Came across $5k - how can I turn it into $500k

With your skills I suppose it's best invested in promoting what you do, eg market your services.

Maybe you can try your hand at the stock markets?

Less responsible answer would be the race tracks.

Its more about how long you can keep that amount intact , than increase it , beware the online market field is ruthless .... I recommend dropshipping though and you would need only 10% of that amount to start , and if you are lucky you would be able to triple your initial starting amount in a month

This has nothing to do with pancakes or SEO.

Create more similar sites like that and spend time in upselling them from the previous pricing.

You can buy stocks for new startups or build up an e-commerce business.

James

For the past 16+ years, I have been monetizing purchased data (email) using PPL (pay per lead) offers.

With PPL offers, there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form to generate a commission, so conversion rates are typically much higher than offers that require a purchase.

I have for the most part done best with offers that have a make, get or save money angle / benefit. This is because they tend to have the greatest mass appeal, will be of interest to the largest possible audience. This way the potential exists to produce high volume and cross promote offers.

Basically I acquire data(email) that the users have given permission to receive 3rd party messages. Then based on what the users are interested in (for each data source), I then send them a PPL offer that matches their interest.

That's the real short of the long, obviously there is more to it. Done right it can be very profitable. Everyone that I know that is in the business, that knows what they are doing, does 6-7 figures. While that is a huge range, much comes down to ones ability to scale and effectively manage the infrastructure that comes with scaling.

Anyway, something to think about.

Before you go further, pause, and read "Think and Grow Rich" By Napoleon Hill, seriously, and find in there "The Secret" that made many wealthy, worked for me!

Jim

"NO pancakes or SEO" - in that case invest it with a high ROI.

i would split it into 3 high yield investments, you double your money every 40 days.
My blog link about that here got deleted, but you always could ask me in person.

Hey there well done on your site sale!


I will say 2 things:


1) find or pay for a mentor


2) invest in the tools you need!