of each message that gets sent.  I figure that this could earn a decent amount of money, but have no idea how much to price it at.  The third thing that I’m wanting to do with the site is hold contests for the visitors.  I have a way to track referrals, so I’m thinking about offering a cash prize to whoever refers the most people.  I haven’t quite worked it all out yet, but I think it will help grow the site as well.  I have a few other sites that combined to bring in the other $1 or so this month, and don’t really know what I’m going to do with them.  One is a web directory, the other is another small text message site, and also an old page that used to be a proxy site.

Overall, I think my Adsense will continue to grow each month as I get more visitors, and add more sites to my portfolio.  If I keep up my $10 per month average, I should get my first Adsense payment in another 4 months.

I started a blog out at wordpress, but feel like I should move it here to my own dedicated site.  This is the first site that I had posted over there, and I will copy the other 2 posts over here as well.

I hope you all enjoy the house-warming party as I settle in here. You did bring a gift, right?

My goal is to build an income online through any means possible. I am a programmer, so I have started out by doing some freelance work, but that isn’t going to get me to the point where I can work when only I want to. I love programming, though, which is good because it provides MANY ways to start out earning money. I can then use what I earn to buy more reports, domains, and anything else I need to build my business without dipping into my already empty pocketbook.

I have actually been doing this for about 2 months now, and been pretty successful earning money through programming gigs. Unfortunately, I’m not able to use ALL the money to invest back into my biz, but I do have some to invest. Last month I was able to bring in somewhere around $350 just for doing miscellaneous programming stuff for people. One job alone paid me $130, which was quite nice. The rest of them are general things that paid $10 - $25. I was also able to build a site that sold for $30, which was a nice boost for my ego. That’s about it so far, and you should be caught up with where I am now. I will occasionally talk back about the things I’ve done until now, to help those that are just starting, but my goal is to go from this point to a sustainable, better than full-time income within the next year.