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    How long did it take you to earn the first $1000?

    The average salery in Hungary is $400-500 so I decided to fully concentrate on my website. In the past I already made a try, but I was a rahter a kid who helped his father than a professional. Now I started to build my site and I would like to know how long it took you to earn some bucks.
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    It took me 2 years, but don't let that put you off! At the time I was very green and knew nothing about the internet, website design or SEO so it was a totally new field for me. I didn't even know how to switch a computer on believe it or not!!
    Once I got my first check it took off from there and I have never looked back, despite all the ups and downs our industry goes through.
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    Hi KovEsz,

    It took me about 3 months to earn my first $1000, however I think I got lucky in a few ways with the domain purchase and have found it hard with new projects to replicate that success.

    It is such a fragile industry, one referred player can earn you £1000 per month for years, whereas some affiliates send 10 players per month yet have never had that high roller break.

    Keep working and it comes... eventually!

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    It took us approximately 2 years before we hit the $1,000 mark per month that was back in 2008. It's a very difficult industry to compete in and to be successful too, but if you're prepared to work hard, have a lot of patience and do proper research you could easily make it.

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    It took me quite some time back 10 years ago to make this much. Mostly outside of the gambling niche. Once getting into gambling affiliate stuff it was a few months from those sites.
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    Im still trying..lol.. Have had some ups and downs in my life, so havent been concentrating on it, now its my major project..so hoping i can start earning in next 6 months
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    I have 4 months and my total profit is 0 but a friend of mine in 4 months he started to earn 1k so I will keep trying. Its difficult for new sites like mine.
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    I was lucky enough to get in early, about 15 years ago. It took me about a week once I started monetizing my sites... but I had been running a popular Nirvana fan page for about two years prior without attempting to earn a dime... does that count?
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    I am still working on it But expect to start making that much somewhere in my second year.
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    I was lucky and landed a few big players pretty quickly. However my rev never really grew consistently for about a year.
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    Is the poll $1k total, or to get to $1k a month?
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    It took just over a year.

    it can be done faster if you pick the right niche
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    it took me about 5 months and my first $1000+ a month program was Mainstreet Affiliates ,That was back in feb 2006.
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    I have 7 months now, and recently started to get a few depositor, it will probably take me 4 month more to get to the 1,000.Like grem said it can be done in less time if you choose the right niche and keywords. I made a lot of mistakes and now I have a more clear picture of what I have to do.
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    The first $1000 is always the hardest to make. Took me about 5 months to make that much money, but only because I got a good player lol
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    It took me almost 2 years. . I earned small sums of money, it encouraged me
    I knew nothing about websites!
    Then I met some beautiful months
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    It took me about a year but I knew nothing about what I was doing. I was mainly mucking about with web design rather than trying to make money.
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