$257 per day is all it takes? Broken Down its amazing

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So im watching these new google cash detective vids of Chris Carpenter. Theyre talking about breaking down all your expenses into daily costs and then creating small online income streams to match these to make them disapear. Basically ... how do you eat an elephant ... Small Bites At A Time.

$257 or so daily stream of $$$ almost ends the day job. I say Almost cuz I need to recalc with tax - but the principles are the same.

Heck lets just call it $350 a day!

35 sites/things/products generating $10 a day? Can this really be this hard? Why isnt this that simple?

Im sure this is very rudimentary to a great many of you... sorry it was just kind of a light bulb moment for me. Ive just been viewing everything from a "does it or can it make $5k a month perspective"

So ... all that said - would love to hear your thoughts on ths style of IM. Additionally ideas on how you would go about creating enough $10 a day streams to kick the 9-5 to the curb?

Thanks for reading ...
#$257 #amazing #broken #day #takes
  • Profile picture of the author joshfromwid
    I am trying to get to the point where I can say goodbye to the dayjobs as well. I think if you have the motivation then you can make any goal a reality in IM. I say just go for it, $350 a day, and the day you reach that, raise the bar to $375, then to $400. Pretty soon you'll be making crazy money. Just keep the faith, my friend.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
    What would be the marketing overhead costs from an approach like this?

    PPC .... CPA ... Hosting .... Autoresponders ...

    Im thinking niche blogging, some PPC Affiliate action and maybe dabbling in some CPA stuff. If the Google Cash Detective is really that good, and you really can develop mildly profitable campaigns ... it wouldnt seem too hard to find 35-40 of them to make the desired daily income.

    This viewpoint has just given me a big boost in enthusiasm and desire to create some winning online campaigns of my own ... aside from how I have been focused on my OFFLINE Career. [ Deploying Im tactics to my offline business ]
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
      I'm pretty sure Chris Carpenter made a STACK using PPC in the good old days (but was clever enough to adapt his model to these days)

      When you break it down...< $300 is much less to chew than > $10,000

      Here's his formula:

      Problem <== HIM ==> Solution

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  • Profile picture of the author plexpert
    I want to do a little math here to give a more visual concept:
    $257 per day x 30 days = $7,710 a month
    $7710 x 12 months = $92,520 a year.
    There are few 9 to 5 jobs out there that will ever make that much without year and years of time and promotions.

    You could live quite well with that kind of green.

    Before I started internet marketing, I was making $37,000 a month in my 9 to 5 office job. After over a year of trail and error with PPC marketing, I'm making roughly 4 times as much.

    Although I'd love to do adesne websites for the true auto piolit money websites, I just don't have the patience and creativity to create content that people would like to see. =/
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    • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
      Originally Posted by plexpert View Post

      Although I'd love to do adesne websites for the true auto piolit money websites, I just don't have the patience and creativity to create content that people would like to see. =/
      You don't need to create content that people want to see to make money with adsense. They just have to click on the ads to get off your site.

      TomG.
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      • Profile picture of the author yves
        Originally Posted by tommygadget View Post

        You don't need to create content that people want to see to make money with adsense. They just have to click on the ads to get off your site.

        TomG.
        Ha ha laughed my head off at that. Never thought of it like that before. Just make your adsense site really boring and the visitor will be forced to click on adsense.

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        • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
          Did a little tracking and taking store of what has been accomplished to date.

          January Stats [ it begins ]
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          Bought Domains
          Aquired Self Hosting
          Completed Landing Page with Opt In Squeeze
          38 weeks of 52 week Referral Marketing Newsletter Completed
          Signed up for Auto responder
          Re Drafted an old free report I made in 2007 as a freebie

          1/1/09 - 1/31/09 - 245 Unique vistors came by
          26 subscribers to my list - a lot of warriors :rolleyes:
          1 sale $398 product - $220 commission


          Feb Stats
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          Added a blog
          Spent an eternity learning Wp and plugins
          Added much "stuff" - like a sales page ... hahaha
          Actual page where u could buy something added 2/17/09
          Converted a Webinar vid to flash and hosted it
          Did some misc forum marketing
          Wrote first article and submitted to EZA - 2/26/09 - it kinda sucked
          I have 4-5 Long tail KW phrases at #1-#7 1st page of Google
          [ above keywords are very low volume search but very very relavent] .... sigh

          2/1/09-2/28/09 - 344 Unique Visitors - wooo hooo - LOL
          20 new subscribers to the newsletter [ 46 Double Opt Ins total ]

          1 sale - same $398 product [really the only one I have at this time ]
          $220 comm

          I cant begin to advise how many stories and systems I ve read or read about. How many softwares for KW Research ive dabbled with, How many plug ins ive tried tested and used ... video editing software - screen capture crap ... widgets and whats its ... scriptlets and Feeds and backlinks and .... ohhh my ... Cranial Implosion - almost.

          Man, thinking back on this - just getting things to this point has been a pretty herculean effort [for me] - and I havent accomplished jack shiznit! I feel like im finally getting the foundation of tools, and some base skillz and knowledge in place, but now - which way to jump? Starting to realize how much I really dont know about all this Im bidness

          What other products now?
          Articles or PPC for traffic? Gunna need to be articles till sales happen!
          What affiliate Products to rep?
          CPA offers? - guess this gets answered by the need to do articles.

          Man I was reading TommyGadgets blog and a post about needing 5,500 daily visitors to generate $10 a day in adsense - Holy Snap!
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeWords
        Originally Posted by tommygadget View Post

        You don't need to create content that people want to see to make money with adsense. They just have to click on the ads to get off your site.

        TomG.
        Exactly Tommy. Few people here seem to "get" adsense. To take your advice a step further, a site monetized with adsense should make the visitor want to leave.
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    • Profile picture of the author bizcorp
      Originally Posted by plexpert View Post

      I want to do a little math here to give a more visual concept:
      $257 per day x 30 days = $7,710 a month
      $7710 x 12 months = $92,520 a year.
      There are few 9 to 5 jobs out there that will ever make that much without year and years of time and promotions.

      You could live quite well with that kind of green.
      I agree. $92,520 a year is very good money. Getting past the $100 mark a day is a good milestone achievement in my opinion.
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      • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
        $7710 x 12 months = $92,520 a year.
        There are few 9 to 5 jobs out there that will ever make that much without year and years of time and promotions.

        You could live quite well with that kind of green.
        Ha! not in Orange County, CA with 4 kids my friend. That just rids me of the minimal expenses and allows me to spend 80-90% of my time IM. Id still then have to arrange for a favorable sale of the OFFLINE business to make up the rest until the IM business was in high gear.

        Then add to that - those #'s you quoted are gross - pre tax.
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  • Profile picture of the author richfit
    So ... all that said - would love to hear your thoughts on ths style of IM. Additionally ideas on how you would go about creating enough $10 a day streams to kick the 9-5 to the curb?

    Thanks for reading ...
    Absolutely, the Google Cash Detective takes the quesswork out of the game and those that use it will be much more confident when testing products to promote. You know the whole theory, test 10 products and 1 is successful, maybe...

    Forget that strategy, test 1 and it's Successful!

    The power of software is simply amazing... I will say that Google Cash Detective is one of the pieces of the puzzle that we use in our business everyday.

    Your crazy if your just cranking, cranking, cranking without Intelligent Software.

    Best,
    bryan
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  • Profile picture of the author PotPieGirl
    I LOVE this way of looking at things! I think it was Andre Chaperon that I first saw doing this (something before PPC Bully perhaps? Not sure right now).

    But it hit me hard, too.

    I remember thinking, "Ok, I can do this one project and set it up to pay the power bill each month" and it suddenly all felt so much more "do-able" to me.

    That's how my whole system came about. How can I organically create little campaigns that went to work FOR me.

    100k a year is $273.97 per day. When you're new, that STILL sounds like such an UN-doable number.

    BUT - what if today, you made one little organic campaign that offered a CB product for a $30 a commission. All you really want is for that campaign to make 1-2 sales a WEEK.

    Now, if you stopped there...you'd be disenchanted and think this IM stuff doesn't "work" (love when people tell me that...lol)

    BUT...what if you created 20 of those little campaigns over a 2-week time period? That's NOT hard the way I do it. If each of those 20 campaigns made 2 sales a week @$30 each

    20 campaigns x 2 sales/week each = 40 sales a week @$30 ea = $1200

    Which equals..... $171.42 a day.

    Wow, all of a sudden it is a LOT more "doable", isn't it? And all you did was bust butt and work hard for 2 weeks.

    What if you did it for another 2 weeks? A whole month of working hard out of your life?

    Guess what? You'd be at the per day amount for 6 figures a year. All working FOR you.

    Since you did it in the organic market, there isn't any over-head, right? =)

    After a month, you'd find some well-converting campaigns within those 40...and you'd start to leverage all that. Perhaps invest a whopping $20 a month into an auto-responder to start building lists in those markets.

    Perhaps you'd buy a domain for a whopping $10 a YEAR and get some hosting for $10 a month and build niche sites to complement those organic campaigns.

    Guess what? You'd now be making MORE off those original 40 campaigns.... so then you'd...

    Make a squeeze page/lander and invest in some PPC =)

    It kills me when I hear people say this IM stuff doesn't "work" or that they can't "afford" to work it.

    All you need is a computer and an internet connection.... and the dog-gone determination to DO it.

    However, the first step is believing....

    and breaking it down as you said is key for many people to BELIEVE that this is possible and start to "eat the elephant" one bite at a time. Then you will see that not only is $273.97 a day possible, but so is $410.96 a day and so is $547.95 a day and beyond.

    Sorry for rambling on and on, but I am very passionate about all this. Internet marketing has endless potential for anyone is willing to work for it. I'm sorry to say this next "hypey" thing, but it is all truly LIFE CHANGING.

    All the best!

    Jennifer
    ~PotPieGirl

    PS - The reason I know the EXACT numbers above is because they are stuck next to my monitors on a post it note. That's where I write my newest daily goal....and then cross it off to add a NEW daily goal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Bruno
    Its all about scaling in IM. Most marketers don't scale enough. If you can make $5-$10 a day in IM with one site or whatever it is your doing to generate the $5-$10 then you got a gold mine on your hands.

    Frank Bruno
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  • I Always love to hear some one that analyzing things like i do ive found that many times i had to re-think things from the source begining and came to find out that my foundational belief on how things can be made or done was totally in error which cause me to develope a false belief on the whats possible..when it comes to IM..if that makes sense
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  • Profile picture of the author SteelDanno
    X amount of sites making a mere $10 a day is a good way of looking at it.

    That strategy is a game of inches, and if you get enough of them, they'll sure add up.

    Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh T.
    Thanks Jennifer!

    That was very inspiring. I think that can apply to
    several business principles as well.

    Much appreciated for your methodical explanations.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    While it's always good to understand the numbers
    that drive your business, it can also lead you down
    a dangerous path.

    Don't forget to take a strategic look at your business.

    Lot's of people fall into the trap of making $xxx per
    day, week, month and they become a slave to their
    own business.

    To be truly successful you need to design a business
    with the structure and systems that will achieve
    your objectives.

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  • Profile picture of the author MeelisM
    I wouldnt need a 9-5 job if I was making $30-$40 a day. How to get there? Any ideas? Ive made money with online forum advertising, best days around $100, but nothing recurring.
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  • Profile picture of the author gabbydeb
    Marlon Sanders showed his subscribers this very system about a year ago or so. Breaking all your household and auto expenses down, and then creating a project to pay for let's say your electric bill for example.
    It was pretty awesome!


    Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

    So im watching these new google cash detective vids of Chris Carpenter. Theyre talking about breaking down all your expenses into daily costs and then creating small online income streams to match these to make them disapear. Basically ... how do you eat an elephant ... Small Bites At A Time.

    $257 or so daily stream of $$$ almost ends the day job. I say Almost cuz I need to recalc with tax - but the principles are the same.

    Heck lets just call it $350 a day!

    35 sites/things/products generating $10 a day? Can this really be this hard? Why isnt this that simple?

    Im sure this is very rudimentary to a great many of you... sorry it was just kind of a light bulb moment for me. Ive just been viewing everything from a "does it or can it make $5k a month perspective"

    So ... all that said - would love to hear your thoughts on ths style of IM. Additionally ideas on how you would go about creating enough $10 a day streams to kick the 9-5 to the curb?

    Thanks for reading ...
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    • Profile picture of the author Bruce NewMedia
      Originally Posted by gabbydeb View Post

      Marlon Sanders showed his subscribers this very system about a year ago or so. Breaking all your household and auto expenses down, and then creating a project to pay for let's say your electric bill for example.
      It was pretty awesome!
      I followed the same examples that Marlon explained last year. I found it a great way to appreciate even small income streams, because they cover similar sized expenses. My insurance is paid for by a single offline client's monthly payment to me. This is part mindset and part taking action.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christi
    I agree, and this is how hubby and I have been looking at our business.
    But the time and work involved in creating, developing, maintaining and updating 35 websites must be almost impossible to handle, especially if you're one person.
    Plus it's not a model that can work for those who are after quick money. Even if we assume that you can create a website, develop it, work on it to make it rank high on search engines or build a list or whatever to give it consistent traffic and then once it reaches the desired level you leave it and move on to the next one, it can't be less than 2-3 months for each one, so you are looking at several years till you get to reach $350 a day. And then you'll need to maintain all the other websites that are already up and running, even if this is only occasional and not much work (but it adds up if you have many websites).
    I'm more the "10 websites making $35/day each" type of person, but the principle is the same.

    Our longer term goal is to earn the monthly equivalent of around $80,000/year by late 2012 or so, which will allow us to afford a mortgage and buy our own condo or small house somewhere in the greater LA area, and have enough left to cover our other bills. Thereafter, hopefully even more than $80k because as 4morereferrals said, this amount of money is not even enough in So Cal - crazy I know . And we don't even have kids yet, so to be able to afford one or two kids we'd need significantly more!!!
    Luckily we're still young, so time is on our side
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  • Profile picture of the author Kierkegaard
    Thinking of all the little steps it takes to make $350 a day in IM makes you think what a bunch of mugs doctors, accountants, senior managers and so on are. Wasting all their time and money on expensive educations and training. Why on earth didn't they try their hands at internet marketing? :confused:

    That doesn't even start to answer the question of why people bother to work in less paid jobs. The median income for Americans 25+ with a high school education is $31,539 with a bachelor's degree or higher this figure rises to $56,078 (and these guys earn less than half of the $350 quoted for IM)

    Reality check: if you are making more that $85 a day IM then you are doing incredibly well.

    At the end of the day, internet marketing is no different to any other type of self-employment. If you think it's some kind of magic ticket to riches then you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
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    • Profile picture of the author ShayB
      Dennis Becker takes a similar approach with his 5 Bucks a Day strategy.

      Not so much breaking down each expense and having a project for each one, but finding one project a week that can make $5 a day.

      If you do that for one year, you have $260 a day.

      Some projects won't do so well. Some will take off.

      One of my $5 projects made over $10,000 in a week.

      Others haven't made much at all.

      Most fall somewhere in between.

      The trick is to stay consistent.
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