If you were new to IM and had $15,000 to invest...

No doubt in my mind what so ever.

Get a COACH/MENTOR!

It will save you a lot of money and also make you a lot of money.
There are a few good ones here

I agree, you'd get a coach/mentor!

Because if you just threw that 15k into every product/service, you'd get into a LOT of trouble.

I made that mistake - and got into a LOT of trouble. Never again.

I like using free products too much!

I would of hired a professional to set up an business plan in a niche I enjoy.

Then hire EXPERTS to see that business plan through.

Keep out sourcing until I 100% understand what they are doing.

Bring a few partners into my business and watch it grow.

$15,000 can take you a long way. Out sourcing to REAL experts will take the guess work out and get you on the right track fast.

I would Use $1000 from that 15k and buy 10 Banner Ads on the WF itself and build a list and promote some high ticket product.And will make extra $15000.And now I'll think how to invest the Extra 15k.

$15,000 is a lot of money. Save most of it. Find a proven/evergreen niche and then build a list and then promote affiliate products or your own. If you can find a mentor, that can explain all of that to you, then go for it. If not, just use the warrior forum search function and first learn about "finding a niche".

After you spend your time and learn that process. Next, you will need to learn how to build your email list. Again use the search function and see what you can find. Next, you need to learn, how to drive traffic to your squeeze page (this can cost you the most money).

Letting google deliver your traffic can be a guessing game and you cannot afford to do that. Invest into some traffic generation methods (ppc, solo ads, banner buys, free wsos). After you have build your list, then either join clickbank and start promoting products or create your own products.

There are plenty of threads on this forum that will help you as well. Again, use the search function and look for "product creation". In my opinion, at most, you could spend $1,000 to maybe 2 for driving traffic to your squeezepage. You do not need, to burn through that 15ks.

Good luck!

here's how I think others should look at this...

Let's think about an established marketer, ie - "money to get started" is not really an issue for them.

If they wanted to expand, etc, what would/do they do?

Most likely, do the same market research as anyone else - find a market, see if they can tap into it, etc.. Then they would probably start building a list and a product.

How would having the extra money help them?

1) Maybe with some tools for market research (keyword samurai sort of stuff)..
2) They'd have money to test various ppc, paid traffic techniques.
3) And once they had their funnel sorted out and traffic converting, they'd have still have enough money on hand to scale up the traffic quickly.

That's just a very basic and crude framework, but it get's my point/approach across I think.

just my 2 cents..

as you can tell, I am not a heavy "crank out tons of content" type of marketer

Get a line of products made, and then build a list in any niche by promoting said products.

While getting a coach and a mentor is a great idea and can greatly help you, I'd be very careful about who you choose.

I would recommend looking into some mastermind groups and get access to many people rather than just one. A lot of mastermind groups can cost $100/month, but the amount of money you will make just from having access to JV partners will easily make that back.

As for the $15k, look at using some of it to create your own info product, and then have people in your mastermind group help you promote it. Build up your list and then promote other people's products from your mastermind group and you will start to see the money roll in!

-Ben

I'd recommend getting a high quality product that people actually need. Spend some money on sales page, graphics. Market with PPC, Forum Posts, Articles, Videos, Social Media, etc. See how far you get. Then look for a coach.

I cannot even express enough how this is the total wrong mindset. To get traffic and "market some clickbank products" you don't need $15k. In fact, you can do this with change

That being said, I would buy a really good, promising site from flippa, possibly.

Or....commission a number of products (software, ebooks/courses, etc.) plus the sites for it...and then market them.

Internet marketing information is freely available across the Internet, if you want to learn about all kinds of tactics, its only a search away ... First of all I would join "The War Room" for $40 and go through the mountain of information and content there.

Secondly, I would research topics based on your own interests, hobbies, experience because you will be able to keep it updated. Then go forth and find a need and fill it. This can only happen if you research your market yourself, because hiring in others will not have the motivation or eye that you have. However, having a mentor to talk things over with can also help ... especially one that is at least somewhat successful in Internet marketing and in the field of interest you choose.

I will tell you a little story about how I stumbled upon my first highly successful Internet business, it was my first joint venture that generated over $630,000 in 6 years. I started researching in 1996. I created small products and reports I would sell via newsgroups and classified ads online, everything I used was free. I made a reasonably healthy profit. But, it wasn't until I focused on a certain interest in 1997 that my first JV was formed and we had a huge success. A few swaps, a few deals and we had the content to create our first membership site and we piled on the benefits so thick and had a price point so keen, that even the layman had trouble turning away. From that JV we made over $630k in 6 years.

What I am saying is spend your time researching your area of interest ... hobbies, work experience you will ultimately come up with opportunities where gaps in the market could do with products and services and then throw everything and the kitchen sink at the product to make it the best it could possibly be, if it is a membership site make sure that all the bases are covered and plentiful ... give the customer everything they expect and much, much more. Have different price points we had a monthly, quarterly, 6 months, 12 months and lifetime unlimited membership package (the most popular was the lifetime unlimited package at $299)...

For example, I wanted an automated piece of software that would allow me to edit audio, convert, add pictures, cut down to less than 15 minutes per segment and upload to YouTube and have it multi-threaded so I could start with multiple audio recordings so I could upload multiple playlists automatically overnight. This would allow me to offer many independent talk radio hosts the opportunity to quickly upload their show archives to YouTube. A simple idea that is needed by a niche market and that can generate a healthy revenue (this product is currently under development).

Research is the most important thing to do, if you do not spend time researching you will fail to generate income. The second thing is when you have a product that you bring in a joint venture partner who knows Internet marketing and can promote your product or service to a wider targeted audience. If that joint venture partner can add bonus products that would clinch the deal for customers to buy your products (over deliver) ... then from that point of success you can spend money on testing pay-per-click. Back in 1998-99 I used to spend $1,000 a month merely on pay per click for the membership site and I would buy top 5 listings on all search engines I could possibly advertise on. I would also buy top placed listings in regular e-zines too. The membership site we had was consistently within the top 75,000-100,000 websites in Alexa. Of course the best way to increase revenue is by affiliate program and get your customers/members to promote your product for a commission and basically its free money...

Regards...

James...

I would build 5 adsense websites then buy a ton of keyword rich articles.

Knowing what I know now about internet marketing, this is what I would do. A little step by step.

Get my own domain name is the home business niche.

Then when I have that, pay for hosting.

Then I would go to Getresponse or Aweber for auto-responders and get my own account.

Register with a 2 ties or network marketing company online where I can earn both residual and leveraged income. Join it and pay the full membership. Make sure that they pay high commissions and there is potential to grow very fast. Knowing what I know right now, I would not even look at regular affiliate programs because they pay you once and that's it.

Then I would go to my auto-responder and fill it with messages that sell the benefits of that program.

Make sure that my leads come in every day and that I am consistent with that. I would never stop advertising.

I would use pay per click ads, I would upload videos to YouTube that talk about making money online and home business, write articles, use solo ads, forum marketing, and just keep at it till I get new people on my team every week and earn enough money.

Because you have $15k in the bank I'm guessing like a lot of people we see posting here you're not DESPERATE to make money because you're about to be made homeless / jobless / run out of cash etc so take some time to LEARN internet marketing. Learn how to do keyword research, find niches, build sites, do basic SEO, rank websites, generate traffic, make sales, build a relationship, convert your traffic and so on. Just set up a few mini projects, nothing too ambitious to test the waters. Once you get a feel for things and know what you're doing use the money to start on a bigger project.

Start building you a list...

If you are a newbie in the industry and you are serious about making money but you don't know the game all that much than start off with basic list building....

$15k is a NICE amount to start with and when I was getting into the business 7 years ago I wish I had that luxury.. But with that said $15k can get you a lot cause you have test money to play with a few things.

Just make sure that you dont put all your eggs in 1 basket until you see something that is working.

Start out with about 2k and when you see that something is working and you just need to scale it than go grab that 13k!

There are a ton of opportunities in this market!!

BTW... WELCOME TO OUR WORLD!!

I'd get this, for just under $300, by Nick who's a successful member, here. You can learn as you go. He'll set up an entire affiiliate marketing funnel. It's a WSO. I'm not an affiliate of his.

I just saw this yesterday and it looks pretty good. It's worth checking out.

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...campaigns.html

That's a lot of money to get started. Don't spend that much without trying somethings.

You can use $1000 for a website and then see if you can make money from it. Scale up. and then duplicate your winning strategy.

Don't burn that cash.

With $15k the obvious thing to do is to buy a business that already
has an income and that you can run without too much trouble.

Buying websites is a very tricky business though.

If it doesn't already have substantial traffic and sales you should
forget it (there are plenty of scams involving "turnkey" websites that
are a complete heap of garbage that will never make a cent.


Outside of that you really don't need to spend that much money to
get started.

In fact anything beyond about $1,000 is probably a waste of money
for training when you're starting out and even that much is probably
unneccessary.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

Why would you buy a website at flippa which dont have any seo done and don't have traffic?

Because you can build a site like that your self, plus If you don't have any experience in online marketing then you are not good to buy websites do seo and promote clickbank products.

Because it is not that simple to do. You will need a lot of hard work, all you can do now is to search online and increase your reading habit, once you think you're ready to invest then you can invest.

Otherwise all you can do for now is hire a coach.

A mentor/coach all the way.

Set aside some money for advertising, and buy license rights for a quality product to promote while creating my own.

Pretty much...

get a line of products made, and then build a list in any niche by promoting said products

Cail... $15k free money to invest, will bring you a recurring sum to bank very easily

1) Do lots and lots of reading and research on the WF, pinpoint failure, highlight success!
2) Buy 4 very well know IM products for your IMtoolbox, these after training will dominate your day to night IM routine.
3) Get a mentor/teacher/guru > someone who is in the field you want to EARN from.
4) Keep 1/3 of your investment as BACKUP, ready if what you decide on falls flat on its touche!
5) Do some more research

A number of our very, very early students, who have taken the time and effort to practice what we preach to them, have turned much smaller amounts $1k, into 5 figures over a static, planned period of time.

We also have members, who have taken 6 figure sums and made them into 7 figure sums, again all over a planned period... so take your time and choose what you are going to change your life with wisely )

Find a mentor for sure

I think I have an idea for you.
First, create your own product, you can outsource this step,
you can check this service, I have no affiliation with them, it
is a little expensive but it worth every penny, they will built
your product from scratch, now you have a product.
Now head to this thread and contact the OP and he will
manage your launch.
Make lots of money and enjoy.
Thanks!

15k is very much money and you won't need that much to get started. I would use it to outsource a High quality product and get a squeeze page set up. Maybe I would outsource the setup of a membership website too. After that's done stick with it, build a readership and a list. You can easily scale this model up later.

I would invest in good people. I would head over to a place like Odesk and find a competent programmer and a competent designer. Then I would find a site or business that I wanted to use as model and strive to do something better. I would probably not buy something that was pre-made for me, especially not at the $15,000 level. I would make it myself so I had full control of the business.

And I am spending about that much on a new product this year.

Don't waste your money on coaching.

Here's my $17 WSO for making it big online (today it's free!)

Step 1) Get a good understanding of traffic + conversion. These are the two main factors you need to know.

Step 2) Look at a few CPA campaign methods & case studies. There's plenty of them readily available online or you can join a paid forum and get campaigns.

Step 3) Drive traffic to CPA offers.

Step 4) Profit.

I would Spend 2500 on a jv rocket, send that traffic to a squeeze page build my aweber list. and have some follow up messages in my auto responder giving tips and promoting recurring clickbank products, in the IM niche... im doing that right now! but i don't have 2500 to spend at the moment xD instead I spend money on solo ads every couple of weeks when i get paid from work jaja.

15K could and should get you off to a good start, but spend wisely, find someone whose getting the results you want and expect, find out what they are doing .........there are some good guys around, but be careful..........I would suggest you go for high ticket sales, selling $50 clickbank products, is a long haul, unless you have a very large and responsive list

Aside from a domain, hosting and autoresponder, I wouldn't spend serious money until I developed a model that generated revenue ... even just a little revenue consistently.

THEN, with a proven model/offer/system, I'd invest big time in scaling and/or replicating.

Depending on the model, I'd invest a little into paid traffic early one to test.

I would test small with advertising, and if the conversions are good, roll out with a larger paid advertising campaign with your funds. If the conversions are bad, find another niche, and repeat the same thing.

Get a mentor without doubt they will direct you perfectly into the right niche and way to go about things.

Their experience will save you big money but pay for a good one even if it eats the budget up, don't get scared paying $5k for one, but do your home work and find one that suits.

Follow them on Facebook and social media, engage a little and see if you like their style before paying out.

To be perfectly blunt, this sounds like a terrible idea. Especially for a beginner, which I am assuming means "I don't know how to do SEO myself".

For starters, about 98% of websites sold on Flippa are scams, plain and simple. The majority of sellers just make BS websites that they know will never be successful, often packed with auto-spun or non-unique content, or even unique content that is just garbage because they paid someone in a foreign country $2 per 500 words to write it.

Secondly, if you don't know how to do SEO yourself, I wouldn't recommend hiring an SEO service. And if you did know SEO yourself, I would recommend outsourcing it to a freelancer instead of an established service (ie hire someone cheap for $10/hour or less and tell them exactly how to build links for you during their work hours). The reason for this is because many SEO services are over-hyped, over-priced, and under-deliver. Also, SEO often doesn't take effect until months after you have done it, if it takes effect at all. And by that time, the SEO service has already taken $100's or $1000's of your money often with no guarantee of results.

In short, I would tell you to find a good SEO educational course, but don't overpay for it. A good "from the ground up" education can be gotten from a service called Site Built It which also includes a hosting platform and other tools, but I would recommend buying their service solely for the education of it alone (it will teach you how to build an authority niche website, and teach you the fundamentals of good SEO). I believe their entire course is still only $300 which is incredibly cheap for the value that it provides.

Setup a good amount of affiliate campaigns and see which ones convert. Don't waste your time with websites or anything complicated, just send the traffic and get the money!

You don't need lot of money in IM business. My good friend started IM without much cash.. He is doing very well after few months of hard works.. I suggest getting a mentor specializing in your IM niche of your interest. No every mentor is good in all aspects of IM.

I think the idea of buying WF banners is great.