So you want to start making residual income online and quit this rat race of 8-hour workday?

Let’s start with some simple questions and answers:

Q.: Is it possible to make money online?

A.: Yes, and you probably already heard a lot of about it.

Q.: Is it possible to earn for a living online and quit your daily job?

A.: Yes, of course. I have to admit it’s not as easy as 2+2, but it’s not harder than (2+2)/2+2

Q.: Can an ordinary mortal human being just like you do it?

A.: Yes. I do it all the time, even while I sleep, so can you.

Q.: Does it require a lot of technical skills and time?

A.: No. First spend few days learning how to install a blog and then half an hour everyday writing content, and it could bring you 132.994$ monthly revenue some day. (shomoney spends just half an hour everyday, I spend 1 day per week).

(Image credits: Steve Wampler)

The business formula of making money online is very simple and you can find it here, but first read some stories for inspiration.

2 Old but Very Inspirational Examples

How did I start blogging? I got my inspiration from these 2 guys: Steve Pavlina and Jeremy Schoemaker.

I was just a simple internet surfer just like you, who likes to read blogs online. I never even noticed that almost every blog was made for money making. Before I started making money myself, I’ve never even noticed those ads around the content of almost every website. Now I see the internet completely differently – it’s a huge business machine, a big opportunity for everyone, so I hoped in the train too. But first, lets talk a bit about those two inspirational examples of making big money online.

Shoemoney.com

Launched: October, 2005

Revenue: 132.994$ for just one month of clicks on Adsense ads in the same year 2005

Blogger Shoemoney became famous when he posted his picture with a Google $132,994.97 check for one month of clicks.

“This was the bigest paper check I have ever recieved. It was way back in August of 2005. 100% of this income was earned with organic seo . I had not heard of search engine arbitrage at the time and did not buy traffic from MSN Yahoo or Google itself. I did that about 1.5 years later ”

What better way to make money online than to write a blog about making money online? Jeremy Schoemaker, a 35-year-old Web entrepreneur, did just that. The half hour he spends each day writing ShoeMoney was enough to make enormous amount of money.

Half an hour? Everybody can afford it! You don’t even have to quit your job to do it. Just imagine how much would you be earning today if you wrote a blog instead of watching TV.

StevePavlina.com

In 2004, Steve Pavlina began a a web site and blog dedicated to personal development, StevePavlina.com (“Personal Development for Smart People”). Steve even closed his company “Dexterity Software” in order to focus full-time on the website and blog. And no wonder why he did it!

Here’s the graph showing Steve’s traffic growth from Feb 2005 to Jan 2006. The numbers on the left represent number of visitors.

And here’s his Adsense income from the same period:

Pretty nice growth? At the end of 2009 he was making around $100K per year from Adsense ads.

Me and Money Making from Blogging

It struck me like thunder when I saw these numbers. Something started burning inside me and I knew I just had to start blogging. But I just never did it. A year later, I was talking to my colleague from my college, and he told me that he was interested in blogging and something clicked in my mind. We talked and talked and it led to the creation of our first blog themilliondollarplan.com (it is closed now).

After 3 months of work, we made only something like 10$. It was getting more and more frustrating and I thought it might just never work out. The funniest thing about it was, that this blog was about money making.

But just 1 good post and everything changed. My colleague wrote about google’s inovative office interiors, and it started driving around 10K of unique visitors everyday.The adsense money counter started running!!!

At first, 1-2$ a day, then 5$, some time later 10$. Inspired by this, we created another blog villageofjoy.com, and the revenue reached 30$, 40$ a day and kept growing. Villageofjoy.com was even featured on BBC “Click” – we got enormous amounts of direct traffic.

Then unusual-architecture.com. Then tastyhuman.com (the one you are reading right now). I don’t want to disclose, how much do we earn now, but I can tell it is roughly as much as our peers get in their usual jobs. But the biggest difference is, that we spent only 1 day per week blogging, so only 1/5 of the time they spend at their jobs.

Ok, ok – you convinced me! But How to Start Making Money? Read our other article: 5 Simple Steps to Start Making Money Online.

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