I don't wish to discourage you, but the self improvement is market is VERY difficult even for the best of marketers to make any serious money in.

I would recommend you go straight into a market like diet/weight loss, and start driving traffic to some offers as an affiliate.

What made you decide to use Internet Marketing as your vehicle to make your goal?
Just curious. Best of luck with it.

250,000 dollars in two years? To be honest, it is next to impossible for you to gain this goal after two years even if you spare no effrots to earn online.
Although I am not good at Email marketing, I have made money blogging for several years. I guess it is difficult for you to reach the 250,000 dollars.
Good luck!

Hi Anass,

Welcome to the forum.

Whew, what a question. You will get a lot of counseling here and a lot of good, common sense people will be wondering why you think you can do this challenge.

This business is real tough, especially the niches you hope to prevail in, but don't let any naysayers tell you no.

I'm just wondering myself though.....if you do make $250k in 2 years and are only 16 years old now, just what do you think Stanford could offer you that would be better than that?

My best to you.
Never give up on your dreams.
Jerry

Learn to program and develop your own site, make millions or even billions when you sell it.

Work Hard
My best wishes are with You

Lower your goal. You have virtually no chance of clearing $250,000 in your first two years.

Since you are only 16, a goal of $25,000 in two years is more realistic to hope for. Even that will be a challenge though.

Hey go for it man.

My only advice is if you make that kind of money skip Stanford!

Hi Anass Farah

Are you already blogging in this self improvement niche and do you have any actual sales at the moment that underly your expectation of making $1000 per month?

Almost anything is possible BUT you need plans and action to make possibility into reality.
And to achieve your goals in 2 years would put you well in the high achiever category I think.

It is quite possible (I hear ) to build a 10000 mailing list in 1 year.
Have you heard of giveaway events, joint ventures, traffic exchanges and other list building strategies?
You will need to use and measure results of tools and strategies like these.
And develop what works and drop what doesnt.

Are you aware of social networking and how some marketers are moving efforts more into facebook and twitter as opposed to 'pure' email marketing?
Given your age and that some social networking sites are predominantly young you may be more in tune with these surfers than us oldies.
Figure out how to capitalize on it.

Maybe choose to join one or two mentoring programs in marketing areas. These can help you learn and deliver faster.
Try to test out those with money back guarantees and with clearly stated goals they will help you achieve in a specific timeframe.

There is a lot of hype out there but you can recognize it when you see it close. Just be sure to invest wisely in your own support resources.

All the best in achieving your goals.

Oh and yes like the other poster --- if you succeed in achieving your goal then there may be places that you could go that would develop your skills further than Stanford would. So be ready to raise your goal if that makes sense to you as you develop

Thank you for your pragmatic reply
Self Improvement where I know a lot of things (Because I lost my parents when I was 7 years old and I had to take control of my emotional life and my confidence), I've read a lot of books on time management, nlp, positive thinking and also some workshops in dvd (Hypnotica ultimate confidence, Hypnotica ultimate inner game) also some audio books and some anthony robbins material (example of personal power 2).
Maybe montising a blog about self improvement is difficult.

I just want to ask you about a thing, till I discovered the internet Marketing I've bought some products (Traffic ultimatum, cb wealth formula it's where I learned about email marketing, rapid mass traffic and google sniper)
Do you think that those products and infos that they contain will help me achieving a part of my challenge
Thanks again

SelfImprovementEdge

It's unlikely but definitely possible. As some mentioned earlier, a definite plan of action will be needed... and a GOOD one at that.

For example, if I had the IM knowledge I have today when I first started, it's realistic to say I could have hit your goal in 2 years. I know a few people who probably reached that or at least very close as well.

Now whether you are able to discover the right money making tactics quickly enough is up to you and your abilities.

But I'm totally with Daniel on this. It will take work, an excellent plan, and maybe a bit of luck... but your goal IS attainable.

Solomon Huey

Thanks solomon, I will try to combine all the knowledge and strategies that I learned from courses I list before and i will plan for some lower earning first, then see if it's possible to reinvest to make more
What do you guys think ?

Hi
Put it this way;
If you are able to go from $0 to $250K in 2 years you don't have to worry about Stanford. The money you will make from teaching others how to make $250K in 24 months will have you set for life.
Just a thought.

Maybe it's true

Hi Anass,

Possibility is everywhere if only you believe in it.
If you want to make $250,000 or 1 million in 2 years, that is possible.
Have you ever head of a little kids who makes 500,000 in less than 2 yrs? OK, lets be frank.

Your goal is $250,000 in 2 yrs, then drill down to $125,000 per year.
How much work you need to do for each day to achieve certain results?

Plan a solid marketing plan, set your goals by days, weeks, months and years.
Tweak your marketing plan every week if you fail to make 200 sales? 100 sales?

I'm in Internet Marketing for 2 years but still didn't achieve my goal yet.
At least I fire my boss 2 years ago

Something you have to believe in yourself, don't listen to bad words, bad news or even discouragement.
Sorry, I'm not native speaking English but I hope you can understand it.

*If you are not growing, you are naturally dying*

My2cents
Jeremy

Thanks to you Jeremy

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Yes you can definitely do it if you work hard. But an email klist of 10000 wont be enough to reach that goal. You need a bigger more targeted list . All the best of luck

Well done for having a goal. Now is the time to break that goal down into manageable chunks.

Break your niches down. What are the affiliate commissions and how many will you need a day to make your goal. Will you develop your own product. What are the search volumes for your keywords. Will they bring enough traffic to convert to buyers. How ill you attack traffic: SEO or paid.

Best of luck

Nigel

Think for your help guys, I will have to make 350 dollars per day to reach my goal in 24 months. If a sell a product with 50 dollars in commission I will have to do 6 sales per day. What do you think ?

Hi,

I've never done that, however, It's because I didn't want it bad enough.

If you break it down it is only selling 19 eBooks for $19 a day for two years.

Now, I know I could set down right now, type out a new eBook and sell 19 of them in a day. You could too. Rinse and repeat.

After a while synergy kicks in and links in all your ebooks leading to links to other products would cause exponential growth in your income.

What I just described would mean that for quite a while you would have to work every day until your head felt like it was full of cotton and your fingers hurt from typing.

The burning desire to make $250,000 in two years could inspire you to work hard enough to do it.

As I said, personally I've just never been that motivated.

George Wright

Hi Anass,

First off, you can definitely make that goal if you are willing to work hard enough, learn enough, and fail enough. (Failure = Learning in Action)

Second, Why is your goal $250,000 in 2 years?
You are going to Standford for a minimum of 4 years at approximately $50,000/year. This mean you need to earn $75,000 in two years, and have built a business which will profit you over $50,000 year for each of the following years. ($75,000 = Tuition, Visa Fees, Travel Costs, etc.)

Third, Go ask this same question in the CPA section of the forum, specifically ask for the opinion of Kenster, Mike Morgan, and Williamrs.

Fourth, Search out Ryan Moran online. Ryan created a six figure per year business while he was going to college full time. You need to know him.

Fifth, Hunt down Travis Sago through Bum Marketing Method - Free Traffic Tips and Watch Us Put Clickbank Checks In Mom's Mailbox (From Start To Finish) and take a quick look through his material. His methods will help you start creating a business and allow you to start building money for reinvesting in your business.

Sixth, Build relationships, not sales. Build a list of email subscribers you can sell to time and time again. You can use Aweber, Getresponse, or Imnicamail as good example of quality autoresponders.

Seventh, Read these threads on the forum:


http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-netwo...hy-worked.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-netwo...-i-basics.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-netwo...bers-game.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-netwo...ase-study.html

Those threads should get you fired up with ideas.

Eight, Follow these people on the forum (Some of my personal favorites)

Kenster
Mike Morgan
Steven Wagenheim
Zeus66 - John Schwartz
Alexa Smith
Williamrs
TimG
Daniel Brock - (I have not followed Daniel, but due to his responses I think you should watch him.)

There are many more, but those should be enough to give you some great advice, and keep you on track.

Nine, Quit reading my post and go take some action.

Ten, You're still here? Go on, take action, I mean it.... Right Now!

It is possible to make that much money, but you will have to work very hard. You need to have a website with a good design and originality. You probably have to post 3 or 4 times a day for 2 years, then you will start making money. In total, it will probably take 4 years.

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If anyone tells you that you can't, they are crazy...
Of course you can, as there are other people making that kind of money and more.

You are first going to have to find a great teaching with no fluff that tells you how to become profitable.
Once you have that in place, and have made your mistakes along the way then dedicate yourself to hard work, self belief, persistence and don't give up...
I wish you all the best...
Go get em....

@KansasDragon Thanks a lot for the valuable information

In IM I bought some courses (example: traffic ultimatum by george brown, rapid mass traffic, cb wealth formula by saj p and anik singal, and the google sniper by george brown )

I want to focus on something that is really important about myself and my situation. The different product in IM I have were bought by family members outside of my country.
This is the problem. I live in morocco, a country in north of africa were it's practicly impossible for normal people to do online paymenet because of a currency change policy. The governement doesn't like the fact that strong currency such dollar or euro can live the country.
This creates a big problem for me because I can't pay autoresponder services such us aweber or do ppc.
Actually I'm using mailchimp free autoresponder service ( max of 500 subsciber).
To be able to pay online, I should earn some money, then open a bank account who will be filled with currency, that's the only solution that I have.
This is why I can't invest money in ppc or paid autoresponders right now
Any suggestions ?

Anthony robbins have some affiliate programs and I think it's a 3 figures commission
Thank you Karen, you're motivating me

Firstly, ITS POSSIBLE! Anything is possible. Most people wont agree because they couldn't achieve it. But its all in you. Go for it. Even if you dont end up with 250000, you will go till 100000, which is a platform for achieving 250k next time. Always aim high.

Dont stick to 1 type of marketing. Article marketing is the most basic and probably more most effective way of building links. Use PPC to hike revenue and add CPA for doubling your revenue.

Go for site flipping too. It's a great investment always. When you know when to sell your niche site, you are going to end up making over 50k in that 1 site itself.

I wish you for your success.

gskesavan thank you for your help

You mean basics of marketing ?

Is it possible? Absolutely!

Is it likely? Nope.

But don't let that stop you. If we only aim for targets we know we can hit, we're not aiming high enough. Only by aiming at targets beyond our reach, can we find how far our reach truly extends.

My response to the OP?

$250,000 IS doable! George makes it sound SO easy, but it isn't QUITE that easy! If it were, NOBODY would be starving. Then again, if it were, EVERYONE would be starving because who would even stock a grocery store? The TRICK is to hit the RIGHT demographic with something enticing enough and often enough to get them to BUY!

BTW what could YOU teach from self improvement, using personal experience to an audience that could use it? Almost NOTHING! If you are talking about memory, weight, muscle, finance, habits, FORGET IT! Oh sure, you may THINK you know, but you are at a time when you are given the BEST opportunity in ALL those areas. I'm almost 50, and I certainly remember how it was. Let me clue you in! About 20,25,30,40,etc..., give or take a few years, there will be things that make various aspects of your life harder. You simply haven't been there yet. And will someone under 21 buy your books? Maybe not!

Steve

250 000 in 2 years? you gotta focus and focus then. At some part of your endeavor, you will meet unethical so called 'gurus' that try to help you and if you can ward off that, you should be safe.

1. Try youtube video marketing to promote affiliate products.
2. Try to find scholarship info from your goverment or any parties.

Then wich niche to focus on if no one will listen to me in self improvement niche ?

BTW self improvement niche is what I like, It's what I've found interesting it's what makes me special compared to others. I know many young people who are less that 24 years and doing well in this niche, moreover people are listening to them

As many have said it's possible but probably not going to be very easy. Many enter the internet marketing or online make money market thinking it'll be a breeze with easy money rolling down into their wallet.

For many they are terribly wrong. It takes a lot of determination, hard work, and planning to be able to make a success with internet marketing. Not to discourage you but just to remind you that you NEED to work hard.

It's motivating to see someone so deterimined to make it so I wish you all the best.

Personally with about almost 2 years in im. 1 year mostly studying and 1 year experimenting I've yet to make 100k. But my greatest struggle was my lack of motivation and my procrastination.

I know many people struggle with procrastination and thus from that struggle with a lack of motivation from not seeing results so what I want to advise you is not to get in that cycle or you probably won't be making your goal anytime soon.

Just want you to know that your goal is totally possible though but it is also very likely people won't make it. If you don't reach it. Don't brood over it but think of what you have accomplish and what you can work on and reevaluate your situation.

Sincerely,
Benjamin

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Hello

As I read these posts, I think that some of these ppl are on the right path. I agree aim for the heavens because it is possible with hard work. But lets make your job a little simpler. I think that your goal is a little vague. Let's make it a little smaller, well essentially it will be the same. In order to make your long term goal of 250,000 in 2 years, then your short term goal is to reach $10,417 every month! Look at this way! Now what would you have to do in order to make 10,417 dollars every month? That's a ton of blogging! Wishing you the Best!

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So just to say something, before i discovered the IM thing, I do 3 years of xhtml/css/php, by the way I wanted to start a site from scratch, to do everything myself ( such us programming a whole forum when there si vbulleting) and this make me lost a lot of time.

If you want to take home $250, 000 in cash, remember you will have to earn quite a bit more than this to pay for taxes ...

Thanks guys for your help

Selfimprovementedge,

Don't let anyone tell you you cannot do it.. Use those words to push you to prove them wrong.. And even if you do not make $250,000, if you worked your ass off like that goal is your only option, Either you'll hit $250,000 or make a lot of money anyways..

The problem with most is not that they aim to HIGH and MISS... It's that they aim to LOW and HIT...

Make 250K.. DO IT..

But of course you will need a plan of action and the right resources... Like most others mentioned..

But in my opinion, the most important thing in this game is mentality.