How did you make your first $ on the internet?

Sydney Cohen
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Personally, putting aside e-commerce transactions (ebay etc), I did my first dollar on the internet by promoting Udemy courses on a blog I created yeaaars ago: http://elearnhero.com/. So the very first time I made money online was through affiliate marketing !

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tonixx
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Selling custom URLs on https://contact.do generated my first income, back in 2018. To this day, the site still brings in ramen money and delivered lots of spam free messages :)
Sydney Cohen
@tonixx So simple yet so efficient. Pretty cool ! did you ever share how much money you made from this project ?
tonixx
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@chnsydney Thx! Yah, made it to scratch my own itch :) A custom link is $19, so that's how much I made initially. These days it brings an average of $300/month
tonixx
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@chnsydney Please get in touch if you want a custom contact link: https://contact.do/toni All of these are still available: sydney, cohen, chnsydney :) PS: I can hook you up for free
tonixx
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@chnsydney Please create a contact link, confirm your email and then share the link here or send it to me via my contact link I'll then upgrade it to "sydney" :)
Susheel Kumar B B
Licensed clicks which I shot while learning photography to National Geographic Traveler magazine for single use.
Sydney Cohen
@bbsusheelkumar Pretty cool ! how did you manage to get on National Geographic traveler ?
Matt Mclelland
Wait... you guys are making money???
James Daly
In 2010 with a streetwear brand I started while at university 🤓
Aleks Bochkov
Helpdesk by LabiDesk
Helpdesk by LabiDesk
Freelance on oDesk :)
Christoph Paterok
In 2006 with Google AdSense :)
Christoph Paterok
@chnsydney Not really proud of it 😅 Just some spammy SEO things with high volume keywords.
gerry martinez
@chnsydney 12 years ago i made my first dollar with firefox download, Google was paying one dollar for every firefox download plus 2 dollar for every google satellite map software download. Then i learn adsense, after one year i was making 6 figure a year with 100k monthly unique visits 20cents to 1$ cpc. The search ranking was easy to trick on that time then came the panda on 2011 and my website was hit by 2012. Adsense still active you may give it a try.
Richard Fang
Freelance writing! Still makes me money haha
Maria Teresa Stella
I put my Psychology notes and book summaries from some of my Bachelor degree courses on an online platform for students. It's not as frequent now but I still get a few sales before the exams start!
Jaga Deep
BlockchainNote.live
BlockchainNote.live
Fiverr - web development.
Fernando Pessagno
Back in 2018 shortly after launching ResumeMaker.Online 2.0
Selling icon on iconfinder. Next step is making illustrations :)
Sydney Cohen
@jacquelinclem As a designer this is pretty cool. Which Icon did you sell first ?
Cagatay Kurt
In 2013 iOS in-app purchases I was making $500-$1000 per month https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ca...
Amit yadav
In 2015 earned 299 INR by just creating an account on website during initial launch period of website.😀 https://imgur.com/a/6HxKyoB
Adrian Topka
By some freelance website offers, and launched my first iOS app (for the crossfitters)
Vishwajeet Raj
I was looking for my 1st Freelance gig. It took me a month to get a single client. But it was great, huge, and amazing. I had to rewrite CSS for a web app 160 pages. I posted 100 bids (that's the limit at freelancer.com for 1 month in some xyz membership i took). Only 2 of the replied and hired me.
Cao Văn Thanh
@vishwajeet_raj11 I feel become gig freelancer is hard because the price is too cheap, so I focus on my product to hire them
Emma Phượng Nguyễn
I wrote blog and got the a paid subscription via Substack.
Wesley Ross
Advertising freelance dev work on Craigslist in 2008, first client was a patent troll... :D