I finally know what I am going to do, but now I do not know how to do it!?

aweber.com for #1 and #2, paypal for #3.

As for the rest, really don't overwhelm yourself if you've never set up something like that. Make money with your funnel from #1-3 first, then specialize, create up/downsells and other venues for your funnel. Build the mainstreet first and optimize it to be profitable, then add as many sidestreets as you want.

Trust me, if you want to tackle everything at once what you've written about in OP, you'll get stuck several times, disappointed, quit, looking for the next big thing.

Your brief time here has not left anybody questioning your ability to do that, Tom. Even with some of your less successful online activities, you've always been willing to take action and "get stuff done", and I commend you on it, and it will always stand you in good stead. You're not someone we worry about on those grounds.

You're more than adequate. You're better than me at that, and I make a living.

I'm not qualified to advise you on practical/technical details of anything you've mentioned (except that I certainly agree Aweber would be highly suitable for you), but of course loads of others here are. I'm just posting to say I think it all looks a good plan and to wish you well with it.

1. A "squeeze page". Sometimes people talk about this as something of mythical proportions. Hey, it's just a plain, simple, regular HTML file (as any web page) where yuo insert the optin form that you received from your AR (autoresponder) provider, like aweber...

2. That would be the page where the subscribers arrive either:
- after submitting the form
or
- after clicking on the confirmation link in the first email

3. Sales page is a sales page. No matter whether you use video or text on it.

EVERYTHING up till here is basic HTML page creation. You can do it with a wysiwyg html editor or you can outsource it for a few dollars...

From the second sentence in #3... things get more compliacted!

Most payment processors do NOT have a built-in "upsell" feature, so YOU have to organize the flow of your 'funnel' to get them to up/downsell pages.

Some of the next steps are not clear, for me at least. I am wondering if they are clearly outlined in your head...

And just a note: if after I paid for my purchase and you force me to fill out some crappy CPA thing before I get my product that I paid for - I will ask immediately for a refund and will complain at your payment processor (to close your account). Just saying - and I am not the only one thinking like that!

While it's good to have an overall plan or vision for how you'd like things to play out, the reality is that these plans will almost always change as you go along, especially if you have no experience doing whatever it is that you're planning to do. Personally, I would test the niches on a small scale first before setting up all of the backend sales routes. You're going to run yourself ragged trying to set up the entire, "finished" system before you even get your first subscriber, and then you could discover that the niche is a dud.

So, set up a few landing/squeeze pages for your niches, and then focus on getting quick traffic from non-search-engine sources (because it takes time to get ranked, and you're going to have a hard time ranking a squeeze page unless it's a non-competitive keyword or there's a lot of other SEO'd content on the page, which defeats the purpose of a squeeze page). See how it goes, and if you think the niche is a winner by your standards, then work on setting up SEO'd Web properties that are meant to drive traffic to your squeeze pages. These could be blogs, static HTML sites, Web 2.0 pages, press releases, wikis, etc. Of course, you need to drive traffic to these other satellite properties, too.

Another way to do it is to get the traffic first, and then work on list building and monetization (this is my preferred way of testing niches). You seem really keen on doing SEO, so what you could do is set up a content-rich blog for each niche, get the blog posts ranked, and then see how much traffic you actually get for the keywords that you've chosen. (Keyword tools are not always accurate, so you may find that a keyword that supposedly gets a lot of searches ends up producing very little traffic, even if you're ranked #1. You could test keywords via AdWords before doing SEO if you are so inclined, but that's quite a bit of work and could exceed your budget of $200-$300. There's a way to do it very inexpensively with AdWords, whereby you purposely bid just high enough to show up on the first page so that you can track impressions [number of impressions is a better indicator of the actual number of searches] for each keyword while getting few or no clicks, but the amount of preparation you'd need to do to set that up would be about the same as for SEO, so you may as well just do it the "free" way.)

Good luck.

Thanks for the info and thanks Alexa from earlier, I am currently creating my squeeze page.

I just realized in your thread title you gave a very essential description of the whole IM stuff
One of the very well-known marketers in this forum has been quoted as saying this:
Give them for free the WHAT and sell them the HOW! - or something like that... hope you got the idea

Look at what the competitors in your niche are using.

Speak to the site owner and ask them how they created the site? If they outsourced it who did they use? Competition is good for most niches, tell the site owner that you will add a banner for their product inside your members area in return for this info.

In terms of payment I recently used digiresults and getting the paypal button online was just a case of linking the button to a url. Now that I've made sales I'm listed in their marketplace and hopefully this will help me get affiliates to promote as you can give away direct 100% commission.

Create a unique information product and promote it using SEO and other established methods. Have a plan and stick to it! Nothing is as important as having a plan (any reasonable plan) and sticking to it.