$100,000 To Invest - What Would You Do?

150 bucks per niche site ... How many niche sites would that be ...

I'd be too scared to invest that much in I.M. at the moment while I am still really learning. So I would use it as a deposit on a house or something else unrelated to I.M.

If you said I really had to invest it in I.M. I would use some of it to pay myself a basic salary so I could spend more time learning and taking action. And have the rest on standby to outsource article writing, product creation and for adwords spend. I may limit it to $X per month budget for promotion and would track closely the results of that spend each month.

I would hire outsourcers to run everything and kick back.

With $100k the outsourcers would definitely figure out how
to make some money with the business. That's like 50,000
hours of outsourcers.

Buy real estate, not virtual

HI

I would buy the best domain name .com 1 word or 2 two word .com name I could get that relates to my hobbies or to what I passionate about.... I would spend max 60% of the 100k on the domain and another 20% on development and the other 20% on marketing...

Tom

Leads...

I would search the bestsellers lists and find a way of bringing two unrelated best-selling topics together into a book. I would then have a top quality ebook written for me, together with a world-class sales letter. I would then JV with big list owners.

I don't think that would cost $100k though.

Abdul.

Thanks for asking and for the exercise in thinking...

And that is where I'd begin, the same place as investing 100 to 10,000 dollars. I'd ask myself the Square One question:

What do you want? Why? What does the finished result of this activity look like?

Then, when I had a clear picture of what the finish line, or the outcome or result would look like, then I'd begin to backward chain the "events" which would make it come to be.

Right before achieving the result, there would be ___________ (the step off, say it is a plane ride to somewhere, there is a step that takes you off the plane) which takes place.

With 100k, my end result would be an on going, steady flow of income, which could continue on for years and years. HOW?

I'd look for a TOLL POSITION, that place in between the never ending demand for _________ and the unlimited SUPPLY.

For IM, since that is the question, my Toll Position would probably have a few elements to it, including, but not limited too:

Web site, software and wall of legal protection in the form of Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Trade Secrets. I'd control several forms of Intellectual Property.

I'd specialize in a product, have a family or group of other related products, build a vertical as well as a horizontal structure to the product, and act as a virtual manufacturer.

The elements would probably be a low cost REAL product, with a high demand, a membership aspect, a "newsletter" as well as social media and a "celebrity" endorsement too.

I'd have as a goal, a growth pattern that would return the original investment very quickly, and have exponential growth and controlled distribution.


The AMOUNT wouldn't matter, the PROCESS...set the goal, backward chain events, create/acquire, take the first step KNOWING what each and every step after that looks like.

Using this method would insure the money is put to the higest and best use for it's purpose, in this case, ROI (Return On Investment). I'd put a lot of thinking into it UP FRONT.

gjabiz

I'd look for sites with proven income streams already in place and buy as many as possible. Then I'd hire a good Webmaster/Designer to keep them up to speed. I'd also take some of the proceeds from the ongoing sites and get a good writer and good copywriter to keep your content and sales machine running.

In addition to outsourcing, I'd invest a good part into travel.

Traveling to all of the biggest IM events around the world, meeting people.

That's been one of the best things that I've invested in so far. Relationships.

I would join a high paying direct sales company and use Google Adwords to convert sales.

Simply put invest it in yourself! Yeah you can make money online promoting others products but if you already have the know how build your own product or service that was bugging you that you did not have access to. You can never go wrong promoting yourself.

I would do what I am doing now but scale it HUGE.

Started out the way you did mate... writing articles n stuff.

If i had a 100 grand to invest though, I'd prolly start a website and sell some stuff to the offline market through it.
Still a pretty good niche to work in i reckon...

1. Education in the things I don't quite "get" yet.

2. Outsource the building of my empire (read: world domination).

#1 is important to make sure #2 is being done correctly.

~Michael

That ones easy. I'd buy two years of internet, 100 domain names, a new laptop and two years of home expenses. If you cant learn and make that back plus 10% per year in two years, then you should have invested it in real estate which would have returned that much.

I would not have learned what I did about business if I had that much capital sitting there.

For me, I'd keep it in the bank and hire 3 programmers and a project manager to build a cloud based software empire.

I'd hire 5 salespeople (commission based) to sell access to local businesses at $x per month

I'd hire 2 tech support people to offer telephone, email and live chat support.

With that much to invest, I'd take a lot more time to think about it than I'm willing to spend on a hypothetical question. About the only thing I can say I'd do for sure is hire an assistant.

I'm assuming this is tax free.

I think it would depend on a particular situation. If it was me, I'd probably take $50,000and live off that for a year. And meanwhile I would find (in this forum perhaps) a guru I admire and offer him/her $10,000 to mentor me in his/her niche. Actually I'd ask what it would cost to mentor me and teach me everything they know. And first I would make sure I would enjoy the niche. Maybe 2 or 3 niches so I could diversify.

I actually did make available that amount of money a few years ago for investment into IM. My original intention was the buy income generating websites that costed over $50,000. In the end I got cold feet because I did feel confident enough to avoid being scammed. In the end, I put the money into stocks and mutual funds instead.

The moral of the story is that you can make all the plans you want but whether you will carry it out when the time comes is another matter.

Derek

One word: "Plastics!"

~M~

With $100K I would hire a full time programmer, a part time designer and 2 full time writers to improve all my websites and to launch more websites in multiple niches faster

W A I T !

You know, I'm reading over a lot of these responses (including mine) and noticed something...

A lot of us could at least get started on some of our own suggestions with a heckuva a lot less than $100,000. So, why not go for it?

Another way to look at it...

If this is what we would do with big bucks to invest, and if it's different than what we're doing now, then there is a disconnect somewhere.

We are sitting on the verge of even bigger success, and the breakthrough lies, in part, in our answers to the OP.

Just a thought.

All the best,
Michael

I would invest in my own business the (IM) niche with outsourcing, product creation, affiliate promotion, also I would like to invest and explore in other niches.

OK Shane, your question keeps bopping around in my head like a catchy song, so I can't help but think about it. Here's what I'd do...

I'd hire an affiliate manager whose job it is to find affiliates, train them, and manage my affiliate program. I'd hire one assistant who would work as assigned depending on my needs. I'd hire one research assistant.

This would free me from the tedious things that anyone can do and allow me to focus on product development and writing, which is what I enjoy.

Personally I'd invest in something tangible like a vending business?

Bump: I still would love to hear from some more Warriors about what investments are worthwhile for an online business and perhaps what has worked for you...

Back to your original question...

Rather than invest $100k in a business just because I had the money, I'd invest the $100k in options (or whatever you have skill in investing). I like options because the return is quick and leveraged.

I'd systematically take profits until the $100k was $200k or more. Put the original $100k in the bank and invest, as needed, the rest in my business. That way, you have nothing to lose.

As to how I'd invest in a business, it really depends what assets you already have. I'd test different marketing methods (with small amounts of money at first). When you find what works, ramp it up with more money.

I think Jeremy's suggestion about hiring employees is excellent... but only if you're at a point in business where it will be profitable for you.

Without the specifics of your business, it's a little hard to answer your original question in detail. But for advertising, I like Google Adwords and offline methods of advertising. With $100k, you have the money to test those and see if they work.

I like the EMPLOYEES idea.

At least get a secretary who is good on the phone. Worth her weight in gold.

I see some strange and possibly very dangerous ideas posted up there.

Be careful.

Carefully look at what the rich IM guru's do and dissect their marketing strategies, websites, types of products and how they present themselves and their business.

The best technique is to wait, and get that opportunity. Invest in business that you like. Working for money is so stressed.

But if you want to pursue this, I recommending to you to buy a websites that profitable and existing. So you're not start from scratch.

Its huge amount of money to develop something that could make you huge income in the years to come.

If I had that kind of money, I would hire a good team of writers, keyword researchers, website designers, seo experts and get into some competitive markets like Finance, Mobile, Health, Games etc.. Will spend good money on buying good old domains related to the niches and start building.

In 3 months, you would start to see the income potential and in 6 months you could start to get profits..and there on its on auto pilot, you dont have to be after it forever.

Instead of building thousands of niche based sites build just 3-4 and go for the kill.

Just an idea for you to consider

Best of luck!

Well, there are many things I would want to do.

1. Start a build a few businesses offline, however as this is online based only, this is what I would probably do!

2. Invest a large amount into employing a very strong sales force for my offline consulting business. Including specialists in IM to run projects that the salespeople brought in.

I have seen this done in real time and the business that did this made a whopping £15million when they sold up 3 years later!

3. I would also look seriously at buying high end sites with consistent, hands off income, so I could buy and take the profits, and then pay someone to manage the sites for me and build up the profits, so I sit back and relax!

There are loads of things I would do, those are just a few!

GoGetta

i'd invest that in a bank with Fixed deposit plan. They pay a minimum of 10% (at least 10% is sure and certain)

so, here is the maths:

10% of $100 = $10
therefore, 6% of $100000= $10000 /yr
ie, $10000 / 12 = $833 / month

Not bad