Starting from scratch to $500 pm how would you do it ?

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Hi guys,
I need an extra $500 a month I know its not much but I`m finding it hard lol I`ve had success over the years with SEO quite big success actually with adsense and lost it all .. twice with the google updates, I`ve made big money with bing ads PPC but in the end the spend was almost as big as the money in.

$500 pm would just take care of business right now so (without writing articles as I`m not the best at spelling and grammer) how would you guys get going if you had to make just $500 pm ??

Cheers James
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  • Profile picture of the author reachintan
    Hi Jim,


    Get a blog started and post relevant content possibly everyday related to your interest area.

    Promote the blog link you post, extensively on social media. Once you build a strong user base, apply for Google Adsense, Yahoo Publishers, and Amazon Affiliate Program.

    I hope this helps. If not, get back to me.


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  • James,

    You asked how I'd earn $500 / month net starting from scratch, and here's how I'd do it:

    My first option is to find a good telesales center that wants more call traffic so as to get more sales for their products. I'd then talk to them and tell them that I'll find call traffic sources for them with products that are relevant to what the telesales center is selling. This is in order for the calls from those traffic sources to be targeted. I'll get into an agreement with them where I'll get X% net commissions from all sales they'll generate from the calls driven by the traffic sources that I found for them; and

    I'll then find traffic sources that want to earn more revenues for their traffic, specifically ones that also need a call center so as to provide professional support for their new and existing customers. So:

    Traffic source gets free call center services and drives targeted calls to telesales center =>> Telesales center gets free targeted traffic and resolves the concerns, inquiries and problems of those callers =>> Telesales center upsells their products to the callers =>> Traffic source earns 40% net commissions per closed sale =>> Telesales center earns 60%net from each sale =>> I earn X% net from the net share of the telesales center ...

    That's not just $500 / month. For a medium-sized telesales center and a medium-sized traffic source partner (just one) -- I'm looking at higher 4 digits per month there, which can grow as I find traffic source partners (or telesales centers in different languages) -- After a few months or so, I'd probably be clearing higher 5 to 6-digit revenues per month there ...

    My second option would be to set up a US or UK LLC, open a US or UK business bank account, set up a site, get a merchant account that allows third party billing, find qualified merchants that are having problems getting a merchant account, and let them use a platform that I'll create for them with my merchant account ...

    I'll earn from marked up MDRs (merchant discount rates) for each merchant that signs up with me ...

    I'm looking at a higher 4-digit income per month already from one merchant alone with low monthly sales volume, so I just scale it up by signing up more merchants -- After a few months, I'd probably be looking at higher 5 to 6-digit monthly revenues from this ...

    Well, higher risks = Higher yields, most of the time ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Sumon2k7
    Since you know quite a bit about SEO, Bing PPC campaign, you should not worry to earn $500 per month. SEO has been updated a lot last couple of years, I suggest you adapt the updates and continue to SEO work in site like Upwork.

    If you do a great job you'll surely earn more than $500 per month. All of the best!
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    • Profile picture of the author kerunai
      If u have a list

      U can do $500 easily

      Solo ads for example
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  • Profile picture of the author PopeMarketing
    In your position, the quickest and simplest way for you to generate $500/month is by working for other people.

    You obviously have a few skills so as other people have suggested above, put yourself out there on Upwork, Fiverr, Warriors for hire, etc. I don't see any reason why you can't do $500 of business in your first month as along as you provide good service.

    You can then focus on scaling the operation and investing in other areas, like getting involved with SEO again for example.

    Hope this helped
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    I would read the other 999 Threads with the same question and answers......
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  • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
    Some great answers thanks, I really dont want to start blogging thats something that holds little interest for me due to my terrible spelling it takes me twice as long to go other stuff I`ve wrote than it does other people so yeah article writing and blogging work dont interest me.

    What sort of services do well on sites like upwork and fiverr?
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Originally Posted by jimkirk1943 View Post

      Some great answers thanks, I really dont want to start blogging thats something that holds little interest for me due to my terrible spelling it takes me twice as long to go other stuff I`ve wrote than it does other people so yeah article writing and blogging work dont interest me.

      What sort of services do well on sites like upwork and fiverr?
      If SEO and Blogging and Article Marketing do not get your interest not sure that Fiverr will either. It takes due diligence and time just like Blogging and Article marketing. Maybe even more so because you have to get it just right for your paying customer


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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    What sort of services do well on sites like upwork and fiverr?
    $4 per gig only requires 125 gigs per month. Good luck with that.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
    I never thought fiverr was a good option but a few folks have mentioned it so asked which services work well.

    I`ve seen folks do well with fiverr dishing out many mnay more gigs than 125 pm but they use arbitrage to deliver.

    Again I ask the question just to see if anyone was using a simple method to earn $500 pm and what that method was maybe I hadnt heard of it as theres some really cool ways to make money online as I can see in the war room on here.

    I dont need to start a blog or anything like that I`m not looking for a full time IM biz just a simple method to get that $500 as I own propertys and get a good rental but I`m slightly short each month to live my dream which is to just travel travel

    cheers
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    • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
      Originally Posted by jimkirk1943 View Post

      I never thought fiverr was a good option but a few folks have mentioned it so asked which services work well.

      I`ve seen folks do well with fiverr dishing out many mnay more gigs than 125 pm but they use arbitrage to deliver.

      Again I ask the question just to see if anyone was using a simple method to earn $500 pm and what that method was maybe I hadnt heard of it as theres some really cool ways to make money online as I can see in the war room on here.

      I dont need to start a blog or anything like that I`m not looking for a full time IM biz just a simple method to get that $500 as I own propertys and get a good rental but I`m slightly short each month to live my dream which is to just travel travel

      cheers
      Sell the house problem solved no more not looking at the search tab for the many "If you had this crap"
      Jason
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  • Profile picture of the author 55sadhikar
    If you know about SEO learn the updated techniques about SEO , get a list of people who want to make money online with a blog, show them how they can rank the site. All of this can be done via webinar. You also need to show them that you have ranked websites with the techniques that you are teaching them, it will act as a testimonial/proof. Run a webinar and teach the techniques to 100/1000 people at $10-$20 each. That's 2,000 to 20,000 per month. But you do need to hunt those people who'd like to learn SEO. If you can acquire 10,000 people and charge them $10 for the webinar. That's $100,000. So think about it. Ultimately the ability to make money is dependent on numbers of people that you can reach. Celebrity singers earn $1million per concert why? Because they have good crowd,but if the same celebrity is to perform at a close unknown bar they would make measly thousand dollars (again think about the masses). If you're able to sell services to 1million people at once with $10 each. That's $10million right there... That's what product owners do. They sell their services through webinar/product launches. But they also do JVs why? Because they want to reach out to more masses so they can make more money. No matter how good the product is, if you can reach the masses, you cannot make a lot of money, plain and simple...
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    • Profile picture of the author MValmont
      I would write a few small kindle books or outsource them, then rank them as high as possible on amazon.

      Really easy to do and don't need any upfront cost if you do it yourself and a really smal investment if you outsource it.
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  • Profile picture of the author PassiveIncomes
    Originally Posted by jimkirk1943 View Post

    Hi guys,
    I need an extra $500 a month I know its not much but I`m finding it hard lol I`ve had success over the years with SEO quite big success actually with adsense and lost it all .. twice with the google updates, I`ve made big money with bing ads PPC but in the end the spend was almost as big as the money in.

    $500 pm would just take care of business right now so (without writing articles as I`m not the best at spelling and grammer) how would you guys get going if you had to make just $500 pm ??

    Cheers James
    Since you got big success with adsense, get back adsense! and replicate the success again. Then from there, do other things like affiliate marketing etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    Build your list.

    Build it with buyers if you can.

    Create lots of products in order to build your audience.

    (It can be any product. A product on the WarriorForum, a product on Kindle, a product on Udemy, anywhere).

    The idea is to create lots of them.

    Then... Build a nice back end funnel promoting some expensive evergreen affiliate products.

    Continually launch products. Get affiliates to promote them if possible so your audience snowballs.

    So... Build your list with buyers, and continually publish products.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
      Originally Posted by Sarevok View Post

      Build your list.

      Build it with buyers if you can.

      Create lots of products in order to build your audience.

      (It can be any product. A product on the WarriorForum, a product on Kindle, a product on Udemy, anywhere).

      The idea is to create lots of them.

      Then... Build a nice back end funnel promoting some expensive evergreen affiliate products.

      Continually launch products. Get affiliates to promote them if possible so your audience snowballs.

      So... Build your list with buyers, and continually publish products.
      Actually been thinking about this one inthe fitness niche I`m pretty up on weight training, diet and fitness
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    post on craiglist or local ads

    offer web or blog creation services

    u can do better than $4 bro ...

    try it first
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  • Profile picture of the author pan222
    You should have used money spent on PPC to build a list. As you said money spent on PPC was equal to money earned by you, but if you have made a list you can again mail your list to make money. Basically it is like creating your own traffic source.
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    Sounds like your already there. Create a funnel and build a list and go back to ppc with bing and get yourself a thousand or 2 thousand subscribers $500 a month should not be that hard at that point
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  • Profile picture of the author Rhadoo7
    Post A LOT of youtube videos on multiple channels, reviewing and presenting various Clickbank products in the Fitness niche, with good video descriptions and keywords. Slowly revenue will start to flow in, and the great thing is that it will be PASSIVE income
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  • Of all the way I have made money over the years if I needed $500 I would sell an info product at say $24 you just need like 21 of them (or whatever the math is it's like less then 1 a day. If you are not an expert do what I did research was my first product and it was free info but I sold time saving and some people value their time and will pay you even $100 if you save them time so they don't have to do research themselves (most will not keep that in mind so it's a smaller market), and if you are an expert then sell problem solving or benefit creating advice or coaching. Coaching is the best if you are an expert in a niche where people are paying for coaching then do that and you are all set!
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  • Profile picture of the author Billy The Kid
    Have you considered creating a short Udemy course?
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    • Profile picture of the author NomadLifestyle
      If you need the money now than sell your search engine optimization expertise to clients.

      $500 a month (depending on your skill level) would be easy work.

      If you don't need the money right away, then why not teach your expertise?

      If you know how to rank sites well, there are a lot of people who would like to know how to do that. If you can identify (and then validate) precisely what knowledge areas are lacking for certain groups of people, then you have no problem charging to teach.

      You can choose whatever venue you use to teach and distribute your knowledge:

      -Udemy

      -Warrior forum

      -Your own independent platform (a blog plus membership site etc.)

      -Become a consultant

      -Etc.

      Point is, the best place to start making money is from an area of current strength.

      If you've Artie develop skills, focus on monetizing those skills instead of trying to chase a new shiny object. If you're good at something, get people to pay you for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
    Some awesome advice on here thanks guys !

    You know what I might do.. how about doing a review page for a few clickbank products in the build mucle niche and giving my number 1 pick, obviously many people do this and then doing some keyword research looking for problems and things I can offer advice on in build muscle, diet and 6 pack abs I have alot of experiance here, and then doing short 5 to10 min videos with advice and a link to the review page at the end all posted on a YT channel

    I know this method has been do to death and I`m not sure about ranking videos these days but I`m guessing it still has some legs ??

    Cheers

    PS maybe doing some forum posting with a link in the Sig but I bet most forum mods are sick and tired of that in the fitness niche ?
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanstevens93
    Just like others said, a blog would do great, but it will bring you money in the long run. For the shorter run you can try self-publishing your own books on Kindle.

    You can also take a look at Fiverr - you will find something which fits you for sure (write content, optimize content, format books, proofread content, create videos, edit videos, edit audio files, design websites, design logos, etc.)
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  • Profile picture of the author Trey Morgan
    If I needed an extra $500 per month I would go the list building route in a profitable niche. Simply focus on building a list in a profitable niche and promote relevant products to my subscribers while giving away lots of free value.
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  • Profile picture of the author ydsimple
    I would run WSO related to traffic niche, very profitable one and always on demand.
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Al
    I would sell your services to someone else, that's the quickest and most guaranteed way to make the monies... nothing else is guaranteed, all a bet and blogs etc can take a while to get up running, tested, tweaked and earning. Especially if you have zero experience doing it before.

    Second would be create a product and sell it. Or create PLR products and sell them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
    Here you go same people who like to answer this type of thread have done the same here and days old

    https://www.warriorforum.com/main-in...ould-take.html
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Well... if you have the money and exceptional traffic.... why not create and sell a $500 info-product? Or find an affiliate program that offers $500 per sale as your commission. If you want $500/month without working a job or freelancing FAST.... this might be your best route. Good luck though.
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