If you had $1000 to spend on IM this week what would you spend it on?

I gotta kinda go with this approach.

With $1,000 though I would buy...

1. 10 domain names ($100 or less?)
2. Get 10 sets of graphics / landing pages ($50)
3. Get some SEO content written for the 10 domains ($50-100)
4. Have an ebook created with a unique product to sell for all sites ($250)
5. Put the 10 products on clickbank
6. Pay a virtual assistant 10 hours a week for a month to build links to all the sites ($200)
7. Spend the last $250-300 on PPC to get the party started.

Sell Amazon products. You would not be liable for sales tax to Californians as their affiliate. I also live in California, and with a bit of online/offline gruntwork promotions of their high-end products you could recoup that in less than a month.

Hmm...appreciate the input but unless anyone else has some additional ideas I think I will stick to the used laptops to other countries idea.

For $1000 we can buy at least two good used laptops. Advertise them locally in the country of our choice (which shall remain nameless ) and then ship them to buyers who prepay for them by credit card.

Shipping is $110 US to this country for a laptop.

Laptops in the country I have in mind typically run at least 40% higher than in the U.S. And they have a whopping VAT tax of around 20%. We don't have to collect the VAT ourselves and whether the end customer pays the VAT or not to their residence country is completely up to them and is their responsibility. We just sell them a good, used laptop at a reasonable price.

Good used laptops are hard to come by in this country from what I understand. So it's not just the price which is high but also that the selection is low.

All we have to do is figure out how to advertise it to prospective buyers there. They have a craigslist but it's hardly used unlike here in the States where in my area...it is RED HOT for used laptops for sale.

Newspaper classifieds there might do it. Or perhaps there is some craigslist alternative there. I'll have to research it more.

No hassles for an initial quick buck I think at least in theory.

I'll work on the niche web sites, affiliate web sites, SEO, Adwords, ads, and the usual Internet Marketing stuff (all good) as found on this forum in my spare time.

Carlos

Hmm...now there's an interesting idea. Buy existing money making web sites and make them stronger. Hmm...that might be worth doing.

Are there a decent amount of $500 money making websites out there? I mean $500 doesn't sound like much for a money making web site. Why would someone want to sell a money making web site for a measly $500?? Kinda doesn't make any sense to me as if I had one such site I would hang on to it and eat bread and water rather than sell it.

Also how would I determine if their claims to money making are any good?

I wonder if both of us should just join the War Room here and lurk for a while? We'll only have about $900 after that but it might be worth it.

Carlos

Great input you all!

I've decided against the laptop sales to a foreign country after discussing this very idea with American expats and locals on a forum dealing with that country in particular.

While laptops there are more expensive than here there is not enough of a spread to justify the time and effort that would be involved in selling used laptops there. Also locals are more inclined, than here, to assume the worst about a used laptop and are predisposed to buy a new one more.

Then there are VAT tax issues, import duties, and other such things to possibly content with.

Much, much better I think to find a good niche and build sites around them and either sell a product created by us for that niche or monitize it with Amazon, Hostgator, or any number of other affiliate programs.

I'll be discussing all this with my partner more but that is where things stand at this point from my end.

Thanks again!

Carlos