Just had the rather depressing news that I'm being made redundant

I'm afraid to say Internet Marketing is a long term strategy and the only way in which you can succeed is by thinking outside the box and expanding your boundries. Actually think of a strategy that might work and then analyse WHY it might work. The calculation to IM success is really quite simple. For one revenue stream you need a product or service, whether it is an actual product or great content. You need a way to monetize these (if it isn;t a product), traffic and a system / copy to convert visitors into money.

I see lots of people come on here and ask people to tell them how to make money but really it is quite hard to do. There are SO many things that can be done... many of which haven't even been thought of yet.

My advice, look for another source of income whilst you are building your IM business. Even if its part time. Then read, read read. Don;t take everything as gospel but find out what it working for others. Look at who is succeeding with affiliate marketing, bum marketing, product creation, building lists, social media, video marketing, PPC etc.

If you are at this stage now and are expecting to see bucket loads of cash coming in from Adsense etc you may have a very long wait.

I wish you the best of luck and hopefully other people will come on here and give some good pointers. My advice though is to focus on finding a good product, something solid... maybe something new.. and then look at building a business model around that. This way, without a great deal of traffic you can still make some decent money.

I don't know your level of knowledge or experience though so I can't comment too much.

Good luck.

Andy

Sorry to hear that. I will give you some advice on how you can make money online.

From what i read, articles are getting you traffic, its time to scale. Write more articles and submit to article directories, bookmark them and pigg them to get them index fast. Don`t just depend on articles, build backlinks from High PR sites and watch your ranking fly high.

Also if you have a service you can offer like article writing, web designing, let people know about it and you can make some money offering a service.

Don`t depend on one site only. Go ahead and build more in diferent Niches. Put up some adsense on your sites and earn quick buck.

Hope this help.Good Luck

Being made redundant is a nightmare. However grabbing at IM as your saviour is a path to despair.

It is a long term strategy in so many ways, despite the impression people perhaps give when they are trying to sell you something.

What I am saying is, don't waste time doing IM rather than looking for a "real" job. You can get better at IM in your spare time to start with.

I'm sorry to hear about that - happened to me several years ago and it's quite a stunner (or at least was for me)

But, it can kind of be an advantage because now you HAVE to make money. It's not just "extra" money. It should spur you to act while others might not.

Anyway, one thing I wanted to say is that you probably have to write a LOT more articles than you think you do. That's what I found out. So don't just write a couple and then think "this isn't going to work" Keep focused and write hundreds.

The advice above is spot on .... IM is a long term thing. You're probably not going to make a lot right away so one way you could supplement is by writing articles for others. That way you have some money coming in but can still spend your spare time on your own site.

This could be your opportunity to never have to work for someone else again!

Lee