$1000 a month to invest - What would you do?

If i were you i'd put the eggs into different baskets. first, invest in money market mutual funds, second roth IRA, third domain names.

just my $0.02



- Henry

How about outsourcing people to create products for you (ebooks/scripts/audio whatever tickles your fancy) and then outsourcing traffic generation etc to drive traffic to these products, therefore creating long term income streams.

Cheers,

Anthony

My advice to be engaged in exchange trade. If badly know the market, find the investment company which is checked up and will do to you of money of 20 % from your capital in a month

Judging by your username, you're an SEO expert? So you could also think about having a membership site related to teaching others the ins and outs of SEO optimisation etc..

Even 100 members at $27/month is a nice little income stream and not too hard to achieve.

Good luck!

Anthony

27$ in a month it is, not enough, at me there is a site which to me brings already the income 20 $ in a month, but it only the beginning.

If i am you, i will spend 20% of the money on online business and the rest to do advertising and marketing. When that kind of money on advertising and marketing, i hope to retire within 1 year.

Invest on new website and domains, trace the trends and pre-build all trendy keywords!

Build up the traffic with SENuke, articlemarketingautomation.com, traffickahuna.com.

Host your own autoresponder with autoresponseplus. Build your list on all your website for all the niches!

Research on ezinearticles.com and outsource someone to create product for you, sell your product with affiliate traffic!

...and Submit all your site with directory maximizer.

m...what else....

I think the common denominator here is build a list.

Rather than paying for advertising, i think I might use the money to build links etc. and have a website that ranks for my major keywords.

Thanks for the tips Ralf. I like the idea of getting a plan together first.

Your biggest problem is going to be what I like to call "opportunity overload" where you start with something that you think is going to make you a millionaire... and then 3 days in you start to lose faith with your "plan"... and subsequently start to develop another one.

If this happens (and it probably will), you'll start to feel a sense of incompitence and yearning to just do "something" that will make you a nice return. You'll start to "diversify" into other things which then dilute your focus and will ultimately lead to your failure.

Here's what I recommend (and you'll get TONS of responses here):

1) Decide on HOW you want to make a return on your investments

Do you want to sell your own products with an online brand or do you want to just harvest profits from a secret affiliate site network?

How much work do you want to do to keep the business "ticking over"?

Do you just want your money to make you more money with "passive income" or do you want to be able to build a business that can grow and grow in the future?

2) Once you've got an idea about HOW you want to make your return, decide on the best WAY to achieve that 'dream'

If you want to build up a brand so that you have "fans" who will buy your $347 product then you'll have to do a LOT of trust & value-building to get your business to the point where you want.

If you want to just build an affiliate network reaping profits from already successful products, then decide on how many sites / blogs you will need to make and then research the best types of affiliate sites to build.

If you want to get rich from a membership site, then use your money to make one in a niche you like ;-)

--- See where this is going? You've got to have GOALS which you can make a strategy around...

3. Decide on the best COURSE OF ACTION for you

After researching how you could achieve your 'dream' decide on the best way to do it. I.E if you want to build an affiliate site network - will the sites be blogs or sites or just Squidoo lenses? How many will you make / outsource every week?

4. Stop reading this forum for the first 3 months of your venture

This was a KILLER for me - people posting success stories always made me divert my attention from one strategy to another. Just forget about this place and the people in it until you get your business off the ground.

Spend your money on adwords ads. But you have to learn about how to play with adwords before you invest your money. I have recommendations about beating adwords on my website, take a look if you're interested.

Rich Peck, thanks a lot for the advice. I think to start I would like to make money as an affiliate and eventually my own products. I will probably pick 3 niches and stick to them to start with.

Okay well if you want to start affiliate marketing - go straight to Chris Rempel at Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate

Buy his book and his VIP reports and then stay away from ANY OTHER internet marketing material for a couple of months whilst you put his practices into motion.

He tells you everything from what niches to pick all the way through to how to set up your affiliate sites... and he's making a killing.

Good luck!

Spend it on EDUCATION. Learn what works and invest in some programs that can teach you how to make all the money you ever wanted. I have and it has been priceless.

Create your own list, or Search Engine website.

I'd spend a lot of it on outsourcing.

Best advice I could give is find a proven method that works, and then work that method until it works for you.

Don't get distracted.

For what it's worth, here's my take:

1. Decide on an area of long-term interest, a topic which motivates you. I.E. stock market, losing weight, internet marketing, etc.

2. Create an irresistable info product for people who have the same interest (pdf, audios, videos).

3. Give it away free when people opt-in to your list.

4. Drive targeted traffic to your opt-in page using PPC.

5. Build a relationship with your list, emailing them once/week or so with valuable related content with a touch of humour and personality.

6. Teach your list how to respond (take action) to your emails, always giving them something to click on (a link or to reply to you).

7. When you're ready, ask them what their biggest challenge is (relating to the topic), create a product which addresses their challenge, and sell it to them.

Sounds simplistic, but if anyone does this properly, they might as well have the right to print money.

JK

Invest it all in PPC advertising!

I agree with others above and would work with outsourcing teams to get products made and marketed. We help with both, by the way, so my hand is in the air, if you seek help!

Thanks for consideration.

Me too. You can always browse Clickbank...etc for products to promote, however at the end of the day traffic is what gives you $$$.

If you have $1000, I would spend it on traffic generation and getting educated on how to get mass traffic to your site(s) - whether it's PPC or otherwise.

Good luck!

Kaja

Hi,
Learn every thing you can about google adwords, then start investing. Keep a positive mindset and stay focused.

I'd get a mentor who is already successful, and follow his blueprint until I can do it myself.

All the best,
Franck.