Internet Marketing While Deployed

Hi Steve,

It's going to be tough to provide great suggestions without knowing what you know, what you can do, your skills, knowledge, inclinations, etc.

Perhaps share that in as much detail as you comfortably can?

For sure! Thats the thing. The nature of the overall mission in afghanistan is changed, specially after this year end obamas wants to only leave like 9800 troops here. The overall combat mission is ending, Now its more base defense. I have a 8 hour shift a day and most of time the rest of the day is mine! I have a lot of time and id like to make the best out of it ya know?

Maybe some sort of affiliate marketing? CPA or CPC related programs?

Steve,

Thank you for your service, sacrifice and putting your safety in jeopardy to help defend ours.

Please shoot me a private message with your best email so I can gift you some useful training that will help you make the most of your downtime marketing efforts.

Best,

Brian McLeod

Hey Steve,

There are hundreds of methods. It really depends on your abilities.

Given that, here's a general plan I recommend:

1. Find out which methods appear to be working for others.
2. Decide which ones you could do.
3. Isolate the seemingly better methods.
4. Research them here, other forums, elsewhere.
5. Put together a plan of action for one method.
6. Take action.

I hate being so general, but that's the best I can do for now. It's certainly a safe, general route.

GRM

Great stuff! Always have pen and paper with me where ever I go and Im writing stuff down!

Damn, I thought we were pulling out for good. I didn't even know anyone else was deploying to Afghanistan this year...or even next. I've only been hearing about units returning. And hey, the pay's better than if you're stateside, but I feel you, brother. It's still not great...especially with Obama.

Anyway, you can pretty much do everything except drop shipping as you already know. Remember:

Sell services
Affiliate Marketing
Vendor Marketing

Choose a model and find a niche market. The military is a market all to itself and since you're 11B, then you have experience with survivalist training, firearms, self-defense, fitness {PRT/Crossfit}, small unit tactics {transferable to airsoft/paintball}, etc. There's a lot you can talk about, actually. And your target market will be fellow service members, hicks, outdoors men, and geeks who play airsoft. Make sense?

In your free time you can set up a website, create content, network, and buy advertising. This should get money coming in as you're deployed over the next 6 months.

Don't go too crazy with advertising, just put aside like 20/week and get more targeted traffic coming in.

This is a rough sketch, I know, but hopefully it'll get your creative juices going. In the mean time, stay safe.

Hi Steve

Just wanted to jump in with the first idea that hit me as I read your post. It might not be for you but you did ask for suggestions right!?

I think you have an extremely valuable angle you could use to draw interest and create a lot of buzz. The fact you are a soldier, based in Afghan is something people would be interested to read about. I am not sure on how much you are allowed to share or would want to, but a blog about the life of a soldier would be very interesting to people who value the work you are doing.

If you combined this with some form of E-Commerce setup promoting Army related products, either to other Service men and women or for people interested in survival etc.

You could also write an Ebook on some form of experience or knowledge you have to help people. Do you do much PT while out there? 50 Exercises that keep you fit while on exercise - as one example.

Like I said, it might not be for you and please don't see this as me trying to encourage you to exploit your position, that isn't my intention at all. I am full of nothing but respect for the work you do.

Carl

You can try warrior forum other products and service thread here, lots of potential services to get started. I myself ordered a service recently..

I used to be in the Air Force - sorry to hear you got extended.

Pick a niche that you are passionate about then build a list by putting up a squeeze page then promote affiliate products to your subscribers.

I second Brians response that is how everyone from the U.S.A should address soldiers serving our country properly.

so thanks from everyone back home

Brian to answer your question affiliate marketing is by far the best way to use your time to supplement your income while abroad.

So learn all you can about affiliate marketing, and then apply your new knowledge into action.

Good luck and thanks for your service again

P.S. If you need anything let me know

This deployment has been intense!!! When we started, we started off running! Running 2 patrols a day. The base we lived at was very expeditionary. We lived in tents and ate MREs the whole time! We were engaged i ground combat with the taliban on a several occasions. We worked side by side with the mongolian army. We closed the base about 2 weeks ago. Being one of 35 Americans to ever be there while the afghan national army took over. The 2 months there we lost many amenities such as mail, ac and heating for out tents, internet, laundry, supplies to clean facilities with, hot water, hot food etc etc. This was not typical, specially for a national guard unit.

Now the war is taking a 180. Ive seen the british and the usmc end their combat missions and start to effectively pull out for good. We are now at a base that is run by the italians and the spanish. This base makes you feel like your not even in afghanistan any more. They have restaurants, gyms, massage parlors, shopping, and bars (which US personal are not allowed to drink) not to mention I havent seen a woman in 5 months and there are italian and spanish babes everywhere. It is amazing how different our 2 military's are. The italians and spanish are allowed beards unlike us, i feel so baby face around all of them! This place fees like italy with everything being in euros.

Come december the NATO combat mission ends and the US is pulling out most of its troops. Leaving some 9800 troops per obamas pull out plan leaving 0 by 2016 I believe. Our role here is changing. We will most likely not be leaving the "safety" of our base. Now we are doing base seurity and days are significantly easier. I have so much time that I would like to utilize to make coming home better! It may seem like a lot to some, but horrible to others, I only make roughly $3200 a month when in afghanistan. A horrible wage for the job we do! So you can see why I want to learn a new trade that will supplement my income here, but maybe eventually help in transition out of the military!

So it seems like affiliate marketing would be the way to go here. Any one have recommendations or programs to look into for a good start?

Find a niche that interests you and start building an email list to promote affiliate offers to.

Get a squeeze page with a free offer - people can download the free offer in exchange for their email address, and then promote related affiliate offers to your email list.

So ideally Id like to build something that I can monitor daily/ weekly. I dont mind paying into something like paid advertising. I dont wanna put my name or face on the internet to have to sell something ya know?