If anyone can mentor me to $400 a week with no capital, then:

[GCostanza]

Newbie to the forum, but with a little bit (very limited to article marketing) of IM experience.

Getting frustrated at lots of click throughs on the first niche I started with, but very few sales. (Acne niche, mind you) and decided to throw an offer out there that will either get people jumping at the chance or laughing at me. Can't hurt to try, either way.

If anyone here is willing to mentor me to the point where I can be making a consistant $400 a week, with no startup capital (at least at first), I will pay said person half of what I make in IM the next 8 weeks straight. (so $200 guaranteed obviously, plus whatever extra I happen to make.

We can work out the details later as far as contract goes or whatever, but I figured this was my best shot to get some real experience and not buy a bunch of crappy products that may or may not work.

If anyone is interested at all, please send me a PM, reply to this thread, or whatever.

Like I said, not sure if this type of thing is done or not, but it was worth a shot in my book. That way, hopefully we both win!

Thanks for reading. And like I said, I'm not a complete noob, made around $900 this year in the acne niche (I know it isn't much, but I have only put about 20 hours into it as well)

Thanks!

EDIT: Forgot to mention, currently laid off for the foreseeable future, so I have all the time in the world to work around someone's schedule.

[kkchoon]

Join PPC classroom 2.0, you learn more from there....

[LMC]

Hey,

Sorry for the self plug but, I have a current WSO running, it is a 240 day course to $xxx,xxx a year in this business.

Otherwise, if you want some more personal training, we can possibly work out a deal, however, in effort to help mentor I would need you to help project manage some of my product launches.

In any case, contact me via PM

[GCostanza]

I appreciate the first reply, but I need to do this with no startup costs since I'm in debt up to my ears and without work.

Therefore I figured offering $1,600 of passive income to get me on my feet would be a nice hook.

[ikontent]

1) What skills do you have

a) Writing
b) basic html / website administration / wordpress
c) graphics
d) other

2) How much time are you willing to put in every day / every week?

Let me add here - you aren't offering passive income. Getting a noob up and started needs a LOT of activity; especially if absolutely NO upfront investment is possible. Depending on what you know upto now, this could become a fairly intensive activity even for the mentor; not to mention that if you choose not to apply yourself diligently, or drop out part way, there isn't any income.

[GCostanza]

I feel like I'm a decent writer, but as I said, I've only done article marketing in the acne niche, so basically putting out ezines and a review landing page is the extent of that skill.

I have very limited html knowledge, enough to set links, bold, italics... Basically, things I need to get my articles out.

Graphics, nothing.

I have very basic SEO knowledge, again, just to get my ezines ranked in google.

This is why I need a mentor.

Good point about the $1,600 not being passive, because that is technically correct. However, I have no intentions of not putting the effort forth or dropping out. I can put in as much time as a regular job at this point, being 8 hours a day roughly. So when I do get on my feet as I fully intend to, the next 8 weeks will basically be passive for the person that gets me going and shows me the proverbial ropes.

Any other questions, feel free to ask. Thanks for the replies.

[Lance K]

$400/week?

Do some freelance writing.

[pearsonbrown]

It's not too late to start the 30 Day Challenge

http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/

That's not only free in itself but provides you with free access and coaching to some powerful tools.

Pearson

[Black Hat Cat]

Why not ask Jerry for a loan?

[Tim_Carter]

lol - when I saw the user name George was running through my mind.

[GCostanza]

Great picture, hahahha.

Thanks for all the replies so far. Hopefully I will pick the right person here and start making a killing in the next few months.

I know this question is clearly hard to answer because everyone is different, but if you could give a newbie like me a rough estimate on how long it would take to consistantly make $400ish a week by working about 8 hour days, what kind of answer could you give me?

Again, I know it's impossible to pinpoint, so with all variables considered, what would be an average timeframe if you had to give a number?

Thanks.

[GCostanza]

I've been doing bum marketing in the acne niche. I've made money, but not enough... That's why I posted here in the first place. I write about 5 articles a day with keyword research intact, and have several #1 and #2 spots on google. Getting decent page views, but only a sporadic sale every week or so.

So clearly I'm doing something wrong, because I need to be making 3-4 sales daily to reach my goal.

This is why I'm offering $200 minimum a week for 8 weeks to anyone that gets me to the $400 mark.

I'm sure someone will take me up on it. Thanks for the reply!

[markshields]

I agree with the first reply PPC Classroom 2.0 would teach you much

[Steven Wagenheim]

Here is what you do.

Go to Elance and as many other "freelance" sites as you can and promote
your services as a writer, programmer, graphics artist or whatever skill you
have.

$400 a week is about $57 a day if you work 7 days a week.

If you write articles and charge $10 per article, that's about 6 articles a
day. You should be able to do that in no more than 8 hours even if you're
slow.

If you can do graphics, one simple mini site a day will bring you 3 times
that amount.

There are many ways to make money online that don't require startup
capital, or for that matter, for you to even sell anything.

While you're doing this, you can slowly work on Adsense blogs, adding one
a day. Target a niche with low competition and a decent number of
monthly searches. Using Blogspot, this will cost you nothing. Over time,
you should have no problem bringing in $100 a month just from Adsense
alone. All these will be earning money on autopilot as they get indexed
high enough on the SERPs.

As you have this autopilot income running and building, when you reach
the point where you're making $400 a month just from that alone, you can
drop the freelance gig and work on other projects that will be less time
intensive and bring in more money, now that you have the time and some
money to spend.

I know this works because it is very similar to what I did when I first
started marketing online. I began as a freelancer. I have long since given
it up as it just takes too much time out of my day. But it is an almost sure
income if you're good at what you do.

The above is by no means the only way to go about it. It is just one way.

I hope the ideas themselves give you something to springboard off of.

[kingofjames]

Here's an idea........... Daily Niche Idea gives articles....keywords and products to market associated with a niche of the week. They suggest ways to use these to make money. You can spin the articles.........use them in a blog.........use them in Squidoo and sell the products. You can go to ClickBank and sell products from there in a Squidoo lense........lots of options...........You can use the articles from Daily Niche Idea and spin them.......use them to build name.........also....... Triond is a way to make money.

Take your time........keep steady.........it takes a while when you have no money.

Good luck!

Jim King

[LMC]

Steven, Great Post, I agree that starting with services is the best way to get your foot in the door of IM. Not only will you earn money, you might make some really important connections that open the doors for larger profitable opportunities.

[ChrisJamesG]

Have you tried sticking with the acne niche but pushing a different product? Maybe you just picked something with poor copy or not a very good offer.

[hamerz]

Use your existing efforts - the things that you do well in the niche you know best _ and build a list.

The locate complementary products and programs and market thess to the lsit. You can get to know your list and offer them things you know they want but haven't asked you for yet.

Do your Acne buyers also want to know "10 thing to do to get a date to the Prom"? Do they also want to slim down? Have better hair?

[GCostanza]

Thanks for all the advice. I have followed up on some of it.

That being said, I really would like a little one on one help so that I can get to where I want to be as fast as possible, and will still offer the $1,600+ to anyone that will work with me. Thanks for the free information as well, guys.

[GCostanza]

I appreciate the PMs pointing me toward membership sites, but as I posted I am starting with no capital, so that clearly isn't an option.

The only thing I'm looking for at the moment is a one-on-one mentor that can get me to $400 a week. Once I hit that level, I will split all profits (no matter how high) for 8 weeks with said mentor. So no membership sites, please.

Thanks guys.

PS: I will sign a contract if anyone is worried about me not paying up, and I'm prepared to work as many hours as possible to achieve this goal as quickly as possible.

[theimdude]

Seems you not sure what you want and maybe you must first decide what you want and then proceed.

You said you make $900 a year on you acne product and only spend 20 hours on it. As you not employed at the moment spend 2 hours a day on you acne product and it will convert better. You say you can write. I wish I could so you have a gift. Use it and that alone will make you more than $400 a week. Maybe rewrite you sales copy or allow other people here to check it out for you.

Replicate you basic what you did and soon you will not make $400 a week but much more.

I have picked up on some good ideas here and as I will follow them I don't think I will need a mentor to follow the ideas give here.

Some time we need to drop the diapers, put on the pants and start eating the meat

[GCostanza]

I don't have my own product, just an affiliate for a few acne products.

However, I've noticed sales have been extremely dismal lately and I just feel lost reading all the different pieces of information on IM and specifically article marketing.


So what I'm looking for is someone that has 'made it' article marketing and can teach me how to make a good amount of money, or at least $400/wk from article marketing alone. Someone with that kind of knowledge that wouldn't mind helping a newbie with a lot of time and energy on his hands that is determined to do this for work.

Hopefully someone reads this that can genuinely help me. And wants to make at least $1,600 after they DO help me.

Thanks for reading.

[jungalous]

try doing surveys

[theimdude]

Originally Posted by LMC

Hey,

Sorry for the self plug but, I have a current WSO running, it is a 240 day course to ,xxx a year in this business.

Otherwise, if you want some more personal training, we can possibly work out a deal, however, in effort to help mentor I would need you to help project manage some of my product launches.

In any case, contact me via PM

Mabey the op cant read. Any case signed up with what you have to offer and we will see how it goes. Oh I forgot to mention it is free as well Thanks

[FriendlyRob]

If you already have article experience, then simply write articles, and direct them to an affiliate sales page.

PM me if you want more details than that. I will take no fee.

If I had all the time in the world and no money, that is what I would do to start.

[Stuart Turnbull]

Happy to help you one on one, I've PM'ed you

[ikontent]

Here's my 2 cents

You aren't going to build a recurring passive income overnight. Whether it's article marketing, affiliate, your own product or whatever else, it takes time for each one to build up steam. Not to mention that article marketing etc. don't guarantee an income or success. Yes, if you do it well, and keep it going, it will happen over time; but don't buy into the 3 day or 30 day or 8 week hype.

Next - for many of these, you need to spend money. Hosting, content, and traffic are the 3 key areas; and each of them move smoother with money to grease it.

So how do you go about it? Start by generating a cash flow. As many have suggested, freelance. You'll find many people looking for articles / other content, here and on other webmaster forums. If you can offer additional value (example - submission to article directories, or building a link wheel) you'll find you get higher rates per article / hour that you spend.

There's a huge demand for quality services, and you CAN get paid well for these; don't get fooled by the huge supply of low quality, low priced cut throat offerings.

Once you've got this cash flow going, then you can start building the passive income stream.

[redrossero]

I believe you have made the same mistake that I've done at the beginning, concentrating on only one niche with article marketing. Try at least four or five, write for them, see which one converts better, and than find another one. You can direct them to a blogger review style blog, but once you have money start buying domains and hosting.

[bbminded]

i see where gcostanza said "thanks for all the pm's towards membership sites." i am kinda in the same situation. can you PM me those membership sites as well please. Also, has anyone used the new Spin Ready PLR membership site byJason Potash?????

[winebuddy]

PM me and I'll send you a copy of my upcoming SPECIAL OFFER. All I ask is that you review it, try it, and then send me a review/commentary.

[JWB]

Originally Posted by kkchoon

Join PPC classroom 2.0, you learn more from there....

Have you got really good results from PPC classroom? I am always getting emails from them and wonder if it would be worth trying them out ?

[Twonickle]

This is an interesting post. If GCost would have stated he had money to invest in starting a IM campaign then everyone would want to communicate (offer) their products to him.
Maybe he has money but just wants a proud successful IM to tutor (or mentor) him to an autopilot system for him to learn from? .... I would like that too! That is why we comb through these forums.
...the responses are good and friendly
Is there a thread on "How I got started" without plugging affiliates?

[teamwildjoker]

Hello...

My name is Allen, and I would be glad to help you out. What is a good time for us to discuss this further?

Allen Resha
Phone: 901-201-6755
Skype: ceo.thewildjoker

[GCostanza]

Anyone that wants to legitimate help me without selling me a product should do so via PM.

I'll choose someone to mentor me based on how legitimate I feel you are and we can work together. Half of my earnings for 2 months is still on the table.

Thanks guys.

[Olga Schipilow]

You can make money with freelance writing and surveys

[docsulo]

Originally Posted by GCostanza

Anyone that wants to legitimate help me without selling me a product should do so via PM.

I'll choose someone to mentor me based on how legitimate I feel you are and we can work together. Half of my earnings for 2 months is still on the table.

Oh boy.

Get a JOB!

Yes a JOB.

Find someone who gets GREAT RESULTS at what you want to be good at and work FOR THEM.

You'll make your $400 a week and GET THE EDUCATION YOU WANT.

I never understood people willing to pay hundreds of thousands for a college education or mail order courses and then be unwilling to get PAID to learn from the best in the world.

Find a way in the door. Work your ass off. Keep your eyes open.

Move if you have to. But get in the door with the best marketer you can find. Work side by side with them. You will get an un-matched education and earn money while you're doing it.

[GCostanza]

Hey guys, got quite a few PMs about helping me out. Most were trying to sell something, which I understand (this is a marketing forum afterall)

Let me just make it clear that I can't invest anything at the moment, which is why I was offering half of my earnings for 8 weeks.

I've now changed that (see, I'm testing. Learning already) to 10% of my earnings (pre taxes) to anyone who will mentor me one on one and get me to my financial goal, which is an avg. of $400 a week.

400 seems low, but I figure if I can learn enough from an expert to get to that point, I should have no problem rinse/repeating and making much more. Which is a win/win because not only will I have a nice sustainable income, hopefully, but my mentor gets to reap 10% of that income for a year straight.

And yes, I'm prepared to sign a contract.

Hard to find a good mentor nowadays, but I'm confident I will get there.

Thanks for all your PMs so far!

[Affiliit]

There are several programs available to help people out.

To mention some, Wealthy Affiliate, PPC-Coach and Affiliit.

Any of the 3 should be able to significantly help you.

[GCostanza]

Like I said a few times in this post, looking for a free mentor until I get to my financial goal, not looking for paid memberships. Once I REACH my goal, then I am prepared to offer 10% of my earnings for an entire year.

So I want one person to help me one on one. That's as clear as I can make it, and I think 10% of my earnings for a whole year would be enticing. But I want to make it clear one last time: No startup capital.

Thanks.

[seriousmny]

Hi there,

I came across this thread and wondered if you read it. Seems like you have gotten some results with your article marketing, but I found that I was missing some things and that was the reason why I was not getting optimum results. Try reading this and see if you covered everything with your article marketing. You may still be able to pull it off by adding a few steps to your bum marketing plan.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ing-penny.html

[Hamida Harland]

Originally Posted by GCostanza

Like I said a few times in this post, looking for a free mentor until I get to my financial goal, not looking for paid memberships. Once I REACH my goal, then I am prepared to offer 10% of my earnings for an entire year.

So I want one person to help me one on one. That's as clear as I can make it, and I think 10% of my earnings for a whole year would be enticing. But I want to make it clear one last time: No startup capital.

Thanks.

Unfortunately I don't think there are many people who are actually qualified to mentor that would do it for free, or even 10% of your earnings. There's no guarantee that you'll earn anything, because it depends on how much work YOU put in. There are plenty of people here on the forum offering mentoring, but if you want a decent mentor you'll end up paying quite a bit. Why not try a course like Kickstart Course - Sara Brown & Tony Shepherd - $27 a month isn't much.

[MikeLantz]

I agree with Hamida in that offering 10% of your earnings for a year isn't going to get you what you want. No one qualified to help you will take that little, because their time is valuable and they can earn a whole lot more doing something else.

Also, the skills you bring to the table are not sounding very valuable to anyone, which is another problem. Article marketing can be done for cheap by outsourcing, so if that is all you have to offer, that is going to hurt you. Now, the reality is you might be able to do a lot more than that, perhaps even salesletters. But, until you can prove that, you won't get a lot of offers.

What you really need to be doing is offering to work for someone for someone else, for a flat fee or a percentage. You see the difference? You help them build their business, and people respond better. Then, as you work for them, you will learn things that you can put to use in your own business.

I think it is great that you are asking for help here, and thinking a bit outside the box, so please don't take this post as negative toward what you are doing. I really hope my advice can help.

Mike

[anwar001]

How have you been doing article marketing - I mean do you just submit to ezinearticles or to more than 10 article directories?

And how many visitors does your site get each day from Google, article directories etc?

Answers to the above questions might help in isolating where the problem lies. For example, if you just get 20-50 visitors a day, you may not expect to make 2-3 sales daily even if you are promoting the best product with the best converting sales page.

A bit of self-promo here: by the way, you can check out my backlink service to increase your site links and gain higher rankings for competitive keywords. It is not yet launched, but hopefully will be launched very soon. It is free to join, you can find link in my signature.

[Alan1234]

Originally Posted by GCostanza

Newbie to the forum, but with a little bit (very limited to article marketing) of IM experience.

Getting frustrated at lots of click throughs on the first niche I started with, but very few sales. (Acne niche, mind you) and decided to throw an offer out there that will either get people jumping at the chance or laughing at me. Can't hurt to try, either way.

If anyone here is willing to mentor me to the point where I can be making a consistant $400 a week, with no startup capital (at least at first), I will pay said person half of what I make in IM the next 8 weeks straight. (so $200 guaranteed obviously, plus whatever extra I happen to make.

We can work out the details later as far as contract goes or whatever, but I figured this was my best shot to get some real experience and not buy a bunch of crappy products that may or may not work.

If anyone is interested at all, please send me a PM, reply to this thread, or whatever.

Like I said, not sure if this type of thing is done or not, but it was worth a shot in my book. That way, hopefully we both win!

Thanks for reading. And like I said, I'm not a complete noob, made around $900 this year in the acne niche (I know it isn't much, but I have only put about 20 hours into it as well)

Thanks!

EDIT: Forgot to mention, currently laid off for the foreseeable future, so I have all the time in the world to work around someone's schedule.

Hi.

I'm a Platinum member of EZineArticles.com, and for the last year, I've made just about nothing out of article marketing, but I think that my new approach will produce profits.

I've just started a new blog, see signature file, and I will be addressing this in detail in a series of blog posts over the next several weeks, so stop by and grab what you want for free. There's also a link on one of my posts to a guy who is doing a blog just on this topic.

If you have specific questions feel free to write me at ahjordan[at]gmail.com and I will address them in my blog posts to the best of my ability, or just go on the blog and leave a comment.

Regards,

[theimdude]

Originally Posted by Alan1234

I've just started a new blog, see signature file, and I will be addressing this in detail in a series of blog posts over the next several weeks, so stop by and grab what you want for free. There's also a link on one of my posts to a guy who is doing a blog just on this topic.

Regards,

Does forum posting as you seem new here help generate traffic. Also you options are very wide. Must we click on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd link in your signature or do you want us to click all 3

[Tim_Carter]

To be brutally honest - why would anyone take you up on this offer? You aren't offering much and any qualified mentor needs to see that they are going to make some money by mentoring you.

You do need some capital to get started - so save up a little so you can afford the basics like a domain, hosting and an autoresponder. It's hard to do business without those things.

And don't be so quick to dismiss membership sites. Some that were mentioned here (not the self plugging ones) will help you make some money.

It is okay to ask for help but you are really asking a lot here. You might want to try writing some articles and running a WSO. If they are good it could be a start to a nice income as a writer.

Just my two cents.

Originally Posted by GCostanza

Like I said a few times in this post, looking for a free mentor until I get to my financial goal, not looking for paid memberships. Once I REACH my goal, then I am prepared to offer 10% of my earnings for an entire year.

So I want one person to help me one on one. That's as clear as I can make it, and I think 10% of my earnings for a whole year would be enticing. But I want to make it clear one last time: No startup capital.

Thanks.

[gskesavan]

Why do you need a mentor? You've promoted only 1 niche, right? How can you tell you're not making enough money? Moreover, the acne niche has a bit of competition overload. Pick 1-2 more niches and apply the same strategy as you did for the acne niche.

Stop thinking you're not making "enough" money. You're not a veteran in IM, you've just begun so you can't expect $100 a week from 1 niche instantly.

Promote more niches - apply the same strategy you know - be patient - be determined - stand still and don't keep switching strategies And I'm sure you will see great success.

[Jay Jennings]

So what I'm looking for is someone that has 'made it' article marketing and can teach me how to make a good amount of money, or at least $400/wk from article marketing alone.

I think the "secret" of those guys who have "made it" in article marketing is to start writing and submitting articles -- and then don't stop!

Spend a day and do a search on "article marketing" here in the WF and you will find MANY threads where successful article marketers have detailed how they did it.

Read those and see if you're doing what they did. If you are, then maybe you need a mentor -- but if not, start tweaking your strategy.

Jay Jennings

[theimdude]

This guy is not taking any advice from nobody here

[JoeCool]

Heya G,

My advice would be to scrape together $37.00 and join the War Room here on Warrior Forum.

http://www.warriorpro.com/warriorforum/

You'll find at least 10 business models in there that will put you at $400.00 per week in no time, and you'll keep all the profits for yourself.

Look at your subscription to the War Room as the Poor Man's mentor.

If you can't afford $37.00, you might want to consider looking for some freelance article writing work from a few of your fellow warriors.


Best Regards,
~ JoeCool