List building, or CPA or SEO??I need guidence

You could, at least in theory.

I probably wouldn't want to use search-engine traffic for that, myself, but I don't actually do any CPA at all, so that's easy for me to say, isn't it?

And my understanding that most people who do just CPA aren't actually building lists (I don't even promise to be right about that!).

Well, I have to say that paying for traffic and not trying to retain any of it through an opt-in seems to me to be an extraordinary combination. That's definitely not something I'd want to try, myself. It's like trying to run the bath by opening the taps at full volume without putting the plug in the hole first: you're going to lose almost everything you're buying, that way, surely? It's not immediately apparent how that's going to become profitable in the near future?

Here's the thing: you're trying to learn (albeit by experience and experiment) a lot of different things all at the same time. PPC traffic is a real learning-curve of its own, and so are all the other things you're doing, really.

One of the main difficulties with "setting up an IM business" is that when you try lots of different things, and no income results, you don't know what you're doing wrong/badly/inappropriately, and therefore you don't know what to change. It's a very difficult, hit-and-miss situation.

Eew, that's a very difficult situation. Apologies for the disparaging tone, but that's no way to try to start off, online. Very few people "making nothing now" are suddenly making anything significant within another 6 weeks. It can happen, of course: when I started I earned nothing much for 4 months but was then actually making a living 2 months later, and continued to (though I didn't know at the time that I'd continue to!) but I had real skills and a proven business model, and kind of knew what I was doing (by that stage).

I must say: I think it may be "very adventurous indeed" to be spending money on traffic before you know that you're going to earn anything, and before you've really even chosen a business model.

It's very difficult indeed to advise anyone without knowing their circumstances in detail, which isn't really possible in a forum, but it's beginning to sound as if getting a job might be the best plan, here, and learning all this stuff more gradually in your spare time, rather than depending on it all working out well within the next few weeks? I suspect that may be asking quite a lot, really ...

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No, indeed ... I'm not a CPA marketer, but it's not easy to imagine why it would/should.

My impression is that CPA is one of the business models suitable for people who want to avoid listbuilding.

I suspect that the great majority of marketers deriving income from CPA marketing who are also listbuilders, are doing their listbuilding primarily for non-CPA purposes (e.g. they're doing affiliate marketing as well, they have their own products to promote as well, or whatever). Listbuilding professionally and successfully is such a huge subject, and such a big learning curve in itself, that (for myself) I'd be wanting a bigger and better monetization-method than a typical CPA one, at the other end of it.

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