Just getting started, need some advice

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So my story is, I'm 15 years old and would like to begin earning money. I have experience with web design (html) and photoshop, mostly by making sigs and coding some basic templates at clantemplates.com. Now I am ready to get started earning. How do people get started in this business? From an experienced viewpoint, what advice would you give to someone new to start with?

You guys have all been doing this extensively and it would be really awesome to me if I could have your advice so I won't make the same mistakes.
 


for 15 you write better than most people around here

reading the forum is the best advice I can give, not sure what you can do as an affiliate being 15 and all...

I wish I got into this at your age... good luck
 
I started off today with an adsense account and a basic website with a few articles I wrote. I put 1 leaderboard style google ad on the page. My host is 110mb.com (free).

If I advertise this myself without paying for any advertising, would I be making decent money? Other ideas I have are a proxy site with ads that I can give the link to all my friends since everyone needs a good proxy for bypassing filters during school. And my last site is all the answers to a vocabulary workbook that is in high demand at my school.

What do you guys think about these ideas? Are they good to get started and is there anything I'm overlooking?
 
Also take this into mind Vocab answer and Proxy sites are more of a seasonal when schools in. Schools about to get out in the next 2 to 3 months so you wouldn't get as much traffic as you are now.
 
I started out making a web site about computer games and put cheatcodes, walkthroughs, etc on it. Put up Adsense ads and that was that. It didn't make me much money but by the time I was done with that project I knew what I had to do and how to do it -- basic CSS & PHP, web stats, ftp, domain names, hosting, and so on. I think its easier to learn when your first project is fun and you know about the topic you are doing.
 
I agree with Andrew. Since you are not in a position where you have to make money to survive, I would suggest picking something you have some interest or knowledge in.

Learning while struggling to make something payoff is much more difficult than learning on a project you are having fun with. The money will happen after you build a good site with traffic, not before.

Some of the more successful people I know figured out a way to monetize a sight after they had spent months or years working on it for free. Building a site just for the money usually means you are not paying as much attention as you would if the site would keep your interest without any hope of a payday.
 
I made $1.74 after one day with an article I wrote and submitted to digg. Now I'm guessing I have to continue doing that, but multiply by a lot and submitting to other sites?
 
Glen said:
I made $1.74 after one day with an article I wrote and submitted to digg. Now I'm guessing I have to continue doing that, but multiply by a lot and submitting to other sites?
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Nice, man! :D It took me a few months before I ever saw a penny from AdSense. You made $1.74 in one day. You're on the right track.

Like everyone else is saying, read the Wickedfire forums. You'll learn a lot in a little amount of time. Trust me.

I wish I would have started in this business when I was 15.

Best of luck.
 
I started off sending links to people who kept bugging me about content sources. I sent them to EZ-Green (back when that program was still alive). Once I started making more than beer money, I got a virtual hosting account. My advice to newbies is a) find a niche you can be passionate about (something you would update/produce EVEN if you didn't get paid) b) listen to your visitors and give them the site they want.

I wish you the best and welcome to the Affiliate Marketing world.
 
Try creating a blog too - blogger is free and you can also add adsense to that.

As others have said find a topic that interests you - then collect as much useful content as you can. Add new stuff every day - post to free directories - forums - social network sites such as Digg and furl. You should do OK and certainly will learn a lot from the exercise.

Adrian
 
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