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I am totally depressed now after having my hopes been shot like a bird in flight gunned down by a hunter. I was hunted and now wounded by a fellow warrior. I contacted a Warrior member who said he s willing to mentor me if only I was serious. Now I know I am serious about making money I am trying everything I read. He sent me to a site to sign up for the "money making report" for $50. he said that if I got accepted I would be sent an email within a few hours. Now this morning I got the email I was hoping for only to be directed to another website asking me to Pay some $3000+ to join a something that makes money. Now for some of you in here $3000 may be a night at the bar but for me that represents over 3 times my monthly salary. If I made $3000 per month online I could easily retire in my favourite country in central america, Panama and live like a royal prince. I feel like the wind has been knocked out o my sail. I cannot make money because I do not have the money to make the money? Damn I must be in a bad state. Is there anyone who can give me some free advice to make some serious cash without it costing me a pair of kidneys?
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  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    Have you considered the website in your sig?

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  • Profile picture of the author Kim Standerline
    You know Digimix, I can honestly say I've never spent $3000 in a bar in one single night (though John Taylor probably has)

    So what about the mentoring course in your sig, is that not helping you out much

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    Just read your reply to John

    Do you not see the irony of what you're doing. You're promoting something that you say you're receiving when your not.

    Regards
    Kim

    Originally Posted by digimix View Post

    I am totally depressed now after having my hopes been shot like a bird in flight gunned down by a hunter. I was hunted and now wounded by a fellow warrior. I contacted a Warrior member who said he s willing to mentor me if only I was serious. Now I know I am serious about making money I am trying everything I read. He sent me to a site to sign up for the "money making report" for $50. he said that if I got accepted I would be sent an email within a few hours. Now this morning I got the email I was hoping for only to be directed to another website asking me to Pay some $3000+ to join a something that makes money. Now for some of you in here $3000 may be a night at the bar but for me that represents over 3 times my monthly salary. If I made $3000 per month online I could easily retire in my favourite country in central america, Panama and live like a royal prince. I feel like the wind has been knocked out o my sail. I cannot make money because I do not have the money to make the money? Damn I must be in a bad state. Is there anyone who can give me some free advice to make some serious cash without it costing me a pair of kidneys?
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        • Profile picture of the author ebooks4u
          Why don't you start with something that you have a real passion for, like a hobby you love and know a lot about?

          Create an Info-Product (ebook, ecourse) about the subject of your interest, and then design a simple website around it.

          From there, offer a free article/report to your website visitors, and build an email list, so you can follow up on your subscribers with great tips and information.

          Make people feel comfortable with you, make them trust you.

          And one final (huge) tip; stay as far away from MLM programs as you can!!!! :-)
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          • Profile picture of the author digimix
            I have that already but I don't know if you all are interested in fixing your marriage. All people in here talk about is making money.



            Originally Posted by ebooks4u View Post

            Why don't you start with something that you have a real passion for, like a hobby you love and know a lot about?

            Create an Info-Product (ebook, ecourse) about the subject of your interest, and then design a simple website around it.

            From there, offer a free article/report to your website visitors, and build an email list, so you can follow up on your subscribers with great tips and information.

            Make people feel comfortable with you, make them trust tou.

            And one final (huge) tip; stay as far away from MLM programs as you can!!!! :-)
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            • Profile picture of the author ebooks4u
              Fixing a marriage is a big niche market. I know a guy who makes 1000's selling Ebooks online on that subject.
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              • Profile picture of the author Kim Standerline
                Yeah I was just thinkin the same thing

                Instead of hopping to something else Digimax, why don't you work on the product you already have

                What I'd do if I was you, is start a new thread and ask people to critique it for you, I bet they come up with a lot of good ideas

                Originally Posted by ebooks4u View Post

                Fixing a marriage is a big niche market. I know a guy who makes 1000's selling Ebooks online on that subject.
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                • Profile picture of the author digimix
                  Thanks, I was almost giving up here as the traffic has been low from article marketing (average 10-20) daily and the sales are little to nothing.
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                • Profile picture of the author digimix
                  I know I have an excellent product just cant get people to buy
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                • Profile picture of the author ExRat
                  Hi Digimix,

                  I cannot make money because I do not have the money to make the money?
                  I presume the person who offered to 'mentor' you was just stitching you up to get a commission on the $3K?

                  Here's what I think you should do. Forget about paying to get further ahead if you can't afford it.

                  Instead, get yourself on a mission to self-educate. Turn yourself into a sponge that soaks up any valuable information you can find. Firstly, there is this forum.

                  Secondly, you need to learn by trial and error. It only has to cost time. There are tons of free sites out there where you can add content and make some money, but more importantly you can learn first hand what happens when you put good information out there and then promote it (EG backlinks.)

                  For example, hubpages let's you add amazon, ebay or adsense. Blogger blogs are good for adsense too.

                  If you don't want to go that route (content and advertising) then create more info product sales sites like your marriage one, or promote that one hard. Study the competition, their ranking and their backlinks, their advertising methods etc. Try them out on your site.

                  Spending a little money on offline books isn't a bad idea to get your mindset right - you can buy them cheaply second hand from amazon or play.com.

                  Above all, you need to get fired up to meet your goals yourself. If you set down the path looking for someone else to guide you, as you have found out it can be soul destroying as many will only guide you to where it suits them.

                  Take responsibility for your own situation, and get yourself educated and get yourself moving forwards. That way, no-one can take the wind from your sails.

                  HTH

                  PS I noticed that right near the start of your salespage you mention that you and your partner are Christians. Are you specifically targetting that sector? If not, I would consider removing it. I don't want to get into flame wars or anything, but if you are aiming to appeal to as broad a market as possible, then you may be putting non-Christians and non-religious people off by mentioning it.
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                      • Profile picture of the author ExRat
                        Hi Digimix,

                        I don't want to get on your case, but you seem to have forgotten my advice already mate -

                        The only thing left is to beg my friends to pitty me for a few dollars
                        My advice -

                        Above all, you need to get fired up to meet your goals yourself. If you set down the path looking for someone else to guide you, as you have found out it can be soul destroying as many will only guide you to where it suits them.

                        Take responsibility for your own situation, and get yourself educated and get yourself moving forwards. That way, no-one can take the wind from your sails.
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                        • Profile picture of the author oboi2121
                          Hello Omari Taylor here,

                          A good idea for you to make some money is market affiliate products if your product is not selling and you don't have a lot of money. If you purchased a marketing course that you like, most likely others will like it too. See if you can become a affiliate a make money from selling there product.

                          Some affiliate programs also has emails already set to follow up with leads that you send. And if your lead end up purchasing later you get the commission.
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      • Profile picture of the author digimix
        Got you. Now back to the real problem. How can I really make money on the internet?
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        • Profile picture of the author Kim Standerline
          Digimix

          Have a read through all of the threads here in the forum for some ideas, (I can see some good ones just on the first page)

          Take some notes down, decide in what direction you want to go, (Look at your strengths and weaknesses) and go from there

          If you're looking for a get rich quick scheme, it just aint gonna happen, you're going to have to work at it

          If you had read the rules before joining, you would know affiliate links are not allowed in your sig

          Originally Posted by digimix View Post

          Got you. Now back to the real problem. How can I really make money on the internet?
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      • Profile picture of the author JamesEcho1
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        • Profile picture of the author digimix
          James, I do plan to get affiliates. However it is my understanding that I need to first formulate a package for the affiliate with all the keywords and ads that produce the best results. I do not know yet what works as I am not getting sales. I can't ask someone to promote my product if I do not know if it sells and what sells it.


          Originally Posted by JamesEcho1 View Post

          Try getting affiliates to help you sell the product via paydotcom. An alternative is that you go and write articles and loads of them
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          • Profile picture of the author SamLewi
            How about clickbank or another affiliate network?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexandre Valois
    You're not going to make any friends here promoting other people's products/coaching .... especially when you haven't even tried them yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
    Not only that, but you're also spamming YET another MMM aff link..
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  • Profile picture of the author digimix
    I do not understand this spam concept. If I put a link on my sig it is spam? I see it everywhere on this forum. What gives?
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  • Profile picture of the author digimix
    Ok look at my sig now. Is it ok by this forum's standards. This is my own product and website if you check the about us page you see my wife and myself
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  • Profile picture of the author digimix
    One sale in 3 months. That is part of the source for my depression
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Killian
    That would be the big question, if you say your traffic is low... what have you done to increase traffic? You mention article marketing, how many have you submitted and to how many directories. Have you done social book marketing? SEO? I am no expert on your niche, but seems it could be a ripe one for social book marking, such as writing up small articles or posts that would get read.

    The other question would be, do you test your salesletter? Maybe the reason you haven't made many sales is because your copy is not converting well?

    Maybe you could start a blog, either new domain, or a sub directory of your products domain. Regular posts with SEO on a blog will also bring in traffic, and you could do some pre-selling, pushing every one to your product, or list.

    Just a few thoughts.
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    • Profile picture of the author digimix
      About 3 articles per day to ezinearticles.com, articlebace.com a little on squidoo, a youtube video, a group on facebook, a blog loving marriages.blogspot.com. The only thing left is to beg my friends to pitty me for a few dollars

      Originally Posted by Ron Killian View Post

      ...what have you done to increase traffic?

      ....
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      • Profile picture of the author Amitywill
        Originally Posted by digimix View Post

        The only thing left is to beg my friends to pitty me for a few dollars
        How about getting a job? I would never try and get people to pity me in the hope of getting money.

        When I first started out in IM I was working a job as a lobourer all day and then when I got home I would write at least 20 articles before I went to bed everyday to help build my business.

        Try reading through the forum and learning and then actually put a bit of hard work in.

        Will
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        • Profile picture of the author digimix
          There is no need to be disrespecting me here. i do have a very hectic 9 to 5 job. It doesnt pay much but then again most jobs here in Jamaica do not either. And yes i do write articles daily as well as manage a little business on the side as well as do extra jobs so thanks for your input.
          I have heen trying to keep up with all the posts made here on making money online


          Originally Posted by Amitywill View Post

          How about getting a job? I would never try and get people to pity me in the hope of getting money.

          When I first started out in IM I was working a job as a lobourer all day and then when I got home I would write at least 20 articles before I went to bed everyday to help build my business.

          Try reading through the forum and learning and then actually put a bit of hard work in.

          Will
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  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    Have you considered recruiting affiliates to
    help you to sell your product?

    It seems to me that at $9.95 it's ideally
    suited to the $7 script which would help you
    to build a customer list.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author digimix
    Anyone has a good idea where I could promote a marriage site like mine without the high cost of ppc. I already do article marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sid Kaplan
    Why not do a search on dating and relationship forums or even marriage forums for that matter and post some advice to those forums and create some interest that way - you need to contribute some quality information but you can link back with most of them.

    Maybe Facebook and Twitter? Good luck to you.

    Sid
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    • Profile picture of the author digimix
      Originally Posted by Sid Kaplan View Post

      Why not do a search on dating and relationship forums or even marriage forums for that matter and post some advice to those forums and create some interest that way - you need to contribute some quality information but you can link back with most of them.

      Maybe Facebook and Twitter? Good luck to you.

      Sid
      Thanks Sid
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Wisley
    You say you are not getting the traffic from your efforts. What keywords are you targeting? Maybe you are trying to tackle to big of a market. Sometimes we think everyone is interested in our product, but that is usually not the case. So, work on your target keywords for your articles and squidoo pages.

    It has already been suggested, but forums are a great place for a product like this. Just go in and answer questions the others have. Don't spam by trying to sell your product. Become the authority and people will come to you.

    Are you capturing the names of the people who visit your site? Most sales are made after several contacts. Catch there names and emails and put them on an auto responder. You will want to give them something to get their emails.

    I think you are just getting started and need to just keep working and learning. So, keep at and good luck.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author prashie91
    how about you raise some money to do stuff like ppc? you can market your services. people are always in the need for freelancers. market your service, make some cash out of it and re-invest in yourself! that way you don't have to go about borrowing from people.
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  • Profile picture of the author Valdor Kiebach
    try offering 1 chapter of you book free to those who join your list and follow them up with emails.

    Regarding your site:
    The video looks good
    get rid of the border around the date
    (dont be offended)-> lose the 'christian' bit, i am an atheist and dont care what religion you are, also this may put off none christians (as it did me).

    As has been said earlier, you have a product and domain, concentrate on getting visitors and turning them into buyers, check the WSO section for traffic generating stuff and ask specific questions on this forum such as 'how can i turn my browsers into buyers?' in fact i am sure i have seen a ebook floating around the net with a title like that.

    And i do apologise if my comments on the religion offended anybody.
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    • Profile picture of the author digimix
      Thanks for the input . I will however keep the "christian bit" as that is a major part of what I am. I am selling not just a book but advice based on the things my wife and I have learnt over the years mostly based on the Bible. We also found out that more "christian minded" people are interested in keeping their marriages. So I guess that is my niche.
      No offense taken. All input is useful.


      Originally Posted by Valdor Kiebach View Post

      try offering 1 chapter of you book free to those who join your list and follow them up with emails.

      Regarding your site:
      The video looks good
      get rid of the border around the date
      (dont be offended)-> lose the 'christian' bit, i am an atheist and dont care what religion you are, also this may put off none christians (as it did me).

      As has been said earlier, you have a product and domain, concentrate on getting visitors and turning them into buyers, check the WSO section for traffic generating stuff and ask specific questions on this forum such as 'how can i turn my browsers into buyers?' in fact i am sure i have seen a ebook floating around the net with a title like that.

      And i do apologise if my comments on the religion offended anybody.
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