What is the best use of a $200/month budget?

It really depends on what takes you the most time or drains you out personally.

Personally, article writing takes me a very long time and I outsource it to a new Warrior member (AllyChurch), she is very good at quality writing for cheap.

Otherwise, you can outsource to the Phillipines or through oDesk etc.

If SEO or backlinking eats away at your time too much, outsource that to an SEO company or spend some time interviewing and hiring people through oDesk/Phillipines etc as a lot of people here do.

It's all about making decisions that help your business.

Work ON your business, not IN it.

Don’t spend anything yet. Read many posts here in this forum until you’ll learn what could really help you. Only after having a serious marketing plan and after knowing what you are doing, should you use the money you have, to improve your business.

You’ll simply waste money if you’ll act without having a very clear business plan in mind. Study, and learn. Then relate everything you’ll learn, and find out what will surely be better for you.

I would say backlinks and ararticle writing for press release sites. These two have proven to work very well for me both personally and outsourced. Good luck =)

Tithes to God 10%, 25% will be your savings and the rest you can do what you want.

I used to buy every new tools that would hit the market, buy the latest courses or WSOs, but one day I wisened up and since then I've never looked back.

What's the best way to spend an extra 200$?

Go out. Feed a hobby. Get inspired. It'll trickle down back to your business, trust me.

I would buy article marketing robot or scrapebox. You can dominate the SERPS with just those 2 tools. I think both would just be under $200 or a little over.

That would take care of the money for the first month. The second month's budget would be spent on buying domains and using scrapebox/Article marketing robot to build backlinks and get your site #1.

Article marketing and building back links.

Thanks everyone. Is anyone still using senuke, or do other tools fill its role better?

Last post for the night... It's late. I'll check back in the morning.

Its a time vs profit tradeoff

if you can handle the outsourcing of backlinks, then that's really the best rather doing everything on your own. You dont have to outsource everything though so you better have a plan ready.

For example, if you paid for senuke, thats already over half of your monthly budget. Then you probably have to crank out articles to make the most of it and you'll end up with less new sites finished.

Look at the big picture, plan ahead, outsource, PROFIT.

IMHO, the best use of that $200 would be for outsourcing the article writing. That is typically the most mind-numbing and tedious activity in the process of churning out multiple websites like what you intend to do.

The rest of the activities can be done relatively quickly, and I'd classify them as mechanical processes without much variance to them, so this is something you could do yourself.

If you truly have at least $200 to spend each month on this, you could consider dividing it between SENuke and article writing. SENuke would help to automate some of the tedious backlinking work (though not as tedious as article writing, at least in my opinion).

Paul

Outsourcing is the key.
Replace yourself in things others can do as well as you can, or e´ven better and certainly cheaper...

Thanks guys- Good thread!

Simple information- but it's often the simple things that are the best and keep working time and time again. You can afford to take onboard more complicated methods when you can do exactly that... Afford too!

IMO

- Focus on article marketing and backlinks
- Outsource where you can (but it's good to have a sound understanding of what you’re having outsourced so that you're aware of the quality your receiving)
- Save a % of your budget for any unexpected issues that may/do arise
- Definitely study first, create a solid plan (in writing) and then implement it (before getting sidetrack)
- Split test, measure, replicate superior methods throughout and repeat.

Good luck to all!

Why not spend the money on paid advertising for your current website, it's seems to convert traffic and your only using organic traffic sources it seems.

I'd do a quick test with some pay per click traffic and see what the conversion result was before I started moving onto other sites.

Lee

If you have an affiliate product I suggest you create a landing page and spend the money on adwords ..it's the best medium for targeted traffic

Article marketing can help you a lot in increasing your revenue. It would be better if you get article submitted in top article sites like ezinearticles. If you do some linkbuilding for your ezinearticles link then it will get ranked very easily as compare to if you put the same put article on your own site.

Thanks

better u spend that money for seo and adwords..worth it

Pretty much everyone here is giving you spot on advice that you should outsource. I'd just add that instead of going out and grabbing an article writer or a backlinks team on our advice; sit back a moment and figure out exactly what it is you absolutely despise doing in your online marketing career. There has to be one thing that makes you cringe. For me it's backlinks, I frikin' hate those bloody things. For you it may be writing, blog commenting, e.t.c...

Once you know what you can't stand, that 1 single thing that has you walking away from the screen before you should - THAT is the thing you should spend your 200.00 per month budget outsourcing. It will exponentially increase your productivity because you will be freed up to do MORE of what you actually love doing online, while getting the nonsense completed elsewhere.

WSO x 5. You must have a good landing page or opt in page to capture leads. That's what I will do.

Alternatively, you can outsource article rewriting service @ $1 an article. That will be 200 articles in a month!!!

Yes you can outsource but try to learn before doing so. It can be a tedious task to manage a team so maybe hire a virtual assistant first who can write for you and hire other people who'll be a part of your team. Saves 70% of your time.


Andrea

I would say go to fiverr.com and buy some backlinking services, some unique articles, some twitter tweets, and some facebook fan page referrals.
You should also have an autoresponder monthly cost in that budget

Use in forex and double it monthly

you have to multiply your time to take advantage of any money. They are both commodities. Hire a VA let them implement. They should be able to earn their salary by the end of the first month. See replacemyself.

Frank tocco's contest idea is killer! If you target it the right way that can be an incredible boost to profits. Backlinking and seo is nice, but I think it is much more important to build a list.

Having a targeted list allows you to sell and resell your subscribers. I use mobile marketing and have built a 700 person list for $100 in 24 hours (check the sig). This is the cheapest (0.03 cents/click) and fastest (1100 clicks in an hour some days) traffic source currently available.

As far as creating your own product, forget Clickbank at first. Create cheaper reports that focus on specific problems (think "For Dummies" books and sell them direct with PayPal at $7-$17). This is instant cash, no set up fees, and low commissions. My $7 mobile marketing guide is selling like gangbusters right now and I get the money instantly.

You can also offer affiliate commissions using special scripts to give them a % (I offer 100% commissions but I get the names and emails of the buyers thereby growing my list even more).

Check out my stuff and drop me a line (I used templates for everything and it makes my life a lot easier). As you can see, I left out the glitzy headers and footers that we all see way too often. This approach is working even with Facebook traffic because it is simple and to the point.

If you are really good at computers, then make one guide on setting up a complete network or interfacing your media center computer with the home theater and the blender. I don't know, just find something you can write 30-50 pages on (including screenshots or videos) and post it on a decent landing page. Then do the SEO and backlinks.

Check out the "For Dummies" web page, Clickbank, eHow and similar sources to get an idea of what kind of computer related (and other) products are being sought. I write for eHow and they are SEO masters, they also only request articles that have keywords (specific problems) with a decent search volume. Do you think the "For Dummies" guys just write whatever? Nope, they do some crazy market research to see what is going to sell, sell, sell.

I also have the same budget but will wait until I learn the basics myself so I would know more about the things I want to outsource.
Many good tips here, thanks from me too!

Frank Tocco,

I would like more details about your contest idea.
Please PM me.

Wow! This thread has grown into something a lot larger than I thought it would.

I now have a plan (it's written in black ink an piece of printer paper sitting in front of me right now).

What's my plan, you say? Maybe I'll share it once I've given it a go. I don't think I've seen anyone doing exactly what I'm thinking of doing before. Could be good. Could be bad.

So, for me, the MOST MISERABLE TASK EVER is backlinking. I have taken you guys' advice and am working on a way to outsource, automate, and make it a painless as possible.

Again, THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Neill

One option would be to create an aweber account, build opt in pages giving free stuff away to build list, use some paid advertising, outsource some article marketing & perhaps some backlink building and build email follow ups providing free quality content and affiliate offers - perhaps do reviews of new products and give reasons why they should or should not buy them

If you are making 20-30 per month through seo, I'd either work on the site adding more content and doing seo to it,

or replicate the first site (the 2nd one is always quicker/easier to make) and have 4,5 similar sites generating the same income; outsource what takes you a long time to do