I Need to Make $565,000 in the Next 10 Months

Create a high quality digital product that is within a niche you know a lot about. Create an affiliate program. Promote affiliate program. Profit. That's pretty much the only way there is to make a lot of money online.

Or you could create a high traffic content site monetized by ads, but that is a lot more work.

The best thing I can think of is to spend the next several months coming up with a truly massive product based on a topic you know a lot about, get an amazing sales page written for it, then look for affiliates with huge lists to promote it for you.

Product should cost at least $300 and pay out 60% or greater commissions if you want to make a lot with one product. Just be prepared to show affiliates the product so they can see the quality.

You should spend plenty of time networking to build a network of people willing to promote your stuff. That way you have the affiliates in place before the launch.

That's what I would do.

Agree with the two replies above me. But you can also try one of the offline methods. You can make a search for them in the WSO forum.

The amount is huge to the fact that you still don't have a name that people can instantly recognize and buy from you. But everything is possible in life, and you should go for it.

Cheers,

Mike G

Thank you for the suggestions so far.

More ideas are always welcome, even if they appear to be far out. =

Jay Jennings

Well, some of us know Jay Jennings' name.

I first heard his name from the lips of the late SEO Guru (that many of you have never heard of, either): Ken Giddens. Sheesh. 4 years since he's passed. RIP, Ken -- we miss ya!

I always heard becoming a millionaire explained this way:
Create a product that costs $1000 and sell 1000 of them. Ka-ching!
So, all ya gotta do is find something that people would be willing to
pay $1000 for something, and you "only" need 1000 of theme. B2B
would be my bet.

Live JoyFully!

Judy

thats the ticket!

It is possible.

How much are you willing to invest?

Im sensing the OP's questions had a tint of parody in it?

What is it with people an ebooks on here? If you can create an amazing product then that is great, but there are already a lot of great products out there and if you want to earn commissions rather than be a vendor then you have fierce competition from people who know SEO inside out... or people that spends thousands of pounds on PPC every day.

Half a million dollars within a year from scratch? You could always give the lottery a try?!

Rob a bank. Oh wait.

Postcard marketing. Too much to post here, but the cliff notes....

1. Decide how much you want to make. So you already completed step 1.
2. Find a list of people who buy via mail
3. Make sure that lists gets thousands of fresh names every month
4. Find product to sell to that list, must have at least a $60 profit margin (give or take a few)
5. Set up free recorded message
6. Create postcard
7. Send out a test mailing of 1,000 postcards, directing people to free recorded message
8. If you got a positive ROI, roll out a bigger mailing
9. Because of the fresh names every month, you can continue to mail postcards

Come back here and thank me.

Of course there are more details in those 9 steps. But trust me, it's doable. It's actually my next goal...something I'm going to get started on shortly.

It's just getting a positive ROI and then scaling up. Read "The 12 Month Millioniare" by Vincent James. EXCELLENT read.

On a very similar note, if direct mail is of interest to you, check out my thread (by clicking here) with free videos explaining everything I know about using direct mail to get attention.

Start a membership site.That way you can also earn monthly residual income.

Jay, given your range of Mac programs for IM, have you
considered the possibility of a JV with Apple, or any of
the bigger Mac sites/services to license or rebrand and
sell your product line?

All success
Dr.Mani

Hi Jay,

Sorry to see you've had to come back here for advice

Seriously though - you can do this many ways.

Here's an example:

Spend some time researching newsworthy and controversial issues.

Create a product that panders to the relevant crowd.

Create press releases to spread the word.

Sell your stuff.


Here's an example situation.

You realise that many people do not believe that swine flu vaccine is good for you. You create a website selling t-shirts that say "Say No To Swine Flu Vaccine" and some controversial press releases.

(you could also create a site selling "Say Yes To Swine Flu Vaccine" just in case anyone with strong view points wants to go against the others )

Or....... something comical about Tiger Wood's driving

You get the idea.

Basically you're repurposing something that's really cheap and easy to get and adding value by making your version tie in with newsworthy events.

You could even do it all for free by usiing Cafepress and offer any items you like from there.

Andy

Wow, I need almost that exact amount! I've got my eye on a sweet little pied-à-terre in Paris.
Seriously, although there are some fantastic ideas on this post, I'm most impressed with the optimism displayed here. The first step to achieving any goal is believing that it's possible. Good luck!

Damn, Jay, how much stuff do you have in your back catalog? Quite a bit I would think. I have a handful of your apps.

Why not inventory what you've already got and brainstorm new ways to package it? How much of it are you willing to sell the source code to? How about some new videos to accompany it?

Given what you've got that you own exclusive rights to, that seems the logical place to start.

John

I would advise you use what is called the Human Network Effect to your advantage.

The thing is this- Only the people whom you're willing to take alonmg on the ride can make you doubly successful.

Aim for a million, and keep only what you intent to make. Let the other humans derive direct and indirect bonuses.

As for the how.... ONLY you know how.

-Lakshay

I like it when people want to do "great" things in life.

If this was me, here is what I would do: Take survey of my assets. Specifically, what knowledge or experience do I posess that others would pay for. Next, reach out to potential buyers and see what they want. Build an email list while creating the product they asked for, then sell it. You have an agressive goal, but as we all know, you can do anything you set your mind too...

Analyse what success you have had previously and see if that leads to any ideas.

Many of us fail to recognise and build on our past successes.

Sam

Wow, too many ideas here to thank everyone and comment on each.

So a collective "thank you!" to all who have participated in this. I'm going to read the thread again and make some notes and let things percolate in my brain over the weekend.

If anyone else wants to add brainstorming power to this thread, jump on in! =

Jay Jennings

One of the easiest ways is to write and market software that helps others make that kind of money.

That just happens to be your skill set Jay!

Write some revolutionary software that will help others make $100K per year on auto-pilot and sell it for $1,000 per copy. It only takes 1,000 copies to make a million dollars that way.

It can be done remotely. It can be done by Jay Jennings solo.

I haven't read through other replies so if this has already been said, which it probably hasn't, sorry.

There are ways to make long term income online and ways to make short term income online. If this is a situation where you need cash now, relatively speaking, then here's what you should do.

1) Shoot $1,000 into your PayPal account. If this isn't an easy matter sell some old CD's, sell some stuff you don't really need, hell even sell your body. (Just kidding - kind of, maybe, sort of?)

2) Really search around for experts in the SEO field. Don't go after the cool bloggers who make a total of $0.05 outside the IM niche. Find some guys who know their ****t. Find around two or three - don't find three just for the sake of finding three. If you can only find two guys who 1) make bank 2) know what their talking about then that's alright.

3) Once you've found your guys contact each of them and say, "Hey, you really know your SEO stuff and I know this is totally out of the blue but could I talk with you, over the phone, for thirty minutes or something? I'd be more then happy to give you an early Christmas gift. "

Keep it short and sweet. Don't tell them your unique story of having to struggle blah, blah, blah. These guys get those PM's all the time - hell even I do once in awhile.

Guys are nice when you don't bull****t them and when you offer them money. This shows your serious about learning. 95% the time they'll take you up on your offer and you'll end up talking for hours on end.

Just remember that, assuming you picked your people right, these guys are making well over six figures a month. Don't try and sound smart - kiss ass until you can kick ass.

Don't worry about them holding out on stuff. Most guys are actually really nice to people in the industry who are nice to them.

...Since you've gotten two or three opinions now you can mix and match to create your own style for your budget etc.

4) Now you should have a pretty good plan drawn up in your head of an SEO strategy that will kick some serious ass.

Most guys don't fail at SEO, they fail at building sites, build sites to sell ****t. Priority number one. (No adsense, no Amazon, no eBay, and make sure the Clickbank stuff converts well.)

5) Go search for a keyword around certain CPA offers. Ignore the people who tell you CPA is all a scam, they have no idea what their talking about - if it bothers you that much try promoting those Snugglies. They convert like hot cakes.

Find a keyword that gets around 500-1500 searches per day. It's not hard at all - take a full day to dig around and find a goodie with limited competition.

Try picking something that just gets around 200 searches a day, too, but is easy as pie to rank for so you can get a little cash flow coming your way. (Once these SEO guy's enlighten you you'll see how easy it is.)

6) Just do it. This is where most fail. Just do what you've, literally, been told to do. Keep on doing it and watch the money pour in. Period.

Depending on the keywords you'll need to see how long it takes to rank. It's not a matter of if but a matter of when. (Always remember that.)

Once you have a few sites up and ranked you'll be generating massive revenue. But maybe you still need that instant cash injection. (Although if your making good money you should be able to hold it off.)

What i'm about to say right now keeps me motivated every day.

A site earning $500 daily will sell for in and around $200,000. How's that for a little cash?

...

If you don't like SEO, do this for PPC, if you don't like PPC do it for media buys, PPV, or whatever the hell you want to do.

Don't buy e-books. Go straight to the source of the information, pay more, and get the info that will instantly make you smarter than 99% of marketers.

Zach

I realized what was missing!
It's perfect.

Well ... maybe not quite -- but it did get me thinking...

find some of the ideas in Bryan Kumar's "make 50K between now and Christmas" thread -- and multiply it by 10 (months).

Okay, okay -- I know, some (maybe most) of those methods will be taking advantage of the holidays.

But wait! Christmas isn't the ONLY holiday in the world.

When I took some hebrew lessons, I learned there are something like 4 "new years" in the Jewish calendar.

Well...good luck, Jay!

Write back and let us know how it goes!

Live JoyFully!

Judy

PS -- and I agree with John Rogers. You surely have some source code sitting around.
I know some people who bought some of it for $1500 a pop...

Make a goal to release one product per month! And find great JVs for them. This would be a lot of work. But I think it would work out great with a little JV magic.

Maybe you could come up with an idea to make some sort of app for the iphone and market it.

Jay,

What about something in a different direction? Go offline. Use you considerable expertise and experience to get some large local, and regional business clients. Many of them spend millions of dollars advertising in traditional media, and most also have at least some on-line presence.

Sell them on your firm developing a completely integrated, on-line marketing presence for them, concentrating on list building, local search, and creating a web presence that converts (blog network and static sites). You can outsource much of this for relatively attractive rates. You can get larger initial and recurring fees with these businesses that you can for joe's transmission emporium, although you'll have to have a more professional appearance, presentation, and proposal to land them.

I could probably come up with something better , but I'm watching the SC/UCLA now.