Plan to invest money some 100k

It all depends on what you want that money to do for you when you invest it. That determines your investing strategy. If I was investing that much, I'd go for something safe and generally reliable, like a low yield municipal bond. But, if your goals are different, and you have more tolerance for risk, investing in an online business may be just the thing for you.

Frank, hows it going man?

Just read your post.

First off, I would start much smaller on what I'd invest - more like $10K

Once I see a return, THEN of course I would scale it.

Let's be real . . $100K is a lot of money lol

As far as what to invest it in, that would depend on how quickly I could get a turnaround.

If I were you, I'd see what I could do offline with managing a McDonalds LOL . . . after all, it is the BEST business model on the planet.

Just my two cents, but I hope this helps!

-Joshua "Nazir Yahshua"

None of this is true when it comes to comparing an online and offline business. There are way, way, way too many variables to determine the absolute best way for a stranger on the internet to invest $100,000. So, I'll just point out the flaws thus far.

More cost effective: It depends. If you're talking about starting a brick and mortar store, then sure you'll have additional costs such as rent, which will make it more expensive to start. But, if you're starting a brand online, you're going to have rent costs for inventory, fulfillment, etc. But, you could run an offline business from your spare bedroom, or you could have an online business that doesn't involve inventory of physical products. Too many variables, but it's safe to say that an online business is not always more cost effective than an offline business.

Low entry level competition: What? How does an online business automatically have less entry level competition. If your argument is that it costs more to start an offline business, then logic would dictate that there is a higher level of competition online. More people will invest little to no money than they will tens of thousands of dollars, right? Being online or offline doesn't have much to do with competition as performing market research. I'm sure there are a lot of places that you could open a bar, cleaning service, restaurant, dry cleaner, etc with little competition. Or you could start an online business selling a weight loss solution with a ton of competition.

Quicker to implement: Sure it's pretty easy to set up a site, and a sales funnel. But, this all depends on your marketing strategy. You can have an offline business and market it online and vice versa. But, setting up a service or offline business from home and a website doesn't take a whole lot of time. The marketing strategy is what fluctuates and as I said, that isn't solely online or offline, it can be a mix of the two.

build out a niche site, funnel and use the money to test paid traffic.

that's what i'd do

-Ike Paz

[ INVEST all in LIST BUILDING and LEAD GENERATION / Nurturing ]

* Choose a Niche
* Build an Opt in page and
* Build your List with DIFFERENT sources where you spread your moneys, 10k initially and so on.
* Create a Sales funnel where you initially promote affiliate products
* Hire a freelancer or do it yourself: create your own digital product.

Continue to deliver traffic:

40% Fb Ads.
40% Solo Ads
10% Native Ads
10% Google Display Ads

Online avenues are a better investment than offline marketing, unless you're a huge business. You get more bang for you buck online, can reach a wider audience and more control over your advertising metrics.

If you have a good bankroll, you can make Google Adwords or Facebook's Ads work for you, once you experiment and get the right combination/content of your ads down.

My best advice, is make sure you're able to TRACK marketing spend to sales before spending that type of money on any product. If you're unable to see which marketing channel produce the highest quality leads or sales -- you won't be able to know where to invest more, or less.

"Easily multiply your 100k investment by 6 in a short timespan." I don't think that's ever going to be easy, online or offline.

If it was easy, everyone could get a small loan and be a millionaire in a few years time.

In my opinion, you need to be among the top investors in order to do it. Everything is easy for a mastermind of course, but for the average person? Not likely. Not even close.

I would read Money Master the Game by Anthony Robbins and follow his advice on investing your money safely. As they say. You only have to be rich once. Don't loose your money. Don't take risks now that you got them.

You can start a business online without much of cash if that is what you want to do.

Despite your claims to the contrary, it's obvious that you don't really know much about running a business, online or offline.

The $100K you're talking about -- assuming that you actually have it -- isn't an investment. It's called a budget. And when you run a business you use that budget to pay for business expenses, business expenses that should be driven by business needs, business needs that are driven by consumer needs. You don't just deposit whatever amount of money you feel like into your business as if it were a bank account.

Some businesses might need $100K to get started. Some might only need $10K. Some might need $1 million or more. And some might need practically nothing at all.

But no matter what kind of business you're running your return on investment isn't based on some fixed -- or in your case fantasy (550% in 18 months?!?) -- percentage of the amount you spend on your business. Instead your return depends on the amount value you are able to create for your customers, your ability to attract those customers and your ability to monetize that value. So if you need $100K to do all that by all means spend $100K. But if you only need $10K or just $10, spending any more will just be throwing your money away.

With that in mind, $100K is a pretty awkward budget for a business. It's not enough to hire a full team and if you're not looking to hire a team, it's probably a lot more than you need. Sure you could find ways of spending it all. Hire a fancy design firm, blow it all on ads or buy yourself a diamond-studded, 24-carat gold computer. But if you're just looking to spend money to spend money you'll probably end up with a negative rate of return, certainly not the ridiculous 550% return that you keep fantasizing about (though of course, you're extremely unlikely to get that sort of return no matter how much money you spend or don't spend).

kilgore killed it.

What I was going to say myself....How did you make that $100k? Again assuming you actually have it, because it sounds a bit funny to me that someone who actually made that amount comes to a forum and asks what to do with it...

My understanding would be that if you know how to make 100k, then you would have some ideas on how and where to use it to make that money work for you.

In other words, expand on what's already working for you.

Another idea is to use your 100K as collateral for investing in real estate. There is alot of information online on how to do great deals in real estate. I think 100K would be a good start.
At least where I live.

Nope - DeNada - Nyet!

Not buying it for a second.

I would get into Amazon private label products. You can get a massive head start with a 100k.

Buy a rental property, stuff on this forum is for suckers.