Another Easy Way To Make 100k/Year

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Sonny Forelli said:
actually an "easy" way to make $100k/year is to take some low-level corporate job and skate by putting in 2 hours of 'real' work a day while riding long lunches and early afternoon departures, and of course working on your own business/campaigns while in the office.
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Strange to think that those of us 'lucky' enough to have this still long for being independent. I must be insane.
 


as LotsOfZeros pointed out earlier, you can't sell shit at DP for decent money anymore. I used to be able to get $300-$500 per site last year there, but look at the shit I just pulled off the 1st page of their B/S/T Sites section:
Dating Site Landing Page
Looking into getting into affiliate marketing? Already in it and looking to buy a landing page? I am selling a landing page that I have made but have had no time to really promote or work on.

This auction includes the complete site + domain. The domain is about 7 months old and includes the word SINGLES. It is a .net

I won't display the URL here for everyone to see but you can post here and I will send you a PM with the URL. This is the minimize exposure of the URL.

Let's start the auction at $10 and go up in increments of $2
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Start selling at DP and this can be the "how to make $100/year" thread instead of $100k/year
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
Three Cheers for Slave Labor! We all know that directory life at times can get…oh insanely boring and torturous (submissions, META tagging, more submissions). What I’ve done, I recommend you all to try and do, because it makes life easier, and you don’t have to pay someone on the net a lot of money to do it.

Recruit siblings/children! haha

My two little sisters (16 and 14) love thinking that they’re my “secretaries”. My one sister is submitting 3 sites to Dan’s list for $25, and my other sister is META tagging my directory (700+ categories) for $20ish. Job training takes about 5 minutes because it’s so easy, so I don’t have to invest much into it.

This thread really has no point, it’s just funny how they like doing this stuff. And I’m not doing anything “wrong”, because they aren’t complaining about the wage.

Anyone else use similar tactics?
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Or get your siblings to do it eh Paul?
 
Dating Site Landing Page
Looking into getting into affiliate marketing? Already in it and looking to buy a landing page? I am selling a landing page that I have made but have had no time to really promote or work on.

This auction includes the complete site + domain. The domain is about 7 months old and includes the word SINGLES. It is a .net

I won't display the URL here for everyone to see but you can post here and I will send you a PM with the URL. This is the minimize exposure of the URL.

Let's start the auction at $10 and go up in increments of $2
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Haha, it's probably something like singles.bdiwjy66-bwpib.net.
 
lol, is this the quality of posts at ubercamp? Is this what I would get for the $200 a month? I am seriously asking cause dude you suck.
I must say though that as much as you get flamed here you do have guts coming back for more abuse. Maybe you are one of the fools that believes any publicity is good publicity.
 
Demon said:
I wanted to butt in earlier, but as jdprgm implied, its not at all easy to start getting high paying clients with your new web design company.

One of my friends does know someone that makes over £40k a year ($80k for you Americans) by offering web design services at extortionate prices to stupid, local businesses, and then outsourcing the work to a bunch of Estonians. So I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to milk good cash out of businessmen in the 'real world' who would easily give you a couple of K to get a simple website set up. However, this is all provided you can build yourself a presence among LOCAL businesses. Don't bother trying to do this online, going local would be a lot easier and more profitable.
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Yep my cousin in New York does this.

Yellowpages.com/Superpages.com scraper = free

Chumps from craigslist cold calling businesses = $12 per hour

Chumps from digitalpoint to do all the work = $150

Getting paid $1,500 for being a middle man = priceless :D
 
You know what's scary? I'm setting up this exact same model right now. I'm researching all of the possible types of businesses that can be outsourced. I'm starting with local web design and SEO.

Start with the little local Mom & Pop shops.

I took the kids to this little collectors toy show last weekend. The guy that ran it runs like 6 of these things per year. His website was total dog shit.

I approached him at the show and told him that it's great that he has a website, but half his links are dead, it's ugly, and he's got no capture system in place (no Aweber).

Told him for $500 I would fix him up AND since I'm a preferred partner of Google, I could get top advertisers on his site (this is double-speak for placing AdSense and CPA ads on his site).

I swear I'm so new at this I didn't even have any fucking business cards...I wrote my number on a napkin.

He actually called ME last week to talk it over some more.

I know, I know, $500 is cheap. Next time I'll just say $1,200 or something.

@LotsOfZeros

I think what you want to do is just crank through the yellow pages and then just hire a telemarketer on CraigsList (there are swarms of them on CL) to crank through the list and get you clients.

Then, after the site is done, I'll tell him I can get him Top Ten placement on Google and Yahoo for $1,000 a month. Of course, he knows jack and shit about web design and SEO so I can completely get away with just punching in some 10-word long-tail in quotes, as long as his company name is in it.

Then outsource the whole fucking business...SEO and all.

The key here is to go after your non-tech-savvy local niches. Carpet cleaners, plumbers, home improvement guys, dog groomers, you know.

If anyone wants to brainstorm on how to get this cranking along even better, let me know.

You know how I can tell I'm progressing? I'm actually starting to make sense.
 
Hey I like nickycakes' blog post there. That's what I do. Throw shit against the wall and see what sticks.

Anything more than that and you'll drive yourself nuts.
 
I like these brutally simple concepts because they can help light a spark in your brain and help you brainstorm more advanced concepts.
 
i don't think you necessarily have to target only local businesses...

for instance: all the ebook sites that have the ridiculous headers and 3D books, with jazzy buttons..... those probably come from web designers, and I'd bet there's 1k+ orders for those every day.


A lot of it depends on your ability to communicate too. I'd rather pay a middle man that specs out my projects with me, manages the developers/designers, and kisses my ass if shit fucks up (and promptly fixes it) than to do it all myself.




I think all of us (myself included) have gotten a little cavalier with the word "easy", though. None of the guys I've ever known who do this have said it's easy......

they're always bitching about having too much business.
 
I know a bitch that is always complaining about too much business... you know who you are. ;)
 
There's more money in the game doing this locally, especially if you're able to recruit local small to mid-sized businesses. Outsource to local college students for cheap.

A business might be willing to pay a few hundred dollars for an OS Commerce install and quick customization, when local college students will do it for $10/hr. I know a college student pulling in well over $40k/yr doing this with local businesses, and using fellow college student as sub-contractors.
 
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