Need Guidance To Get A Solid Foundation

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Hello,

Way back when you could write an article on ezinearticles, put an affiliate link in the author resource box, and actually get sales from it, I used to do internet marketing. However, I didn't really feel it was something I wanted to do and had a series of personal problems so I drifted away from this. Today, I need to do this. It's no longer optional for me. Need as in, I'll be homeless and starve and there is no more traditional alternative for me to fall back on. I have to do it and make it work, and I don't mean earn a few bucks here and there, I mean a full time living. However, I am operating under some limitations:

- I can only handle payments (in and out) by paypal.
- I have absolutely no money to get started.
- I have no idea how to get started. I know a lot of theory but actually putting it into practice? I don't know.
- I need to start generating some results ASAP.

I'm open to some sort of freelance work initially but I want to build a business, not get an internet job.

Any guidance? I'm really lost here, quite overwhelmed. I did adsense in the past but between nonsense barriers with getting payment from overseas and my bank account being negative (and therefore any earnings automatically going to pay down debt), it is no longer viable.
#foundation #guidance #solid
  • Profile picture of the author BernardR
    Sorry to hear about your circumstances and hope things improve for your quickly.

    If I was in your position i.e. needing immediate Cash I would do gigs on Fiverr and maybe a site like Free lancer i.e. sell skill & time for money.

    Also look at getting a job, anything ... delivering pizzas, cleaning offices what ever.

    Once I got a little money running I would start building a business

    1) Create some products and sell them as WSO here
    2) Start building a list immediately.

    All this whilst reading and learning as much as I can about IM

    BERNARD
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  • Profile picture of the author Nytshade
    What I like is that you have a strong "why", but you have to understand that at 1st it will be an internet job and become easier as time goes by.

    Creating a product is not an option because you'll need to invest in a lot of stuff. If I was in your shoes, with no budget.

    I would go to clickbank and choose 1 product (that has a video sales letter), create a free blogger blog and pay $1 for an aweber account. Or simply take the free 30 days trial from Getresponse. Then create a squeeze page telling people to optin to watch the video. Then I keep promoting that product and later promote related stuff till I generate a steady income. There's a lot of ways to get a free squeeze page by the way, no need to use blogger.

    For traffic I would use social media sites, guest blogging, forums and blog commenting (not for backlinks, for traffic). That's the easiest way for me, then I would scale it up by buying a domain and moving to wordpress to use things like optimizepress. Then I can think about creating a product.

    Hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author andreribeiro
      I stumbled upon this udemy thing. It seems like it could work as an avenue but I have no idea. It seems they pay teachers by paypal?
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