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Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by justinchen »

ambiate wrote: post #5

I'm on the same road as you. I'm attending my second year at my uni and I only need ~200-300 per month to manage transportation to and from each month. I'm a programmer/designer/philosopher/bioinformatics nerd. My schedule varies too much to get a regular part time job. I started down the path of niche sites. Devoting a ridiculous amount of time into writing articles for them. A quick glance of webmaster tools has me…

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Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by il »

Affiliate marketing/PPC arbitrage is by far the easiest way to build passive income, especially the amount you without high time commitment or too much risk.

Find some offers to promote, make some PPC ads for them, test, rinse, repeat.

Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by noahc »

The good news: It sounds like you've done a lot and are relatively internet competent.

The bad news: You're not an expert yet.

I would say you could easily do online marketing, wordpress installs, SEO, etc. Basically, anything a small business would need. The key here is finding the right small business.

Here's what I look for when contacting small businesses to do contract work:

1. They sell to larger audience than the local area. This means having a web presence actually matters, because everyone doesn't already know about them.

2. It might be hard to tell from the outside, but look for businesses that could potentially have their crap together.

3. Call them and tell them you were looking at their website and saw some ways you could improve it. Ask if they'd be interested in hearing about it. IF THEY ASK HOW MUCH RIGHT AWAY...RUN! RUN! RUN! You don't want these people.

I was able to bill $35/hour on my first project like this. That works out to working about 30 hours/month (billable) to get the $1000. Depending on where you live $35/hour may or may not be the right price to start at. I just did what was considered a good wage around here and took it to a multiple of 2.5. I'd start higher rather than lower on whatever number you use.

Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by bendmorris »

You're looking for a lot of money fast for little effort and your first lesson in school is going to be that pretty much nothing in life is that simple. Try and find a flexible part time job - they do exist, especially on campus. I worked two development jobs on campus that paid pretty well (for a student, anyway) - there was never any shortage of $12-15 an hour web development gigs here, which is more than your friends will be making as janitors or bookstore cashiers. I was also allowed to work remotely, and I gained experience and made a lot of useful university contacts this way. You can try things like contracting, but be ready for it to be a lot more work than you thought - when you have to deal with people it's almost never easy money. Whatever you choose to do, you're probably going to have to earn every penny.

Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by Concours »

ambiate wrote: post #5

I'm on the same road as you. I'm attending my second year at my uni and I only need ~200-300 per month to manage transportation to and from each month. I'm a programmer/designer/philosopher/bioinformatics nerd. My schedule varies too much to get a regular part time job. I started down the path of niche sites. Devoting a ridiculous amount of time into writing articles for them. A quick glance of webmaster tools has me…

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Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by _harry »

happy4crazy wrote: post #8

This will sound silly, but it's not that hard to make $1k per month playing online poker... if you're moderately mathy and have good self-control, you can make a bunch of money. If you don't have good self-control, then yeah, pick something else.

My roommate from my freshman year tried the online poker thing. Made $100 the first day. $1k the first month. $5k the second. Then he won some $30,000 tourney. Then he dropped out.

He's been pursuing it full time for the last 4 years. He'll go into casinos and play for 50 hours straight without even realizing it. For awhile, he was dating a 35 year old women during one of his 3-month stints in Vegas. Then her husband showed up and punched him the face. He says he made around 110k last year.

The first day we met, he said he wanted to be either a zookeeper or a weatherman. Funny how quickly your life can change.

Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by KishoreKumar »

braindead_in wrote: post #6
ambiate wrote: post #5

I'm on the same road as you. I'm attending my second year at my uni and I only need ~200-300 per month to manage transportation to and from each month. I'm a programmer/designer/philosopher/bioinformatics nerd. My schedule varies too much to get a regular part time job. I started down the path of niche sites. Devoting a ridiculous amount of time into writing articles for them. A quick glance of webmaster tools has me…

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Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?

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Post by KoZeN »

happy4crazy wrote: post #8

This will sound silly, but it's not that hard to make $1k per month playing online poker... if you're moderately mathy and have good self-control, you can make a bunch of money. If you don't have good self-control, then yeah, pick something else.

As risky as this obviously sounds, it's an approach I agree with.

I've tried multiple angles to earn a passive income and at my highest point I earned about £75 in a month. I played poker with friends as a hobby and I used to destroy them as I'm much more analytical than they are. They all played for real money online and I figured there must be tens of thousands of other people around the world who play poker online that also aren't very good.

Join one of the main sites like pokerstars and make sure you take advantage of one of their joining bonuses. I started with £10, lost it in an hour, put in another £10 and I have not since added another penny. That second £10 has turned into about £450 over five weeks of playing a few hours every other night and a marathon session every sunday evening.

Fine, I may not be on the verge of becoming the next WPT champion and I may be a way off retiring on my winnings but I am getting progressively better as poker requires a high degree of skill which improves with practice.

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