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Please Critique This Simplistic Hands-Off Strategy

by Calamaroo
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Here is a strategy which I suspect that I may be the thousandth person here to think of:

Step 1. Go to the Warrior Products and Services Forum, then buy one of those ready to go $27 blogs that are advertised at the "Complete Websites for Sale" sub-forum. Then install it in my url.

Step 2. Go to the "Warriors for Hire" sub-forum of the Warrior Products and Services Forum, then 1) outsource "article writing and submissions" to one of the warriors selling their services there, 2) outsource "link wheel creation" to one of the warriors selling their services there. It goes without saying that the article writing/submission and link wheels link back to the $27 ready to go blog that I've already installed on my on url in Step 1.

Step 3. Rinse and repeat.

What are the pros and cons to this strategy?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Lianelli
    Pro's: easy and hands off

    Con's: what's the business model? Putting up fodder for searchengine's isn't a business if you ask me!
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  • Profile picture of the author Pragun
    using it to promote affiliate products ?

    Good strategy
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      • Profile picture of the author Calamaroo
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        If you're thinking of it for affiliate sales, I think it can be a good hands-off strategy as long as you also do all the other necessary things, not mentioned above - such as initial keyword research, choosing an appropriate domain-name, and (the difficult and widely underestimated bit) identifying the appropriate products for which to become an affiliate.
        The keyword research can be outsourced too. And maybe, the actual search phrase that the keyword researcher suggests can be used as the name of the domain? So what do you think of this modified business model?

        Step1. Go to the "Warrior for Hire" sub-forum of the Warrior Products and Services Forum, then pay someone to do the keyword research.

        Step 2. Go to the Warrior Products and Services Forum, then buy one of those ready to go $27 blogs that are advertised at the "Complete Websites for Sale" sub-forum. The blog chosen is consistent with the domain name and niche that have resulted in step 1. Then install the ready made blog in my url/domain name.

        Step 3. Go to the "Warriors for Hire" sub-forum of the Warrior Products and Services Forum, then 1) outsource "article writing and submissions" to one of the warriors selling their services there, 2) outsource "link wheel creation" to one of the warriors selling their services there. It goes without saying that the article writing/submission and link wheels link back to the $27 ready to go blog that I've already installed on my on url in Step 1.

        Step 4. Rinse and repeat.
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        • Profile picture of the author Calamaroo
          "(ii) the people who can make it work consistently enough to develop a real business from it are mostly people whose attitudes and application would probably have made them successful internet marketers whichever business model they'd duplicated;"

          Details?

          Any steps and resources that you can recommend to reach this level of competency?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Holmes
    Good if you want to create a network with minimal effort, bad if you want to create a business.

    You reap what you sow imo.
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    • Profile picture of the author Calamaroo
      Originally Posted by Steve Holmes View Post

      Good if you want to create a network with minimal effort, bad if you want to create a business.

      You reap what you sow imo.
      What I'm trying to get at is how to make the "network" the "business".
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  • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
    This comes dangerously close to the common behavior of
    "obstacle passing" - when a person wants to get a result
    and they don't know how, they ask around to see if anybody
    else will solve their problem for them.

    This isn't of itself a bad thing - it's good to hire specialized
    help.

    But sometimes what happens in IM is a person doesn't have
    a clear business model and strategy in mind - they just want
    to pass everything off to cheap hired help... and then they
    wonder why such an approach isn't making them money.

    Think of success like baking a cake, if you will. You're the
    chef. What are YOU doing to make the cake really special?
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  • Profile picture of the author butters
    The new model which I will be starting soon is basically I do all the start up stuff, eg... research, content, squeeze pages etc... and then just out source traffic, starting with backlinks, once I figure out how to do forum posts for the niche, then them and so on.

    But to the orignal point, it works, obviously... Lots of people are doing it but it depends if you know what your doing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christophe Young
    I think there's a lot of good advice available just from reading this forum. Unfortunately there's also quite a lot of misinformation as well (as will inevitably be the way in a forum with free membership and no "quality control" over the posts - that's not a criticism of the forum at all, simply an observation that that can't be avoided, here or anywhere else), and learning to judge whose information is reliable and correct requires both an investment of time and some judgment too. I spent a long time here, when I first arrived, deciding whose posts to "follow" and then a long time searching for all their previous posts (using the search function) and poring over them. If done systematically, I think it's time very well spent. I think there are also one or two "affiliate marketing guidebooks" that are tremendously useful, covering all or almost all of the details of everything mentioned above (as well as some very bad ones full of misguided approaches and misinformation!).
    Very smart! Took a while for me to figure out who seems to know their stuff and who obviously does not. There are only a handful of people around here who, when I see their post, I'll really pay attention.

    Of course, you really never know for sure. After all, we're just a bunch of handles on an internet forum!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    The only way this works in a reliable and repeatable fashion, IMHO, is if you are very knowledgeable in each of the necessary steps. You can't effectively supervise a team if you only know a little about what they do. If the strategy doesn't work, you can't identify which step of the process is causing the break down.
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