Down to your last $50 what's your gameplan?

Maybe just get a job, rather than slave online during such "stressful situation" with only $50?

You have 48 hours to make $53,000, what would you do?

Do you live in America? And your broke! I would go to work on myself first and learn how to manage and just do things a little differently so I can begin to get different results.

These posts really need to stop. There are literally hundreds just like it. Even though in your little experiment you do not want to hear "get a job" it is what you need to do. Sorry, you need to eat and keep a roof over your head. Internet marketing is not a desperation move, it is a business and needs to be treated as such.

al

While I am also sick of these threads, to play nice I'll answer your "hypothetical" question if you answer mine:

You're broke and down to your last $47.53. Your only means to money is by dressing up as a farm animal and singing Norwegian pop songs.
What route are you taking?

Geeez. I thought the answer to my question would be pretty obvious. You can make a lot of money dressing up as a chicken and singing "A-ha" hits from the 80's...

As for your question, there's nothing to be learned by it. As Al said, this is a business, not something you turn to when you're desperate.

So if somehow I were truly broke and down to my last $50, I'd bite the bullet, call up some friends and family and try to get a small loan to tide me over for a month or two. Maybe I'd sell some stuff I don't need. As a very, very last resort, I'd get a home equity loan or draw on my credit cards. There, now I'm not desperate anymore. But I'm not happy, because I'm in debt.

Next step -- and you're not going to like it -- is to get a job. Thankfully, I have over 15 years of experience doing web development, DevOps and system administration. So I'd go through my rolodex of recruiters, shoot out a few emails and I'll likely have interviews scheduled for the next couple of days and at least one job offer in a week or two (though last time I quit a job, I had two job offers -- one a short-term contract and one a permanent position -- in less than one week).

After that, I'd likely work for at least 6 months since most of the job offers will be 6 month contract-to-hire positions and I don't think it's nice to not finish a contract. All during this time I'd be saving as much of that $75/hour (or whatever I negotiated) to pay off my debt and get ready for my next venture. I'd also be thinking about different business ideas, looking for gaps in the market that I could fill. If I thought of something -- or more likely when I thought of something -- I'd just let the ideas stew for a while, allowing myself the freedom to consider other ideas that might even be better.

At a certain point though, if I thought I had an idea that was good enough (and that's a pretty big "if"!), I'd get to work planning. Note that at this point, I'd still be working my other job, making and saving money instead of hemorrhaging it on an idea that's not yet ready for prime time. As the idea took better and better shape, I'd probably fit it into a Business Model Canvas, to make sure that I've really thought about the important facets of my business model.

At that point, the path becomes less clear. A lot depends on what sort of resources I needed to get this venture off the ground. For instance, what if to succeed, I need more money than I have saved? Perhaps then it's time to do a round of "Friends, Family and Fools" funding. Or maybe the venture is small enough that I can continue to work on it in my spare time while I continue at my day job. It really depends. In this hypothetical world you're building, I'd love the project to be really easy, really fast to develop, and extremely profitable on day one -- but we all know how likely that is to happen. Which is fundamentally why these very, very general hypothetical questions are ultimately not so helpful.

If you're starting a business desperate and with only $50 to your name you're at a huge disadvantage. It would be like going to a poker table where the ante is $50 with only $50 to your name. Sure, it's possible to win, but it's going to be really, really hard. You have no margin for error; you have no ability to bluff. You have to have the best hand every single time. That's definitely not a bet I'd take!

Hi Chris,

Definitely get a job. Definitely, definitely get a job.

Here's why: desperation repels good, profitable ideas, and successful people online who'd expand your presence, and it even repels more money. At least in almost every case.

I once went down to 4 pennies in my wallet. That's it. I attempted to work my way out of the hole with blogging. I did make it out. 6 years after the fact. But even then, I still am working to root out poor money limiting beliefs after crafting a neat lifestyle.

When I did have 4 cents I thought I'd go hungry because I hid my financial chaos from everybody. Being worried about food, and losing all I owned, from car to apartment to....everything save my laptop and wallet, I could not conceive making anything more than $5 or $10 because I was paralyzed with fear, trying to survive. Totally irrational, but that type of fear always is.

As for this hypothetical person, I'd say for them to be honest about how they have $50 left to their name. The honesty would reveal some deep past trauma related to money, or related to some deeper childhood experiences, and I'd advise they root them out through meditation, EFT tapping, contemplation, and feeling out the pain. Then, after feeling the pain, they should probably get a job,because making $35 K or $50 K or $70 K a year, so they can save $10 K or 20 K or whatever....

....then, they can move into prospering, confident, biz-building, clear, bold, patient actions, to grow their business.....the same acts that someone with $50 to their name can rarely move into, because their desperation blocks all the ideas and stuff, and leads to ruin.

Just adding my 4 cents on this one Chris

Ryan

I myself have an offline job so, there's no significant problem. Just try not to limit yourself to something. If possible, offline job and business and even consultation can also generate money to support your internet business

I understand what you are going through.

But if you are at your last $50, you have to start applying to jobs. Yes it sucks, but $50 cannot hold the average person as much as it used to decades ago.

Spend the $50 to get some Resume Software to make and send out Resumes to Employers to get interviews for
jobs


- Robert Andrew

Go on facebook search solo ads testimonials, buy clicks to your squeeze page and mail that list offering them low priced products 7-20$ which usually have upsells..... obiously you could use more detiled info

Go down to the local Goodwill, get some cheap interview clothes, and look for a job. Then use the job money to pay bills, and some of the money to invest into marketing.

I believe i'm at that level already. My game plan is to create an SEO blog and work it. I have a friend who started one and now keeps going to the number one spot on every opportunity he joins. I really need to be at that level soon.

i would invest those last $50 to business that have power to give me returns on investment.. there are many business online which does give return on investment but you should be aware of everything and better way of controlling.

Whoa, this thread almost makes me want to pull up a seat, grab some popcorn and watch the drama unfold. To be frank, if I was down to my last 50 bucks I would probably go out and make some quick cash or do some freelance work to build up my bank balance quickly. It's usually feast or famine and over the years I have realised that you need to stash cash for a rainy day so you never get caught. Being proactive and little marketing for my own business usually brings a stack of work in and reminds previous client's to get in touch. I look forward to following this thread

Get a part time job ASAP to pay for daily expenses.

Continue to build your online business when you're free.

Don't give up.

give up!

Throw In The Towel!

For god sakes, I need to eat...

Wow, interesting question and interesting comments.

I agree - first things first. You have to ensure you keep a roof over your head and food in your belly and the same for your family. If you're down to your very last $50 and still able to retain a roof over your head and food in your belly for you and your family and meet all the necessary bills; the $50 then can become an investment.

What's clear is you're not saying whether the above is already sorted. If they're sorted then the question becomes a totally different question.

Yes, I agree - the question may have been asked numerous times for Warriors using their own words to ask the exact same question. However, no question is a silly question - regardless of how many times it has been asked.

If people want to state it's been asked numerous times - how boring - then please do the questioner the courtesy of providing the relevant links to similar threads so the questioner can undertake the relevant research please of these threads to gain further ideas.

Every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of whether the question asked appears to be similar to others stated and has been asked a million times. I also agree, things in IM change very quickly, hence what members may have even undertaken 6 months ago may not be viable in today's IM climate, hence we need members to continually ask similar questions so current information is continually provided to all members, not just to the questioner.

In answer to your question:
If your roof, food and everyday bills are covered and you know they will continually be covered, be this via a day job or whatever; and you're down to your last $50 - which could be the remaining balance of your savings to put into IM, then my 2 cents worth is. Will it work, who knows, however, I don't claim to be a genius when it comes to IM stuff and I'd love you to test it out and then reply on this thread as to what you're results are.

Buy a domain name : cost $15 - have the domain name forwarded to an affiliate product which you can promote.

You now have $35 left. Keep this in the bank.

Hope onto Reddit, YouTube etc. and set up free accounts and promote the hell out of the link (with your domain name) to drive traffic to your affiliate offer by engaging people. Hell even open a free Twitter account if you like and see whether this will assist also.

Do a review video of the affiliate offer and upload to YouTube and again drive traffic to the video either via Reddit and/or Twitter. However be honest with the review giving good Pros and good Cons. Ensure your link is in the description of the video. (Whilst I've yet to fully investigate Reddit a lot of Warriors swear by this platform to drive heaps of traffic to one's site, hence why I suggest this.)

Yes, you can go out and get a day job, however, depending on where you live, this simply might not be the be all and end all - many people are losing their jobs these days. So if you're in this situation, simply allocate some of the time (apart from continually to look for a day job) to drive traffic to your affiliate product. Whilst also undertaking a full review of your talents and skills.

Ensure you choose wisely. Check out Clickbank and JVZoo - free to join - Clickbank is easier to promote vendors products as you don't have to apply. However, also check out Muncheye for an upcoming product launch that resonates with you and simply apply to be an affiliate for the product.

Forget paid traffic at this time as $35 is not going to cut it. Forget web hosting at this time because you usually require 1 year's hosting fees upfront - so at this stage you can't spend the $35 this way in order to develop a landing page etc.

Whilst you're on a roll, then you can start developing your IM Business plan and also a financial plan which clearly articulates all you hope to achieve, and the projected costs to get there; work backwards from the end goal ensuring you article the preceding step until you arrive back to the start. Now you have a plan and a step by step action plan to start implementing.

Once you have sales coming in: rinse and repeat the process, until you have more $$$ of capital to outlay in your new online business - simply one step at a time.

Another option is of the story of a person in a similar situation; he bought a dozen roses and sold them to couples in a restaurant and gradually built a whole business around this one action.

Hence it's more about making a decision and then taking action. Who knows there may be a small gap in the offline world that you could put that $35 towards - thereby as they say - spreading your risk.

Good luck. I hope you do ask heaps and heaps of questions and I hope Warriors regardless of whether they've read the question many times before, treat your questions with the respect it deserves and provide some of their ideas.

The whole idea of sharing is that people come across things that work for them, or they see things differently and by sharing these ideas and perspectives become invaluable for all.

Hope this assists.

The latest stats from AAA say that it costs the average American $9,122 to drive every year. People are up in arms about it.

you can compensate money with time and effort bro ... just like all IM superstars when they first started ...with blood , sweat and a little bit of goodwill inside

Uber to the rescue. For example, you can take your laptop in your car. Then you can type in content while you wait for ride requests to appear on your app. It is win win. All you need is a car.

Hey Chris

You know the saying about how stupid people beat you with experience right! so I am guessing you looked up all the thousands of threads like yours right? or maybe you are beating us with you Experience...!

I am going to drive to my local casino, bet on 7, collect my 38-1 payout, and go back to work.

Buy a bottle of Jack Daniels and some slugs for my .38...

If you have only $50 in your pocket for online marketing, I would suggest you to stop paid marketing and focus on FREE marketing. I hope this helps..

if you have a solid plan, $50 can turn into $50000 ... with solid plan bro

so what is your ideal plan now bro ? plz stop beating around bushes and be serious ..

why is everybody saying bro, bro?

If I were to only have $50 and I needed more money, I would spend all of that money on scratch off tickets, I would probably end up losing more money, but if I tried to use $50 to use on IM, I would probably starve to death before I make any good enough money back lol. That is imagining I didn't have any of my actual businesses, from which I can make money at no expense.

I would join the best real Legacy MLM business I can find and get to work.

Create a Brand without money.... by using Socal Media

I would blow it all on Gin & Tonics and some nibbles

I turn $10 into a hundred over and over again. $50 is a lot of money if you know how to use it. YouTube is raw power, find a low competition keyword that gets like 300-500 searches and enter that into lsigraph and then build a list of keywords that get a combined search volume of 3,000-5,000 searches a month. Keep in mind that you still haven't spent any money yet. Make a video for each of those keywords while adding all the keywords naturally in the video description of every video, add all those videos to a playlist named after your niche or main keyword. Find an offer, cpa does well with YouTube. If you can't make money doing this then you go get a job. Rumor has it that YouTube is getting more searches than Google, which makes sense to an extent. Make 10 videos a day and take that $50 and one month of Fcs Networker and blast the videos. Anchor 50% main keyword keywords and 50% url. Use to blast 100% keyword anchor text but now I can rank videos just using the url as anchor text. Fcs Networker has a $27 plan discount somewhere. Spend $15 on indexification to index your links, spend your last $8 on Death by Captcha. Rinse and repeat.

Last $50? Groceries.

get a part-time job, get a steady flow of income and then contribute some of that into ad campaigns. Create landing pages, offers. The thing about online is that it is very inexpensive. maybe buying good quality traffic and ad space might be costly. If you test correctly you will profit.

You could try out the Ultimate App Maker and go around to businesses around your area and convert their Websites to Apps. If you can copy and paste a link, you can build an Android and iPhone App.

Sell the Apps for $100 each till you build up enough momentum to charge realistic prices of $1,000+. Every business would jump at the chance at an App for $100.


Remember when every business needed a website? Now they are going to need an App!

Gambling. I'd put the remaining $50 on 17 black odd because 35 x $50 = BACK IN THE GAME!

If you live in America, walk across the street illegally, get hit by a car, ensure some pain and suffering, Call William Matter, settle a personal injury claim, and your rich..... And you did not even have to spend your $50....How about that....

I will find a job and save more before doing again

Get a job first -> part time or full time.

Once you're stable financially then start building your online business.

Find a gig on Craigslist or other job boards that offer immediate payment via PayPal. There are a lot of internet research, reviewing products/web sites, curating content that will pay once you are finished. I look for things that can be completed in a few hours. While, I am doing that, I am sending my resume out for long-term, full or part-time jobs, that have a regular pay schedule.

Hate to say it but if you're down to your last $50... Something went terribly awry lol. But if you're really trying to start out, I would search for a well reviewed method in a niche field ie:
- Affiliate Marketing
- PPV/CPA
- Blogging Etc.

Most sites required to be successful offer 30 Day trials to give you a chance to get your feet wet and find 'some' success.
I'm currently doing it now. But luckily had a couple more bucks than $50 ... Good luck


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probably invest in building my email list then doing adswaps and market my service from there

Funny comments on this thread. If you were broke and absolutely had to make money online, your best bet would be either offering a service, or arbitrage. Eithr one could give yo some income to start something else, though neither is easy....

Statistically, you are screwed. Regardless of any posts that that provides some glimpse of hope, the odds would be severely stacked against you!

The safe bet is to save the $50 and try and find a job.

On well, I guess that I would go back to clicking on Traffic exchanges or start pan handling.

Take the 50.00, go to garage sales, resale shops, trade days and flea markets, find some really good bargains, then sell on etsy, ebay or craigslist.

I personally would recommend you to buy a website with Flippa, like the one I have bought. You might have to shell out some extra on hosting, but that is worth it.

Theres a ton of freelancing sites online. you can try it without using your $50

Chris, good to see this went kinda viral, for Warrior

These posts are actually excellent. They simply reveal how angry many Warriors are. Which is good, even though it feels sucky to feel the anger and annoyance in the moment. Because when you clear the anger you're free to step it up 5 or 10 notches on the success ladder.

RB

Get a $10 pro account with UPWork and start doing freelancing. Save money from freelancing and rebuild everything from nothing

Mindset is everything. Have a positive mindset and keep working you will never lose

get a $10 account with UpWork and start freelancing

Love everyones input .I decided that with all the comments I'm going to put together an ebook on this very topic. Each comment that provided a sense of intellectual insight will be used to help someone that is in need. Absolutely astonished by the ability of people to come up with ideas in a position of stress or hard times. Each of you have stated some fantastic ideas. Though I'm not down to my last $50 I'm going to use some of these and see how they actually work.

here is another thread just like this one with some great advice the last one is very good 2 pages this thread

https://www.warriorforum.com/main-in...ld-you-do.html

I guess if your broke and the only money left is $50 guess the best way is to get a job and save that money for food ! not wide to spend it to something that has no assurance in generating income

Pick a niche,
Buy a domain,
write some articles,
do some seo,
use adsense for incoming traffic,
get some search results,
get some advertisement banners,
this all could be done within 50$.
And yes you will earn alot if you work 2 hours a day on it.
for the hosting part, well that can be earned a dollar per month so that's not a big issue.
Hope this will satisfy your questions.
If you need help just reply and i would gladly assist you more.
(P.S people posting above can calm down and ignore this post if they think this post is stupid. Let the moderators decide whats good and what's not)

Do you live in America? And your broke! I would go to work on myself first and learn how to manage and just do things a little differently so I can begin to get different results.

Why not start a part-time job at the nearest retail store. Fast food store can also be good as you sometime get free food. The pay is decent and the work is also not that stressful. Save the $50 for food and other necessities as you will probably have to wait for your first pay. Avoid online marketing as the stress will surely make you go bold.

I would run WSO!

The right question at the right time!
Today, im on my Last 100$, wait me one month and i will update you with my report.
hope that i will get positive one

sometime is not that easy to find fulltime or freelance job to pay bills specially developer one, there is plenty developers there.

My last $50? Lets pretend I have no bills to pay and can spend this 50 dollars on anything else.

Buy and sell on eBay. Or sell my things on eBay. Then move on to drop shipping!

pokemon go is around the corner ..buy a nice bike and go find them hehe

I would buy a domain for $13, build a WordPress site with a theme I already own and list it on Flippa for $9. I haven't completely spent the $50 and I have a good chance to earn a couple of hundred in a few days.

have you run WSO before ?

Check this out https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how...ney-online-483.

I am using same tactics for my own site.

Even if I was at my last $100 I would not look for ways to spend any money, I would instead seek ways to keep my money in my pocket and do online marketing for free.

I would spam the crap outa Youtube. Or other sites LOLLL

have you tried AliExpress method ?

Why you want to earn just 50$ . Go get some job in departmental store.In online idustory you can earn 1000 of dollars if you have skills and mind. Go For freelancing i will suggest you . But don't think about just 50$.

honestly speaking in such a dire situation all you need to do is get a full time job. internet marketing is not gonna support you.

In this situation I will buy a hosting that support Wordpress, it's around $12-$24 a year plus free domain, then I build 1-2 Wordpress sites in some popular niches with high quality content. Then I will flip it on Flippa starter website for around $49 - $69 according to each niches. Repeat these steps if I get sell and try to grow faster.

you can resell services of others without money ( brokerage)

- you can make money too by offering advertising services to improve Alexa

These 2 suggestions here to buy domain name, put up a site and sell the site is actually pretty good.

Its realistic and doable. 1 week and you see a profit.

And you can even make it cheaper, with a 1-2$ domain, free Mobirise site builder,
dont need any WP bloated elephant to build e a site in 10-20 minutes, then list

MULTIPLE sites on these site seller sites. Hey, good chance to make some quick cash!

If you THEN still cry that Internet marketing doesnt work: Now its time to get a job.

Sell your crap on eBay - there you go.

$50 or $50,000

at the end of the day, you gotta pair the right traffic with the right copy (ad/squeeze page) then you gotta give them value and sell related products..

its just that, with $50 its going to take you a long time

best of luck
Ike Paz

I found it amazing that the mods have not caught on the OP is long gone , got what he wanted now it is just a spam fest to get their sig shown

I would go garage sale hopping and thrifting, buy anything I can find to resell on eBay, Amazon, and craigslist.

Get a JOB, it's hard to do anything with $50

if I got nothing online no tools, no connections, I'd probably get a domain and a hosting, start building a business from the knowledge I learn in the past. and start with what I have.

Online money making Not SO easy or so hard. don't take that risk -- search job after that try to findout best way.

https://youtu.be/87rw6Jgje0I

Go to Fiverr and do a bit of work and increase your base line then buy from Alibaba and sell on Amazon.

I'd invest it in a $50 100% comission system then use free marketing to create some 100% $50 sales up to 1-2k then invest into a higher ticket system with a sales team, continue to drive the free traffic, running to both systems.

50 syststem then = paid traffic funds