Is $1000 Enough?

I would go with either TrafficVance or Lead Impact

I'd say $1000 is a good start, it's impossible to predict on how long it will take before you turn around a profit. Other things to take into consideration is expenses like hosting and domains.

Do you have any prior experience? Do you know which traffic source(s) interest you?

Hey Chris,

Looks like you've had a variety of answers here. I personally started off with about $1000 to test with but you need to spend it somewhat-conservatively. I've seen people just blow through 2k+ and spend it on about 10 campaigns!

This is what I'd do.

1. Sign up with 50onred - $500 minumum. LI & TV are both 1k minimum right now so 50onred would be a better start imo.
2. Sign up to some good CPA affiliate networks, maxbounty, peerfly, wolfstormmedia are some good ones.
3. Start testing CPA campaigns - split test between 1 landing page & direct linking. Have a $20 budget for each one.
4. Sign up to a paid affiliate forum, (Im with affplaybook) and post a 'follow along' there so you can be guided through the process until you make it successful.

All the best

$1000 is enough to be able to test a few campaigns for most types of traffic, whether it'll be enough for you to be able to build a profitable campaign is a different question. Having someone there to push you in the right direction minimizing mistakes and loss helps though.

@Mateenyall

thanks for sharing... I did not know that there are paid aff forum out there...

however the affplaybook is so expensive... but I think it is very worth it membership. I saw the small video and I can tell it has everything that is needed to be successful.

$1000 is a very realistic budget to start out with.

Yes you can start with this budget, let us now how is going once you have everything up

$1000 can be very good budget if you focus on one trafficking method. don't just give up after you lose $200 and head over to some other paid traffic source.

test your campaigns, tweak your landing pages. this forum is really a source of great ideas and helful people who can help you to reach your goal...and when i say that, i mean - read posts from a trusted warriors. it is more useful than some BS cheap ebooks. you can learn a lot more by following greedy, ppc coach, william, kenster and similar guys, then if you are constantly buying ebooks.

like mateenyall said, find a good aff forum. read, test, share results and thought with like-minded people.

i would go into media buying for the start or even ppc if you have any experience. ppc is very hard but it is not a rocket science. first i would recommend to read

- adwords for dummies
- sams teach yourself google adwords

then head over to cashvertising which is the most inspirational book for marketing, period!

if you need more information, read 101 landing page optimization tips, it is on the forum somewhere.

don't be afraid to ask for help. also if you go for media buying i suggest chad hamzeh "traffic blackbook" as a great source of information. otherwise, get into cpa superstars (kenster and william souza) or william's paid marketing coaching.

greedy's reports are also a good way to start. not to forgot to mention ppc coach forum

You can also start with 50 on Red for $500, or Media Traffic for $200

Traffic is not as good on MT, but I have found it has gotten better recently

i made $500 with $450 with my firts big investment on paid traffic
not very good ROI but you get better with time, you have to learn how to twist it
after that you write your own checks

Many people will say yes.

I will say no.

You have to look at it like getting a career. If you want a career/business in online marketing, you've got to have a heavy investment in it - with time and money and plenty of it.

If you want a career as an office PR manager or a video game developer, its likely you'll have to invest in an education to get you there. A college bachelors degree at minimum usually. That can be anywhere from 5 - 50000 dollars, or more, realistically.

You can't shy away from the fact that just because its an "at home job", it is still a business, and you can't be afraid to invest all that you can into it.

Bare minimum for a testing and rotating basis (spending all, then rotating the cash back in as you get paid), would be around 2-2.5k.

You'll be golden around 10k ready to go. It's worth the investment. Sell a car, rent out a room in your house, sell all your games or things you just don't use and put it towards your business.

$1,000 is a good budget for a start only if you are going to do the job yourself.

If you start outsourcing, soon you would have paid for charges and cost of labour unknowingly that won't give you the value for your money.

Think about it, if you are to create a site, integrate follow up system, drive traffic to it using SE, videos and others and if you are to outsource these projects.

Try LeadImpact, great for the beginning.

Test as much as you can afford. Put $250 - 500 into smaller more targeted campaigns as a test. The more broad you target, the more you'll have to invest. It's also unlikely that you will find 20 cent clicks on 1st tier traffic unless you already know what you are doing.

Justin, what do you class as 1st tier traffic?