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.

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.

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

TL

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.