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Find a service that you would enjoy offering, and have a website built around it. Once you start building business up I would invest in your first team member. Personally train them so you can ensure they provide the quality that customers are used to you delivering. Rinse and repeat the process until you have a complete staff.

Next, you can train managers to handle your team, so on and so forth until you have a self sustained business. You can definitely get this started with $500 and build from your first profits.

Aha! Know what would you suggest I do to build buisness and get traffic to my website?

I would start a real business. Something that offers a real service that is in demand.

If you took everything from me... Including my contacts. And gave me just one shot to make.

I would start a micro hosting company around some niche or local area. I would focus on providing some added value that the big companies can't offer.

Focus on just getting 50 happy clients at $10 a month. Then scale up.

I think you need to come from a place where you're asking yourself, "How can I help people in a way that I would enjoy."

A huge shift takes place when your goal is to help people as opposed to just building a business.

All of the sudden, making sales is easy, you like the people you're working with, and you feel good about your work.

For example, I hate Bank of America, so even if there was a good business offering some service to that company, I wouldn't want to. I hope all of their branches go to hell, so how effective would I be working with them?

On the other hand, I love my fellow entertainers and want them to be as successful as I am. As a result, I'm happy to offer them anything I can do to help.

Think about who you really are and the people you want to work with. If these things are incongruous, you won't be happy or successful.

I see. So you guys are basically sugessting I start my own company/ service. Can you show me how to start a hosting company?

The most bang for your buck would be creating your own product and developing a list.
Watch the forums and news, see what areas people are having trouble in, and develop a solution. Even a good ebook can bring you in some cash along with helping you build a list. Most of the people that are making good are the list builders. What is better than having a captive audience to market to?

I am looking for something with more certainty such as selling apps or websites. I have tried selling websites but dont know what kinds of sites to invest in

I'd certainly do something on the offline side...since it's the summer time here, and hotels will be in a huge demand...

I'd be contacting some hotel managers, make a website for them...or like some promo videos...

agz

Ah ok thank you. I am planning on using those cool stylish webicons such as the basket here: Pricing | PR Backlinks
Does anyone know where I can get those kind of images at?

this is an easy answer, thanks! whatever you did to make/get $500, now that you are a "hundredaire", do it again, you will now be a "thousandaire". so....now that you are a thousandaire, keep doing what you did to make/get your $500 and go for being a ten-thousandaire. at $500, you truly do not have enough money to sustain a business, unless you are gifted on the Internet, you would not be asking us if you were. hold onto your money and make/get more doing what you did. if (you likely are) young, put away at least 10% of all the money you make/receive for the rest of your life and you will be wealthy one day. do it automatically too. congratulations on your success so far. before you become a millionaire, you must first become a hundredaire, which you have. now a thousandaire, a ten-thousandaire-a hundred-thousandaire, the rest is wash, rinse, repeat. i have done what i just outlined too. Dr. Mike

Thank you so much for your help. I think thats exactly what im going to do. Thanks once again!

Thank you all so much for being so helpful

I'd invest it into traffic.

make a product..

buy traffic,

see if it converts,

profit

But that is a typical internet marketing strategy and truly I believe too much is left to chance. What if you pay for traffic and get no conversions?

I am interested in creating a android/apple app such as angry birds or somethin of that sort which will become very popular. Can somebody guide me in the right direction?

Are you thinking online or offline??

Im more focused on online

But still is there anyone who can offer me guidance on how to build android/iphone apps and sell them on the app maret??

I will use $100 for make a trial plan with Amazon products
1. Find the keywords, low competition but high income, the products with more than $100, so you will be get more than $6( because 6% commission will be easy to reach)
2. Hire someone do the review content ( with $5 I can find a good writer at Fiverr to write it). Cook this with your skill and Amazon aff. links
3. Buy a .info domain with $1 at Goddady
4. Make a blog with blogger.com, post your content at there and redirect to .info domain
5. Use $50 to hire some one to build links for you, at WF I see a lot of people do it. Do not use service point direct poor links to your money site. With low competition keyword, you need some good high PR links to get on first page on Google.
6. Use the rest for build link to maintain and get more traffic
7. when you reach top 3 spot on Google, you may have about 5-10 sales per month, this mean $30-$60 per month. You can scale it with your $400.
Expense : $5-$10 for content, $1 for domain, $50 for build link, total about $60, if you can build link by yourself, you just pay $11 and get $60 passive income per month

That is an impossible to answer question ... you have given absolutely no indication of your abilities, skills, interests, etc.

All of the answers you are reading above are based on someones own experience which may or may not apply to you.

Thinking outside the box is a great attribute, but you need to start with a box first .

Marvin

Ok I think what I will do is start with one app(outsource). After making some profit from this site I will then promote it and use some money to fund my education on creating apps. Once I have at least two succesful apps and some knowledege I will create a app of my own and focus on promoting that app. After a while (hopefully I would have enough knowledge) I will start an app creation buisness as well as create my own apps that gain revenue. I have a passion for coding and apps and such (like a chef making food) but I must first learn how to do this.

P.S. do you think I should outsource all promotion or learn some of it myself? I have enough basic html and css skill to at least make custom facebook page. Also how would ebooks tie into my apps? Thanks in advance for your help!

Ok, i will invest $500 but please any sample ex.

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What do you like to do and what are you good at? That are the questions I would ask myself.

I would have purchased the keyword research tools like Micro niche Finder and market Samurai

Once you buy your domain and hosting

Get your website up and dont spend a penny before you get nice conversions with free traffic.

If you can get nice conversions with high targeted traffic for FREE, then go all out on media buys, ppv, cpa, solo ad.

That is what we do and works a treat.

If you've not made any money online yet, then going outside of the box may not be the best idea.

Unless you have a killer startup idea, which would require more than $ 500, you better get good at basics before going out of the box.

Ralf

Starting with $500 is already enough to get a good start. Since you already found something that you are interested on doing I am sure that you will find your success soon after working hard on learning the basics of internet marketing strategies.

What are you good at? What do you like? I would follow the tech trends in the news and blogs and eventually you will find something that peaks your interest. There are many emerging markets right now, all you have to do is find something you believe in.

You start with people. Who will you help? What are their needs? How can you help them while making a profit?

Once you know your target community and what you will be selling, then you can start to decide where to advertise.