How can I make money?

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Bao Beier

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Can anyone tell me how to make money? Specifically, in the gray market (unofficial industries).
 
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My main skill is traffic generation, but the market is particularly bad this year.
 
If you're in a Tier 1 country, partner with a tech agency or dev team to apply for US or EU jobs. Hires are harder now because of AI, but it's still better than sitting around doing nothing.
 
Making money online requires at least some knowledge and skills. It’s a good idea to learn the basics of the field you’re interested in before getting started.
 
As for the traffic, I think you should continue monetizing it through CPC ad networks or affiliate marketing.
 
Start with a skill you can monetize SEO, lead generation, web development, or marketing. Build a small portfolio, find clients in your niche, and scale once you have consistent results. In the gray market, focus on services that are legal and low-risk rather than shortcuts
 
Bao Beier said:
Can anyone tell me how to make money? Specifically, in the gray market (unofficial industries).
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Do you have any skills or expeirnce working online? If not, focus on getting that first. Also, it would take time to generate good income per month online, so it helps if you have an offline job to pay billls.
 
For beginners, I would suggest avoiding diving right into shady markets. Choose something legitimate you can offer to others—SEO, writing, lead generation, or web design and earn from that while learning about your niche first.
 
Traffic generation is a very good and in demand skill you can help businesses who are looking for traffic and charge them per lead they will more likely to hire you without thinking you as unknown. After a certain time, you gain trust you can charge them monthly.
 
If you can already generate traffic, I’d just focus on turning that into money instead of learning something completely different.
Lead gen is probably worth testing. Pick a niche, send some traffic and see what converts. If you can bring real leads, finding people willing to pay gets a lot easier.
 
You will pay tax, even with whatever niche obviously. Unofficial? I hope you mean new markets unregulated. Yeah there's emerging tech stock with high ROI annual. If you want to do ecommerce you need more setup costs: hosting, insurance, product cost and fulfillment. Returns/cancelations add up too. I'm trying to sell Alidropship products over WooCommerce. I guess that is wild west now with the tariffs! When people hear the bad news and go away from it it could be good to get into though it's not 2018 anymore. I hope retail commercial makes a comeback though with all the homeless in the pathways with urine cups on the sidewalk around here I can't hope for much.
 
Here's a novel approach: find a mundane problem that people in the industry are willing to pay to solve. The gray market is usually about filling in the gaps and there's always money to be had in solving a problem better than the next guy.
 
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