$50 daily by next year = my goal.

[g1c9]

I have set a goal,

I plan to be making $50 daily by next year through steady websites. I have no real specific idea or plan yet, but if you do please share! :p

Wish me luck,

Cameron

[Todd W]

I have set a goal,

I plan to be making $50 daily by next year through steady websites. I have no real specific idea or plan yet, but if you do please share! :p

Wish me luck,

Cameron

Something that interests you works great.

[Masetek]

Something that interests you works great.

Agreed. If you're working on something you like it doesn't even seem like work sometimes. And promotion is easier. For example, Ive got some fitness/bodybuilding related sites. I am a member of about 5 big fitness forums and post regularly. Add a few links in my signature, theres hundreds of hits per day.

[dc dalton]

Nice goal ... good luck with it!

Personally I'm shooting a touch higher ...... I'm shooting for $150 a day, wish me luck!

[Giles]

Im going for $10 at the moment its about 15c.

Sigh.

[Todd W]

Don't make your short term goals unreachable or oyu will only be dissapointed.

Rather set your goals for xx in xx days, and keep them realistic this will help you keep your eye on the prize and not get upset.

$10 in 2 months, $20 in 3 months, etc... Rewarding yourself at 2 months does good isntead of waiting 3 months for $20 and then being upset if you failed, you would already have reached one of your goals and might be alittle off but atleast you completed one goal :)

[MarkB]

I agree. I made avg. $25/day in March; I'm hoping for $30+/day by the end of May, and $40+/day by the end of August.

[James]

I made about $5 a day this month; I think some advertising campaigns going through Google dropped out or lowered their CPM or something. Since I'm going to be going through and optimizing all my sites next month (though I may get a few designed and ready for CSS Reboot) which will have to wait for some design projects I'm doing for others at the moment. This optimization should make a few sites maybe into $0.50 a day sites ;) But regardless, it'll help them grow into sites that can earn some more later when their traffic grows anyways.

[g1c9]

Ok well then here is my first goal to help me attain the larger goal:

Make 10$ daily by the end of May through a photoshop tutorial site. Also, have a forum up by mid-may. (Unrelated to photoshop)

I've always wanted to do a forum, just never sure what to do it on.

EDIT: oh, and make at least 200$ from contentJuice too. Shouldn't be too hard, I already have an ebook deal and like another 50$ worth of jobs within 2 days. (I don't personally do the writing, btw.)

[Cutter]

$50 a day by next year is easily achievable if you focus on what you are doing. The only way you'll miss that goal is by not taking it seriously.

[Todd W]

March was slower for me than Feb and Jan, this month started out better than March and still is but not on Jan/Feb levels. I think people get used to your ranking, and ads after a month or two and then traffic levels out.

[James]

The only way you'll miss that goal is by not taking it seriously.
Or by letting things sit; thinking there's no adjustments you can make with something.

[g1c9]

We'll I'm not sure how to start, I'd love to start a forum as said before, but not sure what "area" to do it in.

My major hobbies/skills: coding, design, webmastering, are already filled with forums..

I have 4 info-sites out, but I'm not sure whats wrong with them... (See the review section) The search engines hate em, I guess I'll try something unrelated to science for my next.

[Chris]

Better to start with a content site than a forum.

Pick a topic you know well, then try to write one page on it per day. If your topic lends itself to images, try to include pictures with articles.

Really... there is hardly any niche that isn't going to get you to that level if you can manage one page a day of new written content.

[g1c9]

Thanks Chris, I'll do that. (I just read your Guide to Building a Successful Website, BTW, was great.)

Now I just need to decide the subject!

[john190]

I'm already making over the average of $50 a day.

I have been doing it for 4 years though and it as taken many hours. Some days I have worked continuous until I have reached something like 24 - 35 hours before I sleep.

Not good for you at all, but least I can get alot more rest now that I have made it.

I had quit my job around just over 2 years ago, which was around $400 a week job.

How I feel is I done the right thing by quiting my job and going into online business full time.

I hope you succeed in what you want to do.

All the best!

[Giles]

Forums are a lot of trouble. Very bad CTR and they take up a lot of time to get started and keep your community active. One of my slowly failing forums is:
http://thenzforums.net

[john190]

You are right about forums are hard to get of the ground, but even if they don't, a good thing is that they still add some unique content to your site that is not duplicated.

[michael_gersitz]

Trying for $165 per day by August.

[Emancipator]

what are you at right now michael?

[michael_gersitz]

About $80-100 depends if it is a good day or bad day. :)

[Cutter]

Forums are not a good path if you are looking for short term earnings. Dollar to hour, my biggest board is the worst performer; then again, its not even a year old. Seeing what some of these board owners are bringing in I am confident that it will have a very big payoff long term.

[john190]

Alot of forums don't do all that well in the Adsense program, but if it is on a good topic and you optimize the ads well then you can make some good money. But as you said it is not a quick solution.