The $4000 challenge

by strugglingartist

Posted: 14 years ago 16 replies

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Hi everyone

I'm a very talented painter. At least that's what they say. 'They' won't give me lots of money, though. So I don't have enough time to paint because I have to work a ****ty day job just to get by.

Here's my plan: I'm willing to put a hold on my painting and work in Internet Marketing instead. I can put in 6 hours every night for the next 6 months.

At the end of that period, I need to earn $4000 a month more or less automatically (shouldn't take more than an hour or two of work each day). That should allow me to take care of my wife and kids. It will also allow me to focus on my dream and paint all day like a madman.

What system do you suggest I use? What course should I buy? What strategy should I follow? On this forum, I've read good things about Affiloblueprint and Niche Blitzkrieg.

I suffer from crippling shyness, so sadly, blogging or video marketing is out of the question. To be honest, I hope that if people google my name, it will return 0 results... Yeah, I know I'm weird.

Obviously, I'm not in it for the millions. There's tons of people who are better marketers than me. Like you guys. I'm fine with you making the millions. I'm looking for a solid strategy to build an automated income for the next 2 or 3 years so I can focus on my passion. I believe it's possible, and I'm willing to put in the hours. I'm just too confused with all the options out there.

Your advice is truly appreciated.

Daniel

#advice #challenge #newbie #solid

strugglingartist 14 years ago

Google Sniper? Micro Niche Finder? Lazy Affiliate? Wealthy Affiliate? Crowd Mountain? Niche Profit Classroom? Come on, guys. Don't leave me hanging here. I can get this information nowhere else.
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Richard A.Cox 14 years ago

Originally Posted by strugglingartist

I suffer from crippling shyness, so sadly, blogging or video marketing is out of the question.

Originally Posted by strugglingartist

That should allow me to take care of my wife and kids.

These statements seem at odds with each other, so I will assume you mean a lack of self-confidence.

Anyway, my only advice for you would be to spend some time reading the posts on this forum, maybe starting with this one.

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Might give you some ideas.
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avani 14 years ago

Hey Daniel,

Totally understand the crippling shyness bit - and I see that it rules out video marketing, but nothing should keep you from blogging. Use a pen name or something, if you want do keep the 0-results record on Google! That's just a thought.

I'm in a rather similar situation - although I don't really have dependents, I do have myself to maintain. I'm supposedly a talented writer (although I am not sure I agree - I must confess that I do enjoy writing - and of course, I mean creative writing, not ezine articles ). I have hopes/goals that are very similar to your own.

Although I'm not an expert who can layout a roadmap that will guarantee results, if you'd like to chat up for some quick brainstorming, we can catch up over email. I have a couple of ideas brewing for which I could use collaboration. Let me know?

Cheers,
Avani
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Gasen 14 years ago

Why don't you market your paintings?

You can also create a "how to" guide on painting. I am sure you have plenty of tips and tricks to guide aspiring artists. If you want to follow this route, check out Kevin Riley's WSO on product creation. http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...st-3-days.html It will get you up and running in 3 days.

I am not an affiliate for Kevin's product
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Jeremyc 14 years ago

You should make a website for your paintings and sell them there so its a internet marketing and art business.Then just do pleanty of seo and get it high
Or you could make several adsense sites for the keyword how to pain Ect
And get them earning $10 And you can build on from there.
Good luck.
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Nathi Fakudze 14 years ago

Without a shadow of a doubt, GOOGLE SNIPER and do it now or try and click on my signature links, but as newbie definitely GOOGLE SNIPER is for you, for quick results. You have to take action though. Goodluck
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- Tina Golden 14 years ago
  
  Bless5 - Your links are not set up right and do not work. And, if they are supposed to be affiliate links, they aren't allowed, by the way.
  
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  fatakha 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises
  
  Bless5 - Your links are not set up right and do not work. And, if they are supposed to be affiliate links, they aren't allowed, by the way.
  
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  I'm sure you'll be successfull as far as you never give up, someone will hire you soon and you'll be famous like my students. He has been hired by korean businessman to display in exclusive place. Don't be afraid of your talent guy
  
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wizard22

14 years ago

Originally Posted by strugglingartist

Here's my plan: I'm willing to put a hold on my painting and work in Internet Marketing instead. I can put in 6 hours every night for the next 6 months.

Nice. 6 hours per day should be enough for Internet Marketing niche.

There can be two options for you:

1.) Create your own product. Something you enjoy. You are an artist, a painter, so can you convert your talent in some kind of information product, a digital download kind of product. It can be a tutorial or something that comes to your mind.

It should be something that other artists in this world are a.] looking for and b.] willing to pay.

-- other option --

2.) Promote other top-selling items and earn an affiliate commission. Start with only one top-selling product. Create your affiliate account and send traffic to your affiliate link for this product.

Focus on getting results fast. Once you have made a few sales, fine-tune your strategy.

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Obviously in both the above methods, many variations are possible.

Just ask on this forum. You will great people here and they are very supportive. I will also try to answer your queries where possible.

Best of luck.

Be committed to 6 hours a day and a continuous learning....

:-)

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Nathi Fakudze

14 years ago

Cheers Tina for letting me know, I have removed them...

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strugglingartist

14 years ago

Wow! Thank you so much for your support. This is priceless.

I've been taking an in-depth look at Google Sniper now. Michelle MacPhearson explains the Sniper niche finding process in one of her videos, so I got a free trial of Market Samurai and spent the whole weekend looking for niches.

It is REALLY hard to find those niches (100 searches a day, less than 7000 competing pages for the exact phrase). I found 27 of them. For every single one of them there was already at least one sniper site present.

Also, Mike Iser dot com has been building one Sniper site each day for 100 days now. On some days he earns as little as $20 through Clickbank. That's pretty poor conversion for 100 sites. He has even started to put Adsense on his pages.

Are these the kinds of results I should expect?

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Chris Koltai

14 years ago

Originally Posted by strugglingartist

27 niches with sniper sites present? Sounds like you found yourself a gold mine! Make sniper sites for those keywords, then do a bit of link building. Most snipers don't bother to build links, so a few can go a long way.

As far as the 100 sites, I'd like to know where they're ranking and if he's bothering with doing competition analysis on his keywords. I find that every site I get up to the top 3 of Google increases my income by at least $100 / month. If a site isn't climbing within the first month of creating it, I set a reminder to check it in a month and I don't worry about it. Some sites fail, it's no biggie because all you've invested is a couple of hours and 10 bucks for a domain name.

Sounds like Mike has more than 3 times the amount of sites I have, and from checking a few of his earnings posts, he and I seem to be making about the same money off of them.

And yeah, days as low as $20, or even $0 happen. It's a sales based business. Sometimes you make $200 before you roll your lazy self out of bed, other days you get nothing. Supplementing Clickbank-based sites with physical products, CPA offers, and AdSense (all of which convert better but pay less) allows you to establish a cushion of more reliable income, which is what I'm going to be working on for 2010. Stable income is rarely a bad thing

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strugglingartist 14 years ago

Thanks for the great tip Chris. I'll look into physical products on eBay now.
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- strugglingartist 14 years ago
  
  I found some pretty sweet keywords in Swedish. Competition is very low. I assume conversion would be low too, since we're not that used to buying over the internet. But still... It's worth a try.
  
  Does anyone know how to rank high on Google for searches from a specific country?
  
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tomer1 14 years ago

"There's tons of people who are better marketers than me"

You should build a websites for your paintings first. include Affiliate Program

Then contact marketers and pay then commission!

I found this forum excellent partners and most importantly, reliable peoples

lot of good-luck my friend
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Mike Adams 14 years ago

If you know how to paint... you should have a membership site about painting, how to paint etc allow people to pay you monthly and teach them how to paint.

Give them a free ebook on painting tips... say tip 1-10 of 50 tips. If they want all the tips have them billed monthly. If $4,000 is your goal then charge 500 people $8 a month or 250 people $16 a month... get the picture.

You can get even more creative if you have alot of content then charge them say $8 a week (then you only need 117 members)

Use Wordpress and the MemberWing. This will allow you to run your continuity program.

Good Luck
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