Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year?

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 01:52 PM

Hello Everyone,

I am new to the forum and looking to start learning a few different techniques. I have a few blogs up that arent earning me any money and i am in a huge need to make some extra money as soon as possible.

I would like to be making at least $1000 a month by the end of this year, but not sure which route to go or how doable this is. I dont have startup money and much to do PPC or anything, but i need a technique...Fast.

Any suggestions on where to get started? I know that i can ready through the threads to see some things, but theres thousands of them and i am not sure where to begin.

Help

johnbro · 09-17-2009, 02:00 PM

Yes, there are actually success stories that has proven this. It is good to aim high like the way you have done, so that if even if you don't reach that level, chances are, you would certainly reach higher level, provided of course you work hard smartly.

But the important thing is, aiming for small achievements leading to the main target achievement. Congratulate yourself and find encouragements in the small achievements, they will take you forward.

Try to get into list marketing, the potential is huge.

Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter · 09-17-2009, 02:01 PM

You can make $1,000.00--or even more, much more--by the end of next month, but WILL you? That's up to you.

The most important part is to get a plan that has worked for others and commit to it for the duration--don't be distracted by other ideas.

There are many Warriors who can advise you. I'm sure they will chime in. I have a book you can get FREE through my signature below that gives you a solid 30 day plan for making a pile of cash. Grab it, see if it is for you. If it is then put it to work and follow it to the letter.

The biggest problem most people have in internet marketing is constantly changing tactics before the original ones have a chance to work. Stick with a plan.

TLTheLiberator · 09-17-2009, 02:28 PM

Become a master of traffic generation and the sky's the limit.

TL

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 02:48 PM

Im not sure if i know what list marketing. Is there a guide for that or free information?

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnbro

Yes, there are actually success stories that has proven this. It is good to aim high like the way you have done, so that if even if you don't reach that level, chances are, you would certainly reach higher level, provided of course you work hard smartly.

But the important thing is, aiming for small achievements leading to the main target achievement. Congratulate yourself and find encouragements in the small achievements, they will take you forward.

Try to get into list marketing, the potential is huge.

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 02:51 PM

Thank you. I most definitely will do the work. I just dont think i know what to do. Everything i have purchased in the past focuses on PPC and right now i am in some tough times and need to make money and not spend it on ppc.

I downloaded the guide and will take a look at it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter

You can make $1,000.00--or even more, much more--by the end of next month, but WILL you? That's up to you.

The most important part is to get a plan that has worked for others and commit to it for the duration--don't be distracted by other ideas.

There are many Warriors who can advise you. I'm sure they will chime in. I have a book you can get FREE through my signature below that gives you a solid 30 day plan for making a pile of cash. Grab it, see if it is for you. If it is then put it to work and follow it to the letter.

The biggest problem most people have in internet marketing is constantly changing tactics before the original ones have a chance to work. Stick with a plan.

sagerock · 09-17-2009, 02:55 PM

I think list marketing is referring to email list marketing.

This is an interesting topic for me because I haven't really appreciated the power and significance of an email list as much as I should have.

I've always been focused on traffic generation mostly through search engines... and now with social media.

But man, if you have a list of people that want to get your information sent to them via email, you are in a really great spot.

I can't comment on buying lists or renting lists. I know nothing about that.

Advertising on someone else's list, I guess, could fall into "renting lists." That can be really powerful.

I have worked on building a group of people that want my information emailed to them and it's pretty amazing the power of it all.

bhopkins · 09-17-2009, 03:02 PM

If you don't have funds for PPC, then you need to do a article marketing and probably a lot of it. Mix in some bookmarking and social media marketing and you should get there.

Of course this depends on what you want to promote. you did not say how you where monetizing so that is a question. CPA offers are probably the easiest was to get there, but you may have some issues getting into the networks. Read the CPA forum and do some google searches on how to do article marketing and social media marketing, then develop a plan. Work the plan and you should be on your way. This is sadly where a lot of people fail. You have to actually do something, it may not always be the exact right thing to do, but getting in the habit of taking action will move you towards your goals and any mistakes made will only help you in the fiture.

Bruce

winebuddy · 09-17-2009, 03:05 PM

buy aweber and learn how to use it.

Put up optin pages that are keyword targeted. Build backlinks to the optin pages and get them ranked in the search engines.

Construct an email followup sequence for your target market with a sales message in every 4th email.

that's about it.

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 03:14 PM

Thank you i will look into CPA. I currently monetize with cb product and ebay listing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhopkins

If you don't have funds for PPC, then you need to do a article marketing and probably a lot of it. Mix in some bookmarking and social media marketing and you should get there.

Of course this depends on what you want to promote. you did not say how you where monetizing so that is a question. CPA offers are probably the easiest was to get there, but you may have some issues getting into the networks. Read the CPA forum and do some google searches on how to do article marketing and social media marketing, then develop a plan. Work the plan and you should be on your way. This is sadly where a lot of people fail. You have to actually do something, it may not always be the exact right thing to do, but getting in the habit of taking action will move you towards your goals and any mistakes made will only help you in the fiture.

Bruce

Tom Goodwin · 09-17-2009, 03:18 PM

Re: List marketing

Most of us here have our own domains (you can buy them cheap, and then host them cheap..I bough most of mine from namecheap.com and host all of mine on bluehost.com). Lets say that you are marketing a weightloss product called ("how to lose 20 pounds in 4 weeks"). On your website you "pre-sell" the visitors to your product. blah blah blah. If they are interested, they will click through on your website to the actual product page, where they may or may not buy the product (typically cookies are stored in the browser so if they come back within a fixed amount of time (say 30-60 days) and then buy, you still get credit for the sale).

The problem here though is even with the best product and best sales job, it is hard to convert more than a couple percent of those that land on your landing page.

Most of us create a mailing list to try and convert the rest of your visitors into future victims, er, buyers. So, you create a mailing list. It is a very automated process if you use one of the big mailing list companies -- Aweber or getresponse (you can set up a chain of emails that new subscribers automatically get at certain intervals). On your website, you can say things like "join my free newsletter and learn about the secrets to lose weight". Then, you can you send them out information on an on-going basis. You should provide useful info, but you can weave your sales messages into some of your emails.

By doing this, instead of converting say, 1-2% of your visitors, you might be able to convert 10%+ of your visitors into sales.

There are lots of great information in this forum on creating mailing lists. Searching under things like "mailing list" "email list" or "aweber" would yield good results I think.

Quote:

Originally Posted by NewbieGal

Im not sure if i know what list marketing. Is there a guide for that or free information?

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 03:22 PM

Great Explanation. Thank you, that cleared up some things.

Quote:

Originally Posted by thmgoodw

Re: List marketing

Most of us here have our own domains (you can buy them cheap, and then host them cheap..I bough most of mine from namecheap.com and host all of mine on bluehost.com). Lets say that you are marketing a weightloss product called ("how to lose 20 pounds in 4 weeks"). On your website you "pre-sell" the visitors to your product. blah blah blah. If they are interested, they will click through on your website to the actual product page, where they may or may not buy the product (typically cookies are stored in the browser so if they come back within a fixed amount of time (say 30-60 days) and then buy, you still get credit for the sale).

The problem here though is even with the best product and best sales job, it is hard to convert more than a couple percent of those that land on your landing page.

Most of us create a mailing list to try and convert the rest of your visitors into future victims, er, buyers. So, you create a mailing list. It is a very automated process if you use one of the big mailing list companies -- Aweber or getresponse (you can set up a chain of emails that new subscribers automatically get at certain intervals). On your website, you can say things like "join my free newsletter and learn about the secrets to lose weight". Then, you can you send them out information on an on-going basis. You should provide useful info, but you can weave your sales messages into some of your emails.

By doing this, instead of converting say, 1-2% of your visitors, you might be able to convert 10%+ of your visitors into sales.

There are lots of great information in this forum on creating mailing lists. Searching under things like "mailing list" "email list" or "aweber" would yield good results I think.

jasonl70 · 09-17-2009, 03:29 PM

Let's say you make $40 per sale (whether it's affilate or your own product).

For $1000 a month, that's 25 sales a month.

If you can convert 1% of your traffic to sales, that means you need 2500 people a month, or 83 a day. This is not a ton of traffic

Now - I like to use squeeze pages, and then market via my autoresponder (aweber). To make a long story short, I end up converting around 3% of my site traffic to sales when I do this.

With a 3% conversion, you only need 27 people a day to your site!

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 03:36 PM

Jason,

When you create squeeze pages, how do you drive traffic to the site?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasonl70

Let's say you make $40 per sale (whether it's affilate or your own product).

For $1000 a month, that's 25 sales a month.

If you can convert 1% of your traffic to sales, that means you need 2500 people a month, or 83 a day. This is not a ton of traffic

Now - I like to use squeeze pages, and then market via my autoresponder (aweber). To make a long story short, I end up converting around 3% of my site traffic to sales when I do this.

With a 3% conversion, you only need 27 people a day to your site!

Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter · 09-17-2009, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NewbieGal

Jason,

When you create squeeze pages, how do you drive traffic to the site?

I'm not Jason, but I'll chime in.

When you first decide on your niche and product you want to think through how you are going to generate traffic. If you have no budget, then you want to make sure you can generate free traffic.

You can generate free traffic a variety of ways: article marketing for direct traffic, search engine optimization, free giveaways, etc.

The way to generate the highest amount of traffic quickly is to partner with people who already have well known sites within the niche. This is usually called a joint venture. They send you traffic and you pay them a commission for sales of your product.

One of my students just completed his first 90 days and this month made total revenues over $20,000.00 and it is still growing. He'll keep about 1/2. I did a post about him here you may want to read--I think it will encourage you and let you see what's possible:

Are Your Goals too Small? His 84th day online...$8K day, $13K week, $4K residual

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 04:03 PM

Interesting! I am off to read it now. I have your guide printed out. I have aweber already that i dont think i've used more than once so maybe an ebook and a "squeeze page" may work.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter

I'm not Jason, but I'll chime in.

When you first decide on your niche and product you want to think through how you are going to generate traffic. If you have no budget, then you want to make sure you can generate free traffic.

You can generate free traffic a variety of ways: article marketing for direct traffic, search engine optimization, free giveaways, etc.

The way to generate the highest amount of traffic quickly is to partner with people who already have well known sites within the niche. This is usually called a joint venture. They send you traffic and you pay them a commission for sales of your product.

One of my students just completed his first 90 days and this month made total revenues over $20,000.00 and it is still growing. He'll keep about 1/2. I did a post about him here you may want to read--I think it will encourage you and let you see what's possible:

jasonl70 · 09-17-2009, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NewbieGal

Jason,

When you create squeeze pages, how do you drive traffic to the site?

personaly, I use ppc and seo. I'm just now moving into more social media and video sites. While I do not do article marketing (too lazy), I think it would be a great way to do this as well.

But heck - my 11 year old has a blog and now get's 200-300 people a day to it. So don't let any concerns of "how will i get 27 people a day to my site" hold you back..

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasonl70

personaly, I use ppc and seo. I'm just now moving into more social media and video sites. While I do not do article marketing (too lazy), I think it would be a great way to do this as well.

But heck - my 11 year old has a blog and now get's 200-300 people a day to it. So don't let any concerns of "how will i get 27 people a day to my site" hold you back..

Got it. Thanks. and big ups to your 11yr old! Maybe they can teach me a few tricks because my site isnt even getting 200 a day.

angela99 · 09-17-2009, 04:13 PM

If you really need to make money consistently, sell services.

The big benefit is that you have money coming in, which you can then invest in PPC or anything else you please.

Another benefit (if you sell services to Internet marketers) is that you'll see how successful people run their businesses, and this is valuable -- you won't get stuck in an area, as some beginners tend to do.

You've created blogs, so you know how that works, so blogging for others should be easy enough for you. Run a WSO on your blogging services and you should do well.

Good luck. :-)

Cheers

Angela

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 04:20 PM

BTW,

when you say you use ppc and seo. what is considered seo? i thought that was article marketing, but you mentioned you don't do article marketing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasonl70

personaly, I use ppc and seo. I'm just now moving into more social media and video sites. While I do not do article marketing (too lazy), I think it would be a great way to do this as well.

But heck - my 11 year old has a blog and now get's 200-300 people a day to it. So don't let any concerns of "how will i get 27 people a day to my site" hold you back..

Ayrtonx5 · 09-17-2009, 04:22 PM

Newbiegal

Your goal is easily achieveable.

My advice to you is create your own information product.

Use a spreadsheet or wall planner and break down your project into
small sub tasks. Research keywords, competitors thoroughly.

Look past the money and provide the solution to people looking for it.

Unsubscribe from all the emails, get rid of as many distractions as you can.

Commit to daily action on this project.

There's no luck involved - it's just a process.

Glenn

Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter · 09-17-2009, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NewbieGal

Interesting! I am off to read it now. I have your guide printed out. I have aweber already that i dont think i've used more than once so maybe an ebook and a "squeeze page" may work.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Also, be sure to look at the email series I send out next week--it will detail a completely untapped way to get new Joint Venture partners effortlessly in pretty much any niche.

Daniel Brock · 09-17-2009, 04:34 PM

That should be no problem at all.

You have about 3 and a half months left which is plenty of time.

Do you have a plan of action though? How many websites do you have so far?

What I suggest you do is setup some product review sites and go from there. That will be a good starting point for you to learn while also make money at the same time. I created a detailed thread about the process:

Newbie goes from $0 to over $100/day in under 4 months.

You might find it helpful.

jasonl70 · 09-17-2009, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NewbieGal

BTW,

when you say you use ppc and seo. what is considered seo? i thought that was article marketing, but you mentioned you don't do article marketing.

When I talk about SEO, I refer to getting your own site to rank. There are 2 aspects of SEO: on-page, and off-page.

off page is pretty much about backlinks - and articles are just one way of getting these links. However, I do not consider article marketing to be SEO. Most "article marketers" aren't using them for backlinks to their sites, they're using them to funnel traffic - which is a different beast all together.

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasonl70

When I talk about SEO, I refer to getting your own site to rank. There are 2 aspects of SEO: on-page, and off-page.

off page is pretty much about backlinks - and articles are just one way of getting these links. However, I do not consider article marketing to be SEO. Most "article marketers" aren't using them for backlinks to their sites, they're using them to funnel traffic - which is a different beast all together.

Oh ok, i understand completely now. THanks so much and sorry for asking you all of these questions. you're very helpful.

I just knew someone would chew my butt here since i dont know so much.

frankm · 09-17-2009, 04:56 PM

Hi NewbieGal

Agreed that the most reliable way to achieve your goal is to create your own product.

Let's say you develop something that you can sell for $37. Clickbank will take a percentage, so let's assume you make $33 per sale (I don't know the exact number).

Then let's assume you set the affiliate commission at 75% so you get roughly $9 per sale and the affiliate gets $24.

Now let's assume that 25% of your sales are direct sales by you, and 75% are affiliate sales, so for every 4 sales you make 1x$33 and 3x$9 = $60

That works out that to make $1,000 per month you have to make 17x$33 and 51x$9 which gives you $1,020 per month in income. If you don't pay for any promotion then that will meet your target and include the cost of an autoresponder (eg Aweber).

So, 68 sales per month of a $37 product, 2-3 sales per day. Or reduce the price to $27 and you need

Now, what do you already know that people would pay $37 for? Let's already eliminate anything to do with internet marketing, since you haven't made any money yet!

Here's a way I generate ideas:

1. Make a list of your top 3 interests
2. Make a list of your top 3 strengths

Eg: Interests: Scrapbooking, Cooking, Raising kids
Strengths: Energetic, Funny, Researching

Now, by thinking of one of each list together we come up with ideas.

EG: What ideas do you have when you think of Scrapbooking + Energetic
Answer: Productive scrapbooking, scrapbooking for the busy family, high energy online scrapbooking through the use of video.

Scrapbooking + Funny
101 funny scrapbooking ideas that will make the family laugh for years to come

Scrapbooking + Research
Report containing the best scrapbook ideas of all time

Cooking + energetic
High energy superfood recipes, Cookercise (exercise through cooking eg by creating an exercise routine you could do while cooking)

Cooking + funny
Funny meals that will make the kids happy (like McDonalds Happy Meal concept)

Cooking + Research
Research into superfoods, research into healthy recipes, research into the diets of people who live for a long time

Raising kids + energetic
How to raise your kids and have more energy at the end of the day, lifestyle tips to maximize your kids' energy

Raising kids + funny
101 ways for your kids to have more fun

Raising kids + research
Research into the recommendations of childraising experts

Ideas are easy! If you include 5 interest and 5 positive characteristics you suddenly have at least 25 product ideas. Think of ideas like having children - you bring a man and a woman together and a child is born. Bring two concepts that you enjoy together and an idea for a product will be born, with the bonus being that it will be something that you are interested in - something that you will be confident that your enthusiasm for will convince at least 3 people a day to pay you for.

And your enthusiasm and knowledge of the product area will enable you to develop free content to give away to promote your product and build trust among prospects.

I imagine that you could definitely develop a product like this by the end of October, and reach your few sales a day by Christmas - as long as it is unique and you give good commissions there will be plenty of Clickbank affiliates to promote it for you.

And it will be a business you enjoy. Forget about doing technical stuff you hate that will make your life miserable - focus on something you love and create your own unique 'brainchild'.

Good luck!

Frank

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 06:08 PM

These are all great ideas and there are so many ways. I willl have to see which route i go and then move on to the next thing.

InfoProvider · 09-17-2009, 06:25 PM

I'm new to this forum but you need to start building your list fast. And get into social media as fast as you can. and start posting like crazy about Interesting stuff. I suggest Twitter you can build followers very fast there.

Just be the life of the party...

All the Best
Stacy Robinson

Jhf14 · 09-17-2009, 06:32 PM

I would argue that making 1000/month is very difficult if you are looking to do it blogging... this requires that you write a lot of content (that people want to read) and that you generate enough targeted traffic to put up some advertisements. Even if you have a lot of traffic coming in, you only have so much ad space, and not too many advertisers are willing to pay $250/month unless the site has enormous traffic and great content.

The better decision would be to do some traditional Internet Marketing techniques that many people here have been successful with... this includes finding a niche, discovering a product for that niche, writing articles, social bookmarking, youtube videos and the like to drive traffic to your site (where the offer is)... then you can make money from the affiliate sales of that particular item.

I believe you can def get to $1000 by year's end using the IM approach, but ultimately you have to do what you like to do and what you have the most time for

NewbieGal · 09-17-2009, 06:39 PM

I think this is the method i am more geared towards right now and down the line i would like to do a product. I have heard that people use you tube marketing. What is that?

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Originally Posted by Jhf14

I would argue that making 1000/month is very difficult if you are looking to do it blogging... this requires that you write a lot of content (that people want to read) and that you generate enough targeted traffic to put up some advertisements. Even if you have a lot of traffic coming in, you only have so much ad space, and not too many advertisers are willing to pay $250/month unless the site has enormous traffic and great content.

The better decision would be to do some traditional Internet Marketing techniques that many people here have been successful with... this includes finding a niche, discovering a product for that niche, writing articles, social bookmarking, youtube videos and the like to drive traffic to your site (where the offer is)... then you can make money from the affiliate sales of that particular item.

I believe you can def get to $1000 by year's end using the IM approach, but ultimately you have to do what you like to do and what you have the most time for

sharpturn · 10-05-2009, 02:19 PM

Hi NewbieGal,

I'm also a novice at all this. I started 5 months ago and haven't made that much cash. All the advice here is great and a lot of it I still don't understand. I think the idea of doing traditional Internet Marketing appeals to me.
I'm in the process of having a bash at discovering products and reviewing them on blogs and writing articles etc. I want to do enough of these to hit Christmas.

RGallowitz · 10-05-2009, 02:47 PM

Here are the action steps.

1. Become an affiliate of a best seller
2. Create an optin page
3. Funnel traffic from quality sources
4. Follow up to your subscribers
5. Rinse and repeat.

You'll be making way $1000 per month sooner than you think.

Regards,
Reinhardt

ed41143 · 10-05-2009, 03:01 PM

NewbieGal,

You have gotten a lot of feedback here and it is all helpful, but the truth of the matter is, that there is no easy way to get it done, whether it be a $1,000 a month or a $100 a month, it all takes a lot of hard, and yes very hard work.

Blogs are tough and especially a new blog that, you a self proclaimed newbie is starting out with.

Truth is, there is no easy way to success and possibly more so today than any other time in internet history.

You are coming in during an economic downturn and from your statements, downtrodden yourself, with no money to spend, which makes it even harder, but have you ever tried selling internet services to offline businesses?

This can be very rewarding and can make you a great monthly income too.

What you do is find a niche that offline business are vieing for and look for the ones that are trying to get to the first page of google on, but aren't quite there and it really needs to be in a larger city or metro area to work best, as smaller cities are not all that profitable.

Now, I haven't read all the post above and someone may have already brought this up to you, if so I apologize.

But what you do is seek these businesses out and explain to them that you can get them to the first page of google for a long tail keyword, that often times is better than the main keyword for the niche that they are in.

Then you take their site and show them how to tweak it for better seo purposes, write an article and publish it, create a youtube video, write a press release and publish it, and create some great Web 2.0 properties like Hubpages, Weebly, Squidoo, etc, then do some book marking of these sites to sites like digg, delicious, reddit, technorati, etc.

You simply do this and create what I call a Solar System or Wheel type system with your clients site being the hub of the wheel or the sun of the solar system.

This can take a little time, but can reap some very handsome benefits too.

You also want to look for some high Page Ranking sites to post or comment on and use the keyword as a backlink, sites like well, technorati with a Page Ranking of 9, Ohloh, the open source network PR 7, disqus.com PR 7, etc.

Set up a Google Alerts for the Keyword your are going for and you will get some high page ranking sites this way too. Also set up Google Alerts for other keywords for the niche for more high page ranking sites.

Well, you have a lot to consider here and hope it helps, but a typical offline customer will pay very well for this kind of service, as any leads that come from this are all organic search leads and the only cost is in the setting up of all this which can keep on generating leads for years to come, with very little effort after you get it set up and going.

Well, hope this helps,
Ed

Matt Gannon · 10-05-2009, 05:56 PM

I would suggest this Article Marketing Secrets Revealed- Make $4000+ Per Month

It is a free guide by Casey Gentles, I read it and it is very useful for beginners!

trapp120 · 10-05-2009, 06:07 PM

You don't need a guide man. You just need a few pointers.

Identify a high volume niche.
Go straight to the source, email biz dev/affiliate manager and tell them you can do big volume and want top tier pricing.
Grab your affiliate links.
Duplicate a successful landing page from your competitors (I usually combine 3 or more of the top, there's always a theme)
Pull your KW's off the G tool and build KW specific campaigns on unique throwaway domains with the KW in the URL, Title and Body.
Start out with a $200/day budget, bid $3.00/click and work your way up the rankings until you get slapped - repeat.

If you're not making at least $500/day then you didn't pay attention.

John Piteo · 10-05-2009, 08:37 PM

All of the Internet marketing models that you've heard about work. You should be able to make $1000 per month or even much more in that time frame from just about any one of them.

The thing is that you need to stay focused on just one thing, whatever method you choose, long enough to get good at it. This is very difficult to do and one of the big reasons most people fail.

Opportunity hopping is just one Newbie Trap. There are several more and if you can avoid them and put in some effort you will be successful.

09-17-2009, 01:52 PM	#1
NewbieGal Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 83 Thanks: 43 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Hello Everyone, I am new to the forum and looking to start learning a few different techniques. I have a few blogs up that arent earning me any money and i am in a huge need to make some extra money as soon as possible. I would like to be making at least $1000 a month by the end of this year, but not sure which route to go or how doable this is. I dont have startup money and much to do PPC or anything, but i need a technique...Fast. Any suggestions on where to get started? I know that i can ready through the threads to see some things, but theres thousands of them and i am not sure where to begin. Help

09-17-2009, 02:00 PM	#2
johnbro Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 54 Thanks: 2 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Yes, there are actually success stories that has proven this. It is good to aim high like the way you have done, so that if even if you don't reach that level, chances are, you would certainly reach higher level, provided of course you work hard smartly. But the important thing is, aiming for small achievements leading to the main target achievement. Congratulate yourself and find encouragements in the small achievements, they will take you forward. Try to get into list marketing, the potential is huge.
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09-17-2009, 02:01 PM	#3
Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter Full Frontal Lobe Nudity War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Knoxville, TN Posts: 912 Thanks: 519 Thanked 492 Times in 205 Posts Social Networking	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? You can make $1,000.00--or even more, much more--by the end of next month, but WILL you? That's up to you. The most important part is to get a plan that has worked for others and commit to it for the duration--don't be distracted by other ideas. There are many Warriors who can advise you. I'm sure they will chime in. I have a book you can get FREE through my signature below that gives you a solid 30 day plan for making a pile of cash. Grab it, see if it is for you. If it is then put it to work and follow it to the letter. The biggest problem most people have in internet marketing is constantly changing tactics before the original ones have a chance to work. Stick with a plan.
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09-17-2009, 02:28 PM	#4
TLTheLiberator Please get a net biz plan War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: , , USA. Posts: 1,428 Blog Entries: 3 Thanks: 1,109 Thanked 559 Times in 427 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Become a master of traffic generation and the sky's the limit. TL

09-17-2009, 02:55 PM	#7
sagerock Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Akron Ohio Posts: 12 Thanks: 2 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? I think list marketing is referring to email list marketing. This is an interesting topic for me because I haven't really appreciated the power and significance of an email list as much as I should have. I've always been focused on traffic generation mostly through search engines... and now with social media. But man, if you have a list of people that want to get your information sent to them via email, you are in a really great spot. I can't comment on buying lists or renting lists. I know nothing about that. Advertising on someone else's list, I guess, could fall into "renting lists." That can be really powerful. I have worked on building a group of people that want my information emailed to them and it's pretty amazing the power of it all.
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09-17-2009, 03:02 PM	#8
bhopkins Bruce Hopkins War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Posts: 1,121 Thanks: 12 Thanked 74 Times in 31 Posts Social Networking	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? If you don't have funds for PPC, then you need to do a article marketing and probably a lot of it. Mix in some bookmarking and social media marketing and you should get there. Of course this depends on what you want to promote. you did not say how you where monetizing so that is a question. CPA offers are probably the easiest was to get there, but you may have some issues getting into the networks. Read the CPA forum and do some google searches on how to do article marketing and social media marketing, then develop a plan. Work the plan and you should be on your way. This is sadly where a lot of people fail. You have to actually do something, it may not always be the exact right thing to do, but getting in the habit of taking action will move you towards your goals and any mistakes made will only help you in the fiture. Bruce
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09-17-2009, 03:05 PM	#9
winebuddy I Make it Rain War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 1,979 Blog Entries: 10 Thanks: 537 Thanked 569 Times in 296 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? buy aweber and learn how to use it. Put up optin pages that are keyword targeted. Build backlinks to the optin pages and get them ranked in the search engines. Construct an email followup sequence for your target market with a sales message in every 4th email. that's about it.
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09-17-2009, 03:29 PM	#13
jasonl70 Software Developer War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ohio , USA. Posts: 2,273 Thanks: 416 Thanked 408 Times in 250 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Let's say you make $40 per sale (whether it's affilate or your own product). For $1000 a month, that's 25 sales a month. If you can convert 1% of your traffic to sales, that means you need 2500 people a month, or 83 a day. This is not a ton of traffic Now - I like to use squeeze pages, and then market via my autoresponder (aweber). To make a long story short, I end up converting around 3% of my site traffic to sales when I do this. With a 3% conversion, you only need 27 people a day to your site!
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09-17-2009, 04:13 PM	#19
angela99 Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia. Posts: 599 Thanks: 41 Thanked 188 Times in 124 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? If you really need to make money consistently, sell services. The big benefit is that you have money coming in, which you can then invest in PPC or anything else you please. Another benefit (if you sell services to Internet marketers) is that you'll see how successful people run their businesses, and this is valuable -- you won't get stuck in an area, as some beginners tend to do. You've created blogs, so you know how that works, so blogging for others should be easy enough for you. Run a WSO on your blogging services and you should do well. Good luck. :-) Cheers Angela
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09-17-2009, 04:22 PM	#21
Ayrtonx5 Glenn Ayrton Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Posts: 18 Thanks: 4 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Newbiegal Your goal is easily achieveable. My advice to you is create your own information product. Use a spreadsheet or wall planner and break down your project into small sub tasks. Research keywords, competitors thoroughly. Look past the money and provide the solution to people looking for it. Unsubscribe from all the emails, get rid of as many distractions as you can. Commit to daily action on this project. There's no luck involved - it's just a process. Glenn
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09-17-2009, 04:34 PM	#23
Daniel Brock Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,628 Thanks: 169 Thanked 935 Times in 255 Posts Contact Info	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? That should be no problem at all. You have about 3 and a half months left which is plenty of time. Do you have a plan of action though? How many websites do you have so far? What I suggest you do is setup some product review sites and go from there. That will be a good starting point for you to learn while also make money at the same time. I created a detailed thread about the process: Newbie goes from $0 to over $100/day in under 4 months. You might find it helpful.
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09-17-2009, 04:56 PM	#26
frankm HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 472 Thanks: 60 Thanked 32 Times in 21 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Hi NewbieGal Agreed that the most reliable way to achieve your goal is to create your own product. Let's say you develop something that you can sell for $37. Clickbank will take a percentage, so let's assume you make $33 per sale (I don't know the exact number). Then let's assume you set the affiliate commission at 75% so you get roughly $9 per sale and the affiliate gets $24. Now let's assume that 25% of your sales are direct sales by you, and 75% are affiliate sales, so for every 4 sales you make 1x$33 and 3x$9 = $60 That works out that to make $1,000 per month you have to make 17x$33 and 51x$9 which gives you $1,020 per month in income. If you don't pay for any promotion then that will meet your target and include the cost of an autoresponder (eg Aweber). So, 68 sales per month of a $37 product, 2-3 sales per day. Or reduce the price to $27 and you need Now, what do you already know that people would pay $37 for? Let's already eliminate anything to do with internet marketing, since you haven't made any money yet! Here's a way I generate ideas: 1. Make a list of your top 3 interests 2. Make a list of your top 3 strengths Eg: Interests: Scrapbooking, Cooking, Raising kids Strengths: Energetic, Funny, Researching Now, by thinking of one of each list together we come up with ideas. EG: What ideas do you have when you think of Scrapbooking + Energetic Answer: Productive scrapbooking, scrapbooking for the busy family, high energy online scrapbooking through the use of video. Scrapbooking + Funny 101 funny scrapbooking ideas that will make the family laugh for years to come Scrapbooking + Research Report containing the best scrapbook ideas of all time Cooking + energetic High energy superfood recipes, Cookercise (exercise through cooking eg by creating an exercise routine you could do while cooking) Cooking + funny Funny meals that will make the kids happy (like McDonalds Happy Meal concept) Cooking + Research Research into superfoods, research into healthy recipes, research into the diets of people who live for a long time Raising kids + energetic How to raise your kids and have more energy at the end of the day, lifestyle tips to maximize your kids' energy Raising kids + funny 101 ways for your kids to have more fun Raising kids + research Research into the recommendations of childraising experts Ideas are easy! If you include 5 interest and 5 positive characteristics you suddenly have at least 25 product ideas. Think of ideas like having children - you bring a man and a woman together and a child is born. Bring two concepts that you enjoy together and an idea for a product will be born, with the bonus being that it will be something that you are interested in - something that you will be confident that your enthusiasm for will convince at least 3 people a day to pay you for. And your enthusiasm and knowledge of the product area will enable you to develop free content to give away to promote your product and build trust among prospects. I imagine that you could definitely develop a product like this by the end of October, and reach your few sales a day by Christmas - as long as it is unique and you give good commissions there will be plenty of Clickbank affiliates to promote it for you. And it will be a business you enjoy. Forget about doing technical stuff you hate that will make your life miserable - focus on something you love and create your own unique 'brainchild'. Good luck! Frank

09-17-2009, 06:08 PM	#27
NewbieGal Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 83 Thanks: 43 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? These are all great ideas and there are so many ways. I willl have to see which route i go and then move on to the next thing.

09-17-2009, 06:25 PM	#28
InfoProvider Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? I'm new to this forum but you need to start building your list fast. And get into social media as fast as you can. and start posting like crazy about Interesting stuff. I suggest Twitter you can build followers very fast there. Just be the life of the party... All the Best Stacy Robinson

09-17-2009, 06:32 PM	#29
Jhf14 Name is Justin War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 82 Thanks: 15 Thanked 8 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? I would argue that making 1000/month is very difficult if you are looking to do it blogging... this requires that you write a lot of content (that people want to read) and that you generate enough targeted traffic to put up some advertisements. Even if you have a lot of traffic coming in, you only have so much ad space, and not too many advertisers are willing to pay $250/month unless the site has enormous traffic and great content. The better decision would be to do some traditional Internet Marketing techniques that many people here have been successful with... this includes finding a niche, discovering a product for that niche, writing articles, social bookmarking, youtube videos and the like to drive traffic to your site (where the offer is)... then you can make money from the affiliate sales of that particular item. I believe you can def get to $1000 by year's end using the IM approach, but ultimately you have to do what you like to do and what you have the most time for

10-05-2009, 02:19 PM	#31
sharpturn Not a newbie anymore! War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 144 Thanks: 40 Thanked 14 Times in 9 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Hi NewbieGal, I'm also a novice at all this. I started 5 months ago and haven't made that much cash. All the advice here is great and a lot of it I still don't understand. I think the idea of doing traditional Internet Marketing appeals to me. I'm in the process of having a bash at discovering products and reviewing them on blogs and writing articles etc. I want to do enough of these to hit Christmas.

10-05-2009, 02:47 PM	#32
RGallowitz AffiliateTeachings.com War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Where ever I want to! Posts: 1,165 Thanks: 30 Thanked 137 Times in 117 Posts Contact Info	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? Here are the action steps. 1. Become an affiliate of a best seller 2. Create an optin page 3. Funnel traffic from quality sources 4. Follow up to your subscribers 5. Rinse and repeat. You'll be making way $1000 per month sooner than you think. Regards, Reinhardt
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10-05-2009, 03:01 PM	#33
ed41143 Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: KY Posts: 53 Thanks: 14 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? NewbieGal, You have gotten a lot of feedback here and it is all helpful, but the truth of the matter is, that there is no easy way to get it done, whether it be a $1,000 a month or a $100 a month, it all takes a lot of hard, and yes very hard work. Blogs are tough and especially a new blog that, you a self proclaimed newbie is starting out with. Truth is, there is no easy way to success and possibly more so today than any other time in internet history. You are coming in during an economic downturn and from your statements, downtrodden yourself, with no money to spend, which makes it even harder, but have you ever tried selling internet services to offline businesses? This can be very rewarding and can make you a great monthly income too. What you do is find a niche that offline business are vieing for and look for the ones that are trying to get to the first page of google on, but aren't quite there and it really needs to be in a larger city or metro area to work best, as smaller cities are not all that profitable. Now, I haven't read all the post above and someone may have already brought this up to you, if so I apologize. But what you do is seek these businesses out and explain to them that you can get them to the first page of google for a long tail keyword, that often times is better than the main keyword for the niche that they are in. Then you take their site and show them how to tweak it for better seo purposes, write an article and publish it, create a youtube video, write a press release and publish it, and create some great Web 2.0 properties like Hubpages, Weebly, Squidoo, etc, then do some book marking of these sites to sites like digg, delicious, reddit, technorati, etc. You simply do this and create what I call a Solar System or Wheel type system with your clients site being the hub of the wheel or the sun of the solar system. This can take a little time, but can reap some very handsome benefits too. You also want to look for some high Page Ranking sites to post or comment on and use the keyword as a backlink, sites like well, technorati with a Page Ranking of 9, Ohloh, the open source network PR 7, disqus.com PR 7, etc. Set up a Google Alerts for the Keyword your are going for and you will get some high page ranking sites this way too. Also set up Google Alerts for other keywords for the niche for more high page ranking sites. Well, you have a lot to consider here and hope it helps, but a typical offline customer will pay very well for this kind of service, as any leads that come from this are all organic search leads and the only cost is in the setting up of all this which can keep on generating leads for years to come, with very little effort after you get it set up and going. Well, hope this helps, Ed

10-05-2009, 05:56 PM	#34
Matt Gannon HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Hudson, NH Posts: 321 Thanks: 99 Thanked 25 Times in 17 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? I would suggest this Article Marketing Secrets Revealed- Make $4000+ Per Month It is a free guide by Casey Gentles, I read it and it is very useful for beginners!
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10-05-2009, 06:07 PM	#35
trapp120 Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Vancouver, WA Posts: 52 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? You don't need a guide man. You just need a few pointers. Identify a high volume niche. Go straight to the source, email biz dev/affiliate manager and tell them you can do big volume and want top tier pricing. Grab your affiliate links. Duplicate a successful landing page from your competitors (I usually combine 3 or more of the top, there's always a theme) Pull your KW's off the G tool and build KW specific campaigns on unique throwaway domains with the KW in the URL, Title and Body. Start out with a $200/day budget, bid $3.00/click and work your way up the rankings until you get slapped - repeat. If you're not making at least $500/day then you didn't pay attention.

10-05-2009, 08:37 PM	#36
John Piteo Getting into Video! War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 349 Thanks: 68 Thanked 48 Times in 31 Posts Social Networking	Re: Newbie Question- Can i make $1000 a month by the end of this year? All of the Internet marketing models that you've heard about work. You should be able to make $1000 per month or even much more in that time frame from just about any one of them. The thing is that you need to stay focused on just one thing, whatever method you choose, long enough to get good at it. This is very difficult to do and one of the big reasons most people fail. Opportunity hopping is just one Newbie Trap. There are several more and if you can avoid them and put in some effort you will be successful.
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