How did you get started in IM?

1. Like most people, I wanted to find ways to make money online. I didn't want to go into a 9-5 job, but that's just me. So being the creative person I am, I was coming up with ideas on how I could make money and make my very own successful website -- coming to the realization that entrepreneurship was for me: online more specifically.

2. Being somewhat new to all of this, I purchased War Room membership and made a few thousand from there alone (only services so far though). I then went on to investing in a bit of mentoring which wasn't the BEST investment, but I don't regret it. I have recently purchased my very first WSO which I plan on executing once I'm back home and have access to my computer. I hope I can stick with the one plan and not become someone going after new shiny objects, or so they call it.

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4. I've had success with two affiliate products (making around $30), and making over $1000 with services - mainly on Fiverr. I hope to start a real online business this year, and save as much as I can only investing to increase my earnings.

5. Writing services and whiteboard animation services -- only short term though.

Has been answered before if you use the search tab you will find some answers your looking for

1. How did you first learn something called Internet Marketing existed? - (Did you buy someone's product, read someone's blog, or see someone in action?)

My understanding of IM was that it was sleazy. Rented fancy cars and homes to promote the latest product launch...those types of things. I started to come across a few blogs, though, that seemed to take a different approach and were instead talking about building legitimate businesses that use IM as a marketing avenue. That seemed much more interesting to me.

2. What have you done for your personal IM education so far? (Which courses did you purchase if any. What free resources did you use for self education?)

I haven't purchased any courses that I can remember, but have had a few that were given to me. Most of the resources I've learned from were free and readily available online. (Quicksprout, SmartPassiveIncome, and others)

3. How many years have you been involved in IM.

My business partner and I have been in business longer, but we started down the IM path in Dec 2010, so we've been at it 3 years now.

4. Please also mention your success stories if any you had in this time?

We started building small niche websites and scaled up the process. We started a popular blog which we later rebranded in 2013 to be named "Empire Flippers". We have a successful podcast on iTunes with nearly 400K downloads. We created a free ebook/guide that's been downloaded more than 40K times. We should be right around $600K in total revenue for 2013.

5. The business model you use in IM (Email Marketing, Flipping, Affiliate Marketing, Selling WSOs and Info Products, Ecommerce, Coaching, Selling Services etc.)

We've focused on building and selling niche websites of our own, but in 2013 we've opened up to products/services and website brokering through curated listings on our marketplace.

Well, I started by losing some $10 in HYIP program, made some several dollars in PTC sites, and then started affiliate marketing in promoting shareasale.com products. All failed. I created my own SEO blog and documented everything and after 4 years sold that blog for $4k (2008)

I started doing CB and Amazon since 2009 and never looked back. I see only upside and not downside.

I started many years ago when I registered domains that could have value and sold them for a good amount each.

My cousin dabbled in offline direct marketing, and he told me about a guy named Dan Kennedy. From there i read Dan's info, and i became hooked. But i wanted a more streamlined business and more automated... so i figured i could do the same by selling products on the internet. I was already good with computers.

It was back in 2005 and I was randomly surfing the internet just for fun. I 'accidentally' came across this website selling an ebook that came with something called MRR rights. The concept of being able to sell a digital product endless times over at 100% profit intrigued me. After doing some more research, I found a massive package of ebooks with MRR rights at a site called Resell-Warehouse.com for $29.95. It said that I only had until midnight to get it at that price. Obviously that's a sales tactic that people have used endless times over. So I pulled out my debit card and got started. My first sale actually came off Ebay.

1. How did you first learn something called Internet Marketing existed? - (Did you buy someone's product, read someone's blog, or see someone in action?)

I started out earning free gift cards to Amazon in exchange for downloading some apps. I think I first Googled the keyword "free gift cards" or something.

From then on, I learned that free gift cards was the VERY bottom of the food chain. I graduated to PTC sites, then GPT sites, then offering my writing services, and then affiliate marketing & product creation.

2. What have you done for your personal IM education so far? (Which courses did you purchase if any. What free resources did you use for self education?)

I've read blogs. Does that count?

3. How many years have you been involved in IM.

1.5

4. Please also mention your success stories if any you had in this time?

N/A. Close to a full-time income (for Indians) with my writing service.

5. The business model you use in IM (Email Marketing, Flipping, Affiliate Marketing, Selling WSOs and Info Products, Ecommerce, Coaching, Selling Services etc.)[/B]

Selling services, e-mail marketing and (soon-to-be) selling my own product.

Good thread.

I also wanted to know more interesting and innovative ideas about internet marketing. I have just created a blog of mine List Of Top 10 Bollywood Movies In Box Office Collection |Entertainment News and Events Blog and want to get traffic for it. But all the solutions available over the net are paid and i do not want any paid one. If there any thing trick through which i can get about 100 visits per day.

I first started making money by promoting a dating site referral program.

this is my third years in internet marketing, I've got many experience in failure and finally got success now.

1. How did you first learn something called Internet Marketing existed? - (Did you buy someone's product, read someone's blog, or see someone in action?)

A friend of mine recommended this forum for my services. I know people buy articles, but I didn't know what they buy it for. It sure was an eye opener.

2. What have you done for your personal IM education so far? (Which courses did you purchase if any. What free resources did you use for self education?)

There's one thing I do consistently: Read, read, read. I do buy WSOs, but I read a lot of blogs and forum threads. That's where most of my education comes from. I like to keep up with the ever changing IM world, so I don't fall back on my business.

3. How many years have you been involved in IM.

A little more than a year, but if you count my services as IM, then a lot more.

4. Please also mention your success stories if any you had in this time?

Made 1000s of dollars, thanks to this forum and my clients. But I'm still learning and still improving. There's a long way to go, and I'll make sure I reach where I want to be.

5. The business model you use in IM (Email Marketing, Flipping, Affiliate Marketing, Selling WSOs and Info Products, Ecommerce, Coaching, Selling Services etc.)

I predominantly sell services, though I do a bit of affiliate marketing too.

When someone posted a thread about making money on YouTube. I searched and searched and saw BHW and WF. Been about 3 months. Not earning, still testing waters.

I have been online since 1996 when my wife and I owned a hair and tanning salon and mini spa with a coffee shop. We had our own line of hair care products and had a website advertising our salon and products.

It was not until I opted in to Jimmy D. Brown's newsletter that I wanted to have a news letter and that is when I started my list building back in 2002. I also followed Jimmy's business model and built a membership site and created a product a month with master resell rights. the site was called EZ-ProfitsMonthly.com (No longer online)

Also being a programmer, most of the products I created had some kind of software to make things easier to do. I may have been the first or one of the first to create what is called a squeeze page generator today.

Back then it was called a Capture Page Generator and justed a sendmail cgi script to send the optins to the autoresponders.

Anyway, I got tired of creating at least 1 product per month and found out a better business model.

I learned Internet marketing from Jimmy D. Brown, Terry Dean, Mark Joyner and Joel Christopher. It was Joel who got me to change my business model. I also found out that the coaching model was not a business model that I wanted because I did List building coaching for Joel for a little over a year.

It was a very time consuming business model and I had little time to build my own business.

Very early on in 2003, I learned that joint ventures was one of the best ways to build a business fast and to grow ones list.

I learned the best place to get subscribers was where they congregated, which was from other peoples lists. I figured out all kinds of ways to get people who were on other peoples lists on to my lists.

Now I have created a service that will continue to grow over time that is almost 100% automated by the software and will continue to bring in passive income for years.

This system should build a unique list of affiliates and I will later this year actually sell a scaled done version of the software that is running this site. I have built my high ticket product and the beginning of the sales funnel is this free and low cost service.

It is my goal to have thousands of the affiliates who are already using my system and will be very familiar with it promote my self hosted system for big instant commissions. So I have my new year 2014 all planned out.

I have been very fortunate in my online successes and feel that this project will also be a success as beta testers who are actually using the system have really good reviews and testimonials they have already given to me.

My software allows me to build membership sites really easily and many of my sites are menbership sites that I learned early as I explained previously in this post are very profitable.

I have used these sites to test and test my software so when it is launched, it will be almost bug free.

I hope this has been helpful,
Steve Yakim

I started back in 2010. That time, I was still in high school. I felt lost and had no passion whatsoever to go to college and go through the so called "traditional process" in life. I wanted something greater. I talked to my dad and he ended up pitching me on a business deal. lol I did not expect that. We became business partners and we bought Magnetic Sponsoring products. We started our own blog, blogged daily and kept taking action. I then moved forward and came across David Wood. I felt I could relate to him in every level. I immersed myself into his teachings and took action.

Long story short, I'm still blogging, I'm also shooting videos daily and I've made 5 figures with the company I'm involved with now making 100% commissions and I'm living and loving it. It's amazing when you can say "I live my passion"

I started out drop shipping on ebay. That was an awesome experience until ebay banned my account because of how they frowned on drop shipping. So I got into website flipping. Now I am dabbling in product creating and posting WSO's.
All in all, this is much better than being a kitchen manager (is what I am by trade)
John