What is the best way to start online with only 150$?

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Hey Warriors. A few days ago I had told one of my friends that I was into Internet Marketing and Hope one day I will be making a living on the Internet... BUT... He laughed and said making money online is unreal, but I kept telling him that alot of people where making a living using the Internet and It really works but you need to know the right path to follow in order to make that happen..

He still doesn't believe me that people are working from the comfort of their homes so he decided to make a bet with me...
The bet was, "If by 20 of november you haven't make the double of the money you started with, you will have to pay me 1 whole week of car fuel plus you will have to admit that making money online is complete Nonsense..."

So I accepted the bet.. by that, I have been working at my local bakery these couple of days and managed to make 150$ (I am using that money to start online)

Now, I am here today to ask you for suggestions...

What is the best way to start online?
What product you bought to start making money online?
Is List Building the best way to start?
Etc.. Etc.. Etc

Any suggestions is welcome..

P.s: I cant lose this bet
#150$ #online #start
  • Profile picture of the author just do it
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  • If your goal is to simply double the $150 dollars, then the best way to make money online is to buy low and sell high. Adult products sell like hotcakes on ebay. I'm not being sarcastic, if you want to make a quick buck, peddling adult playthings on ebay works every time.

    Now if your goal is to develop a real online business, you can't do it in 30 days. People around here have been working for years building their businesses and failure means more than a lost week of fuel.
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    • Profile picture of the author Luis Gabriel
      I agree with you. I checked the keywords for some adult products and it is high. It seems like a great market.
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    • Profile picture of the author yesacpow
      If you have $150 to spend then you are ahead of many persons. Here's what I would suggest you do:

      1. You need to learn how to do proper market research and keyword research. You are going to promote a product as an affiliate and make a commission. So I recommend you find at least 30-40 keywords You said the bet ends on November 20th so you have some time on your hands!
      Learn how to do proper keyword research from this thread >> http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ep-step-3.html

      2. After you do your keyword /market research, you will find a product that you can promote ro earn a commision. Product can be from clickbank, commission junction or even independent affiliate programs. You will need to spend about $10 and get a domain. Don't go for any free resources since you have some start up capital.

      3. Next you need to sign up for an auto-responder service. About $17 - 19 per month. Some of the options are: aweber, getresponse, imnicamail.

      4. From doing your market research, you should be able to find some common problems that your prospects are having. Look for 10 questions they may have and search for articles online that answer those questions. You can either rewrite these articles to make them unique or use them as is and keep the author resource box in tact.

      Compile those 10 articles into a free book. Add your copyright info, disclaimer, table of contents etc to polish it up. Now give your ebook a catchy name. eg. The 10 Untold Secrets About ..... Finally Revealed. Just be creative.

      5. Set up a simple squeeze page. Have a title: Free Reports Reveals etc etc. Add some bullets about some of the tips given in the report and have a call to action. ie. submit your name and email to get these secrets now before I start charging for them ....

      Once they optin, send them to a confirmation page reminding them to confirm their email address. Nothing else should be on this page otherwise they may click away and never confirm their email address.

      Now once they go to confirm, your confirmation link should be a link with your affiliate link to the product you are promoting. Simultaneously, the free report should be sent to their inbox.

      6. Add about 1 month worth of auto-responder messages in your auto-responder. No need to bust your brains, there are ton of articles out there that you can rewrite and put your own touch to.

      SO your sales funnel is up, the next step is traffic

      You have already spent close to $30 so you have about $120 left.

      ** I would spend about $100 and get at least 20 of the articles done from the 40 keywords you have chosen. You can write the other 20 yourself.

      ** Submit each of those articles to the top 10 article directories with a link back to your squeeze page.

      ** Convert each of those articles to pdf and upload them to file sharing sites link scribid.

      ** Convert them to word doc and submit them to sites docstoc.

      ** Use a free video recorder like windows movie maker and narate the powerpoints, convert them to vidoes and submit them to video sharing sites like youtube et


      This is just the tip of the iceberg but I can tell you that if you do the above properly and consistently, by the 20th of November you can make far more than double the amount of $150.

      Hope that helps, Good luck.

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      Yesacpow (Casey Gentles)
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      • Profile picture of the author bristol
        Originally Posted by yesacpow View Post

        If you have $150 to spend then you are ahead of many persons. Here's what I would suggest you do:

        1. You need to learn how to do proper market research and keyword research. You are going to promote a product as an affiliate and make a commission. So I recommend you find at least 30-40 keywords You said the bet ends on November 20th so you have some time on your hands!
        Learn how to do proper keyword research from this thread >> http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ep-step-3.html

        2. After you do your keyword /market research, you will find a product that you can promote ro earn a commision. Product can be from clickbank, commission junction or even independent affiliate programs. You will need to spend about $10 and get a domain. Don't go for any free resources since you have some start up capital.

        3. Next you need to sign up for an auto-responder service. About $17 - 19 per month. Some of the options are: aweber, getresponse, imnicamail.

        4. From doing your market research, you should be able to find some common problems that your prospects are having. Look for 10 questions they may have and search for articles online that answer those questions. You can either rewrite these articles to make them unique or use them as is and keep the author resource box in tact.

        Compile those 10 articles into a free book. Add your copyright info, disclaimer, table of contents etc to polish it up. Now give your ebook a catchy name. eg. The 10 Untold Secrets About ..... Finally Revealed. Just be creative.

        5. Set up a simple squeeze page. Have a title: Free Reports Reveals etc etc. Add some bullets about some of the tips given in the report and have a call to action. ie. submit your name and email to get these secrets now before I start charging for them ....

        Once they optin, send them to a confirmation page reminding them to confirm their email address. Nothing else should be on this page otherwise they may click away and never confirm their email address.

        Now once they go to confirm, your confirmation link should be a link with your affiliate link to the product you are promoting. Simultaneously, the free report should be sent to their inbox.

        6. Add about 1 month worth of auto-responder messages in your auto-responder. No need to bust your brains, there are ton of articles out there that you can rewrite and put your own touch to.

        SO your sales funnel is up, the next step is traffic

        You have already spent close to $30 so you have about $120 left.

        ** I would spend about $100 and get at least 20 of the articles done from the 40 keywords you have chosen. You can write the other 20 yourself.

        ** Submit each of those articles to the top 10 article directories with a link back to your squeeze page.

        ** Convert each of those articles to pdf and upload them to file sharing sites link scribid.

        ** Convert them to word doc and submit them to sites docstoc.

        ** Use a free video recorder like windows movie maker and narate the powerpoints, convert them to vidoes and submit them to video sharing sites like youtube et


        This is just the tip of the iceberg but I can tell you that if you do the above properly and consistently, by the 20th of November you can make far more than double the amount of $150.

        Hope that helps, Good luck.

        .....
        Yesacpor (Casey Gentles)
        Awesome stuff!!! Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Luis Gabriel
    I Totally Appreciate those tips yesacpow.. You have just made it more simple to understand..
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    • Profile picture of the author yesacpow
      No problem Luis, you are very welcome and I am glad I could help.


      Originally Posted by Luis Gabriel View Post

      I Totally Appreciate those tips yesacpow.. You have just made it more simple to understand..
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  • Profile picture of the author fasmail01
    well said yesacpow, simple and nice idea. Am on way trying this..lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
    Too bad he said by the 20th of November, because if he gave you some extra time, I would recommend either Adsense or Amazon. Build a micro niche site, get it to make money, and in about three months, flip it. $150 is enough for a domain, 5 articles/reviews, and backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author yesacpow
      Yes the time limit will be a factor to worry about but yet still he has quite some time on his hands if he start taking action right away.


      Originally Posted by Biggy Fat View Post

      Too bad he said by the 20th of November, because if he gave you some extra time, I would recommend either Adsense or Amazon. Build a micro niche site, get it to make money, and in about three months, flip it. $150 is enough for a domain, 5 articles/reviews, and backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Oursource a 10 page report for $97

    Buy the $7 script for... $7...

    Sign up for payspree.com and get set up as a vendor to get affiliates.

    Post in the jv section on this board offering 100% instant commissions for a $17 price.

    Sign up for an aweber account: $1 for the first month..

    Collect emails on the buyers your affiliates bring to you.

    By doing this right you should have a list of 100 subscribers fairly quickly...

    Sell them a product you create/outsource (for additional $$$) or even something you have PLR to.
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    • Profile picture of the author cjscully
      Originally Posted by Skid_Roe View Post

      Oursource a 10 page report for $97

      Buy the $7 script for... $7...

      Sign up for payspree.com and get set up as a vendor to get affiliates.

      Post in the jv section on this board offering 100% instant commissions for a $17 price.

      Sign up for an aweber account: $1 for the first month..

      Collect emails on the buyers your affiliates bring to you.

      By doing this right you should have a list of 100 subscribers fairly quickly...

      Sell them a product you create/outsource (for additional $$$) or even something you have PLR to.
      Newbie question - what is PLR?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jun Balona
    Subscribe to the War Room for resources. A goldmine of information if you want to start your IM business.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kristy Taylor
    Before you spend any money spend some time reading the posts here at the Warrior Forum and also start Googling for any technical information you might need. You need to get your head around all of the terms and techniques first.

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  • Profile picture of the author Venturetothetop
    If you have 4 weeks for your bet, and your asking where to start, you need to be very lucky to make it.

    My biggest tip to you is to invest in a mentor or coach. Find someone on here (on your thread) whose advice you like and convince them to mentor you and help you.

    So far you have had tons of answers, but that will lead to information overload. Get yourself a mentor and you may Double Your Chances of success.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Luis, the easiest and fastest way I know how for you to make $300+ (to win your bet) is to pick up a professional Wordpress theme like Flexx for $79.95 (multi-use license) and then market to offline business owners. You should be able to sell at least ONE website per week at $99 (I'm really giving you lowball figures here just to show you how easy it'd be for you to meet the income goal for that bet of yours).... in about 3 weeks you'd have reached it!

    Some of you may think this requires face to face contact, but this is absolutely NOT required! You can do this by marketing via Craigslist and telephone, at the $99 price point face to face contact is not needed.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Ivelin2008
    I think yesacpow's advice is the best.

    I was going to tell you pretty much the same thing.

    So yeah, go with that!
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  • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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    Buy a good keyword-rich domain name - $10

    Get hosting from hostgator - $25

    Install wordpress and create a good landing page - $0

    Go to clickbank and choose products that you know will convert - $0

    Write high quality articles and submit to EZA - $0

    Buy War Room membership - $37

    Keep the balance so that you can have something to fall back to. And be patient because the success you are looking for will not be as magical as some people preach.
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  • Profile picture of the author RealSocialSignals
    Create a blog about something you love to talk about.

    Also if you don't have a domain and hosting check out Free Web Hosting & Domain Name Registration Since 2000 - Doteasy.com

    You can get a great host and a .com/.net/.org etc. for only $1!

    This will get you in the right tracks!
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  • Profile picture of the author mark587905
    I would join a CPA network and start promoting offers using CPV. Need to know what you doing though.
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    • Profile picture of the author cjscully
      Originally Posted by mark587905 View Post

      I would join a CPA network and start promoting offers using CPV. Need to know what you doing though.
      I'm a newbie here and I'm getting acronym overload reading this thread. What are CPA and CPV?
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      • Profile picture of the author Luis Gabriel
        Great Advice!! I appreciate it.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulie888
        Originally Posted by cjscully View Post

        I'm a newbie here and I'm getting acronym overload reading this thread. What are CPA and CPV?
        CPA = Cost Per Action - typically refers to marketing where you get paid per lead, as opposed to per sale.

        CPV = Cost Per View Advertising, sometimes also known as PPV (Pay Per View). This is where you don't pay per click on your ad, but instead you pay according to the number of views your banner ad gets.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlanB
    Hey Luis,

    I just have one thing to say... try whichever option you will choose to meet your Nov. 20 deadline.... BUUUT even if you don't achieve your goal... DO NOT admit that making money online does not work, because believe me ... IT DOES!!! but you have to invest more than 4 weeks... keep at it... strive to learn more and you will prove your friend wrong over a 150 fold! Cheers!
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    • Profile picture of the author clint48
      If you can write don't spend any of your money, just write one article charge 5 bucks for the article. You shouldn't have any trouble selling the article for 5 bucks. You didn't spend any money and you make 5 bucks so you win the bet.

      Clint
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Money Maker
    Try selling on Bonanzle.com an auction site or Etsy...E-bay is too high priced these days........There's a lot of money being made on both Etsy and Bonanzle....just do some research and find a product to sell that's would be in high demand with no other sellers selling....with no competion you's own the market.... I've made $3500.00 in a week doing this and started with only $200.00....so I know it can be done.
    My biggest month selling was $26,900....and out of that my profit was $12,000
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin_Hutto
    Luis,

    While some of the ideas presented may be viable, the time constraint that you are under makes them risky at best. If you want the absolute easiest way to make $150 between now and then, offer your services on sites like odesk, elance, guru.com and here. You can do writing jobs, linkbuilding jobs, research jobs, VA work, etc... You can easily make that amount, and the income will be much more predictable than trying to turn a profit on a website in 27 days.
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  • Profile picture of the author wannabeaim
    hi yesacpow,

    You look like a guy who's list i've joined. Casey Gentles, if its you then man you know what your talking about. Your emails are amazing and theres so much great info in everyone you have sent me. If you are casey then thanks alot man.

    Ps: Some more great info on this thread, you are mint m8

    Thank you
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    • Profile picture of the author yesacpow
      Hi wannabeaim,

      I am Casey man and I really appreciate your comment! Glad I can be of help.

      Good luck in your business.

      .....
      Casey Gentles (yesacpow)


      Originally Posted by wannabeaim View Post

      hi yesacpow,

      You look like a guy who's list i've joined. Casey Gentles, if its you then man you know what your talking about. Your emails are amazing and theres so much great info in everyone you have sent me. If you are casey then thanks alot man.

      Ps: Some more great info on this thread, you are mint m8

      Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Amirol
    Hi Luis Gabriel,

    If you are good in writing, I believe you can take orders from warriors.

    Offer your service to rewrite / write new articles, ebooks or reports.
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  • Profile picture of the author mari456
    I would click the link in my email signature and check out this opportunity. Just take a look at the videos. You don't have to bother with jv partners, selling email lists, creating plr or even websites.
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  • Profile picture of the author vstar00
    I would check out the challenge. Free course on how to make your money online. Wont make you lots of cash, but will give you a good understanding. challenge.co (not my site or affiliate)
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  • Profile picture of the author Hviews
    Well since you do not have a lot of time. I read this idea from another thread on this forum and it seems like a plausible thing you can do to make money in a relatively short amount of time.

    If you do not know how to use wordpress yet, spend some time learning about editing themes and installing plugins and just get a good feel for wordpress. Then find a few free wordpress themes that you think are good.

    Post an ad in craigslist offering a FREE wordpress website set up. Explain clearly that it is not a scam and it is a real offer. The only thing that is required is that the client has to sign up for a web host through your affiliate link. Since they need a webhost anyways they should have no problems doing so. I recommend using Hostgator since they give you at least $50 per referral even if your referral only spends a penny.

    Then you show your client demos of the themes you have so that they can choose which one they want for their site. Once they purchase the hosting, just set up wordpress for them, install the theme, add content if they have some already made and voila.

    Keep doing this until you have double your money and show it to your friend. Of course this is a short term money making project. But it has the potential to become a well established business if you want to take it further.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam James
    If you want to create a real business you need to create products in your niche this could be eBooks or short videos with your limited budget.

    You will then need to create a squeeze page and get an auto-responder to collect people’s emails so you can build your list.

    Give your product away for free and concentrate on list building, then go to click bank and find products that are related to your niche to email to your list once or twice a week.

    By doing this you will make some money I personally would personally stay away from plr products and focus on giving good content to your subscribers.

    I hope this helps Luis.
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  • Profile picture of the author petevamp
    Originally Posted by Luis Gabriel View Post

    Hey Warriors. A few days ago I had told one of my friends that I was into Internet Marketing and Hope one day I will be making a living on the Internet... BUT... He laughed and said making money online is unreal, but I kept telling him that alot of people where making a living using the Internet and It really works but you need to know the right path to follow in order to make that happen..

    He still doesn't believe me that people are working from the comfort of their homes so he decided to make a bet with me...
    The bet was, "If by 20 of november you haven't make the double of the money you started with, you will have to pay me 1 whole week of car fuel plus you will have to admit that making money online is complete Nonsense..."

    So I accepted the bet.. by that, I have been working at my local bakery these couple of days and managed to make 150$ (I am using that money to start online)

    Now, I am here today to ask you for suggestions...

    What is the best way to start online?
    What product you bought to start making money online?
    Is List Building the best way to start?
    Etc.. Etc.. Etc

    Any suggestions is welcome..

    P.s: I cant lose this bet
    Bud here is the problem since you are new to all of it it is going to take you lot longer then 30 days to make your money. The only reason I say this is because you still have not tried anything with making money online yet. So there is alot you have not learned because you did not already make the mistake. But if you want a rock solid plan to get your started you should check out my affiliate marking link below it would be a bood place for you to get started it is actually where I got started. I wish you the best of luck with your bet hope it works out for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Extreme Falcon
    The first thing I did was use the program from autochacha.com. It requires no IM skill, anyone can set it up. By the end of the first week you it should at least double your start-up money. You may not have internet marketing skill by the 20th, but you will have won the bet.

    By the way, do you get anything for winning the bet?
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  • Profile picture of the author Bojan_Djordjevic
    1. Buy domain
    2. Buy hosting for 1 year

    and with rest of the money go to fiverr.com to do stuff that you can't
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  • Profile picture of the author darrenscrawford
    @Luis - I think today was the end of the bet period... did you make your bet? What did you do? What did you learn?
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  • Profile picture of the author randyman
    you want to double your money in a month with IM? good luck for you
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    • Profile picture of the author AndrewCavanagh
      To answer your question I'd have to ask "what internet marketing skills do you have now?"

      If you don't have any then something simple you could do would be to go to ebay and sell a pile of stuff.

      Sell stuff for your neighbors, friends....anyone who'll let you.

      Sell your own stuff.

      You can use your $150 to cover the cost of the ebay ads and that should make you some money in a short period of time.


      If you do have some internet marketing skill of some kind (like SEO, article marketing, ebay marketing, email marketing, online video creation and submission...basically putting a video on youtube, etc) then you could talk to some local business owners and offer to help their business by using your skill to bring them in more sales and profits.

      Since your goal is really small it shouldn't be too hard to get a business owner to pay you $100 to $200 upfront for any service that looks like it will make them some money.

      Kindest regards,
      Andrew Cavangah
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