How I made over $7,000 (and still counting) in three weeks with a free Warrior Forum account!

Hello again everyone,

I don't believe I have ever made a post here about my earnings, even though I have been a member of the Warrior Forum for over two years.

I definitely am not making this post to brag, because the money I made over the last three weeks using this forum was really just an experiment. I already make really good money as an internet marketer (my own products, services and affiliate earnings).

I wanted to make this post to show everyone how easy it really is if you take the time to do some work and put a plan together.

I've never released a WSO until recently, so I never had a reason to upgrade my Warrior Forum account. With that being said, I do recommend that people upgrade their forum account to take advantage of all of the "perks" that it has to offer. Also, the earnings I'm talking about in this thread are not as a result of the WSO that I just opened last night.

After you read this thread, many of you will probably ask why I didn't make this information into a WSO.

So, you are probably wondering three questions right now:
1. How did I do it?
2. What did I actually make money doing?
3. How can someone else use this strategy to make a lot of money in a short amount of time?


1 - How did I do it?
One of the primary keys to this plan was writing a very detailed thread on the forum. This thread is the source of the power feeding into your plan.

Even though the thread is the key to making the plan work, you cannot be successful unless you set other things in motion before you write and publish your thread.

First, I will tell you what I did and in part three of this thread, I will tell you what you can do to try it for yourself.

I wrote this thread about finding a new niche market for Amazon products/websites.

I knew that a lot of people would want to know how to do this and I also found there to be a lack of good information on this subject in a single location, especially on the forum.

The real key is to write a good thread that has useful information so people will want to read it, ask you questions and get inspired to try the same thing.


2 - What did I actually make money doing?

Obviously, there are rules on this forum. You can't just write a thread and put advertising, marketing, etc in it and expect to get away with it.

What you can do is put links in your signature. You don't want to point out these links in your thread or replies unless someone asks you a question about it.

I had a multi-part plan to monetize the thread that involved selling one of my own Amazon websites (a really good one actually) and offering some other related services.

That particular website sale was successful, but this is probably not something that most of you will be able to run out and accomplish. I do have a lot of experience with internet marketing and creating websites, so I was able to produce a very good website in a fairly short amount of time. The website was only six weeks old when I sold it and this accounts for almost half of what I made from this experiment in this three week time period.

I was offering a service to do niche keyword research for people and find them a .com domain name that they could register that was an exact search match for a phrase that received decent monthly traffic and was targeting a product niche available on Amazon.

That particular service is actually the very same thing that my thread was about. Even though I already told people how I do it, some people will still want you to do it for them because of your experience and knowledge. This service was a decent seller over the last three weeks and I've still had sales coming in from it. For about two weeks straight (just until a few days ago), I was getting multiple daily sales on the service.

My only mention of providing that service was in a link in my signature, but people did end up commenting within the thread about how great the service was (which resulted in even more sales).

I also offered other Amazon affiliate site related services like site creation, marketing and even one-on-one training. These services have been selling very well and continue to bring in leads. In addition to what I have already made, I have thousands of dollars worth of contracts and training program participants that will be bringing in even more money over the next 3-12 months.

Every single bit of the money that came from this experiment went directly to my paypal account, so none of it was from promoting services/products for others.


3 - How can someone else use this strategy to make a lot of money in a short amount of time?

As I was saying before, this is the reason why I wanted to post this thread. I know a lot of you will be interested in finding out how you can do the same thing that I did.

To get you started, don't try to do the exact same thing I did because it won't be as effective. I do have an advantage because I have been working online for a living for a long time, which gives me a lot of knowledge and experience that I can use sell products/services.

You need to come up with your own plan for a service, product or niche that you have expert knowledge in. Obviously, a complete newbie to internet marketing may have a problem being an expert in anything. Start small if you are completely new. Try to come up with a subject that you have some experience with so you can talk about and also offer services that relate to it.

Come up with a "niche thread" idea to center your plan around. You want to be able to write about a subject that you have a lot of knowledge about and then offer some services or products in your forum signature that relate to your thread topic/niche.

Put a lot of time and effort into your thread - the longer, the better (in most cases). Give your readers as much information as you can. If you are trying to sell a service that the thread will teach the reader how to do, you may want to save some of your best kept secrets for yourself. However, you do want to give them enough information to be able to accomplish the task on their own.

Not everybody has available money to spend on products and services. Even if you do not get a sale from someone with your thread, you are building your own name and increase your chances of making a sale from those people down the road.

It's also important to price your services and products correctly. If you can, try to get a few people to give you an opinion about what they think your service is worth or what they would be willing to pay. However, you do want to offer your services and products at an affordable price or else you may never get a sale. It's much better to get 50 sales on a $30 service than it is to get 2 sales on a $100 service.

You also want to make sure that any work you will have to do will be worth your time. Don't sell a service for $5 just because a ton of people will buy it at that price even though it takes you two hours to do the work. Every situation will be different when it comes to pricing, so you will have to use your best judgment when it comes to this subject.

You can try to build your own website and then sell it, but I wouldn't recommend this unless you are very confident in your skills.

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT try to sell a crappy website to someone or your entire plan could tank. If you want to make this a part of your plan, put a lot of time and effort into making a good website with unique content. Market the website to get it's search engine rankings as high as possible.

If you can show a top ten or even a #1 Google ranking for your primary keyword phrase and possibly even some sales figures, it will be a lot easier to succeed. Do not try to rush this process before your site is ready. I know many people are in a situation where they need immediate money, but this is not something that you are going to succeed at overnight.

Ultimately, the key here is to come up with a product, website or service that you can sell that is extremely relational to the subject matter of your thread. Draw them in with your great content and they will do the rest for you. This one of the biggest "secrets" to being successful on the internet.

It seems like everyday, I see a new plugin, service or piece of software that is designed to create pages, articles or even entire websites with the click of a button. If you like to work this way, this plan is not for you. You need to be able to come up with some original, useful content to be successful. I not only apply this philosophy to thread writing but also to website creation in general. I know it is appealing to think that you can make a lot of money without doing any work (even the work to get the easy money started), but it just doesn't work that way in the real world. Take it from someone who has been making a living online for over 15 years - unique content sells.

I wanted emphasize that point because I know people will read my thread and run out to copy information from a website they found on Google and then plop it into a thread think they will make money. This isn't going to work, so don't try it. Take a few days or even a few weeks to put together a plan and a thread that will actually succeed.

Make sure you subscribe to your own thread so you can return to it often to answer questions that people ask you. Timely, friendly and helpful responses will help you convert your readers into buyers. I looked back over my previous thread and at least 50% of the money I made came from someone who posted on the thread that I replied to.

Provide people with useful information in a professional manner and everything else should fall into place. I see so many people that put a ton of work into their services and products, but some of these same people will not take the time to try to help others because they think it will cause them to "lose business".

Almost everybody has something to sell these days, so you have to set yourself apart from everyone else if you want to be noticed. I hope some of you will be able to use this thread as an inspiration to start working hard to put a plan into action that will be successful for you. I know that if you consider some of the things that I have said, that you will at least have a good start.

To Your Success!
Ryan