I guess this is the million dollar question. 99 percent of people get online in hopes to get rich overnight and quit their day job.
Now I’m not saying you can’t get rich overnight online, because I know people that have. The key is preparation to success online is preparation and knowledge. I can’t or anyone for that matter tell you what you should your money on without knowing your prior knowledge.
If you are starting out I recommend you do what I did. Go to ever possible forum and blog related to making money online and affiliate marketing. Mostly everyone in this forums will be glad to help you and best of all its free. I personally would stay away from ebooks since 99 percent are a bunch of shit. I didnt make any money online my first 6 months, so if you like to give up easily then this is not the business for you.
Here are some forums and blogs to get you started.
1. Rucks ( Cashtactics )
5. Shoemoney
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Martin on March 18, 2008
The important thing is making sure you have enough money to cover at least all costs for a year (hosting / domain / advertising / staff etc) because the main reason why things fail is people giving up. People don’t know that it takes time to get indexed in Google / DMOZ etc which is very important if it comes to success. 90% of all people fail because they run out of money or because they give up after 1 or 2 months as they think “I didn’t make much yet so I better give up already”
CrAzY-MaST on March 18, 2008
I think that will be better if you use this $xx for hosting and domain name to promote GenBucks or other free to join affiliate program
zaebano on March 18, 2008
why dont you have adsense on this site to make more money?
leonhang on March 19, 2008
thnx 4 the nice information.
Sunnie on March 19, 2008
It’s not really that little. I might make a gamble, or save up a bit - I hope that doesn’t count as giving up. =P
I’ve heard that the number of fails with starting a web hosting site is quite high.
RichStudent on August 3, 2008
I’m excited about your blog.. Always coming up with great posts
I’m loving it. - RichStudent