How do YOU make gold?

[zenga]

- I avoid anything that is repetitive and will bore me out, regardless of how much gold it can make me.
- I set myself a goal shortly after dinging 80: don't spend money in the next 2 weeks, on nothing besides repairs. I ran dailies, did lots of AV and get gems, did some HC's and quested in northrend (there are still so many unfinished quests that are a great source of income). The only principle i have: i dont do anything that bores me, only what i find fun at that moment.
- It's not too hard to have 30k gold by then. Invest it: boost your professions. Mining, BS, leatherworking, enchanting, tailoring are rather cheap on my realm. JC & alchemy are pretty expensive to boost. Once i was finished with those I made money right away:
- eternal belt buckles - 30g per craft in the pocket, i sell 10-15 each day
- bags: 10-20 gold per craft
- there is several green lvl 70ish gear where the DE mats net more than the craft cost
- as you gain money, keep investing in alchemists
- no need to run all 25 dailies after a while, i now do only 9 to 10 that are fast, easy & not too boring
- i dont buy/sell/craft any high tier BoE gear anymore, the market is too unstable for that on my realm, with a possible risk of losing out on the crafting costs
- as a boxer you have the huge advantage that you have access to 2 auction houses, without the help of someone else: i'm playing horde and i have a lvl 1 ally & horde toon in booty bay, in stormwind i have another ally toon. My realm is medium populated and there is a 7:1 alliance/horde ratio. Generally it goes like this: not very popular things (like vanilla herbs) are rather cheap on ally side, but are insanely expensive on horde. Things that are wanted like primordial saronite and hilts are double the price on ally side. Bags, belt buckles, DE mats, etc sell very well there.

So i just mail whatever to my horde toon in booty bay, he trades it over the AH with the ally toon, who sends it to the ally toon in stormwind, and he places it on the AH. Whatever i need i do the other way around.

- mining: many places to mine, i don't even look for the titanium ore any longer, i just go for the saronite ore, transmute it & melt the titansteel bars to sell, or just prospect a stack. If often happens i buy for 1k saronite ore and start to prospect. Whatever i do, i do it in bulk.

I have 2 general rules i try to follow: