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Any real Help would be appreciated

by poppss
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My story:
I will try to make my story as short as possible, so here goes.

After my wife and I lost our jobs about 2 years ago, I made up my mind to buckle down and earn money online. Being that we are both not the most healthy people, this looked like the only way to keep an income coming in.

Being in our low 60's of age, too young to retire, too old to be hired by employer's, I figure my best bet would be to become an affiliate marketer full time. About a 1 1/2 years ago, I began to run PPC ads and started to make a few sales, but not much.

I wrote articles and posted on many different article sites, wrote ads, and spent 12-14 hours a day trying to get traffic. As things were looking up, sales stopped completely, articles went from page 1 or 2 to nowhere to be found.

Went from 1 or 2 sales a week to 0 overnight. I tried to find out why this happened, and only found that Google had changed. I have tried so many program's and systems and spent so much time and money, only to get to a very dangerous point in my life.

Now, with a very sickly wife and not so healthy myself, and running out of money, I'm asking for some help, something I've never done before. I have always taken care of my family, ALWAYS, but now it looks like for the first time in my life I have come to desperate times.

The best place I could think of is here at the Warrior Forum. This to me has always been a place that amazing people reside. I think if I can get any help, this would be the place to get it.

I don't expect a hand out from anyone, but I'm just getting very frustrated with all the garbage being sold online. It's hard to believe that there are so many people taking money for stuff that is misleading, and just don't work, or just plain lies.

I still have about 18 Squidoo lenses online, and about 10 blogger blogs. I had to shut down my websites for lack of money. I am on my own, with no help from anyone. I tried to get my daughter to help me, but she has no interest.

I have been an affiliate, part time, since 2000, learning everything on my own, through trial and error. Spending well over $10,000 and thousands of hours just trying to get it figured out. Each time things started to "take off", something would change, and I would
be back to the start all over again.

Now I do know that most of my problem is me, but my eyes are all that sees what I do, right or wrong. It sure isn't that I just waited for something good to happen, I worked every day, as I do now, but now its something that I have to make work.

I have a wife that has stuck by me for all these years, never complaining about the money I spent, and the money I was scammed out of, thousands of dollars, which we are still paying for!

Enough of my sad story. Maybe I'm just looking for a way to stop my frustration, and get rid of the depression I'm in, I don't know.

In conclusion, maybe I can hear from someone that has a REAL way to earn $400-$500 a week online, with no BS story how to make $1,000 an hour that will never work. Or something that I just can't afford.

I'm sorry for the length of this post, but it really is the short version.

Thanks
Don (Poppss)

PS: If you have any advise, not sarcasm, that can help in any way, please send an email or reply to this post.

Thank you for reading.
  • Profile picture of the author STfly
    I think you are good writer. Maybe you should try like copywriter. As for affiliates, I don`t know much about it but it looks like you shouldn't spend so much money on tutorials in that subject. People who sells that are just making money online. Everything you need to know you can find on Internet for free. Anyway I wish you all best in life.
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    • Profile picture of the author poppss
      Originally Posted by STfly View Post

      I think you are good writer. Maybe you should try like copywriter. As for affiliates, I don`t know much about it but it looks like you shouldn't spend so much money on tutorials in that subject. People who sells that are just making money online. Everything you need to know you can find on Internet for free. Anyway I wish you all best in life.
      Thanks Stfly, but I really don't think of myself as a good writer. Also, I don't think I would be able to write for anyone. Maybe I just put myself down, I don't know.

      But I do thank you for your comment.
      Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Roy
    The #1 way, almost fail safe solution, especially Internet marketing is to SELL WHAT YOU KNOW.

    That could mean services, design, maybe providing small product.

    But, since you're fluent creating squidoo lenses, and writing articles, why not post a Warriors for Hire ad to create squidoo lenses and articles to help build traffic and backlinks for some other Warriors?

    9 times out of 10, in Internet Marketing, if you know how to do something productive in the business, you can do it for someone else and make some money. There are always marketers looking for a great way to outsource their work.
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    • Profile picture of the author poppss
      Originally Posted by friend View Post

      The #1 way, almost fail safe solution, especially Internet marketing is to SELL WHAT YOU KNOW.

      That could mean services, design, maybe providing small product.

      But, since you're fluent creating squidoo lenses, and writing articles, why not post a Warriors for Hire ad to create squidoo lenses and articles to help build traffic and backlinks for some other Warriors?

      9 times out of 10, in Internet Marketing, if you know how to do something productive in the business, you can do it for someone else and make some money. There are always marketers looking for a great way to outsource their work.
      Friend, thanks for reading and making suggestions. In my latter years I've had more and more problems with remembering such simple tasks as building sites or articles. I don't mind doing this type of work for myself because I only need to please myself.

      If working on a blog or article for someone else, its something that would make me uneasy, knowing I had to PLEASE a boss.

      I truly thank you for your advise and I will think about it if I find no other way to go. I am a very shy person, no very open, which is one reason I almost never ask for help, maybe also a little stubborn too.

      Thanks again
      Don
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      • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
        Hi Don,

        I've given this advice to others here but I think it will help you more than it has helped others. I say that because folks our age have a wide varieties of experiences under our belts and we also have learned how to use all 26 letters of the alphabet.

        Tiffany Dow is a Warrior here who anybody who knows her can vouch for. She sells a product that could turn your life around. The link to her website is PLR ATM Official Site By Tiffany Dow

        The premise is to take your writing skills and apply them in a way that gives you an income. If you do nothing else, go to her site and watch her video. I don't own her product (yet) but I can personally tell you she flat out knows her stuff.

        ~Bill
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        • Profile picture of the author poppss
          Thanks Bill, I just went to the site you listed and it looks very interesting to me. I watched the video and browsed quickly through the sales page. I'm going to read it all through and see if this is something I can do.

          Building a website is no problem, its just money that is getting very tight.

          Thanks again for the REAL info. No BS, and that's what I need.
          Don
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      • Profile picture of the author Adam Roy
        Originally Posted by poppss View Post

        Friend, thanks for reading and making suggestions. In my latter years I've had more and more problems with remembering such simple tasks as building sites or articles. I don't mind doing this type of work for myself because I only need to please myself.

        If working on a blog or article for someone else, its something that would make me uneasy, knowing I had to PLEASE a boss.

        I truly thank you for your advise and I will think about it if I find no other way to go. I am a very shy person, no very open, which is one reason I almost never ask for help, maybe also a little stubborn too.

        Thanks again
        Don
        You're welcome. Don't worry about being shy, have you heard of 'ghostwriting'? Your completely behind your screen name and your reviews, that's all.
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  • Profile picture of the author 2ndopkate
    Poppss,

    I stumbled around a lot of stuff and finally found a merchant and a niche I could write articles about and make money. My advice is if you can write with comfort, some folks hate it, then find a product to promote to article directories. I don't promise you will replace your income, but you will start the stream to flowing.

    Best,

    Kater
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    • Profile picture of the author poppss
      Originally Posted by 2ndopkate View Post

      Poppss,

      I stumbled around a lot of stuff and finally found a merchant and a niche I could write articles about and make money. My advice is if you can write with comfort, some folks hate it, then find a product to promote to article directories. I don't promise you will replace your income, but you will start the stream to flowing.

      Best,

      Kater
      2ndopkate, thank you for your reply. I have no idea what my problem has been because all I've been doing is writing articles and submitting to article directories. At the very beginning it started to work, then for some reason, just stopped working.

      I don't like to write when nothing good comes from it, and that's what has seemed to happen. It gets very frustrating when you sit at the keyboard for 12 hours a day, just writing and you get no return. Very depressing.

      Bill's reply looks like it has some potential for me, possibly. I'm just not sure yet, but it is something to think about, and look into. I have been using Clickbank for so long that I feel like too many new people are selling junk, using very misleading sales gimmicks.

      So maybe it is time to jump ship, and go off course just a bit. But what you say is true, but for me it just may not worth sticking it out, although some of the older programs I have been promoting still sell good, just not for me for an unknown reason.

      Who knows what's going to happen, I will probably go back to affiliate promotions, but only on the side burner. Maybe I can figure out what went wrong.

      Thank you so much for your reply to my uncertain financial future.
      Don
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