How did you start making $$$?

Bought new MP3 from china at wholesale prices.. Think i paid like $5 / mp3 and sold them for $30-$50.. Sold a couple per day.. Then i was introduced to ebay.. I made a killing here but all ended, when my friend and i crashed in his car.. Couldn't fokus on selling anything again.. BHW changed that.. :-)

Great to read ur stories guys.. keep it coming!! :D

It's all about promotion baby! :D
 
It sounds like alot of us got our starts the same way, and at a pretty young age.

I started selling candy at school... mostly Pixie Sticks. I'd buy a pack of 50 for $1, and sell them for $.10 each. Easy profit and the demand kept on coming. When I was a little bit older, I did a lot of arbitrage, finding someone who was selling something (anything), lowballing them, and then reselling it to someone else for a bit more.
 
Wow, some of you have some awesome stories.

I started selling guides for EverQuest when I was a teen
 
My first money was at age 9 picking up nails that were around so other people wouldnt get hurt to help my dad at his job at a construction site. My first online money was at age 12 which was when I first created my first 100% made by me 100%html website. It was ugly as shit but my moms friend came home one day and he was into this stuff and he ended up seeing it and offered me 10 bucks for it. I asked for 15 and he said ok =] I had no intention of selling it or making money by it, it was a fluke. That fluke opened a whole new world to me.
 
My first BH money would def be from college. I started out at a community college and got bored super quick so i moved to a larger metro area and basically started running through college girls like they were put in school for that reason. (haha) Well then i decided, since I'm stealing their innocence, I might as well steal their daddies money too, and began my dragon run. I won't elaborate further ;)

-Bats
 
I was maybe 11-12 at the time, can't remember that far back, copied a few adult pics from the internet and got signed up to a adult site that paid something like $0.20 per click and used to cheat finnish search engines (white text on white background) to get high rankings. Made probably a grand or two all in all.
Dad was proud, mom not so much, the lady at the bank rolled her eyes when she saw where the checks came from. Alot of money for a kid my age.
If only i would have stuck with it then, i could have made a fortune, but playing MMORPGs was WAY more important than to actually earn some money, wasted youth.
 
I made my first 1.5k online through freelance writing. After about 3 months I moved on.
 
I sold skateboard stickers to other kids when I was about 8. My dad would take me to a store where I bought them wholesale and I sold them for about 5-6 times more. When I was like 12 I noticed while at my dad's store (he sold sports' cars autoparts and such) that the guys at the warehouse bought a lot of raunchy jokes comics. They would read them and then pile them up at a corner, never to be touched again. The cleaning lady would then throw them in the garbage bin once they got to a certain height, so I started selling them at school for about 3 times what they originally cost. Sometimes I'd find some nudie mags in there too. I sold those for roughly 5 times their price. I also sold cigarettes to older kids, but had to quit doing that when they caught me. I remember around that time my parents got their first real fight and I used to feel guilty about it, I guess that somehow caused me to pretty much stop my profitable activities.

I haven't really applied any BH methods lately, but I'm here to change that. I'm a gfx and motion designer, and until a couple weeks ago I was creating promos and commercials for a local tv station, as well as web minisites for their campaigns. I plan to somehow incorporate my skills into white, grey and blackhat marketing after I learn a little more from you guys.
 
at age 10 I walked my lawn mower up and down the cracked up sidewalk going door to door asking if they needed their lawn mowed. bought my first 486 with a whopping FOUR megs of ram!
 
If we're talking online, I started doing what I'm still doing : giving away free porn.
 
my first income was from my ad-sense account 100$ and after that from my hosting business until now i m earning from it ! :)
 
My first money was from providing math tutions... :) In IM first money from CJ (ebay or hostgator not sure)...
 
I spammed a pyramid scheme way back when and collected envelopes with $5 in each one that came to my PO box.. I had about 100 envelopes over 1 weekend at one point.. Good old days this was 12 years ago
 
i personally used to take tuition's for children younger to me in class and charge them money.....
 
I started with AdSense - made lots of fake search engines and ranked it. So if someone was searching for (for example) "weather for next 10 days in Denver" he found one of my sites and there was:

Search resuts for "weather for next 10 days in Denver":
[AdWords block]
[AdWords block]
Few results coopied from yahoo and google mixed together.

This was so good, I had tones of traffic, I got kicked once from hosting, because my dedicated server couldn't handle so much traffic :D I had about 100 pages like this and about 1 billion keywords :D Even if website was banned after 7 days it was still earning alot :)
 
or make a website for a local community (near by areas) n they can place orders for daily necessities on it and then it can be home delivered.... you have them give you orders on mail too and u can just distribute fliers!!!
 
many many ideas!!! a very nice and innovative thread... good u put it here... will get to read all wacky and good ideas... start home delivering food for college students...and charge money
 
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