I can't believe I'm trying IM again after so many years....

Your chances are as good as you believe they are.

If you believe you can do it, you most likely will.

There are zillions of Wordpress tutorials in the world to refresh your memory so that shouldn't hold you back at all.

I will tell you this, focus on one, maybe two ideas at a time and stop there.

Take project one as far as you can take it, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes, grow the project, and have an exit plan for the project. This is a generic piece of advice but it's worth mentioning because almost no one has this outline for their ideas and it's a good reason most of the ideas never take off.

If you have no income, it's going to take you a long time to get the project off the ground and do it well.

Most of the information you need can be found for free, and with a budget of zero you have quite a bit of reading to do.

Forget worrying about your chances.

Just go out and do it.

You had 5 figures/month!

I think it's more to getting updated with new stuffs, pretty sure that you have the fundamentals from your past experience.

What about building a list this round?
This way you can at least keep your list if anything goes wrong.

I feel like you got somewhat lucky with your first venture in that your idea was solid. The hard work was all you, of course.

But perhaps you've never experienced failed ideas before. Once you realized most IM ideas fail, it's pretty easy to move on and find the ones that will be successful.

However, you might be one of those who has really solid ideas before taking action so perhaps less failures for you? Whatever the case, if you can find that core determination and perseverance that you know is inside you and that you used before, I can see you getting back to where you were.

Right?

Mind if I ask what made you stop in the first place?

Everything is quite worse now. Google’s updates changed the online scenario.

You have to deal with fierce competition like always, and it’s quite worse in this point too.

If you will give up after having problems, don't start again. You have to be persistent even without having positive results if you want to have positive results in the end. This is a hard battle.

Go for it NOW. People will look back on threads like this in years to come and say the following, "Man I wish I was doing all that IM stuff back in 2013, it was so much easier back then". And they will say the same thing 5 years from that date too. The truth is the BEST time to start WAS back in 2000 or whenever you first got started, but the NEXT best time is right NOW. Since you don't own a time machine (I assume) the best time is now and don't let anyone tell you any differently. You can do it again as long as you believe and persevere.

Ya all good advice....

Well with the last project it did well because I had sorta hit the nail dead on. A pressing need that was somewhat unaddressed. Those people had money generally speaking. Very little competition. Very strong sales letter (back then it was letters). Just everything was in place. What derailed it eventually was the g-v who else. Word to the wise - keep anything you do online on the down low, even if you think you're doing everything correctly and honestly; well guess what - that's who they're looking for! Like another story, a guy in my country made millions online, selling honest products. Well teh ftc came up here to Canada and stole his money. No joke. Why? In my mind for only the simple fact that there was a lot to be stolen. So they came up here blackmailed him into giving up the money to avoid charges, so he did. If you think I'm lying look up the name: sherwood park Jesse Willms. They stole 370million off the guy. I'm sure he didn't do anything all that wrong. What happens though is whereever there's money to be gained, that's where the bureacrats are looking. Same thing will pretty much happen to anyone who makes money online and leaves themselves exposed. But it was kinda long overdue for a change in life. I can't keep dwelling on the past. Just got to try and move on. But starting from scratch sucks. Well I have 1 great idea and 3 good ideas right now so I guess all I can do is just work on them and hope that something pans out.

Go for the van bro!

Times have changed massively since 2000 for sure. (after 2008 it changed)

100X+ harder

Ah the goof old days. Trust was high (everyone is burnt out now) Lot more money around then.
Gaming G easily, ppc about 5% of what it is now. No-one wants to join another "list" to be spammed with get rich crap by copycat, gale guru scammers. Apart from that..it's good.

Good luck.

Thats amazing, welcome back

Hmmm, tis story really push me to go all out with mine too, but i don't think i have the courage to tell all the story. But here's what happened with my life. I am physician in real life. Was marketing manager in several companies; the latest one, small-medium enterprise, welcome me as its GM and turn out i was asked to be positioned as VP. Few months later, as a single mom, i was force by my father to take work as government officer, went to rural area, and back being physician, because my father think by being back as physician and government's officer it will give me more assurance for retirement.

About year ago, big thing happened in my life. I was still doing things online but nothing big, since i only use it as part time, for something that i love to do. Till that "big thing" came striking like a lightning. Something happened with my son. Something terrible. I had to face someone in court for that. And I won. During that period i left everything in village where i beginning to build something for future. I made 4 figure income each month in us dollar, something -big enough- for someone at my age, in my country. But since that "terrible thing" it left me with zero.

So i decided to go back to the internet, and begin to search for the right opportunity. I went back here, wanted to learn more and more about IM. And luckily i found stiforp as well. Something I intended to focus on.

Now, 'though still not yet reach my short goal, I feel relief already that i managed to pass the dark day; and move on. A book called "The Present" from Spencer Johnson also taught me something: living in the present, learn from past, make plans for future in a way i never really saw it before.

So now, waiting for my next departure in real life career, i spend my day in www. Feel happy for it is always something that I enjoy to do. Make some stocks trading, promoting stiforp and learn IM by doing.

I guess for the person starting this thread i can only say like this: never give up.
No matter how hard ur life can be, just know, there are many other people in this globe suffer worst than u, and they still have courage to stand back.

Just continue things you do. Don't force urself to harvest right away; coz the result ain't important as the process itself.

I like the van idea.

Obviously there is a lot more competition now than there was then, so it will be considerably harder. There is still a lot of money out there to be made though, so don't let that put you off. You need to persevere and not give up when things start getting bad, because if you stick with it and see it through you'll succeed in the end

To be honest. If I was single no kids. The van idea actually does sound very inviting

I would ask the almighty for another divine revelation. I doubt if it was God though... probably a grey alien who tapped into your brain.

Start out slow. The skills that you already have might need to be updated, but are relatively simple to at least get started. I really like the ideas that Mike Filsaime shares about doing one project at a time to completion. Then going on to the next project.

The other Idea that I'll throw out there is to take a look at Dennis Becker's 5 Dollars A Day. Sounds like you've followed a similar model before.

Go do it and don't look back. It's not harder, just different. If you're willing to be flexible in your marketing, you'll be fine. I set up The first site in my signature at the beginning of October last year. Two posts, one main page, some images, and a video. It took maybe two weeks and I hit #1 in G. I'm still there, and have sales coming in since then. I've done nothing else to the site. It's all in your attitude. My advice? Don't listen to people on here who say how hard it is. Just go for it, and adjust along the way. Don't let that van be an option.

One thing for sure you are doing something right in this new IM era and that is you are being social at least here in the Warrior Forum. Keep that in mind with any products you want others to buy into. I personally do not like buying products if I do not know who the person really is.

As far as Worpress, well it may look strange but once you realize how incredibly easy it is to use and with coding skills you will see how simple it is customized themes and all. I still think html pages are still essential for sales and squeeze pages.

If the technical stuff is too nerdy then hire someone and work on your ideas to get your products out there. Ideas are great but if you don't get them out there you won't know if they will work or not in today's IM. You may have already heard this: "If you are gonna fail, fail fast and go on to your next attempt."

And as Michelle quoted...

Definitely think of what you are doing as a real business.

Thanks for everyone's advice. No I got to change my attitude. That van idea I realized is coming from a defeatest attitude. If I go on a road trip like that I'll do it cuz I have a lot of extra passive income to do it. As for that website I got started, I finally got it launched but in all honesty I don't think it's gonna have the viral effect I was hoping for. It's really too bad as I was kinda hoping that would work out. It's still too soon to tell but I think I should move on and rapidly begin trying something new. that has more potential.

Nothing wrong with taking on a job, or part time jobs, so you have income and can more easily work on projects.


Ken

Money doesn't buy long-term happiness. I think you know that.

What now?

Find your passion and follow it.