Yeah I think for the vast majority of people at least early on Steemit is going to make more money, not that Steemit is easy but it's less known and less used so I think easier to get to making a couple bucks per day quickly, especially if your active on here and engage with the community.
I think of Youtube and Adsense blogs as being a more long term play but the money can actually be very good if you stick with it long enough to get it going.
Have you ever tried CPA type offers as opposed to Adsense? Something I discovered a long time ago, but after a lot of wasted time spinning my wheels with Adsense is that you need MEGA traffic to make any real money with Adsense i mean like hundreds of thousands if not millions of views per month. With a CPA offer so either getting someone to buy something or signup for some offer you can often earn a pretty nice chunk of money.
Some CPA offers or affiliate programs I'm a part of pay as much as $100 per signup, others like $47, even the lower paying ones are like $13. Think about that, think how many Adsense clicks you'd need to get to make even $10. I think my Adsense account got value priced is what I think they call it, I get tons of clicks but I'm not even earning a penny a click. Thats throguh blogs Youtube I actually do quite well and have a very high CPM but my blog earns me almost nothing from Adsense clicks.
Awesome to hear your still grinding away and I agree with not letting yourself get burnt out, I think part of that is picking niches or topics your interested in as you'll almost always want to right and never have a shortage of content versus writing about some topic that your not interested in just for the money is going to get old quick
I like what you did here! I am very keen to connect with you to explore what are your ways/strategies you used to make money online!
Yeah I've heard about CPA but I don't get much traffic or have my own domain as some I've looked at preferred it. But I am continously adding stuff there for the long run. 😁 In here, I'm not earning much, just $1 SBD a week but I am enjoying the site so I've been spending more time here browsing around than spending hours editing YT videos. Taking a break from that here I am enjoying photography and travel posts.
Yeah the beauty of CPA offers is one click/buy from your reader could be $50 where as just getting a single click for Adsense may only be a penny. As far as not having a domain I do pretty well via affiliate marketing and most of my time and effort is spent on forums, Youtube, social media. I do very little in terms of actually putting together full sites, more like web 2.0 type stuff.
Hello Rulesforrebels,
possible for you to share with us which platform or avenues you are using to make an income for yourself?
and how can we get started?
Hey @darrylnyk my main income comes from a niche ecommerce store I've been running since 2012 but I also do Youtube, I'm an affiliate marketers using various affiliate programs, mostly smaller independent programs I don't really do clickbank, jvzoo, cj.com, etc. I also sell on Amazon Merch and other POD platforms, Etsy, eBay, Amazon, a bit of Amazon FBA.
Hey Buddy! so you mean it's really true that you can make money from niche e-commerce store? What skill sets does it take for you to run it? Is it writing blog posts, facebook ads or SEO?
I have tried previously but failed terribly.
How's the youtube income stream doing for you?
Have you heard of this website called Patreon? www.patreon.com
You can leverage on your youtube subscribers.
Yes you can absolutley make money with a niche store, however it's not as easy as the Youtubers trying to get you to buy their $997 course make it seem, its actually very hard. I would credit 90% of my success to lucking out and falling into a great niche and the other 10% to how I run my business and marketing techniques and such.
As far as skillsets, basically just knowing your way around ecommerce, how to setup a store, list a product, how to sell. Marketing, Social Media, blogging.
As far as Youtube up until recently I was making consistantly $2500 per month, some months as much as $4500. More recently earnings have been under $2,000 per month which still isn't too shabby. I personally don't use patreon, I dont want to have to be locked in to doing content just for patreon or for doing extras for people.
Thank you so much for your transparency! Appreciate it!
If I were to replicate your success, what will you advice me to do or how should I start it? I’ve a YouTube channel and a dtube channel.
I reckon, it’s difficult to start a niche website in today’s market. SEO game might be too competitive for me to join.
How did you start your YouTube channel and what made you think of the content?
I’m struggling with content creation everyday. I created my YouTube channel to document my entrepreneurship/financial freedom journey but currently I’m stuck because I don’t know what business/project to do.