$150 bucks more and then I'm broke...

It depends what you assets are - do you have a list? websites? traffic?

I'm sure for $150 you could get a useful script created that would do something that warriors would happily buy to help their business..

Use $120 towards paying down the debt. Use $30 for a domain and hosting and do some bum marketing to get traffic to it.

Im afraid with 150 bucks you cant do much. But what I'd do is get a dayjob and learn everything about PPC + LEAD GENERATION. The finance market pays very well, thats all I have to say.

Any questions just let me know

Nick

That $150 can get you 20 .org domains at $7.49 from Name.com if you did amazon niche marketing and you chose the right keywords, out of that 20 I think you could get 15 winning domains. Provided you did the work, this will pay off. So a search for one of the popular amazon threads.

I don't the name right off the top of my head but someone around here creates ebooks for $150 with extensive research into the book. Use that to have tle book built, then set yourself up with a couple of forums and start advertising it for sell. After you get some money from it build up a website get it through clickbank and start recruiting affiliates for it.

Hum. Maybe I should find a mentor/partner...?

The fact is, you do NOT need a lot of money to get started. That is the whole magic of the Internet. Aside from a cheap website host and a domain name ($15 for the first month, and maybe $5/month after that), you don't need to spend money.

It's sad that so many people are spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on education. Sure, it helps to have a little insight/direction, but it shouldn't be so expensive just to get started. I guarantee that the vast majority of top IMers didn't spend a fortune to get started... spending money is an alternative to working hard.

You want free advice? Download a copy of my book Three Steps To Online Success (three-steps.com). I know this probably sounds like just another pitch, but the book is free... no gimmicks, no upsells, just pure value (seriously). It shows EXACTLY what I have been doing for the past 12 years to make millions online. It requires work... YES, real work. But you do NOT need to spend money to get started, and can create your own unique business.

I sincerely hope this helps you and anyone else that is tired of paying a fortune to learn the proven fundamentals of online success.

EDIT: I decided to take this post and turn it into an article on my blog. This topic is something that really bugs me. I hate how many people are being taken advantage of with expensive how-to systems that rarely pan out. That's what the money-back guarantee is for, but sadly most people blame themselves instead of using it.

Buy my new eBook "Mega Instant Internet Billionaires" at the special warrior price of just $149.

But in all seriousness - I think M Thompson has give you some solid advice in the post above. I second what he says and say dump your sites on flippa and cash out. Take a break until you think you can get focused on this.

You're stuck in a rut - you need time to sort it out.

I have something which you probably know, would find the first bit frustrating, but would definitely work.

Write.
Flip websites.

Do that for a month, i'm sure you'll have atleast a 1000 in the bank...

Buy a flip camera / zi8 camera for $120 (or so) on ebay with shipping

Send out 40 direct mail letters to local business owners in various high profit industries (dentists, eye doctors, plumbers, realtors) [.50c x 40 = $20)

Offer to do an initial free online marketing promotion for their business and then upload a video of them promoting their business to youtube.

Do some social bookmarking and article linking to that video for ranking on page 1 of google for a low competition keyword that relates to their business.

Return to said business owner(s) with results and close a monthly marketing agreement with them from that point forward. ($497+ per month for monthly video promotion of various products and services they offer with lead capture as an added benefit, if possible, setup an Aweber capture form to collect leads on their behalf as a double whammy for automated lead generation follow-up)

Rinse, Repeat, Scale, and Outsource =)

Cheers,
~Dexx

jlgbuss-
I know what kind of answer you're looking for, but, unfortunately, you're not going to get it from me.

You say you made money but 'wasted' it - do you mean you spent it on advertising/ppc/ppv etc.? Or you just blew it away on things that have little or no use to you now?

I don't know your situation or your background, so I can only say what I would do if I were in your shoes.

Considering the fact that you have started this thread to seek advice (and about where to invest your last $150), I'm going to assume that bum marketing is NOT something that you are good at, are unsure about and/or you just don't want to do it.

That being said, if $150 is ALL I had left, I certainly wouldn't spend it online - especially since you are burnt out and have no motivation.

Instead, I would use that money for fuel to get back and forth to work (to/from a traditional, local job) and for food etc. Then, during the 2 hours/day that you/I have available to work online, either spend that time flipping your sites, building up/monetizing your sites and/or learning everything I could about whatever IM method that I was going to focus on.

Personally, if I was working a regular, non-IM job, I wouldn't bother with bum marketing just because I know that my time would be better spent on better marketing methods - since I would have a consistent income coming in.

As badboy_Nick said, spend a little bit of the money that you're getting (or will be getting) from your 9-5 job and pursue PPC/CPA,CPL (start by testing very small campaigns - little by little).

If you lost your money by way of PPC/media buys etc., your money might be better invested in a coaching program first - as Deek3870 suggested.

Just take your time, don't spend a lot of money (start off really small) until you get back in to the groove of things.

Look at how/why you lost your money (or weren't able to manage your finances properly - i.e. what got you here in the first place), and try to figure out how you can correct it and/or how/where you can learn what you did wrong and how to avoid it in the future.

Oh, and once you decide on something (which marketing method you want to pursue), focus on that one thing - don't jump around from one thing to the next until you have mastered it.

Good luck and take care,
-M

BTW, as I mentioned in an earlier post... this thread inspired me to write a blog post. It's new up and titled "Avoid Spending A Fortune To Start A Business".

This might seem pretty off the wall but since you asked...

I'd go to eBay and do a search for 'replica Confederate Currency.' Then I'd buy some of it in the popular denominations. When I received it I'd take it to a good copy place and duplicate a bunch of it. Now you have what is known as inventory in a popular eBay niche.

Offer it for sale in sets with denominations of One, five, ten, twenty, fifty & one hundred. Undercut everyone out there and dominate the niche. Stay focused and keep doing it. You'll earn some money but more importantly you'll gain confidence from having some success. From there, the sky's the limit. Good luck!

I personally think you should spend about $30 on books that teach about MINDSET when it comes to money.

....And take a break from the internet altogether for a couple of months while you work a regular day job. Use the other $120 on living costs.

Look, you've been at this for nearly SIX YEARS and you're not making money.

I would say this is more of a problem with your MIND, ATTITUDE and BLELIEFS about money.

Seriousy... take a break and focus on YOURSELF a bit more.

I would imagine you've tried heaps of different methods over the years without really focusing on any one method to see it through to success... so DON'T try another random method that someone is suggesting here. Why will it be any different until you've worked on YOURSELF?

Please... take a break, clear your head and focus on PRINCIPLES.

All the best.

In all honesty, Internet marketing is something I myself want to do, but a week ago I took up article writing on a freelance basis. The only place I advertised is here at the Warrior forum, and in barely a week I've made about $450.

I highly recommend it. It's something you have a lot of control over if you do decide to do it. You could just do it for a few weeks and voila, you then have more like $1500 rather than $150. Then you'll really have something to get started with.

I'd put that $150 towards my debt,
because obviously spending money
isn't the problem.

When the ships are burnt, that's
when the real fight in you will show
up - or not.

You should focus less on a fast
return and more on finding a model
that is going to grow over time.

Too many people enter this world
thinking they're going to get rich
without considering what kind of
value they have to offer in order to
earn it.

Please take this as loving advice.

You don't need to spend your money -
that's not going to resolve your
fundamental problem.

X

I'd do some PPV/CPV to CPA offers and make double my money.

I'd pay bills with the $150. I don't think money is going to help you get what you haven't been able to get so far. It seems like you're still looking for that perfect get rich quick scheme instead of focusing on building a sustainable business.

Scaring up some cash in a pinch is a short-term business plan and often doesn't even work. Have you built any sites that are worth flipping? You could get some quick cash if you have, but I would work on a long term business plan.

You said that you are not motivated and not focused. I understand that, especially with a new day job. Focus on your day job and think and learn some more about IM, but all things considered, I would focus on that day job.

Hello! I see that you've joined in 2004. There have been so many threads that could have launched your career since then. The reason for your lack of success is right in your post. You made money and wasted it, did a little bit of this and that. You should have simply repeated the things that made you money consistently and persistently. Most people fail right before they succeed. At this point, I would keep the money for emergencies and look to getting a job right away. Use every available penny to pay down your debt. Good luck. I'm sorry that IM did not work out for you.

TomG.

I don't think the amount of money you have matters. I think more importantly it is the amount of time you have.

You see, under pressure you waste as little time as possible sitting around, writing a to-do list, checking Google news, emails and finding some good songs to listen to on Itunes.

Instead you will use every single second of every hour of every day that you have free actually taking action. The only reason the majority of people don't take action or are procrastinating is because they have no "actual" need to make money online.

Those who do internet marketing as a part time job, whether they are at University or have another real-day job to support their bills and further expenses are actually doing internet marketing more as a hobby rather than anything else.

It is this pressure that we need to actually take action.

Therefore I don't think it matters what people's answers are here since if you are actually in that situation and you NEED to make money to survive, to make sure you don't go further in to debt, some way or another you WILL make that money.

Personally, if I was in that situation I would choose proven business models that may be repetitive but ACTUALLY work.

Models like the bum marketing model which ACTUALLY works, just it is sometimes boring and repetitive.

The creating a service and selling it model and if needs be under-cutting your competition, because it ACTUALLY works and it is almost instant cash to support your debt. Not only this, you can measure your time more productively since you can actually calculate how much money you are making per hour.

I would research 30 keywords that are good for EPN or adesense, then hire a freelancer to write me an article for each keyword. If you pay $4/hr should cost no more than $2 per article.

With left over money I would buy some domains and install wordpress on them and upload the articles and epn/adesense code. Then get "The best spinner" and spin the articles into re-writes then submit these re-writes to article directories pointing back at you main blog with the keyword in anchor text.

Then as the money comes in, re-invest it in more articles and domains.

use the 150 to get drunk and forget about making money, you should realize you need much more then that to get going, use the 150 to drink the worries away take some time off and regroup

It seems to me like the more money you get the faster you get rid of it?? Am I near the bulls eye here? Even at your last $150 your still thinking about spending it.

Take some of the 150 and spend it on a money mindset self help course. At this point your back is up against the wall so I would follow this great biz model I came across today below.


1. Read and learn as much from this forum other marketing forums (this one is easily the best) that you can.

2. Find one good niche and a corresponding Clickbank product to promote and focus 100% of your time on promoting that one product or service. It's much better to put 100% into one project than 20% into 5 projects.

3. Do not promote anything that has to do with affiliate marketing, internet marketing, makeing money online, make money blogging, or SEO. These niches are highly saturated and anyone other than experienced marketers won't be successful (many will ignore this advice anyway).

Instead, focus on lesser searched niches. Pick niches and keywords that get between 500-5000 searches per month and have less than 500,000 results on Google.

4. Get yourself a Hub Pages account. Write a great Hub about your niche, utilizing your chosen keywords and promoting a Clickbank product. Then write a summary article of the Hub (400-500 words) and submit it to all of the following article directories with a backlink to the Hub in your resource box.

Ezine Articles
Go Articles
Articles Base
Idea Marketers
Article Dashboard
Article Snatch

4. Get yourself a Blogger account and start a blog related to your niche. Write 2 related articles (300-500 words) and publish them on your blog. Include a link back to your Hub.

5. Write 4 more hubs and a corresponding summary article and publish it to the article directories.

6. Write two articles for every Hub and publish them to your blog. Link them back to the Hub.

7. Promote your blog by putting the links in forum signatures, and commenting on other related blogs. Use related, informative comments. Don't just write "good post" or your comment probably won't get published. Try to do this on highly trafficked blogs. You aren't so much doing this for backlinks as you are to try and get other blog readers to click over to your blog.

Do this 10-20 times and you'll make money. After you make your first Clickbank sale, find another product and repeat the process.

Tips:

1. Make sure you write a fantastic Hub. The idea is to get it on the first page of Google for your chosen niche and keywords.

2. You are writing one summary article for each Hub to submit to the article directories so you can backlink to the Hub. this will help push your Hub to the top of the search engine rankings.

3. You should always write two uinique articles related to every Hub and publish them to your Blogger blog with links back to the Hub.

4. For every product you choose to promote from Clickbank, you should have 5 great hubs, 5 articles published to all of those articles directories, and 10 articles on your niche Blogger blog.

5. For every new niche, start a new blog. It's very important that you only publish content to your niche blogs. Do not link to the Clickbank product, only to the Hubs, and only one link per article. Anything more you'll risk being flagged as a spam blog.

6. Your Hub is the place to put a link to the Clickbank product. Use the "links" module to do this, and only one Clickbank link per Hub. The idea is to provide content. Always put the link side by side with a picture (of the ebook if you want). Hubs that look like they are just trying to sell something don't score well and don't get indexed on Google.

7. If you can do this for 5 products, you'll have 25 hubs up and running, 25 articles published to 6 directories (150 articles), and 5 nich blogs with 10 articles on each (50 blog articles). you'll make money doing this. If you can get 500 visitors per month to each Hub, that's 2500 total visitors and you should make at least 10-15 Clickbank sales.

This takes work and the more Hubs and articles you have up and running, the better you'll do. I'm currently using this same method and making 25-30 commissions every month.

The best part is after everything is published, it runs on "autopilot".


GOOD LUCK

Focus on getting stable income first. Who cares about the $150 you have left? Focus on surviving first then focus on Internet projects later. Sounds to me like it's a do or die situation.

Pay for an autoresponder account.

Find a field (topic, niche, etc) to go into to (preferably something you're interested in, or passionate about) and register a domain and get hosting.

Spend some TIME (not money) and write a free report (doesn't matter how long, just make it useful and relavant to your niche).

Create a SQUEEZE page and upload it to a sub-domain on your hosting account. Set up a blog on your root directory of your blog.

Write articles and drive traffic to your squeeze page.

Follow my email marketing plan in my free report (link in my signature)--I also explain all the steps above in great detail. Trust me, this is the fastest, most STABLE way to make an income online. The money IS in the list, but it has to be done right.

So basically all you'll be spending is $19/month for autoresponder account (you'll make this back before you have to make too many monthly payments), and a hosting+domain account you can get very cheap. It doesn't have to be anything fantastic right now, just something that can host your squeeze page.

Good luck!