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Turning $100 into $1000 in the Next Month?

by Josh Range
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What are some ways I could generate income with a small investment? I have a shared hosting plan, can get domains for cheap, I just can't decided on what route to take.

Should I start a blog, make a e-commerce website, drop-ship products, amazon affiliate programs, or what?

What would you do if you only had $100 to start?
#$100 #month #turning
  • Profile picture of the author XanBarksdale
    I think one of the most important things you can do is set realistic goals...aim high for sure, but make goals realistic.

    Multiplying your money by 10x in one month with no business already in place isn't realistic.

    It's not extremely difficult to make $1k/month, but doing it in the first month with almost no investment more than likely isn't going to happen.

    By the looks of the website in your signature, you've already got a website design business. Why not just spend the $100 on targeted traffic instead of trying to start something completely new?
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    • Profile picture of the author Josh Range
      Originally Posted by XanBarksdale View Post

      I think one of the most important things you can do is set realistic goals...aim high for sure, but make goals realistic.

      Multiplying your money by 10x in one month with no business already in place isn't realistic.

      It's not extremely difficult to make $1k/month, but doing it in the first month with almost no investment more than likely isn't going to happen.

      By the looks of the website in your signature, you've already got a website design business. Why not just spend the $100 on targeted traffic instead of trying to start something completely new?
      I know my goal is probably unrealistic, but like you said I was aiming high. I don't necessarily need $1000 in the next month it was just sort of a vauge baiting title.

      I do have a website buisness, but I am struggling to find clients. I was looking for something to supplement my income incase this design business does not work out in the long run.
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  • Profile picture of the author Walter Cyclid
    Originally Posted by Josh Range View Post

    What are some ways I could generate income with a small investment? I have a shared hosting plan, can get domains for cheap, I just can't decided on what route to take.

    Should I start a blog, make a e-commerce website, drop-ship products, amazon affiliate programs, or what?

    What would you do if you only had $100 to start?


    Funny you should mention drop shipping. I tried that a long time ago.

    The thing with drop shipping is, you don't make sales.

    You pay the drop shipper a certain price, you sell item at a higher price, and the difference in what you pay the drop shipper and what you try to sell it for, is the money you keep.

    Here's the catch though. You think you are at the seller, but you are the one who is the REAL customer. You are the customer of the drop shipper, but you never get customers of your own, so you are never really the seller.

    The reason for that is because the drop shippers charge right at, or awfully close to, the MSRP of the items you are trying to sell, and so to make any money, you have to inflate that price.

    What this means in a nut shell, is that nobody is going to buy from someone they don't know when they can get the same thing at Target or Walmart for the same price or less.
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  • Profile picture of the author OfficerIM
    i would probably go for a affiliate, i wouldn't do anything that takes physical work because the return will most likely be lower. Build a 5 page affiliate website and work to rank it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Villanueva
    I find it funny how some people want a guarantee for 100$ turn to 1000$.

    If you can giive me a guarantee that you will work until 4 AM, learn, understand, give up time with you kids, give up your vacations, take sick days so you can bang out a dozen videos, not quit when it gets hard, find more money for advertising, understand that losing on advertising is a must in order to test your offers.

    Can you guarantee that you might have to find another couple thousands dollars just to find out that your squeeze page color is what is causing a decrease in your conversions. arghh...only thing that a coach can guarantee is the fact the coach will give you everything you need to create a 1k to 100K business. That is it

    Of course I say that with love
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  • Profile picture of the author StanHyeck
    1) decide on a niche (not IM)
    2) Come up with some really good content for that niche
    3) Load into an autoresponder and create a lead capture form
    4) Use the $100 for facebook PPC
    5) Honestly and genuinely participate on forums for your niche, include your lead capture page in your signature, DO NOT promote your site on the forum DO NOT say "check out my signature" to anyone for any reason

    6) Give REALLY good information for a couple of days to the people on your list

    7) Sell a product as an affiliate after 7 days of good content using 2 different emails on two consecutive days

    8) Sell another product AFTER 7 more days of good content. Same deal, use only 2 "sales" emails

    9) load the entire months worth of emails into an autoresponder so you don't have to worry about it, "tease" each subsequent message

    If you follow that formula for a month you should have little difficulty well exceeding 1k in profits.

    Hope this helps
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    • Profile picture of the author Josh Range
      Originally Posted by StanHyeck View Post

      1) decide on a niche (not IM)
      2) Come up with some really good content for that niche
      3) Load into an autoresponder and create a lead capture form
      4) Use the $100 for facebook PPC
      5) Honestly and genuinely participate on forums for your niche, include your lead capture page in your signature, DO NOT promote your site on the forum DO NOT say "check out my signature" to anyone for any reason

      6) Give REALLY good information for a couple of days to the people on your list

      7) Sell a product as an affiliate after 7 days of good content using 2 different emails on two consecutive days

      8) Sell another product AFTER 7 more days of good content. Same deal, use only 2 "sales" emails

      9) load the entire months worth of emails into an autoresponder so you don't have to worry about it, "tease" each subsequent message

      If you follow that formula for a month you should have little difficulty well exceeding 1k in profits.

      Hope this helps
      What about the Pet Industry? I currently work in this industry in my day-to-day job, the only problem is the products are physical, not digital.
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      • Profile picture of the author StanHyeck
        Originally Posted by Josh Range View Post

        What about the Pet Industry? I currently work in this industry in my day-to-day job, the only problem is the products are physical, not digital.
        https://accounts.clickbank.com/mkplS...s=dog+training

        There are how-to products for this space. And that's just clickbank.

        There are TONS of "how to potty train" products, along with various other kinds of training products. Frank Kern famously made a "parrot training" product pretty successful.

        Also, I make a pretty good amount of money with physical products. The guy that talked about failing at dropshipping ... lets just say my experience is different than his.

        And you can still sell physical products as an affiliate (which I also do quite a bit of).

        So why not physical products? Probably won't say this again (like ever again) but...

        There's "a little" to be made in pet nutritional products and supplements.

        But you should still follow (in my opinion) the basic model I laid out above. Selling stuff is pretty easy when you have a list of people to sell to.
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  • Profile picture of the author Black Prince
    Originally Posted by Josh Range View Post

    What are some ways I could generate income with a small investment? I have a shared hosting plan, can get domains for cheap, I just can't decided on what route to take.

    Should I start a blog, make a e-commerce website, drop-ship products, amazon affiliate programs, or what?

    What would you do if you only had $100 to start?
    You specialise in website design, right? So why not knock on the doors of local businesses and offer to build websites for them. Show them your portfolio.

    Or you could drop the $77 or so required for a War Room membership and WSO posting here, and offer to build custom websites.

    If you are talking about residual income of $1000 from $100 of seed money, then I imagine anyone who has cracked that code is keeping the secret close to their chest.
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    • Profile picture of the author Josh Range
      Originally Posted by Black Prince View Post

      You specialise in website design, right? So why not knock on the doors of local businesses and offer to build websites for them. Show them your portfolio.

      Or you could drop the $77 or so required for a War Room membership and WSO posting here, and offer to build custom websites.

      If you are talking about residual income of $1000 from $100 of seed money, then I imagine anyone who has cracked that code is keeping the secret close to their chest.
      Truest me, I would if I could. I don't have any free time during the week, I work until 3 every day then I have my son in the afternoon while my wife goes into work part-time. I do most of my freelance work after my son goes to bed and on weekends.

      My concern about offering a WSO is the sheer number of competitors, but all it would take is a single sale to be profitable so it might be worth the money.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheCodex
    Originally Posted by Josh Range View Post

    What are some ways I could generate income with a small investment? I have a shared hosting plan, can get domains for cheap, I just can't decided on what route to take.

    Should I start a blog, make a e-commerce website, drop-ship products, amazon affiliate programs, or what?

    What would you do if you only had $100 to start?
    I'd get a bunch of PPC coupons from a shared hosting provider like 1&1 and combine it w/ that $100 and run about $350 worth of traffic at an offer while getting weekly payouts. Use a WhatRunsWhere free trial to get an idea of what type of display they're running and start from there.

    I'd definitely focus on CPA offers and paid traffic.

    Without a doubt.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Have you put the services that you offer in your signature in a Warriors for Hire thread? It only costs $20 for a listing and WFH is a very active forum. I made good sales in there when I had an active thread.
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    • Profile picture of the author Josh Range
      Originally Posted by StanHyeck View Post

      https://accounts.clickbank.com/mkplS...s=dog+training

      There are how-to products for this space. And that's just clickbank.

      There are TONS of "how to potty train" products, along with various other kinds of training products. Frank Kern famously made a "parrot training" product pretty successful.

      Also, I make a pretty good amount of money with physical products. The guy that talked about failing at dropshipping ... lets just say my experience is different than his.

      And you can still sell physical products as an affiliate (which I also do quite a bit of).

      So why not physical products? Probably won't say this again (like ever again) but...

      There's "a little" to be made in pet nutritional products and supplements.

      But you should still follow (in my opinion) the basic model I laid out above. Selling stuff is pretty easy when you have a list of people to sell to.
      Thanks for your reply, I am going to do some research today and look into some different products to promote. I have worked in the pet industry for years, I have a few websites related to pets already, and a drop-shipping site that sells cat furniture so I am thinking this industry might be the way to go for now. Plus I am a animal lover, so that should help keep me interested.

      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Have you put the services that you offer in your signature in a Warriors for Hire thread? It only costs $20 for a listing and WFH is a very active forum. I made good sales in there when I had an active thread.
      I am considering that, looking into how to write an effective for hire thread now. Thanks for the reply!
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  • Profile picture of the author humbledmarket
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    Originally Posted by Josh Range View Post

    What are some ways I could generate income with a small investment? I have a shared hosting plan, can get domains for cheap, I just can't decided on what route to take.

    Should I start a blog, make a e-commerce website, drop-ship products, amazon affiliate programs, or what?

    What would you do if you only had $100 to start?
    We've found affiliate campaigns to be great if you want to invest some up front for a longer term return.

    You can promote affiliate products through web 2.0 sites, your own website or social media pages
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    • Profile picture of the author Josh Range
      Originally Posted by humbledmarket View Post

      We've found affiliate campaigns to be great if you want to invest some up front for a longer term return.

      You can promote affiliate products through web 2.0 sites, your own website or social media pages
      Web 2.0 sites? Are back in the 90's
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  • Profile picture of the author Karol Z
    1000% ROI in your first month of internet marketing is not a realistic goal. I would say, try to aim for breaking even. You should invest the money into a hosting plan, a domain, some graphic design for your website, or a possible product your developing, advertising, social media likes/views.
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