If you are a newbie again. Which Internet Bussiness would you choose to start?

Well, in the land before time when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I took out a £5000 loan to get going.

£5000!!!! Shocking!

If I was to start again I could do it with no cash injection whatsoever.

Based on what I've had success with (and I haven't tried everything of course) I would say selling PLR articles for active income (becoming passive in the long term) and product review niche sites for passive income.

Asyraf,

It depends very much on your natural inclinations. I couldn't do what Ruth said above, because I don't write for others (can hardly write for myself).

You need to take a look at your aptitudes and knowledge, as well as something you'd enjoy. I know some will say that as long as it's making you money, you don't need ot enjoy your niche or even know much about it. But I beg to differ. If you do somethign you love, it will be much more pleasurable and easier to do at the same time.

thx Adriana,

you got the point. i had asking others about how to start internet marketing before this. most of them told that it`s better if i do something i love. but, i don`t know which things is better for me to start. i love to do many things and always trying to do new things. for example, i learned how to dance, martial art, culture art, skateboarding, cycling, jungle tracking and many more. it`s hard for me to focus on the same thing for a long term. but the most thing i like is sharing with others by telling them how to "something" that i known.

same with my IM exp, i made a search about clickbank, flipping, eBay n so on.

in other words> Overload Information.

that`s why i start this thread to know which types of internet marketing is suitable for me.

btw, sry for my english. i`m too bad with this.

I would probably develop Iphone apps & Games...

I would have gotten into the vitamin business and rode the **** wave (which is now over). It's surprisingly easy to start your own vitamin line. It ships easily and the sales are straightforward. It's about as easy as a business as you could hope to start.

You know, I think I'd use Trevor Sommerville's Website Flopping concept.

In a nutshell (and go see websiteflopping.com if you want to drop $47 on the whole thing), it goes like this.

You build a website with ads and affiliate links. You set it aside. You build another one. You continue doing this for a month. You have no idea what you're doing, so they're all terrible and make next to no money.

So you continue doing this the next month. And at the end of the month, you go back to all the websites from the first month and look at them. The ones that make the least money, you sell on flippa.com or the like.

Each month, you get better at making money from your ads and affiliate products. But all you're ever doing is making websites. You just get better at making them. Your sites make more money, month on month, and draw higher prices when you sell them every month.

Eventually, Trevor's system results in a truly passive empire of websites that generate a full-time income without any attention at all. If you need more money for a sudden emergency, you can sell a few sites and rapidly replace them with sites that perform just as well.

It just seems like the smartest model I've ever seen for a passive yet liquid internet business.

I will try to lease or rent Warrior Forum for 6 months but I will beg Allen to allow me to pay him when I have made my first million dollars.

If...If...If

For me CPA and Adsense was the easiest way to start earning money. But others have said that being an Amazom Affiliate is a good way to go to get your first few bucks in your pocket !

Hi Cdarlock and asyraf azmi.


A long while back I was interested in going into the self-defense/martial arts route.

I started a thread about it, and it got a number of really excellent replies.

Here is a link:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

I mention it for a couple of reasons.

1) I think it might help some one looking to go into this niche.

2) You have re-ignited my interest in going into this niche at some point.

3) It is one of my biggest regrets that so many Warriors gave me such excellent advice and guidance, and I never took ANY action on it in that market. It is actually one of my biggest "online" regrets.

Anyway, I hope some of the stuff there is helpful.

It's been interesting for me revisiting it. Reading it (and being a little older) I actually get a lot more value out of it.

Pencak Silat is something I have always wanted to learn more about, it looks awesome. Maybe one day I'll get round to it, or perhaps I will buy your course!

I forgot to mention this group:

WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums - Martial Arts Warriors

It is a group of people on the forum interested in martial arts. It's not a very active group, but there are some good people there who might be able to help you or give you some perspective if you come out with any kind of product.

i would start with product creations, i would try to make a product in the IM / MMO niche.

Building websites, flipping websites, flipping domains. Same thing I'm doing now. I enjoy what I do.

I had to start over recently after taking two years off from some severe injuries.

Both times, I've done it with hardly any money - just domain and website hosting are some of the only expenses for any of my website businesses.

This time around was a lot harder. I found targeting local search results in search engines is a great way to get a lot of traffic from search engines very quickly.

I give away the information for this system if you want to know more (in my sig) - completely free info, btw.

I registered a domain name one day and had over a thousand unique visitors from search engines by day seven - it cost me $15.50 (domain and hosting). I probably could have put even more effort into it than I did, but I had a lot of other things going on at that time that kept me fairly distracted.

For me, I won't spend in any courses anymore and look for all the free resources and advice especially in WF. Then pick one strategy and a few traffic techniques and stick with it until I see result.

I am biased, having run offline businesses for the past 18 years. There are just so many opportunities there and even newbies with limited skills knows more than 99% of small and medium business owners out there. There are a range of services but I would focus on the things that you do in the IM market that you can apply for them. Like SEO, list building and lead generation.

I would definitely start with building a community of like-minded people. Like a lot of marketers coming online for the first time they can get a little lonely for example if you were to try to talk with your family which most nothing about the digital age it would be a short conversation lol

I'd say build a list from the very beginning. I've heard it time and time again that now successful internet marketers wished they'd began building their list years before...

And the good thing is you can do this for free, it only takes time and patience.

Product creation 100%. I used to own a hosting company which I sold on when I was around 13 or 14, but it is much more rewarding seeing your product create finance for others.

Regards
Owen

Interesting question. If I would starting from a scratch, I would take my time to invent some useful software, found programmer to develop it and then I would be selling it. And of course I would try to establish affiliate program for it. To try the other side

thx for sharing yours information,

btw, how if i`m not ready to create my own product?
just like being affiliate. i know that`s not easy
to make money online. maybe i should takes time to choose
which types is suitable for me. otherwise, i`ll get nothing
if make any mistake by choosing unprofitble niche.

I echo the above statements regarding becoming an affiliate first. But many newbies are scared to build lists. If I had my time again then I would make my home page a squeezepage and capture email addresses, It is so much easier to sell to loyal subscribers than create affiliate reviews sites that are a dime a dozen!

Best regards

Nigel

I have had the most success with creating/selling info products. When you have your own product line (as opposed to promoting the products of others), you find that you have money coming in from systems you set in place sometimes years before. It's a bit more work in the beginning putting systems into place, creating the products, etc....but if you have drive and focus, it is well worth it in the long run.

The one I am now channelling my main efforts into. I much prefer helping people than churning out crap to get sales. However, I suppose I could not advise unless I had done it all before.

Whatever it is, I would choose to make it something I enjoy, but unless you do it all its tough to know what that is sometimes.

Pick a profitable niche
Find out what this niche needs and wants
Give away free quality information that will help them with their needs and wants
Build your list
Promote affiliate products within your quality free content
After some time, develop your own product(s)
Launch them to your list
Optimize your sales process
Get jv partners and affiliates to promote your products

Personally I would have studied more about real business fundamentals and strategy right out the gate. Then I'd make sure I had some grounding in solid project management knowledge. (Agile or any lean style project management methodology) I'd also make sure I knew my strengths and weaknesses and planned to create a business that is going to work with me not against me.

Then as for an actual business model, I'd look to modeling a proven model that vibes with what I am naturally good at. This is not the same as having knowledge in a particular area. This is more along the lines of working with my personality. For example, am I a systems and research type guy or am I good at creating things or leveraging what other people create, etc.

For me that would be some form of product creation (physical or digital). Or perhaps software or web based services. Personally I spent way to much time focused on being an affiliate and "creating websites" when in reality that was working against my own nature.

I'd also read more biographies of successful people to learn and model from.

My suggestion to you is fairly simple.

- Build 100 WP sites.
- Find 100 hot categories from Amazon.
- Each Category sells an average $100 above a piece
- Sign up with Amazon as an affiliate
- Use autopilot plugin to display products from each category to each of your site.
- Setting up proper WP plugins for your sites to have all of your sites being indexed by google.

two months later, you have have an average of $300/day income to your pocket.

ROI is manageable indeed.

I hope this will help!

Amy

Get into Mobile marketing, it is going to be massive.

I think that is only a suggestion, but I would personaly reccomend building a blog and optimizing it for SEO.

This is one of the best "make fast easy money online" ways (sorry for that I have to say that for my blog to rank well ;-) )

Well anyway here is how I do:

- get keyword that has less than 20,000 competing pages in google and more than 3,000 searches per month in Google as well.

Then you should turn your blog around that keyword and if you want to rank as number one for it than you should post only original content on your blog.

Of course social submissions and building backlinks will improve your SEO but unique content is the first thing you must take care of.

See ya ;-)

Good question, one of the most valuable insights we get here, thanks for all the replies, I read em too BR 88

thx guys... many ideas come out and i get the point. i`m already take note about what should i go. it might be something special for me. but, why some of the ppl thinks that if they starting to make money today, they will have it tomorrow for $10, $100, $ 100k or a million bucks. it`s all about time. Am i right?

Making money online is about time. There are a lot of different things that you can do to get you through the initial period with a new website, for example.

Personally, once I have a website that gets ranked well in search engines and is found relevant to a particular topic, it seems to go much faster from that point. Over the years, I guess the main thing I've gotten better at is getting to this point much faster with a new site.

just wanted to thank everybody here for all the great insight and advice. it's really nice to be able to come across a forum of like-minded individuals who are so willing to extend a helping hand or offer insightful suggestions for the newbs. i too, like the OP has been suffering from information overload as well, and am also struggling with finding my niche. it seems as if all of the things i am sincerely interested in are the least profitable, or the most difficult to monetize.

one question i'd like to throw out there...

it seems that the common point of view from most guru's out there on this is to go where the money is at, and not to try to reinvent the wheel by targeting a new or untapped niche. i instinctively want to do the opposite. i can't help but wonder that if that is the predominant point of view, and everybody is indeed going after the profitable niches, at what point does that market get over-saturated by affiliates & marketers?

for me, when it comes to the stock market and investing, one of my main philosophies has been to do the opposite of what the majority are doing. i guess i've always been a non-conformist in some respects...would this be an inappropriate philosophy to apply to the IM world as well? your thoughts on this would be appreciated, thanks!

I think I would start creating sites that promoted cost per action affiliate programs right away. Basically creating niche sites and using SEO to sell stuff. I would forget about Adsense myself.

Fiverr
It's cool to collect money to be invested
but if you have money already
selling PLR is great as your first step

Study copy writing before doing anything. You can write for others, use it to sell your own products, and work more effectively with when u hire writers.

Hello Asyraf,

I consider myself fairly new to IM as well. Right now, I am as well trying to find exactly what I'd like to do in IM and would like to make it a full time gig.

I have dabbled in a few different areas. One area was Niche website building that linked to affiliate products on both amazon and ebay products, I did not make very much money if any, however I did have money coming in and I saw long term potential for success. The bottom line is that I just didn't put enough time and effort into it because I was only make few dollars here, and a few dollars there.

I did learn a ton about how and what people searched for on the web, the different ways to generate leads, both paid and free, and what type of response to expect from my efforts.

In the end, I lost momentum and got side tracked because I was looking for an easier stream of money as it was a lot of work to do the research, build the sites, analyze the data, and tweak the system to make any tangible return on my investment of time and effort.

This experience has taught me that regardless of what system I choose to make money doing IM, I need to put all my effort into gaining as much knowledge as I can, then take action, test, tweak, test, and tweak some more, and I know that in the long run, I'll be successful at whatever I choose to pursue.

I think you'll be successful in whatever you choose to do because you seem very driven, eager to learn, and communicate well with the community.

I want to thank you for creating this thread, as I am learning a lot about what I really want to do and what options are available to me based off all of the great feedback that has been posted here.

Best,

Steven

I would go for an internet network marketing business / affiliate programs...

What do you like and is it something that is popular? Then see if you can do something different with the idea without reinventing the wheel all the way. It works in music all the time. What do you think remixes are? Stay positive because whatever you choose it going to take time unless you already have a list of people that will follow you.

If I was a newbie again I would immediately work on creating my own products so that I had my OWN business that I controlled. I waited far too long to do that. While I was list building (which I also waited too long to do) I would set up affiliate websites to make some 'seed money' to fund my own projects. So product creation, list building and affiliate marketing...in that order.

I spent far too long building OTHER people's businesses instead of having something of my own. I think of all the time I wasted when I first started and cringe.

Ya know what bro, I would honestly get into the "Make Money Online" niche and the "Internet Marketing" niche because even though they are both extremely competitive, they are competitive because there are a frenzy of buyers.

Plus, when you talk about making money online, I believe it educates you faster on how the whole business model works. And understanding that is key to making sales. Once you grasp how it all works, then you can expand into other niche markets.

Rock on and best of luck,
Matthew Neer