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$20000 in 6 months- A call to all the IM gurus out there

by Chris Douglas
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Hi there. I have been on the forum for a year now and have been offering content writing services for more than 7 years. The thing with content writing is that you get paid as long as you are writing. One day off the job and you know that you are an expense. Almost the same goes for a day job (which I quit a few years ago). I had a car accident a few months back and as a result I went into a comma for a month. I have been told by the doctors that it is a miracle that I even woke up.

Wonderful thing about IM is that you don't need to be "you" to control the business. Sure, you run the business most of the time but if you suffer from anything, you would know that someone else might handle the work. So this ends my sob story and starts the real question. Although I have been writing for quite some time, I don't know much about IM. As a target I have set a plan to earn $20000 in pure profits by the end of 6 months starting now.

1-My first question is if that is actually possible using ANYTHING to earn that amount for someone who is just starting from scratch and is basically a total noob?
2-Where should I head? I understand that this must seem like I am not interested enough to even google it, but the fact is that I want an expert opinion. I am personally inclined towards affiliate marketing but I am open to suggestions.
3-A rough outline on what I should learn and the steps I should take.


I am not one of those people who are looking for get rich quick schemes that will make money with "5 minutes of work". I am willing to go all the way. I am ready to invest time and money into this and am ready to pull 16 hours a day shift. As far as my skills go as I already mentioned I can write articles really well, so it would help if the method is wrapped around this.


I am open to all possibilities so bring it on.
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  • Profile picture of the author zeroaffiliate
    Affiliate marketing and list-building rocks. There are tons of money to be make there and the best thing is once the ground work has been done, your business can run on auto-pilot with more time in your hands.

    If you like to make money faster, you should take a look into CPA marketing but there is a learning curve. From offer selection, keyword research, traffic sources and optimization methods. You can take a look at greed reports by Greedy to get a head start.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      Chris, "Give me the info on a platter" / "How can I earn X in X" threads don't tend to go down well, so responses are going to either tell you it's been asked before, you can't do it, or a series of hearsay responses for obvious (and probably inappropriate) solutions.

      Your best bet is to browse the forum and see what people are doing and work out what you can do yourself to generate X amount according with what you can and are willing to do.

      That's what the whole forum is all about in fairness so it's upon seeking and tracking down what's suited to you. It's the all important first step and that very initiative is going to see you through the lifetime of your business.

      All the best in whatever you choose to do.


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    So many CPA "guru" says list building is essantial,but it takes time and there is no push button methods(If there is one ,I wish to know about it myself)
    Well if You have your list there you have it :just push the emai send button,but takes sometimes years to build it.
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    1-My first question is if that is actually possible using ANYTHING to earn that amount for someone who is just starting from scratch and is basically a total noob?

    Sure, if you have the time and energy to put in the work. It won't be easy, but it maybe fun.

    2-Where should I head? I understand that this must seem like I am not interested enough to even google it, but the fact is that I want an expert opinion. I am personally inclined towards affiliate marketing but I am open to suggestions.

    Affiliate Marketing is great. Like Ivan said list building plus Affiliate/CPA Marketing is great combo.

    Try what resinates with you. If affiliate marketing interest you go for it!
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      Yeah, I have decided to go towards affiliate marketing. I plan to write product reviews and create squidoo lenses out of them. I plan to be an amazon affiliate. Since they are PR6, my articles will rank quickly. I do understand that I would have to give them a cut of the amazon commission but I am willing to do that for starters.

      Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
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      • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
        Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

        Yeah, I have decided to go towards affiliate marketing. I plan to write product reviews and create squidoo lenses out of them. I plan to be an amazon affiliate. Since they are PR6, my articles will rank quickly. I do understand that I would have to give them a cut of the amazon commission but I am willing to do that for starters.

        Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
        I just gave you a practical solution that you could easily monetize, and yet you're choosing to do this.

        Can I ask WHY?

        I swear most people just do things "because that's what everyone else is doing - therefor it must be the right thing to do".
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        • Profile picture of the author Chris Douglas
          Originally Posted by John Romaine View Post

          I just gave you a practical solution that you could easily monetize, and yet you're choosing to do this.

          Can I ask WHY?

          I swear most people just do things "because that's what everyone else is doing - therefor it must be the right thing to do".
          Nah. Not me. I have never been the sheep that follows the flock. I am doing it because I see potential in it. I feel that marketing is something that I would be good at. Plus I want to diversify my income. While your idea is awesome, it focuses on a single product. Here I can create multiples sites and target multiple markets.

          Then there are more personal interests. I like to learn new things. I have learned C, JAVA, Assembly and HTML just because I wanted to. I want to learn something new. Don't get me wrong, your suggestion is great. It's just that I want to diversify my income.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

        I plan to write product reviews and create squidoo lenses out of them. I plan to be an amazon affiliate. Since they are PR6, my articles will rank quickly.

        Their own home page might be PR6. Is that the page on which your reviews will be published? No? Thought not ...

        Websites don't "have page ranks". Believe it or not, only pages have page ranks.

        And "how quickly pages rank" is going to have very, very, very little (if anything) to do with your income, anyway.

        If you're seriously thinking about using Squidoo, this post/thread (and 100 others like it) might help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8109462
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      • Profile picture of the author Stevie C
        Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

        Yeah, I have decided to go towards affiliate marketing. I plan to write product reviews and create squidoo lenses out of them. I plan to be an amazon affiliate. Since they are PR6, my articles will rank quickly. I do understand that I would have to give them a cut of the amazon commission but I am willing to do that for starters.

        Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
        My thoughts on this are
        Squidoo is dead in the water and you will be lucky to earn $2 a month from the cut you earn.

        I love Amazon but I haven't heard of anybody earning $20,000 in their first six months of becoming an affiliate, not only that you won't get your first Amazon Commissions until after two months.

        Some great advice from other guys regarding selling PLR or a content creation info product I would listen to them.
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        • Profile picture of the author Chris Douglas
          Originally Posted by Stevie C View Post

          My thoughts on this are
          Squidoo is dead in the water and you will be lucky to earn $2 a month from the cut you earn.

          I love Amazon but I haven't heard of anybody earning $20,000 in their first six months of becoming an affiliate, not only that you won't get your first Amazon Commissions until after two months.

          Some great advice from other guys regarding selling PLR or a content creation info product I would listen to them.
          Yeah, I looked into it and read about squidoo going down. I would prefer to go with PLR while working on my affiliate marketing site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Hess
    Start with the skill you already have, the ability to produce content... there's huge demand.

    Package some articles into PLR packs or write short reports. This is ideal because you can keep selling while doing the work only once.

    Think of it as selling picks and shovels to gold miners (to use an old expression).

    Go to Clickbank for niche and product ideas. Start selling here on the forum, you can even create some free packs to start building a list.

    Make sure to capture all your buyers. A PLR buyer is valuable because they keep buying (it's like selling crack to an addict).

    $20,000 is definitely achievable within 6 months once you have a lot of stuff out there and supplementing your own products/packs with affiliate promotions. (PLR is launched all the time on this forum)

    Even think about releasing your own product on how to write faster, how to research, write reviews, anything like that.

    The goal is to start somewhere, then let the business snowball...

    Feel free to PM me or hit me up on Skype: therealmarkhess if you're looking for some direction.
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    If I were you I'd find as many free tutorials and guides on blogs and this forum as you can. Do your research and find one that you will feel comfortable setting up. There are plenty of free traffic sources out there so you won't have to worry about paying for traffic in the beginning either.

    Also, it's possible for you to make $2,000 in your first month, never mind 6 months. It all comes down to how much time/effort you're willing to put in and what method you decide to pursue. Very best of luck to you.
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    Originally Posted by RockNRolla View Post

    it's possible for you to make $2,000 in your first month, never mind 6 months.
    The OP said $20k, rather than $2k. It just looked a little like $2k at first glance because he omitted the comma (having fallen into one, previously).

    Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

    1-My first question is if that is actually possible using ANYTHING to earn that amount for someone who is just starting from scratch and is basically a total noob?
    I suspect it is, just about, for the tiniest minority of people, with a lot of luck thrown in, too. I didn't get anywhere even close to managing that, myself. I barely managed one third of that amount, in total, over my first 6 months (and I started off in a very similar position to you: with established writing skills but very little other relevant knowledge). That's not to say that you won't, though.

    Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

    2-Where should I head?
    I don't know. I went this way, thinking that my existing writing skills were a major part of what would help: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5721774

    Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

    3-A rough outline on what I should learn and the steps I should take.
    That depends on what you decide to do. It isn't easy: you need to know something in order to decide, and that takes time. If you decide to look at what I tried, the post linked to above will give you an initial reading-list for learning more about it.

    Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

    As far as my skills go as I already mentioned I can write articles really well, so it would help if the method is wrapped around this.
    That was my reasoning, too. It worked out for me. I think it's extremely unlikely to produce $20k for you within 6 months, though.

    Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

    I had a car accident a few months back and as a result I went into a comma for a month.
    Writers do that, though: we're more likely to lapse into punctuation rather than into neurological syndromes. Glad you've recovered. Good luck and good wishes ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Monroe
    6 months to make $20,000?

    Easy.

    You say your leaning toward affiliate marketing? Great.

    Create an authority blog around a subject you are passionate about (ideally).

    Your a writer, so content shouldn't be a problem.

    Spend the first two months building content gradually. Do small SEO along the way. Share socially, engage your readers, interlink your posts...

    After 2 months of content, spend the remaining three months on traffic.

    Your goal is more than achievable, to reach it you need to make $3,333/month which is more than doable.

    Depending on the subject you choose for you blog theme, I would suggest monetizing via ClickBank, CPA and maybe a high end Amazon product.

    Balls in your court, good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Douglas
      Originally Posted by Josh Monroe View Post

      6 months to make $20,000?

      Easy.

      You say your leaning toward affiliate marketing? Great.

      Create an authority blog around a subject you are passionate about (ideally).

      Your a writer, so content shouldn't be a problem.

      Spend the first two months building content gradually. Do small SEO along the way. Share socially, engage your readers, interlink your posts...

      After 2 months of content, spend the remaining three months on traffic.

      Your goal is more than achievable, to reach it you need to make $3,333/month which is more than doable.

      Depending on the subject you choose for you blog theme, I would suggest monetizing via ClickBank, CPA and maybe a high end Amazon product.

      Balls in your court, good luck.
      I like the way you started the reply. I Know that it is not at all easy for me but your saying that somehow gave me a boost. I am quite passionate about fitness and body building and have been going to the gym a good 5 years of my life.

      I would love to be able to make money doing that. I realize that fitness is a high competition niche but I am ready to put in some extra hours. I could either go through click bank and sell fitness e-books or can go through amazon and sell fitness equipment or food supplements.

      I would love to get some pointers, if possible.

      Secondly, how about real estate? I read that it is a very profitable niche. Any thoughts on that?
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      • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
        Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

        I would love to be able to make money
        Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

        I read that it is a very profitable niche.
        Chris, without coming across gruff dude, but you're all over the show.

        You need to stop chasing the idea of riches, and ask yourself what you really want.

        Where would you like to be in 5 years time from now?

        If your answer is laying in the sun on a deck sipping a Pina Colada watching girls in bikinis wash your Ferarri, while $100,000 Amazon cheques come floating in, then perhaps you need a serious rethink.
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        • Profile picture of the author Chris Douglas
          Chris, without coming across gruff dude, but you're all over the show.

          You need to stop chasing the idea of riches, and ask yourself what you really want.
          I want t be all over the show right now. That''s actually the idea here. I want to wash every thing out of my system. The only way to know about ANYTHING right now is to put everything out and wait for the comments. I am no expert here. I realize that. I need something to bite on here. I am just throwing out the idea.

          As for the riches, I am not looking for any get rich quick schemes here. If I would have, then I would be reading some WSO right now about how they can help me make $xxx in 4 hours. I definitely won't mind getting rich though-lol.

          Where would you like to be in 5 years time from now?

          If your answer is laying in the sun on a deck sipping a Pina Colada watching girls in bikinis wash your Ferarri, while $100,000 Amazon cheques come floating in, then perhaps you need a serious rethink.
          That's the American dream isn't it? -lol.

          Nothing extravagant here. Ideally I am aiming for a simple $1xx,xxx/year.
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          • Profile picture of the author Marc Rodill
            Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

            I want t be all over the show right now. That''s actually the idea here.
            Well, we thought the idea was you wanted to earn money. Distracting yourself with every possible method is only going to hurt you short-term.

            You might benefit from it in 5 years though. But you could have been making money during that time if you just stick to one thing.

            Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

            Plus I want to diversify my income. While your idea is awesome, it focuses on a single product. Here I can create multiples sites and target multiple markets.

            Don't get me wrong, your suggestion is great. It's just that I want to diversify my income.
            Probably the best way to diversify your income is to focus on a single product. You'll have a product to trade for money to build a customer list.

            If you go for affiliate marketing, you'll just have a list of people. You won't know who bought and who didn't. You can't market to them as easy/well.

            On top of that, the best way to make money selling products is to focus on selling one product at a time. Every new market you enter is going to require a different approach.

            We're talking about sales appeals and how you present the product. That's going to be different for every market you enter. Better you go into one you know something about.

            That's why people are recommending the writing business to you, teaching others. You're already an expert, so your learning curve is cut in half.

            Thing is, if that's not what you want to do, it's a moot point. So here's the best recommendation you got below. Pick something. Then:

            Originally Posted by Gary Ning Lo View Post

            Well as you're just starting.. If you work 12 hours per day on IM you will be able to achieve your goals.. As long as you focus on a single thing at a time.

            Cheers,

            Gary
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  • Profile picture of the author briankno
    Teach others what you know. Develop a coaching program to teach others how to run a content writing business or be a freelance writer. Set up a website and blog about how to make money writing for other people, what sites hire writers, etc. Offer a 1-on-1 coaching as a high-ticket item and then info products can be produced from your coaching. Work your way down from the high-ticket item and offer a coaching program that only requires a autoresponder to deliver. Offer wsos that cover certain aspects of the business (ie. how to write faster, get more money for you content, etc). All the lower cost products should push people up to your 1-on-1 which you could charge 100-1000 or more per hour.
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  • Profile picture of the author helisell
    I'm with briankno on this subject.

    You have skills, people will pay to learn those skills.....no reason why YOU shouldn't be the one to teach them how to set up a content creation business.

    The thought of doing that must secretly excite you....admit it...it does doesn't it.

    Hang on to that dream and get started making a *mind map of what a product/business like that might look like.....and get started producing it. (*freemind or similar)

    PM me if you want some guidance. Packaging my skills is what I've done from day one. I've never touched affiliate marketing, cpa, content writing, blogging etc....they all seem like too much hard work to me ;0)
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  • Profile picture of the author JoeMack
    Chris...


    Good for you for taking hold of the reigns. Content creation is an asset. Like you and Alexa, I come from a background of providing new and fresh content for clients as well.

    And when you say "content creation," I assume you are referring to writing (you can create content in a variety of other mediums).

    It is definitely possible. God, I have had such a wild ride. Very low, lows...and a few exciting highs (you gotta love those 4 figure days).

    Chris....you are far ahead of the average newbie. You have the skill set of content creation. Now you just need to "pick your sword" so to speak.

    The internet provides so many opportunities. Product creation. Membership sites. Affiliate promotions. Adsense. CPA offers. And on and on.

    But don't forget about the Warriors. There are so many helpful, supportive, and generous souls who will bend over backward to help you out.

    Just stay honest. Work hard. And you'll hit your goal.

    Much Success,

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    Blog + Create Own Content + Drive Traffic + 16 hour shifts everyday.

    I think that will be a very powerful combo.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    If I were you I'd find as many free tutorials and guides on blogs and this forum as you can. Do your research and find one that you will feel comfortable setting up. There are plenty of free traffic sources out there so you won't have to worry about paying for traffic in the beginning either.
    This is good advice, read as much as you can!

    I'll read 20% of the time and work 80%.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

    I have been on the forum for a year now and have been offering content writing services for more than 7 years.
    There's your answer right there.

    Develop a writers business startup kit and start mentoring others as to how they can start their own writing businesses. (just like you have for 7 years)

    Offer a combination of both products and services that will help them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Douglas
      Originally Posted by John Romaine View Post

      There's your answer right there.

      Develop a writers business startup kit and start mentoring others as to how they can start their own writing businesses. (just like you have for 7 years)

      Offer a combination of both products and services that will help them.
      A great suggestion but do you think that there is a significant market for it?
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      • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
        Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

        A great suggestion but do you think that there is a significant market for it?
        You're the expert, you've been in the industry for 7 years.

        You should know better than anyone here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Develop a writers business startup kit and start mentoring others as to how they can start their own writing businesses. (just like you have for 7 years)
    My vote as well.
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    Okay.

    Good luck dude.
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  • Profile picture of the author Samuel McEdwards
    Originally Posted by Chris Douglas View Post

    As far as my skills go as I already mentioned I can write articles really well, so it would help if the method is wrapped around this.
    With your article writing skills,16hrs/day availability and your interest in affiliate marketing, I will suggest you start a blogging website. With that kind of time you have you can even write and submit 10 articles a day. That means in a month you will have a website with at lest 300 articles. In these articles you can Google Adsense Ads running, with good traffic Google pays well. You can also insert affiliate links in these articles.

    The biggest things I think you will have to do is;
    Post your articles to your blog and drive traffic to these articles.

    Traffic can be generated from submitting articles to article directories and point a link to you website.

    Find a good affiliate product, write an article review on the product inserting your affiliate links.

    Participate in forums, give valuable suggestions to the topic been discussed. You can always leave a link to your blog or article whenever possible.

    Those are my suggestions. I am new too in the business, but if I was good in writing article as you said you're, I will not ask much questions. I'll just jump into blogging and learn all there is about blogging and how you can make good money from it.

    You already have a skill, work with that skill until you're really season in the business. Don't try to get yourself into information overload. You can be easily get distracted by so many information and never do any thing solid at all.

    Focus on what you already know and become even better in doing it.

    All the best in your quest!
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Amazon can be good, your own product can be good.

    No one ends up doing what they started with it.

    So no need to over thinks things, just get started
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      Just write an ebook on a health niche and sell it,
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart Walker
    6 months to make $20,000?

    Easy.

    You say your leaning toward affiliate marketing? Great.

    Create an authority blog around a subject you are passionate about (ideally).

    Your a writer, so content shouldn't be a problem.

    Spend the first two months building content gradually. Do small SEO along the way. Share socially, engage your readers, interlink your posts...

    After 2 months of content, spend the remaining three months on traffic.

    Your goal is more than achievable, to reach it you need to make $3,333/month which is more than doable.

    Depending on the subject you choose for you blog theme, I would suggest monetizing via ClickBank, CPA and maybe a high end Amazon product.

    Balls in your court, good luck.
    You are suggesting for the first 2 months he should just post content and not promote his blog? What purpose does that serve?

    No good reason to wait until 3 months in to start trying to get traffic. You might find out you've spent the first 2 months writing duff content that no one is interested in.

    At the beginning spend less time creating content and more time promoting but make the content you do publish excellent. There's no point in creating content when you've not got an audience to share it with. You just waste it otherwise.

    With your article writing skills,16hrs/day availability and your interest in affiliate marketing, I will suggest you start a blogging website. With that kind of time you have you can even write and submit 10 articles a day. That means in a month you will have a website with at lest 300 articles.
    What use is a website with 300 articles when he doesn't have any traffic? 300 articles that no one will read.

    It's the totally wrong approach. This idea that you need to constantly be adding content just for the sake of adding content makes no sense.

    Only add content when you have something worth saying and make every bit of content epic. No one can create epic content day after day.

    Adding content does NOT bring visitors to your site. Adding great content then getting that content in front of your target audience does. Less time on creating new (and more than likely sub par) content and more time making sure the people you want to see your content see it.
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    • Profile picture of the author RSK3000
      Of course it is possible to make $20K in 6 months, but its not likely is it??? (Only a relatively small proportion of the internet marketers turn their 'hobby' into a full time income. Even fewer manage it from a standing start.)

      But people do make good money online and many people do achieve these figures after a lot of time and effort. Two ways possible ways to progress are:

      a.) identify niches and sell products as an affilliate in these niches - But do not underestimate how hard the affiliate niche is to make good consistent money from. Apart from anything else you need a range of skills that you don't have yet.

      or

      b.) establish yourself as an expert in a specific niche and then dominate it.

      Myself and John R (above) are proposing that you may find it easier to sell what you know. Content writing skills are one of the most important skills online entrepreneurs need. Well written content is vital but, as you know, many people lack the skills to do this well.

      That's where you can come in.

      With your skills you can teach, sell your own information products (that would be your own affiliate product), hold seminars, run your own 'paid for' membership club/ forum and much more. Yes you do have to be there for some of this. But as you become an authority you can sell what you know for more, and work less -- if you like.

      I suggest you read these books (Amazon) to start with and get some ideas. The you can develop you own route:

      Be A Free Range Human - Escape the 9 to 5 create the life you love and still pay the bills - Marianne Cantwell
      The $100 Startup: Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better to Live More by Chris Guillebeau
      KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays by Joel Comm

      Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      What use is a website with 300 articles when he doesn't have any traffic? 300 articles that no one will read.

      It's the totally wrong approach. This idea that you need to constantly be adding content just for the sake of adding content makes no sense.

      Only add content when you have something worth saying and make every bit of content epic. No one can create epic content day after day.

      Adding content does NOT bring visitors to your site. Adding great content then getting that content in front of your target audience does. Less time on creating new (and more than likely sub par) content and more time making sure the people you want to see your content see it      .
      This. Exactly. All of it.

      And thanks for correcting some of the "advice" above.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Of course it is possible to make $20K in 6 months, but its not likely is it??? (Only a relatively small proportion of the internet marketers turn their 'hobby' into a full time income. Even fewer manage it from a standing start.)
    It all comes down to how hungry you are, and how much time you have to put in.

    I feel Internet Marketing is truly a skill that you get out what you put in.

    And I agree with RSK's book recommendations. Also check out The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco. In my top 10 on business.
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  • Profile picture of the author Igor Fridrihs
    Hey, Chris

    You have asked about real estate. Yes, it's almost perfect niche for passive income. Try to use creative investing. There are some good books on the market like Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit by Peter Conti and David Finkel. Just do not think you can find seller easily. There are some pre-existing conditions to do it, but it works.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Ning Lo
    Well as you're just starting.. If you work 12 hours per day on IM you will be able to achieve your goals.. As long as you focus on a single thing at a time.

    Cheers,

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  • Profile picture of the author Willie Crawford
    Like several others have suggested, I believe that you DO need
    to build a list. That gives you an audience of individuals who
    know, like, and trust you, that you can follow up with.

    Next, I would identify problems that lots of those list members
    have... either via a survey, or just from looking at how you
    built the list.

    Finally, I would probably mostly promote live webinars featuring
    experts who could solve their pressing problems. These
    experts should offer high-content webinars, but also offer
    a more expedient, or done-for-you solution at the end of the
    webinar.

    Your writing skills could be used in you blogging about the
    problems that the webinars offer solutions for. Blog about the
    problems (and put the same content in ezine articles that you
    send out to your list), and at the end of your posts invite
    readers to tune in to live webinars or pre-recorded webinars,
    or replays.

    It's a simple formula that works beautifully

    Willie
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Mensah
    What I would recommend that you do is leverage off other people's work. I would suggest creating your own product/wso but if you are just starting out not recommended build some IM knowledge first. So here's what you can do. Join an affiliate program or IM franchise where the product owner has a really good funnel setup one that has a good backend so there is great potential to make a thousand or so bucks per sale because then you only have to make a little bit of sales to hit your target. Make sure that its a good affiliate program then spend all your time building traffic to the squeeze page or the offer. You could build a list yourself and send the traffic to the offer or just send directly to their salespage slash entry point to their funnel. That is the shortcut to success. !
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    • Profile picture of the author SuccessMarketer
      I totally agree with Alex above about "leveraging" someone else's converting sales funnel so all your focus is on driving traffic to a squeeze page, that's it.

      Then the sales funnel should do the work for you and convert some of that traffic.

      How to generate traffic? well, how about writing a good article and submit it to the biggest article directories or contact other Bloggers offering them your content for free? (that way you get their traffic towards your squeeze page by adding a link in the article?)

      Once you've done that, convert the article into a video and syndicate it to the biggest video platforms.

      After that do the same turning your article into a power point presentation and - again - submit it to places like "slideshare"

      Basically, leverage your content by turning it into various formats... pdf's, power point presentation, video, audio, etc

      Best part is you can outsource most of the work so you could focus on creating - only- VERY good content, as that's your strong point

      Hope it gives you some ideas

      Take care and good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Also to learn how funnels work sign up to competitors in the niche are you looking to join. I always do this with an extra email address, so my main one doesn't get flooded with offers. But this is a great way to see how marketers are building relationships and interacting with their niches. You will learn a lot a fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author derricks4
    Well, the first thing to get right would be your mindset. There are no shortcuts, and it won't happen overnight. You've already gotten some good advice in this thread, but most important of all is to find out what works for you.
    The discovery process is filled with finding out what doesn't work for you moreso than what does. Dump what doesn't work, and follow what does. Eventually, you'll build up a fantastic business.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndrewCavanagh
    You might seriously consider changing the type of writing you do.

    If you're writing content that does have value but writing sales
    letters, lead generating reports, optin pages and other forms of
    writing that bring in real money for clients pays many times more.

    For one sales letter once you have some skill you should expect
    to be paid $1,000 to $5,000.

    Also that kind of direct response marketing skill combined with your
    skill at writing content could be used to help brick and mortar businesses
    create more sales and convert more prospects into paying customers.

    An example might be writing a lead generating report for an accountant
    that explains in detail how to choose an account and leads prospects
    to the conclusion that they should hire your client.

    You might call it "7 Insider Secrets You Should Know Before Your Choose An
    Accountant".


    You charge the accountant for helping him bring in more paying clients.

    You can use your content writing skills to bring more people to the
    business website online and your lead generating reports and sales
    letters to convert those prospects into paying clients.

    Businesses will pay you very well indeed for this kind of service.

    You can charge a setup fee of $1,000 to $5,000 and a monthly fee
    of $250 to $2,500+ depending on how much work you actually need
    to do.

    If just one new client is worth many thousands of dollars to a
    business you may only need to do enough to bring in one new
    client a month for that business and the owner will be thrilled.


    You need to make around $3,500 a month to reach your goal of
    $20,000 in 6 months which is 7 clients paying you $500 a month.

    Kindest regards,
    Andrew Cavanagh
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