Here I am again, getting ready to ramble on about my new image hosting site. I hope my great readers aren’t bored with it, but I’m finding this more and more fascinating as it gets older. For many reasons this image site is starting to take an immediate front seat in my daily activities, and that’s mostly because:

It’s already earning money

It’s true. The site has been up for almost 4 days, and yesterday was the first day we broke the 1000 unique visitors mark. That was pretty exciting, but the neatest thing about it is the fact that it’s earning steady revenue through Adbrite already!

Adbrite pays in a few different ways, but the most notable ones in my situation is the cpm and interstitial ads pay. For some reason image host site users don’t like to click anything, but that’s just fine with me, because eventually after surfing through the site, they’ll see an interstitial ad, which is simply one of those ads that shows you another website for a certain amount of time, but you always have the option to “skip this ad” up at the top. With Adbrite, you can create a custom banner up top when an interstitial ad is shown, with your logo, that way the visitor doesn’t fee like they’ve been completely taken away from you site.

Long story short, yesterday, we made a little over $3.00 alone. That may not sound like much to some of you, but hear me out….

One of my goals, (and I learned this a while back from another knowledgable blogger), is to find a system that you can consistently make a dollar or two a day on, and then scale it up - meaning, make more sites that do the same thing. So at this point, if I had an image hosting site that consistently made $5 per day (and it won’t be long before ImgSlot.Com starts doing that), I could create another one, give it the same attention, and then I would be looking at $10 a day with minimal work. Do the same for 5 more sites, and I’m up to $35/day….you’re only limited by your time and imagination. If it takes me 30 sites going at once to make $90/day, I’m cool with that! As long as it doesn’t require 12 hours of work each day, because then it obviously wouldn’t be worth it for most people.

So my plan from this point on, is to grow my current site to a point where it’s making a decent daily income without much work, and then I’ll launch another one, and do the same. I’ll rinse and repeat this process until I have a steady passive income coming in. It’s not rocket science - it just takes a little time and dedication to get the sites to where you want them to be. Luckily, image sites are very, very easy to get tons of traffic to, and I’ve even run a few PPC campaigns using Adwords vouchers that I have stashed away.

I’m actually thinking about writing a good quality, step-by-step ebook on how to start a profitable image host, because it isn’t hard, but it’s always nice to have instructions just in case you get confused. Would any of you be interested in that? I would probably distribute it on here for free, but we’ll see.