Out of curiousity

Simple advice I would suggest is for you to attack a market where the buyers are absolutely desperate for the product you're offering. Desperation is key. It ensures your target is absolutely willing to buy. I have been selling to desperate buyers successfully for the past 4 months. I capitalize on a health issue I was plagued with, but found the cure to.

I got this idea from the e-book "desperate buyers only" (google it). Desperate buyers buy - while you have to work harder to convince customers who aren't desperate.

In my mind, this is where the EASY money is...

js

Hi dlwebb510,

First and foremost, you have to change your defeatist attitude. It ain't gonna help.

Second, when posting here it's usually best to allow people to answer how they choose. Besides, some words of encouragement can work wonders.

Third, here is one way to do it for almost no cost, but to earn $800 it will take some serious work and effort.

1. Do keyword research. You can use https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

2. Set up blogs for each set of keywords at https://www.blogger.com/start

3. Open an AdSense account (you can do it through Blogger). Optimize the blogs for AdSense (again, Blogger has that as an option).

4. Sell affiliate products related to the same keywords.

5. Update each blog frequently.

6. Use ping-o-matic to update your feed.

7. Submit individual post to social bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon. Being sure your URL is set up to contain the keywords from the title of each blog post. Submit the page with the individual post each time, not the whole updatd blog.

8. Change your sig here in the Warrior Forum. Affiliate links are not allowed.

9. Get going.

10. Whether you want to hear it or not, things will get better.

11. Do a search of the Warrior Forum. There have been several good posts within the past few days that offered practical plans for doing exactly what you need.

All the best,
Michael

This is your problem.

You need to deliver value. The most direct and rapid way to deliver value is to produce something.

I had more or less the same issue you did not long ago, and I resolved it by turning to freelance writing. If you're doing the affiliate marketing route, you have services you could offer, too: keyword research, minisite design, etc. These are things that a lot of people simply don't want to do, and they're willing to pay someone for it. One of the rules at the higher levels of this business is "never do something yourself when someone else will do it for $10 an hour."

A product I'm developing right now (not yet for sale - look for it this Autumn) begins with the step of selecting your niche. This isn't the niche you hear about all the time in connection with niche marketing, but the niche that YOU fill - what do you do? What value do you offer? What makes you special and distinct from everyone else? What is the unique selling proposition of YOUR BUSINESS?

Napoleon Hill makes it very clear in Think and Grow Rich that there are six steps to achieving your goals. First, fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire; you've done this. Second, determine exactly what you intend to give in return.

This is your missing step. What do you give in return? There is no such thing as something for nothing - what value are you providing?

If you haven't read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, I can send you a free ebook version. Shoot me a PM.

Travis at Bum Marketing said find a starving crowd and feed it. Same thing as desperate buyer. I can't knock the step by step guide as I bought one and I followed it step by step and in 30 days I was making more than what you are asking for. I too lost my job, but now I don't have to look for one because I have one here on line. Other than the $49.00 I have spent very little, I did purchase a few domain names, but that is optional. You can get up and going and spend a little money later if you choose. Buying a guide is fine, but you have to use it to get anything out of it.

Yes, there is money to be made here. It took me a while to get to the point where I am seeing anything steady and I'm still learning but it can be done. There is absolutely a ton of Internet Marketing book and programs out there that have value but you can easily become overwhelmed with the "do this" and "do that" and "this made me thousands in just 8 hours"...think about this though...you are the type of person that IM are targeting, and quite successfully I may add! You are desperate to make money and you buy into the hype. Hard work and persistance WILL pay off for you. I have found that it has taken me a few months to build a site that starts doing anything consistantly. In the meantime, don't be dismayed or grow frustrated or desperate...this stuff will only wind up hurting you since it will come out in your sales copy.

There are a lot of people on this board who have posted some great ideas that DO work that don't cost any money...buying a domain through GoDaddy and setting it up for a redirect to your affiliate link for a product that desperate buyers want...send traffic to this domain (redirect affiliate link) through such sites as Yahoo Answers, Squidoo, Zimbo and articles that you post to free article directories...it's been done. But...it may be a few weeks before you start seeing the money in the form of a check from Clickbank...I'm just trying to be realistic here...I don't want to see you homeless waiting for the check. Hang in there and be persistant...there are a lot of good folks on here and a lot of good advice given...just hang in there

So, tell us.. what have you tried? What tactics have you used that didn't work? Show us one of you sites?

Unfortunately, trying to earn money online when you are as desperate as you are, is very hard. You will get frustrated and just jump from project to project when you don't see fast results. Making money online takes time unless you have money to spend on advertising. So, if i were you .. i would get a job. And If there are no jobs where you live.. then move.

I think article marketing to cpa offers is easiest for beginners as it doesnt require much selling skills. You will however need to find $10 for a domain name registration.

Article marketing is a really good way to go. This way the unofficial orientation is done on the way and most importantly it teaches you a lot. I know I did. I will not ask anyone not to get frustrated, it is obvious but do not get dump over it.

Mikes right - it's all about attitude. You DO NOT HAVE the affiliate option. The money won't be paid out to you in time for rent in 35 days.

Your going to have to do some really boring stuff to pay those bills - but hey you got time.

Write articles for folks, do data entry (I just paid someone 400 bucks to do just that and it took them 4 days of busting their tails). There is work out there, and you will make more than you would make at a fast food joint.

I read your post and can understand your frustration. I appreciate that you want to do some internet marketing but if the rent is due I would recommend you do what I did - sign up at a freelance site and bid on some work - you can get $5 to $10 a page for articles; more for ebooks and other forms of writing. There are a lot of sites available where you can sign up - if you are really broke you could try and crack the market at Getafreelancer.com - the pay there is not very good, but you write well in your post and that will count for a lot there. Itis free to sign up for. I always preferred Elance.com my self, but you would need an individual membership to do you any good and that is $9.95 a month.

That said I once did a challenge for a group of people who I was helping to make money online as a freelance writer - I signed up with Elance with a new profile and won the first three jobs out of four that I bid on. The first project was awarded to me less than 24 hours after I bid on it (I searched on elance for jobs closing within two days because I wanted a quick result.) The other two jobs were awarded to me within the week and I had them all finished within 2 weeks - more than $750 worth. The keys to success were providing good writing samples - really paying attention to clients needs and answering them directly in the proposal - being competitive with my pricing (no I was not the cheapest - I gave the best value) and following through in the PMB with clients so they were always kept up to date with the progress of their order.

It doesn't have to be forever, but doing this will get the rent paid if you put enough time into it. I know the other replies have touched on your attitude - understandable i know, but you do need to be positive. I will let you in on another little secret - in the past when I have had to ghostwrite to pay the rent I honestly sat down at my computer - spoke out loud to my monitor (when it was on of course ) and said "right, I am going to make some money today" and then I went online with that attitude and did it.

I believe you can - others here believe you can - you have too and then you will be right.

All the very best
Lisa

Don't know what your skill set is but I make a lot of money flipping websites. If you can build a great looking site, you can sell it. You need a great looking theme, not just a cheapo or free crappy looking theme, you need listing fees for Flippa or Warrior Forum, you need the skill to build a site that will sell and write the sales/auction letter.

You could write your own ebook on something that people need knowledge about and you have something to offer in the way of knowledge and sell it. Skill set needed: writing ebook and sales letter.


You're begging and pleading for someone to show you how and yet you reject creating your own product or creating anything really. You just want to throw out some affiliate ads and make bank.... good luck with that. I'd say the majority of people who go into IM as an affiliate .... fail. Many successful affiliate marketers know what will sell, have a good Adwords budget and campaign going and rake in big bucks. Some do it without Adwords, but most do not make a dime. Just read the forums of all of them saying ... I've been doing this for a year and haven't made more than $10. You can't count on it to make a living unless you know what you are doing and there's no ebook out there that tells you step by step what to do and how to do it.

Problem is: making money on the Internet is very rarely instant cash, unless you already have a successful blueprint in place. It most likely won't meet your bills until you get a plan in action.

dlwebb610, you have gotten a lot of good advice so far....in fact, like you I was unemployed for several months (Sept 08 - April 09) and also turned to Internet Marketing. One thing I learned the hardway......that others have mentioned.....trying to start an IM business with no money in your pocket and bill collectors breathing down your neck is pretty much impossible.

Luckily I was able to find a full time job which also allowed me to step away from IM for a few months. This was good becuase it allowed me to take a good look at myself and evaluate my strengths and weaknesses. Once I understood where my strengths lie I am now focusing on those strengths and promote those strengths.

So take a moment and really think about what you are good at. Are you a good writing? Offer to build Squidoo Lens's for people. Can you develop web sites? Through together some MiniSites and sell them for $25 a site. Can you sell someone the shirt off their back? Grab a product off Clickbank and promote the **** out of it.

The bottom line is that I feel your pain as I am still digging out from my unemployment. Stick with it and things will get better.....

Best of Luck!

ToddK.

Great posts.

It's all about doing something and getting paid.

Many people want to skip the first part.

What's cool is that the first part, doing something, often leads to you doing something else, and if you have a little smarts, doing something better, funner, that pays more.

Real quick:

1. Do something.
2. Get paid.
3. If you do good (or better yet - if you do great) then Lather- Rinse - Repeat.

Twenty Twenty

Wow, frustration and depression have stolen all your hope. Not a single person on this thread has not been in a very tight fix, from their perspective, sometime in their lives.

You have been presented with numerous fantastic plans of action. Some are geared to long term success and some to getting you over this months hump. Admittedly not everything will fit with you, but you are a 46 year old adult...massage the ideas to fit you.

Really the nuggets of wisdom presented cannot be added to...they are golden...

It seems you are kind of being a jerk to people that are trying to make suggestions to help you. Just because you don't like what someone says doesn't mean you have to respond rudely.

You say you would like to do affiliate marketing, are you a member of any affiliate networks?

The cheapest/easiest thing to do is to try some article marketing with affiliate offers as others have suggested.

Andy

This has been said already, but it is worth saying again.

Get a job online. Customer support, be a VA. These are jobs that people nearly always need filled. If you are an affiliate type, then consider offering services.

Back in the day when I lived at my parent's house, in the middle of the countryside, and the furthest away from any jobs (the recession had just hit) I went out and got myself some business doing freelance work.

I wrote articles (some times till the end of the night) setup websites, gave newbie's my time showing them how to set up their sites and autoresponders. I became a VA/JV manager for an offline business person moving online. I made contacts, I forged friendships and business connections, and it was a baptism of fire. I learnt more about online marketing in one month of doing that than I had ever done before.

Times were crap, I had no money, no where to go, friends were off doing exciting things around the World (there mum and dad's paid for them). I know how u feel, low. I was there too.

It seems hard now to imagine, but there is so much you could be doing:

- Backlink building
- Article submission
- Blog installation
- Creating content, written, audio, visual, video (anything!)
- Article creation
- Email support


Forget minimum wage etc, if things are as desperate as you say they are, desperate times call for these measures. Work hard, learn about the industry, apply it and never look back. The people you work for may even turn out to be excellent mentors that can teach you how to take your 800 dollars a month online business, to an 8000 dollars a month business.

It won't be easy, pretty and it won't get you rich tomorrow. It may just get you out of a tight spot though if you do it right.

Also, don't let the recession affect you too much. I know a lot of people are hit hard by it, some people close to me. Change the way you think about work and employment (i.e. put your skills on show to the global market) and prove to yourself there is money out there still. Money moves, it doesn't disappear.

If you want to get into freelancing, get in touch, I have a step-by-step vid on youtube of how I did it, and I'll talk you through how to get some work. I won't coach, mentor or guide you through every step, but I'll talk to you and help where I can.

All the best to you my friend.

Hi there, I hate seeing posts like this, because I was in a similar situation a while ago, just soo frustrated with everybody telling me its soo easy, but I just seemed so lost. I feel your pain...

I now do CPA marketing and I can honestly say its the easiest money of everything I have ever done and the best part is that you can make money in the first few hours of trying it.

This is what I suggest...

Sign up to a cpa network (there are threads in the cpa section that show exactly how to do it) - FREE

Now set up a free blog about one of the cpa offer niches. Try setting up a simple weight loss blog or make money at home blog - FREE

Now there are free methods to get people to your blog and to ultimately fill out the action that will get you paid. If you are not familiar with cpa offers, you can literlly make $35 for each person who signs up for a risk free trial of a home biz offer or weight loss offer. The cost to the consumer is only a buck or two for shipping normally.

Use craigslist traffic. Set up creative posts that will get people interested in what your selling to respond to the post. Personally respond to the responses and get them to your blog. I can literally get hundreds of responses per ad and you can post a bunch of ads. Dont direct the cl traffic to your affiliate link though..networks dont like this.

Offline traffic is another great method. Print out "make money from home" or "weight loss free trial" slips with your blog domain on it. Hand them out at apartment complexes on doors, cars etc. You can easily do 500 flyers a day this way.


Now the great part is that if you are getting paid $35 for every trial you can give out, then if you get ONE person to sign up every single day for a 30 day month...that's 35x30=$1050 per month.

I have done this exact thing at apartment complexes and made over $800 in a weekend...Yes it sucks to walk around and labor handing out flyers, but if your in desperate need, its a grreat way.

With craigslist traffic and offline traffic, I am 150% confident you can get 2 conversions a day = +2000 a month.


FYI, i will be coming out with a WSO in the next few weeks discussing this exact thing and will be looking for a few people who have struggled in the past to try out the WSO for free. PM if you want to be a guinea pig!


PM me with any other questions



To Your Success my friend!

Ken

@Kenster.

Good info you shared.

I hope the OP is still checking in and finds a solution.

You said you have extensive work history, what were your previous jobs? Tell us about the business you owned as well.

You can also find products to market online and get paid quickly by going to: www.paydotcom.com

You've gotten some good ideas about offering services online... You might look at something like textbroker.com - I'm not in anyway affiliated (I considered buying articles from them at one point, but decided to do my writing myself as I'm just getting started.)

I've read a ton of reviews on them, the pay isn't very high, but you can increase your rating as you do more articles (to get more $/word), they appear to be reliable about paying, you don't have to go find clients (clients come there, requests are put out there, and writers choose the articles they want to do from the requests).

And, if someone likes your writing, they can negotiate with you specifically to do more (rather than submitting a request and taking whatever writer picks it up). In these cases, you can negotiate a higher payout.

It would at least put some immediate cash in your pocket and help with the expenses, and you can find out if you like that type of writing (if so, you could build up your own business doing it, away from the site).

Good luck, I'm sorry you're going through such a rough time (been there too) and hope things get better for you soon...

-Jen