I make a little bit of spare change online, been doing it for awhile now. Nothing that’ll have me in a Benzo on Lorenzo’s, but it keeps me fed and lets me do a few things that I want to do. To be honest, my online income is what has been keeping me afloat since I relocated to one of the most expensive cities in the world. Thank God for the hustle…

Anyways, it’s not a secret. If you go back into the archives of this blog you’ll see that every single hustle I’ve ever done I wrote about it, and documented it for y’all. I even wrote a book which is pretty much a step-by-step guide to earning a little bit of money online here or there. But it’s even simpler than that. It’s about work rate. You must work hard everyday if you want something bad enough.

I didn’t just get up one day and said I want to make money online. From when I started my first actual WordPress blog it took me about 2 years before I actually saw some money rolling in – and from there it hasn’t stopped. I sat down for hours a day trying things out, collaborating, experimenting, talking to people. Would you believe in the process I made friends and enemies, I even got ripped off $200 bucks by a 15 year old kid. I was absolutely livid but that’s another story. But I kept my head down and stayed at work in the lab and didn’t let minor setbacks discourage me.

I wrote this post to encourage people who have ideas to act on them. If you don’t act on them you’ll never know, and you’ll be one of those people who could’ve, would’ve, but never did. All I’m saying is making money online is not a phenomenon.  No one is going to tell you exactly what they do, and they sure as hell ain’t going to do it for you. You have to be original, persistent, spend a little money here and there, and most importantly – DON’T BE AFRAID TO FAIL.

Believe.

Good luck and Godspeed.

I came over Clixsense the other day…actually a few months ago and took a little interest in it. It seems easy, you know the type hustle for people who don’t like to do much work. I didn’t really get too much into for the sole reason that I actually felt like it didn’t pay enough, and that with my time spent elsewhere I could make more money.

With Clixsense all you’re doing is visiting advertisers ads, browsing them, waiting for a clock to count down to zero, and once it’s hit zero you get the money credited to your account. It sounds a little too easy to actually make substantial money with. There are premium Clixsense accounts and regular Clixsense accounts. With the premium Clixsense accounts you’ve shown that you can purchase online which makes you (a premium user) more valuable to the advertiser thus giving you the opportunity to view more ads and earn more money.

Clixsense also has a little affiliate program that you can mess with. I haven’t really even tried promoting Clixsense due to a lack of time and concentrating on other projects. But if you’ve tried Clixsense or plan on trying Clixsense let me know if you can actually make money doing it.

All the Clixsense proof pics I’ve found have been pretty low income. Seems like something to do if you’re a kid maybe looking for some extra change but a hustle is a hustle – whether it makes a penny or a dime.

Let me know what y’all think….

I had a spare Western Digital 500GB  hard drive laying around a couple weeks ago. I was going to run a contest here but you know with this economic crunch and all, times are hard! I decided I didn’t want to pay eBay their fees so I’d go through Craigslist AKA Cold Hard Cash. 

Put up the listing and within a day got a phone call from someone willing to buy it for full price. Met up with the guy – wham, bam, thank you man – I was $85 richer. So now I got that out of the way I hadn’t forgotten that my listing was still up. I didn’t bother to edit it and say it’s sold because I’m lazy and have things to do.

The next day I must have gotten two calls and a text asking about the hard drive. Told them I didn’t have it. Got a couple more calls the next day. And I’ve been getting a call at least once every 2 or 3 days asking for this external hard drive.

So how does this help you?

Forget supply and demand. How about demand and supply? You got a product that you can get cheap but not sure people will buy? List it on Craigslist, see how many responses you get, then decide if it’s worthwhile.

Places where you can get some cheap goods:

• Alibaba.com
• GlobalSources.com
• Liquidation.com 
• Local Liquidations (lots more now because of the recession)
• Craiglist and Ebay (People don’t know the value of their own goods)

Make sure you’re buying from Verified Suppliers on Global Sources and Alibaba. Just putting y’all up on something that I’ll be doing in my spare time. It’s all about having multiple income streams. I’ll let you all know how it goes once I get everything going.

Now that I’m injured and taking a break from the field. I’m sitting at home more and more everyday and learning so much through the people I encounter online. I love Adsense – I’m writing an E-Book on “How To Get Paid Using Adsense” (look out for it) – Adsense is my favorite source of income and at times, surprisingly, it’s my only source of income. But as the title says, the Adsense hustle is not for everyone.

The thing about the Adsense hustle is that in most cases unless you have an extremely high traffic site – you won’t make too much. Another thing that determines how much you make are the ads that show up on your website – is your website/blog in a high paying niche. That is definitely something that you should look into before you create your site, especially if you’re looking to make money off of it.

Other niches such as the weight loss and skin care niches, people say that affiliate products are better to advertise with those. Those are said to be the “desperate buyers” markets. I’m so fat – I’ll buy any product just to see if it works! (their mentality supposedly). I don’t know if that’s completely true. And to me anyways, most desperate markets are saturated.

When I choose a Niche – I like to think outside the box. People say write about what interests you, of course that’s a plus, but what if you’re interested in mongolian cow manure- see how far that’s going to get you. Anyways, you don’t want to be too far outside of the box, but you want to be borderline, something that a lot of people are interested in OR something that a lot of people WILL be interested in. Something that you could possibly top the search engines on. Think AHEAD of the game.

You’d be surprised one blog topping the search engines for a keyword can get you more money than 10 blogs on the second page.

I’ve decided to make hustling a hobby and it’s been on the back burner lately. I’ve been spending 4 days out of the week out of town and 3 days hustling – it’s getting difficult to make money. My plan is to up a bunch of Adsense sites to make that passive income.  Besides that I’m going to keep running my business which has been a let down this month since I haven’t been at home promoting. 

Whats new?

I’ve been traveling 4 days out of the week for training with this team I’m trying to play on. Life has been really hectic trying to make money online. 

A lot of people wonder where I get my money online. If you just looked in my sidebar you’ll see I have links to my websites. I have a few online businesses which I run. You can feel free to check them out on http://www.websketchz.com and let me know what you think.

At the end of a hard days work I feel completely exhausted. I like to wind down by writing a short post on here everyday, I don’t know if anyone even reads it but hey, that’s not what I’m writing for. I just want to ask myself and everyone else a question. Being a businessman and running a business, do you ever work for a minimal profit? Is it ever worth it? How do you run a business, afford to pay employees and yourself? Should you take on more work than you can handle, or do you tell the customer you can only do so much? How does that reflect on your business?

See a hustlers mind is like clockwork. It constantly moving, trying figure out what the next step is, where the next pile of cash is. That’s the only way you can make money online. It’s best to have multiple streams of income – but do minimal work. I’m still trying to figure that out. Once I can get my business on autopilot and completely hands off from me besides the regular maintenance, then I know I’ve taken a step forward. Until then, I have to find a way to answer those questions I asked in the first paragraph.