I'm desperate and Need help asap no bs sales pitches plz

Have you seen this thread? http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...desperate.html

The fastest way to earn cash is to exchange your time and skills for money. Write down everything you know how to do - online and offline - without regard to how you'd make money from it. Go back through the list and look for ways to monetize your skills. Pick your top 5-10 and talk them over with someone with business-sense, or at least common sense. Take your top 2-3 and write up a 1 page business/project plan that details what you'll do and how much you expect to earn. Implement your plan and evaluate the results daily. If it doesn't work, adjust your plan or move on.

Most affiliate programs are not going to put cash in your pocket in time to pay your rent. In my opinion if you don't have enough to pay rent then you don't have enough to invest in WSOs or a site that may or may not be making money.

I recommend Put More Cash in Your Pocket: Turn What You Know into Dough by Loral Langemeier.

It's a short book and you could probably get through it, or get the main points thumbing through it in the bookstore.

I would recommend Incansoft's software for your press releases. They have sales on their products during many Holiday seasons and sell their software very cheaply. However, the quality is very good.

Steve

Danielle and Amy Brown said it right there.

go to elance, freelancer, v worker, o desk... any one or more of these places depending on what kind of skills you have.
You need cash right now and selling your time will do it for you. Once you have cash coming in, you could dedicate a certain number of hours a day to your affiliate marketing after you have completed commitments to your clients. If the work you do is related like writing articles, then you would also be polishing yourself while generating the cash you need.

If you don't have IM skills, you can also go to craigslist and look at the gigs... They have everything from manual labor to specific skill jobs available on a cash pay basis.

Here are two warnings about Clickbank that people often miss at first:

If you aren't promoting Clickbank products heavily, it will probably take quite a bit longer to meet that criteria than you might think. Especially if you're promoting stuff that appeals to the crowd that hangs out in the Warrior Forum, because a high percentage of those folks will use PayPal.


This is where Clickbank really makes out. If you give up before you meet the previously mentioned criteria, Clickbank will slowly subtract your earnings from your account balance.

If you're looking for quick money, Clickbank is not the place to get it.

John

As John pointed out, CB (and really any affiliate network you don't have a prior relationship with) is a really bad way to earn "quick cash" in that you won't get it until you pass their initial stipulations and have gotten a couple of paper checks behind you so that you can get on weeklies.

Paypal and even Google Checkout plus your own skillset are the best way to go to get the fastest cash possible (other than, as Kevin pointed out, doing something for someone local and getting cash).

You want it straight? With your time frame, you're going to have to get your hands dirty.

By that, I mean you may end up doing things that aren't fun, aren't cool, aren't necessarily online. But you know what is cool? Paying the rent without having to beg your landlord for more time.

I'm not sure where you are in Rhode Island - city or rural. If you're in the city, look for day labor agencies; many of them pay by the day or a check at the end of the week. The work will suck, but it will pay.

Look for cash gigs on Craigslist, and don't be proud or fussy. The money you make shoveling snow or putting up/taking down Christmas lights spends the same as what you make peddling Clickbank products, except you get to spend it faster.

Unless you have a track record, writing articles for $15 each might be unreasonable, but writing articles for $5 is probably doable. By the time you finish writing the 487th article on genital warts, you might want to bash your head against the wall, but keep your eyes on the prize. The same goes for things like blog commenting, building backlinks, bookmarking or any other drudge work people are happy to outsource.

Your first priority is keeping a roof over your head and food on the table. For the short term, you do what you have to do. Remember, it's not forever. "This too shall pass..."

Once the crisis has passed, you can start working on a better tomorrow...

Is that straight enough for you?

Not very impressed with Clickbank and affiliate marketing. Commissions are too small and the amount of work required to make a big income. In my humble opinion, learn Internet Marketing at an expert level. Then find 3 to 5 local businesses to pay you to manage their marketing needs. Its so much easier to rank a local business than to get enough web traffic to make a clickbank sale.

If buying a business is what you want to do, then you should not just rely on what you see at an auction listing. PM the seller and ask for a telephone number. You can then start your real due diligence. If the seller is unwilling to give you a telephone number, then he is not serious about selling his business. No real businessman would buy a business without speaking to the owner first and doing his research.

Hi,

Rome was not buidt in one day, neither is online marketing.

But the possibility to build a business with 6-7 figure income is not only a dream, it is reality.

This might not help you at the moment, but don't discourage keep going.

To your success

Borgny

Ummm, how are you going to buy a site if you don't have money to pay rent?

Use what you have, make what you want.

Outsource your skills to others and doing so will help you. This is exactly how I started. I wrote articles and did images until I was able to begin IM like I wanted.

Some good advice in this thread.

Incansoft.com has all the softwares you need for IM and its from a fellow warrior

The pressbot is nice. Have a look

Thank you.

back to the point if your starting from zero the only way to get traffic is by building backlinks the only way you are going to get paid is figure out what sells and duplicating the process.

If you are getting a lot of traffic for your keywords maybe try optimizing the page every 400 - 1k visits or so until you find one that converts works. (copying a successful sales model never hurt anyone .... much)

maybe change the words you are targeting for words with a higher commercial intent?

Danielle i respectful disagree with what you said. This guy is just starting out so i doubt that he will be able to get enough clients. I don't know about you but i won't hire a new writer when i already have one or when there are already other people on the forum who have a page-full of testimonials backing them up and are doing the same job for the same price.

If I were in his shoes, i would find a job FIRST and then look up to the Internet to supplement my income because Internet is not a "quick money without a reputation and a clue of what to do" place even though it is presented like this on many sales letters.

To the OP: Why don't you find a job first and then get a payday loan or something and then pay that off later with the money you are already making from your job while you are trying things online. I know certain payday loan companies that give put loans if you have a car paid off or sine thing like that.

I know it doesn't sound amazing but hey i don't care how you put it, Internet is not a quick money business. Is it possible to make thousands of dollars in a matter of days? Absolutely. But it is just too unpredictable to rely on to pay off your bills when you are just starting out and you don't know what to do. Is it possible to make $20 million by tomorrow? Heck yeah, ever heard of Power ball?

But how much of a shot you have at winning the power ball by tomorrow?

Tough times call for tough measures. Keep that in mind and you should be ok

It's easy to create writing samples and clips if you're so inclined. Write 5-10 samples in exchange for testimonials and/or offer free articles to respected publishers. I won my first few $1/word article assignments ($1000+ per article) by showing publishers articles I'd published for free online. Whether you're inclined enough or not is a whole other story

On affiliate marketing: don't forget there's a pay period lag time there too. Even if you earn $1000 at ClickBank over the next 2 days, you won't have that money in your bank account till the 22nd. If you get paper checks still, the cash to hand process is even longer. Other affiliate networks take even longer to deliver your earnings, and this is part of the cash flow planning process new affiliate marketers seem to miss regularly. Earning it today does not make it spendable today.

Best bets for fast cash are jobs that pay tips or daily wages, selling assets, selling household stuff and selling services like in Warriors for Hire. If you're good at generating targeted traffic you could also try selling instant commission affiliate products.

I see in here that he has
a.) made a clickbank sale
b.) written and distributed press releases

This tells me he can in fact, write. (I don't consider that starting from zero.) How well, I can't ascertain without seeing the writing and looking at the conversion stats, but he can obviously write a press release. If I saw a sample and thought it was good, I would hire him to do mine.

I will hire someone with article and press release samples even if they don't have a bunch of testimonials.

I have been hired without those testimonials and with merely my portfolio to show.

Is my solution the best solution for him? Who knows
Is graphics better suited to him? Maybe

My point is, if you have skills, you can leverage them for fast money.

Should he get a job too? Probably.
Can he do other stuff that pays cash daily? Sure.

What would I do? EVERYTHING I POSSIBLY COULD.


-Dani

To the op..sorry to hear about this..it is extremely unfortunate..ill tell you my story then ill tell you what you should do.. in my opinion..

i did 4 years in the united states airforce and then i decided to get out because i thought i would be making enough with IM..haha FAIl.

I wasn't making anything man i sucked...and to make matters worse i am a 5 year old single father of two boys so i needed money not now, not yesterday but like last year.

well after 2 months of IM not popping off the way i wanted to i went to get a job working for Jenny Craigs, lol i figured it was easy enough.

then i would work on IM after work. then after 2 months, i finally crACKED THE CODE (KEEP IN MIND I HAD BEEN TRYING OFF AND ON FOR LIKE 2 YEARS HAHA) oops sorry for the caps i dont feel like deleting.

then is started making $$$$ per month and i quit jenny and worked the clickbank market full time.

anyway my point is the internet is no place to get money quick..its just another form of a business..and no business gets money quick..a matter of fact most businesses have to "work out of the red" before the turn a profit.

But you can get money ...and alot of it..it just takes time.

if i was you i would go get a job and then when you are off focus all of your time, on IM..

like i said im a single father of 2 boys..two BAAAAAAAADDDDD boys at that..if i can find he time to make it work anybody can.

yes sometimes i had to let sesame street babysit the kids, but hey now my kids are in private daycare..yeah thats right...private daycare...and we are going on our first EVER vacation...

just plan, focus and take action the money will come your way..I dont doubt it one bit!

If you really need fast money and with the holidays approaching. I would say... sell some website designs. I had my back against the wall. So instead of trying to do clickbank and CPA.... I just went straight to offline marketing. There is a whole forum dedicated to it here.

I had no job, No money, and no income. I sold my blackberry to get a few things... and 3 days later I had $1600 in my pocket. Since then.... I haven't made less than that in any weekly period.

You can do what you want. But if you need a fast cash injection... I would look into offline marketing. Especially the cold calling aspect of it. Mix the old with the new.

It's been working for centuries. So why wouldn't it work now?

I just share my own experience here. No conjecture. No opinions... Just my experience.

People may disagree. And that is OK. Becuase I have money in the bank and not worried about coverting a $50 sale when I convert $500 sales instantly. And I don't have to wait until the end of the month to get paid.

Whatever works for you man... I wish you the best.

Hmmmmmm.... the holidays are already so near, so I don't know if you will be able to make a lot of money before the holidays. But you can start working now and start seeing more cash in a few short months.

I think you should not ignore long tail keywords which have a low monthly search count in your niche. I have discovered that writing articles for low search volume keywords brings me lots of good targeted traffic which converts into sales.

For example, having about 50 articles out there which bring in very targeted traffic of about 100 people every month, usually brings in some good sales for me.

Firstly, you need to get out of your affiliate marketing mindset. We're already in the first week of December and I'd say it's next to impossible to actually have any cash from that IN your bank before the holidays. I know you've probably been lured by all the various IM products out there claiming that it is easy to earn money literally overnight with affiliate marketing, but this is simply not true in the majority of cases.

If you're still set on making money online, you have to take a different approach. Offer your services such as article writing (and even press releases, since you say you've been doing that) here in the warrior forum and elsewhere, as mentioned by the other posters. You'll have to get your hands dirty and really hustle to get enough business to make the rent, but no one ever said that this was going to be easy.

If you're technically inclined, you should also offer services like blog set up and backlinking to the online community here and in other forums, as well as the freelance sites. If you're really ambitious and are willing to step outside of your comfort zone, then you can make larger amounts of cash very quickly by approaching offline businesses and offer to set up websites for them, either through cold calling or visiting in person. You're probably going to feel very uncomfortable and encounter a lot of rejection doing this, but you have got to do what is required to get that cash, especially if your circumstances are as dire as you say they are. Forget about doing affiliate marketing and taking the easy way out, this is not even an option if you need to make money quickly that you can actually spend before the end of the year.

Paul

I recommend the service idea like someone else posted above or just getting a job to hold you over if you can.

Go to Craiglist and go to Car category and find a list of people who sell Expensive car.
Talk to them, that you can make a website talking about the car. So it will look professional and trustworthy.

You can also do this on other Classified Ads.

The keyword is :
1. Expensive item
2. Look profesional

Buy a .info domain ($2 + on godaddy), and try hostgator ($0.01 for 30 days).

Do this also for Expensive house and real estate.

PS : Rich people don't mind to pay you for $7 or $17 or $37 , if that can gain more money to them.

We never fail to see desperate threads like this one every year, right around the holidays. IM is not a magic bullet that will magically rescue you from your desperate situation, especially if you have made very little money (or none at all) with IM before this.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble here, but IM is not a get rich quick scheme that will magically start putting cash into your bank account overnight. It just isn't. Spend enough time around here and implement what you learn, and you can definitely earn a very nice living with IM. But this comes through learning, experience and implementation over time. I can honestly say that I've never come across anyone who suddenly made it big overnight in IM, just on a whim. There was a lot of learning and trial and error before the 'overnight' success occurred in all the cases that I've examined so far, so please pull your head out of the sand and be realistic about what you want to achieve in the space of these few weeks.

Paul

You're asking about buying a website thats making money or software to automate the PR process. First up, use that money to pay the rent, or at least part of it.

Sorry to sound rude but the fact you want to just buy a site that makes you money or buy software to automate a process sounds to me like you don't actually want to work every hour you have to get out of this situation.

I can assure you, if you are faced with becoming homeless as a result of this situation you will work, in any way, every hour you're not asleep.

It's the 6th of December. The OP has made one clickbank sale. Whats wrong with getting a job and creating your online business around it? That way the rent will be paid...just in case you don't just go from one CB sale to covering the rent in about 18 days (You can at least tell the Landlord you have the money coming as well)

If yourself don't accept IM skills,you can as well go to craigslist and look at the gigs thicket have everything from manual labor to particular skill jobs average on a cash pay basis.

One of the biggest issues with online business is the newbie assumption, and the desperate persons assumption that it is a quick fix. Just throw up a site or some articles and make instant money. Thing is, even if you do, you can't just take it straight out of clickbank anyway!

My advice, is to go down to your local supermarket, burger bars, everywhere and get a Just Over Broke. It will pay the rent while you learn, lose your desperation and get a sense of perspective.

desperate people make rich people laugh to the bank

Hello, tgfilegal23...

I happened upon your post and I hope this will help...

I want to tell you a story about when I was attending a seminar for actors who are just getting started in their careers (yes, I'm an aspiring actor). We had a talent agent come talk to us, and one of the things she emphasized to us as we're just starting out is this: "Don't quit your day job just yet... whatever your current job may be.". The reason? If you quit your job too soon, thinking acting will now be your full-time job (which is extremely difficult here in Chicago, IL), and then you go weeks (or months) without a steady gig, you become desperate. Casting directors and talent agents are unlikely to hire (or cast) someone who is desperate (or who even looks desperate). You will have a much greater chance of getting represented by an agent (or getting cast by a director) if you're confident and, even more so, if you have something (quality or skill) you can offer them.

This is not just true in acting, but also in finding a job (or any business endeavor). You can't just walk into a job interview and tell the interviewer you're desperate and you can't go to a potential customer and tell them how you're "desperate" for their business. Money is value, and value is exchanged for value. It is not exchanged for desperation (which really has no value). Even if you are desperate, you can't appear that way.

That being said, I want to talk about what value exactly is. Yes... having an expertise and using it to provide a service such as writing is one example, but value is determined by not just what you know. It's also...

1. Who you know.
2. What you have.

Who you know. Do you know anyone who has a skill or who is an expert at something? As an actor, for instance, I know people who are experts at improv comedy - or at least that's what they keep telling me (I think almost all my friends are improv comedians) - dancing and music. If you do know someone, do they teach? If they do, surely they need students. Perhaps you could offer to help them market and find students (not just online, but in your local area as well), act as a "middle man" and take a small percentage (that's kinda what talent agents in the acting industry do). You mentioned you've written press releases. Maybe you can write press releases for your friends, perhaps get them set up with a website. Same thing with local businesses in your area. I'm sure there are businesses that need press coverage. If you frequent those businesses, you can use the relationship you've built with them to let them know your skills and what you do. Let them know how valuable your skills can be to them. I've heard it said to me before: people do business with those whom they "know, like and trust". Hopefully, your friends (and businesses you frequent) know, like and trust you enough to allow you to help them.

What you have. Do you have anything of value in your apartment you don't need that perhaps other people find valuable? Again, going back to me: I have some old sports card collections that includes a Shaquille O'Neal rookie card and a Brett Farve rookie card. I used to be a big sports card collector, but not anymore. I also have some old comic books which I don't really read anymore. If it gets to the point where I need some money fast, I could sell them to a local comic book/sports card collector for some fast cash. Perhaps you have some old, valuable antiques you could sell to a local dealer.

Lastly, I want to talk about the subject of skill and being an "expert". Most people feel you need to PhD level knowledge and be highly published in order to qualify as an expert, and that definitely can be the case. I actually know of a dance teacher here in Chicago that charges upwards of around $400 for one hour of instruction (that's not including rental space). Of course, he also is an award winning choreographer and has his own dance company and gets tons of media coverage. However, going back to the saying "in the land of the blind, the guy with one eye is king", even if you're not at that level of skill... any level of knowledge you have is valuable. The two dance instructors I had charged between $30 to $60 per lesson and they were both fantastic! Not everyone can afford a $400/hr dance instructor, but many can afford $30 to $60/hr. and that's who these two dance instructors are targeting. Even if you feel your knowledge is not at the $400/hr level, is it perhaps worth $30/hr? How about $10/hour? This is very similar to the comments posted above about how maybe you're not up to charging $15/article, but how about $5 per article?

I used to have a friend teach me chess for about $10 a lesson. He definitely wasn't a grandmaster. I think he just learned from playing with friends and maybe reading books. Regardless, his knowledge was worth something. Going back to the dance teacher... I'm sure way before he charged $400/hour, he was charging $30/hour!

Also, I was reading posts and a few people were mentioning Craigs List. Another way I heard people were using Craigs List is connecting buyers with sellers. They would find people looking to buy things, then find someone else looking to sell something that person wanted to buy. They would then connect these buyers and sellers for a fee and act as a "middle man" (much like the example above).

I apologize for the long post, but I hope you find this helpful.

P.S.: You mentioned you know how to write press releases. Perhaps you could write a small guide or report on how to write press releases and sell it.