Starter money..

[killafawk]

Lets just say i don't come from the richest family on the block and im trying to stay alive every month to pay off my hosting fees.. Im trying so hard to get some type of money off my sites...I even spent the last of my budget this month building a affiliate type site to see if i can some how produce a decent monthly budget off that site to keep me going enough to upgrade my sites to such things as vbulletin and other things to bring me more traffic.

anyone got any pointers for me?

[Sunfrog]

Ask Tyler for a loan. lol

[Sam]

I started out with a www.blogger.com account which is free, this gave me the opportunity to have a blog without cost on which I could put adsense, in the first month I already received my first $100+, If you want I could write an article on how to achieve this.

[zac439]

I started out with a www.blogger.com account which is free, this gave me the opportunity to have a blog without cost on which I could put adsense, in the first month I already received my first $100+, If you want I could write an article on how to achieve this.

Wow, congratulations! I would be very interested in reading an article if you write it. Can we have a link to your blog, so that I can see what you have? Is it common to make such money from blogger.com?

[masm50]

I started my first site using the webspace that is given free with my ISP (a few years ago now admittedly) and have done pretty well - I'm not getting into specifics.

You don't need much of a budget to start off. I would say that for most sites a hosting account at about $6/month and a domain at $7/year is fine - so cost wise apart from your time is only about $80 (or £40) which really sin't very much and pretty easy to get back in under that time. In fact as the first year is the ahrdest time to earn money back from your investment you could even find a coupon for various hosts (dreamhost, etc...) that gives you a whole year's hosting for about $10, letting you spend under $20 total for your first year and if you can't make that back maybe the internet isn't the place fr you.

Yes you get what you pay for with hosting, but most indie sites don't need too many resources.

-Tim

[Sunfrog]

I want to read that too Sam! Yes, please post it.

[killafawk]

oh yea i mean i can afford hosting and such lol i mean i have like 6-7 registered names and 3-4 of em are up hosting with go daddy. But what im saying is i want to try to get off the ground so i can purchase things for my new websites like vbulletin or mabe other things..

thats why i just bought a new domain name specificly for clickbank promoting and i wanna see hwo that goes. i hear people make 800$ + a month just advertising some click bank products...i just want to get a to a point where i can make like 100-200 a month so it can push my other websites to better software and stuff then i can begin to make big money on the websites.

[Submerge]

Learn web dev skills first. If you can either code or design graphics, then freelance. Take the time to do this and you can make money, then you'll be able to afford keeping a site running. Like said before, it takes money to make money(usually), or the skills to at least start somewhere, if you can get off the ground initially, maybe you should rethink what you want to do.