The first fork in blog monetisation is not how you write. It is whether you can place an ad at all. We opened the official AdSense and Naver AdPost pages, recorded the requirements and payout thresholds, and wrote "not published" where the number is not published.
YouTube wants scale, TikTok wants length, Instagram wants relationships. We put the official requirements side by side, worked out where to start, and marked the date that changes YouTube: 1 February 2027.
Most people take their first AI-services payment on a marketplace. We opened three real listings on Korea's largest one and copied what the platform displays — transaction counts, published prices, team size — then worked out what you have to decide before you list.
We read three Indie Hackers posts about making money with AI, then opened every product URL written in them. One was already gone. One turned out not to be a solo operation. What survived gave us the same six steps, in the same order, written in plain words.
A monthly revenue goal is a number, not a plan. The same number is reached by selling cheap to many people or expensive to a few — and those are different jobs. Here is the arithmetic, three verified businesses on the map, and what a Korea-based operator has to check before selling either way.