Making Quick Cash, or Building A Real Business?

Unfortunately there is such a thing as quick cash, but not a quick business! If you want quick cash then there are tons of methods to do it, but potentially you could harm all future efforts of building a solid business by doing so.

....therefore my advice would be to forget quick cash and think about the future, every business needs to be built on solid foundations and these include learning, working, buiding a reputations and being smart. Do things right and you will make money sooner than you think, if you chase quick cash you will be going round and round in circles for a long time and still have nothing to show for it!....just my two cents...

Quick cash is for the 3% of lucky people that launch a product on the back of ZERO experience and basically lie about their earnings.

I would have to say that it may be a slow road but the main objective should be building a customer base as early as possible, so that means listbuilding in a particular area that you wish to go into.

This way once you have the experience then creating your own info product will be an easy and natural process plus you will have a customer base to sell to.

So advice I can give is get a great landing page with good affiliate offer as the re direction then have a good follow up series for 7 days selling the product!

Once you have this drive traffic to your page and concentrate on other parts of your online career

Keith,
One issue I have found with trying to make the quick cash is that your focus moves around too much. Work with 1 thing, focus like a laser and the money will come.

You should focus on the future, "If you will get a fish then you will have food just for today, but if you will learn how to fish you will have food for the rest of your life".
It's sounds like a nice sentence but it's true. Sit with your self and decide what do you want to do with the rest of your life. You only live once so don't waste it.

I suggest a balanced approach, personally. If you have bills to pay then you need to get them paid. Work a 6 hour daily schedule: 4 on quick cash and 2 on a sustainable model. It's what I did in the beginning. If you're desperate, nothing wrong with a job. Put in 3 hours per day on a long term strategy and quit when you can.

The situation may seem hard or even desperate, but it's definitely doable.

keith, firstly you have to completely change your mindset and your approach to IM

you are falling into the trap that 98% of people fall into

if you are in debt and you need to make money then your best off to get a job and make money that way then come back online when you have some money to invest

Internet marketing is no "make fast cash" method

even if you go down the "everything free method" you will be relying on traffic methods which require time to see any results but if you choose the faster traffic methods than you need cash to invest

you can of course make fast cash but ONLY when and after you have built your reputation and built your own customer list

affiliate marketing is a good way to make money initially but you still need traffic which = time

if your really serious about making it online then you need to first choose a method or strategy and stick with it until you see results

if it`s affiliate marketing then creating video reviews of products and then get them ranked on youtube and google. This is one of the best ways to make money with affiliate marketing because videos rank very well but by no means is this as stable as building your own list around the niche instead

i would stay clear of creating a product until you have some good results which you can create a product around

hope this helps you and anyone else who is in the same position

paul

"Since I have many bills to pay, I want to take the faster routes, such as affiliate marketing."

Back in the late 90's early 2000's I would say yes it was a very fast route, but now you ahve every Tom Dick and Harry in this trying to get there share and the slow tried and true method I think is what works now.

I can go out right now and make a good sizable profit within a week, I used to do this but nowadays it is done with blackhat and not so ethical methods that I tend to stay away from now.

I am not saying there is no overnight get rich quick schemes that work, but I have found none as of yet. I had a friend well two friends that got lucky and met the right affiliate managers and made a lot of money in a matter of days. They both had good products at the time. I have seen people come along with the right idea at the right time,, when the market was just right for it and make a large sum of money, but we fall into these, I don't think we go looking for them.

Make quick cash with quick or shorterm methods so you have funds to invest in your business

Building a long term business is the way to go if you really want to get serious about this. Making money quick is slowly dying and is not sustainable.

Joe nailed it according to my experience. I started out freelancing my services to feed and house my family (I cannot afford to fail, for their sake), but this takes time to chase down gigs and more time once you get a gig. Still, you need to live, eat, stay online, and occasionally grab a beer and a shot to keep yourself sane.

I worked way more than 6 hours a day to pull it all off in the beginning, but my time was mostly spent gigging for 'quick' cash with a few extra hours each day for building my own products.

Above all, never stop thinking about/working on ways to get where you want to be while taking care of what you need to do right now at the moment.

Stability begins with not losing your residence or internet connection and ends with a well-played strategy over time.

You could always go and give plasma. A quick $40 there. Then go every 2 days... $40 a pop.

You want fast money, then you will have to put up some advertising funds to back it. Most of the people who are preaching their "get rich in 80 minutes" gig have very large advertising budgets. This is how they get customers so fast and then remake all of their losses from the backend sales to these customers.

If you want quick cash, sell on ebay, get a Paypal debit card, and sell more of your stuff on ebay so that you can have instant access to your funds via your paypal debit card.

I like that idea, I'll try to put it into practice. I'm thinking about grabbing a sh***y job for a while, but I'm really determined to do this as my full time job. I guess we'll see.

Thanks for your advice Paul. I know what you mean, and I've invested so much already. I know it's not an easy task to make it online... but yes, I'm going to make some money to invest into my online business.

I like that Adam. Thanks for that recommendation, that's good stuff! Yeah I'm going to have to make some money offline.. I was so determined to make it work, but I don't want it to cause my online work to be sub par. Thanks for the advice!

Very good points... And you're right, I think I'll have to leave the quick cash ideas alone.

That's awesome Max! Thank you for your advice, I'll definitely take your experience as gold in this situation. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, I agree with others. Change you approach to the IM. Mainly, IM is like another business you need to have enough money to get started. So, to pay the debt you need to get a job and start spend your relax time to build the your IM world and once you confidence enough with your decision to be full time IMer then quit your daily job. Good luck, man!