Who here has created a site that is earning $1000+ per month?

[Nelson]

If you have created a site that is making $1k+:

If you could go back in time to before you started your site and tell your past self 10 pieces of advice about building a website, what would you tell your self?

[Savage]

I've never actually created a website that earned less than that amount... at least once it got up to speed.

You don't need 10 pieces of advice. Really just one.

1) Use your site to make the best contribution you can, and keep going until you feel you've achieved that.

[smartile]

Simple but great advice,

thanks Steve

Stephen Martile — Personal Development Made Simple

[realvagabond]

Yep, that's a good advice. I f you put your passion in it, it is quite easy to get $1000 per month out of any website.

[Guardian Angel]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

1) Use your site to make the best contribution you can, and keep going until you feel you've achieved that.

Very well said, Steve. I did not know you can also be a man of few words. I should have included this when I wrote a post about you in my blogging tip blog.
By the way, thanks for inspiring us.

Steve Pavlina dot Com: The Smart Site that can make you Smarter

[ken nubo]

Ha ha, my advice would be:

1. Try not to change your website template once every week XD

That's what I did, it was kinda addicting giving it a new face lift everyweek.

[Jcs]

I figured I'd just add my question here. Just read that the blog called Lifereboot exists for a year now. Since then he has almost blown his saving, no health insurance etc. The figures he speaks about (100 articles, 300k unique visitors) seems a little low?

I'm just wondering what any of you good at this stuff have to say about this .

[Toefur]

The advice I would give to myself? Don't give up until you've genuinely put some hard work into the site, and promoting the site. If you just sit there and want it to make $1000 a month, it won't...

[tristanbethe]

Steve's advise is spot on. perhaps i can add some little things from my experiance?

i and a colleague started imageafter.com back in 2001 just because we where creating an offline image database for ourselves being both designers. The complete concept at the time was: hey, why not place them online so other people can use them too! quite some time went by before we actually managed that. The idea was to give something back to the internet after constantly leeching it.

my advise:

1) start something on the side of you regular job so you can make the necessary mistakes and do lots of experiments. also by not having to make money of it you do not have to make crazy decisions geared toward the commercial side and focus more on serving your users.

2) keep doing it, this will be no problem since you chose something you would build or maintain if you where the only user.

3) find someone to start the site with. I am pretty sure i could not have done the site on my own and even if i could not i could not maintain it. I personally really need people to discuss my ideas for the site to see which ones make sense.

4)find people to cooperate with that supplement your skills. you do not have to do everything yourself.

5) Or hire someone for the parts you cannot do, often these are one time jobs. I have good experiences with guru.com.

6) install statistics on your site...its my daily fix to check them!

7) do not think about your site to much before you start, just start and solve the problems along the way

And yes we do make more then 1000 a month

[Buddy]

Outsource just as soon as you can.