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How to make a $100 per day

I just realized something! This entire blog is filled with ideas on how to help your sites make more money and receive more traffic, but I don’t have a single post that says, HEY! HERE IS HOW YOU MAKE MONEY. I want a post that tells you exactly how to reach your goals. A comment in another post (I do read them and get inspired by them) reminded me of this. So I perused through some old projects of mine and grabbed one thats very easy, very automated, reciprocal (consistantly makes money forever), and makes about a $100/day. Most of all it requires very minimal time and investment. So here ya go! Follow the instructions carefully and do as I did.

Here Is What You Do
1) Pick a generalized niche that is fairly popular. Celebrities work well, cars, animals. Anything will do.

2) Make a list of 300 items in that niche. For instance if you pick music artists make a list of the top 300 most popular music artists.

3) Download at least 20 public use(noncopyrighted) pictures of each item in your list.

4) Download or buy a screensaver maker. I don’t remember which one I use so I’ll have to update you in the comments when I get back to the office on Monday. Just make sure it is quick and easy to create the screensavers (saves you a lot of time) and comes with an exe output function that’ll easily install the screensavers on their computer without much dialog boxes or windows getting in thier way. This one looks decent. Easy Screensaver Maker and its only $25. Update: I use Screen Saver Builder. It’s $20 with fully functioning 21 day trial.

5) Create all your screensavers and put them up on a simple website. Give each screensaver its own page and download link. It also never hurts to SEO the site so it’ll do well in the search engines and make you even more money later on. Adsense also doesn’t hurt for a lil’ bit of extra cash.

6) Signup with Zangocash (Aff Link). This step is optional. See the comments for more ideas on how to monenize your new screensavers.

7) Talk to your account manager and ask him to bundle Zango software with your screensavers. Send him all the installers along with a textfile containing all the short descriptions and a sample picture. They are usually happy to do this for you. If they aren’t get a new account manager.

8) Get yourself a copy of Promosoft software submitter(nonAff link). I think it costs $95 for a copy but trust me it’s well worth it.

9) Follow the instructions on Promosoft to create the PAD files(product description files used for software sites) and submit each screensaver to hundreds of software and screensaver directories.

There you go. You will get paid $0.45 for every person who installs your screensaver. Once the screensavers are submitted you will have no problem getting tons of people downloading them everyday. If you get about 250 downloads per day(easy with 300 screensavers) you will easily make about a $100/day!

ideas for monetizing

Alrighty how about this idea. Watermark all your images with a second website url. The second website is nothing more than a PPC campaign to other screensaver terms. The second website gets advertised everytime the screensaver runs. Also, ppl will pay money to have you include their site in a bookmark on the users computers. There are tons of ways to monotize this. Infact it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do ALL of them. It doesn’t hurt to blend in immediate income with reoccuring income.

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About the technique to “bundle an installer into your own software”, my feeling (and it just represents my feeling) is that if you spend hours writing a piece of software, maybe at the end, you might use this to get some cash, but just as a bonus for a software that you would have written for your pleasure.

Now, if it is only about making money, when it comes to spend time creating hundred of screensavers, it might not bring good cash compared to the time spent. BUT THAT IS ONLY MY FEELING, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ANY FEEDBACK from anyone who’ll try Eli’s technique.

Ok, so here an another alternative to Zango…
say you make a screensaver for that fancy singer, just create a dull webpage about the guy, with some ads on it.
e.g. your page would be called
http://www.mybluehat.com/bonjovi.html

WHat next? You create the screensaver installer with the screensaver maker software, called in this example : bonjovi-screensaver.exe

you rename this file into something like
bonjovi-screensaver.ex_

Then, you create a good old .bat file, containing the following lines:

rename bonjovi-screensaver.ex_ bonjovi-screensaver.exe
explorer “http://www.mybluehat.com/bonjovi.html”
bonjovi-screensaver.exe

And finally, you right-click on your .bat file and “create a shortcut”. Finally, you rename your shortcut “Setup.exe”

And you just need to zip the three files : your shortcut, the .bat and the screensaver.

You distribute it, just as Eli explained.
When somebody will get the screensaver, he will of course click on the “Setup.exe” link that will execute the .bat
the .bat will open a window to your internet page before launching the setup of the screensaver
Then, most people will close this internet page, but some will actually have a look at it and click on some of your ads, bringing you some money.

What will bring more cash ? the cents from Zango when the user accepts to install it, or some cents from adwords when someone clicks on your links? I couldn’t tell you, so it’s up to you to test it and discover!

And remember what Eli says “this blog focus on creativity”! What I wrote is just a base, I tried to make it as easy as I could, but you can obviously improve this and use something else than a damn .bat file!