"My Last $200"

Let me pose a question. What is it that you truly believe you will follow through on? I can tell you from personal experience that I have spent more money and have more information than many, but, none of that matters if I do not find myself connected to the product I bought. Sales copy is great, but, once you dig a little more deeper as to what it will really take to succeed with a product, then it becomes a game changer. Also, when you buy a product you do not know that it will be more money required until you recieve it. Buyer beware.

These are all different money making models within the IM market so in order to answer your question clearly, we would need to know which model you're looking at.

Its really just a hypothetical question as I am looking for different ideas actually that are creative and work well. Maybe I am posing the question incorrectly

Lets say if you only had $200 and were going to make online marketing work what would you do?

1. Keyword Research.
2. Buy a Domain/Hosting.
3. Set Up Website.
4. Promote Website with Article Marketing.
5. Pocket ~$180

Look for the thread that says made $xxx for only $9

Follow the rules. info is for free there.

Later on create a product of yours when you make enough money. Sell it and earn more.

before that read a lot of information provided in this forum.

Spend $37 and become a war room member
[Hey if you create a product remember me for copywriting. It will just cost you $50 or else. I am cheap these days ]

As much as this is going to sound like a smart @ss answer to the question, here is my honest to goodness suggestion on how you should spend your $200 to give you the greatest odds of success.

Sit down for about 30 minutes and determine what your realistic goals are for your business. Maybe it is to make $500 by the end of the month, maybe it is to get 1,000 people on your list with 30 days or maybe it is to get a continuity based income of $250 per month. But make it realistic. Don't say you will get $10,000 in 30 days if you have never made a buck in this business.

Now write down the goal(s) on a piece of paper, put a completion date on it. Drive down to the bank and pull out $200 cash money (dolla dolla bill y'all) and find a friend, family member or colleague you can trust.

Tell them that you are giving them this money for the period of time you have written on the paper and that if you do not complete the task(s) within the time frame that they are to give the money to the charity or their choice. This is important that you not have any control of where the money goes.

Write this down on the piece of paper with the goal(s) on it and both of you sign the document. Let him hold the original paper and you get a copy.

Take a picture of your friend holding the cash while pointing at their watch and put that picture everywhere you work or waste time.

If you happen to be like majority of people, you will buy a product that has all the potential in the world but never really execute it. (janok is spot on!!)

By doing this, at least you inject one of the strongest driving factors of human psychology: loss

We will work harder to keep from losing something that we will to gain something. By leveraging this, you have a much higher likelihood of success just using the tools, skills and knowledge you have right now than you would by gaining a new tool, skill or knowledge with the $200.

Just my 2 cents.

Good Luck,
Scott Voss

Well the best advice I have seen here is if you choose a path in your marketing efforts stick to it all the way. And choose something you enjoy doing.

If I had $200 left, I would spend it on a PPC course. That is, if I was a newbie which I am not.

I do recommend that if you are new to IM and to PPC, then a course would be recommended so that you can master PPC. This will be the best education that you will ever learn.

Tal

Do some niche research and setup a membership site around a niche, low cost, and residual income - The way forward

I have recently decided that even if other ways of doing things have alot more income potential... I will never stick them out.

What I have done is learn to embrace my own way of doing things... and learn to harness its potential, because I can easily do that for the rest of my life.

Pursue your passion and make a big noise, money will come. Focus on making money out of your passion, otherwise you will spend the rest of your business life fighting against your own natural tendencies.

Focus on your strengths and sap their potential.

Is it too late to change my answer?

I think I would spend the $200 on Monster Drinks and Beer. Then pull a 72 hour productivity binge over the holiday weekend and release a 1/2 dozen new products on the market.

Then, I would go to the hospital.

Not so much a course, but what are you passionate about? That may sound silly, but if you do something that you love, you will succeed at it. I first started IM trying to sell IM products etc...., I did okay, but not enough to quit my day job. Once I found my "calling" if you will, I started becoming very successful at all my marketing efforts etc...because I enjoyed doing them. Of course I do IM, but I am in a different niche which makes me happy because I am actually helping people.

Nice one Scott!

Well I am looking at doing some CPA Marketing and Article Marketing As well. I have many articles and 2.0 properties for my phantomtracking product and thats going well.

I have www.loveandbreakupadvice.com which is getting a lot of traffic and 100's of useless comments like "nice blog" but not much in the way of conversions.

Give it to a successful marketer on here. Do it via paypal, and in return, ask them for an hour on the phone. The information they provide to you, will be worth 10 times that.

Brade Gosse
Steven Wags
Alexa Smith

...the list is endless

*Disclaimer - sorry for anyone I may have missed

I would spend that on domain names instead

If you had $200 left I personally wouldn't spend it on courses. I'd spend it on the essentials to get what I want done. You can read plenty you learn on courses free online and on the forums. I find many great materials in the War room which are FREE being sold elsewhere.

So personally I'd save my money and use it to sustain hosting fees, domain purchases, SEO help or what ever you want to do. Also create and draw out a precise and effecitve plan from what oyu learnt

I would spend whatever it costs at the moment to join the warroom read every thread and put the rest up for a rainy day