^ That! I can get $20-30/day with adsense with just 2-3 days of work, in random niches i haven't analyzed properly, with a handful of links and zero work after the 2-3 days. When you know how to do it, is trivial. If I put in a week of work, do some good link building and invest a bit more effort, with a good niche I can get to $2-300/day with adsense. Problem for me is not making the money but monetization because I can't use adsense on a shitload of MFA sites without risking the account. So where I use adsense I have to put in more effort to make quality sites.
Guy who said you can't buy a Lamborgini from IM. I know of a guy who received a Mercedes CLK from an affiliate network as a present for pulling in massive money, I know of a guy who does $3mil/year from IM and I know of a guy who retired and bought a castle in UK from IM (after spamming Google like a baus). And I know people in competitive niches that invest $10k in a site on flippa just to put a link on it towards their money site. I know people who buy thousands of expired domains every month, each worth $200-$2000. People who make $10k in a couple of days for writing a sales page for somebody. List goes on and on.
Just think of Frank Kern, I think he pulled in $20mil in 48 hours or something like that. I know a guy who made like $500k from one single SEO software, another one who made $1mil from a SEO software. SENuke probably pulled in several millions in net proffit, recurring. Xrumer also made a fortune for its owners. Scrapebox again, super popular probably allows his owner to have more than a decent life. FFS, there are fiverr sellers that pull in $10k/mo and fiverr is far from the best way to get rich online.
Even if you take just sellers that offer their services exclusivelly on BHW, there are plenty that make $10k/mo, some make a lot more. I even read something written by a guy selling WSOs on WarriorForum and he was cashing in like $20k/mo from a bunch of $5 WSOs.
The great thing about IM is while there are many known methods out there, of which 99.99% of them don't work well out of the box, any of them makes you good money if you understand the underlying principles and you twist it to make it work. Even more, while the core principles in IM are limited, the methods you can devise from those are unlimited. I would go as far as saying that unless you overextend a lot, loosing money online is impossible. Some will say is not, because they "invested" a lot of money and got less back. I'd say you didn't invested shit, you just wasted your money because you thought you can learn IM from an e-book and SEO is about ordering 20000 spam comments.