Help. I'm At the End Of My Rope. I'll almost do anything...

depends on what my talents are I guess.....
If I needed quick money I would hire out my programming skills.
At a low cost of $25 per hour that's only a part time job...

Why don't you put up a simple blog at wordpress.com to showcase your article writing talent and use this forum and others to find clients. I for one know a lot of people that will pay good money for quality articles (me included). :-)

Hope this helps! --Mike

I think you summed up the problem there.

If you'd stuck to one thing, almost no matter what - you'd probably be there now.

The question I have is - what makes you think that it's a reasonable expectation for you to be making $100 a day online?

Because other people are?

The fact that you've said in the title of the thread that you'll do "almost anything" is a sign that you don't have any focus or any real expectation of where your value lays.

There are a lot of ways to make money, but they're not for everyone.

No-one can give you your answer because only YOU can decide what you will put yourself 100% behind.

Life's too short to be chasing money and doing just any old thing that can make a dollar - your life is too valuable to sell yourself short like that.

Decide what you want your life to be about. Sometimes it's ok to decide that your day job really isn't your dream job and is there to financially support you achieving your real fulfillment elsewhere - but it shouldn't be a permanent situation.

At some point you need to decide what your life is all about and what fulfills you - THEN use the things you know about the Internet to choose activities that support that.

The internet is just a mechanism - a tool - to be used 'on' something.

If you don't have the business, the plan, the activity that you want IM to support - you'll never get the answer to your question to be right.

Andy

If $100 a day was my goal and I'd been trying to hit that target for a while without success, I'd change my goal to making $10 a day.

Give yourself a smaller target that you can reach, and then give yourself some credit for reaching it. Then build very slowly.

How much are you making a day at the moment?

If $100 a day were my goal then...

1. I'd calm down, that's an easy goal
2. Identify a niche, paying particular attention to my knowledge and interest as well as it's specificness (i dont' think that's a word)..if it's too broad or saturated, narrow it down. Remember you are targeting a need...no, a DESIRE in that niche, something people desperately want to know.
3. Setup a squeeze page for that niche, VERY specific to the exact desires in question
4. Send targeted traffic to the squeeze page.
5. Send relevant and informative emails to the list, develop a relationship, use article sites if you need to for information for your emails.
6. Market affiliate products to your list after your relationship is developed...do it in a "nice" way of course and ONLY relevant and helpful products or services.

As long as you have a list, and that's the key, in any niche, you can make daily income solely from a well structured email marketing campaign.

Marc,

That was pretty hard core lol

I'm making money and I think you just motivated me to make more haha

In your 18 months, have you bounced from thing to thing, and bought lots of stuff? Do you feel you are an expert at anything, or have you never really stuck with anything long enough to figure it out?

If you need cash in a hurry and haven't gotten it yet, I'd say your best bet would be to sell your time, either in linkbuilding, writing, or designing. Using elance or other things like it can probably earn you $20/hour or so, and can help show that you can make some income at this, to buy you more time with your SO.

However, part of your problem could be that you haven't stuck with anything. Most of the "systems" you've probably bought all claim to work overnight, and they do. You work hard on them for 90 days, and on the 91st day you are suddenly making money. Giving up after 30 means you'll be broke forever.

Hi Arlin,
believe me when I say that I feel your pain, because I have been in that exact spot more often than I care to remember. The thing is that even though it may be a bit difficult to see right now, you already have everything going for you - you already have the ingredients, it's just a matter of connecting the dots, putting it all together so that you can reach your goal. For one thing you have PERSEVERANCE, and this is a major characteristic for success. 99% of the people whom you meet, do not possess this remarkable gift, which is really a pre-requisite for success. Another of your gifts, as Marc also acknowledged, is your unique ability to write. This is a very marketable and in-demand skill. I can tell you, as one who has been in business for around 28 years, that a good writer is critical to the success of many businesses. Marc also said that $10 per article may be a bit steep - maybe for internet-savvy marketers, but for everyone else offline and outside of IM, $30 - 100+ is the norm, if not a bargain, as I have paid for years in my offline businesses, where $10 per article is unheard of. I guess what I am trying to say is to look for the bunches of businesses that also exist outside of the internet marketing realm - so stuff like writing press releases, non-IM website content, marketing materials for companies, etc.

As for the "find a mentor" suggestion, I will also agree with Marc on this one (with no disrespect to Steven, of course). In the pre-internet days, it was great if you could find that one guy who would take you under his wing and show you the ropes of his business, but there were (and still are) a lot of trade-offs that went with that. However, with the internet, you can get tons of that same information with just a few clicks, without having to indenture yourself to anyone. In fact, as a WF member, you have more mentors than you can shake a stick at, and you are not eternally obligated to anyone here who offers you their best information, of which there have been quite a few good ones already posted.

While I may not have the magic answer (others in this post may provide the right "vehicle" to get you there), I feel strongly that you will ultimately succeed in reaching your goals, because you seem to have a clear vision, you are not afraid of taking action, and again, you have the all important "stick-to-it-iveness" trait. These are the success qualities of highly successful entrepreneurs - and you already have them! As for your writer's block, I think that it is most likely due in large part to the stress of not making any money, but that will change soon. Just see this moment as a pothole on the road to your success, which you will no doubt surmount.

See you at the top!

Regards,
Gerry

Provide some links to some of your articles and if they're as good as you say then I'd be happy to pay $10 for full rights to an original article. 10 a day and you'd be on target. (Just a thought... it might not be the direction that you were wanting to head in, but I know that I get sick and tired of the crap quality of articles that are usually on offer. If you can provide better quality you could be on a winner.)

Ta
Kristy

Hello Arlin
I am just setting out on a course following Alex Jeffeys as my mentor. I suggest you follow his advice and the strategies I am following. I am not keeping up with all the modules and homework as the course is moving at a fast pace, however, Alex has recorded everything and I have copies to refer to at any time. If it were not for being slow with some of the homework I would have my blog up to date.
I sugest you visit my blog, see the strategy being taught and apply it yourself.

I see you have a lot of links to your name on Google. How big is your mailing list? Have you been building one? If not you will need to start on so that you will be able to market to your list in the future. This should set you up to reach your target and shoot past it eventually,

Hi Arlin,

I've certainly been there before. When you consider that 17 year old girls are making $5,000+ a month selling makeup from YouTube videos, $100 per day is not too much to ask at all.

Some things you can do today would be to add:

* affiliate links to the products at amazon, etc.
* adsense to your pages, articles, etc.
* a free ebook and newsletter opt-in.

I'd also get something ready to post about the PGA. Tiger's looking very good for #15.

Regards,
Matt

Hi Arlin.

First thing is to take a deep breath and relax. desperation gets you nowhere.

I somewhat agree with Marc. Your solution is in offering an article writing service and you can add submission to the top three articles directories.

gain knowledge on how to get it started, then just do it.

also focus on one thing.

i know you hear the term multiple streams of income, but thats usually set up in a downline builder. where you refer someone to one website and inside are multiple programs for you join. easier that way, then running around promoting a bunch of referral links.

anyway, build your service, thats income you can bank on.

much success

Sharon

Write a product about how to write 5-6 articles and hour, give it away for free, treat your list well, and sell them affiliate products

But if you've jumped from product to product, you probably know quite a bit about every aspect of IM. You might want to consider offline marketing.

If you can create websites, you can charge $300-$1000 for each website you create, and people will pay that much. You can even make them in less than a day. (At least I can)

Just talk to some local businesses, send out some targeted letters etc. Sell them a listbuilding service, and charge a monthly fee for upkeep, and if you can write, you can charge extra to write good emails for them as well.

Create a website where you showcase your skills, order professional business cards, register your business, and go out to meet business owners. I've heard networking meetings are great.

At least I would say offline is the fastest way to potential profits. You can actually make $500+ today, if you just ask a few people if they need a professionally created website.

Good luck!
- Preben

Can you show us your websites that you sell through? Are we talking about those:

Your Pro Golf Swing

Wise Parenting Tips

If that is the case I must say, that as visitor of those pages I was not really sure what they are. Are you selling anything or just blogging? They are too general. It takes few minutes to have idea with your sites what you want visitors to do. I am sure 90% of visitors do not stay at your webiste that long...

Show us your work - we will see where is the problem. Because IF there are people that earn money, and your are not, it means that you do the wrong things. Search for them and change them.

@MarcRodill

I have staff that could use a virtual one of you on their desks..lol

That was some straight talkin', dude. I like it.

Peace

Jay

Wagenheim, Rodill, Andyhenry...you guys kinda "shoot from the hip", but I like straight talkers. I value what you've told me. I have to assume that you've been successful and know your stuff.
I've primarily promoted affiliates and my own sites through articles. I started off with maybe 15-20 articles per site. Now i'm down to around five per week all inclusive. I guess I got a bit discouraged because I felt I'd written enough to get at least a few nibbles.

Frankly,I see articles out there with "gobbled grammar" and no sense of form and wonder why these writers claim success and I can't.
I finally decided that I must be picking the wrong niches.(but I find it hard to believe that people are exclusively interested in sex,gambling, and beer).
Surely someone out there wants to learn how to be a better person, a better parent, a better golfer, or a physically fit specimen.

Early on I got slapped several times by EzineArticles because my normal writing style is "head on and tough guy". I had to learn to do stuff like "Three Steps To Whiter Teeth...,
Two Things To Never Say To Your Postman...etc.
I'm ashamed to say I've written some articles about "Internet Marketing"...like I was speaking from experience. Hey, the stuff's out there and easy to parrot. I wonder when all the tinsel is pulled back, how many "Gurus" really make as much as they claim.

I sent emails to seven different "Gurus" asking them to prove to me that their techniques worked on topics other than "Internet Marketing". No takers.

Anyway thanks for your words...a few hurt me a little, because I've really done a lot more than I can tell about here. But I take it all to heart.

You can do small things to help you get started and your wife smiling.

You write articles so you can maybe write some articles for people. Lots of people are desperately looking for good article writers. It may not bring in much but also it would not take you that long to write 5 good articles daily.

5x $4 = 20
$20 x 7 = $140 weekly x 4 = $560 month for 2-3hours work perday

you can use that money to buy important things for your business like Angelas links

join SB101

Join a bootcamp and start from scratch again

The main thing though is you have to cut all the crap! Delete all those useless ebooks and promos! Stick to one business model but follow it consistently!

Think of it like this if you had a jumper you have not worn in 6 months would you keep it? Clean out all the junk and start from scratch.

Also this is a great place to find customers as the WF gets a lot of guests that buy services even if they don't belong to this forum.

Classic example I never knew of warrior forum - I was looking to buy stock music and found a great deal from a WF member. I did not join up to WF but I purchased her music from the public link - and am very happy with her music would have cost me 10x as much to purchase elsewhere.

Think outside the box.

Ouch!

Even though those words are harsh and cut like a knife.....They are the truth and the reality that you (we) have to face if you are gonna make it in this business.

I pinned this one up on my pc for reminders!!