How to start IM with 100k cash to invest.

Hi Daniel

many of us start of with little to no capital - however it then takes many of us a long time before we are able to earn $6-10k a month - but this is certainly possible in the first year -

for yourself you have capital to invest - so why start of from ground up - I would personally go to flippa.com and look at some websites for sale

you can buy sites that will start making your money back from the moment it gets transfered to you

I think you should invest in some websites that are already making good money. As abs007 said, go to flippa.com and browse for some well established websites and buy them

There are normally some really good deals on flippa but be careful and make sure you only buy from a trusted seller.

The info-product + PPC combination should work well for you if you know which niches to target.

Another thing you could look into is buying underpriced and expired domains, and then flip them on Flippa and elsewhere. You can buy domains starting at $10, all the way into six or even seven figures, but of course I'd suggest that you start with 2 or 3 figure domains initially, at least until you know what you're doing.

There's tremendous potential with domain names, and the nice thing about them is that you don't have to develop websites or do any technical work in order to flip them. There's obviously going to be a learning curve here, but if you learn how to do this well it'll reward you very well financially.

My Advise, keep your big sum of money and learn first with a very small amount. This is to keep you from losing... Spending without enough knowledge will only result to loses...especially if you have that big amount...

Once you learned, that's the time to spread your budget....

DA,

In the U.S. Military, we like to do thorough analysis' of courses of actions before deciding on any given one to pursue. I'd highly encourage you to take all the feedback and comments in this thread and lay it all out. Just because you have $100,000 to invest, I wouldn't succumb to the temptation that you could just throw it into the win....quite honestly, you CAN reach your goal with less than a thousand of that invested.

There are a million different factors to consider. Definitely look into Flippa, as another poster had mentioned. Try to determine what investment you can realize the most upside gain with the least amount of investment/expenditure.

I'm going to save you $90,000 right now!!!

I would think along the lines of having $10,000 to invest, not $100,000.

Keep the $90,000 tucked away where you can't easily get at it.

If you can't make money starting off with $10,000 then you probably won't with $100,000.

Find out what you are interested in.

Join the War Room here.

Join BTF.

Find a few dozen decent domain names.

Build some sites or get someone to throw up some decent looking blogs for you.

Invest in some software to help you such as Market Samurai, SENuke, The Best Spinner etc...

Add in some hosting and you have probably spent a few thousand if you get others to set up your sites.

That leaves you a few thousand to buy some links and outsource some content.

Within a few months you should have some reasonable rankings for something and by then you will have learned a lot and probably realised it isn't as easy as you think. But neither is it rocket science.

Don't think you can just plop $100,000 into a project and it will be a hit.

I know people and companies personally who have had failed projects and quite a few costing much more than $100,000.

If you think you need to spend $100,000 to succeed, then you will soon find lots of places to spend you money!

Oh and my fee for saving you $90,000 is just $1,997 and with no upsells :-)

Thanks,
Sam

I would go and check out some of Rich Schefren's stuff. He has been massively successful both online and offline. He has got some really good stuff (some free and some that is quite expensive). He was the guy who taught IM to the likes of Mike Filsaime, Jeff Walker etc. I think you would benefit greatly from his training because he teaches you how to find the right business for you, then how to get it going, then how to expand and streamline. He really knows his stuff.
He gets my personal reccomendation, do a google search for him.

Interesting question - and quite a change from the more frequent
"How to launch an IM business with $100 (or less)!"

I'd look at it this way.

First, decide what kind of model works best for you. The broadest
grouping I can think of is:

* direct selling
* lead generation
* content publishing

Direct selling will include affiliate marketing and ecommerce.
Lead gen will involve finding leads for a business and getting
paid for it. Content publishing includes all nuances of
infopreneuring, with various monetization options.

- - -

Then, decide upon your niche. You may choose a passion, or
make a purely money/profit driven decision, depending upon
how 'hands-on' you will be in running the nitty-gritty
details of your business.

The reason I personally put passion ahead of purely profit
potential is because I'd love to be involved in what I'm
doing for many more years - though there are more than
enough success stories from taking the other approach to
dismiss it as a viable solution.

- - -

Next, see if any established sites/businesses are almost
exactly what you want or would like to build - and then
see if they'll sell it to you.

If they will, you're in business - overnight.

If they won't, then go ahead and build it after studying
the market, the model, the system and maybe even reverse
engineering their processes.

- - -

This is a WIDELY based plan. No one can likely give you
very specific suggestions without sitting down to talk
it over and figure out your unique needs, desires and
skills/talents.

Hope this very broad outline is of some help in taking
the next step - and good luck with your business!

All success
Dr.Mani

AlphaTurk:

Don't use the 100k directly.

Instead, invest the 100k into something else that generates some kind of income, then use that income to launch your business.

Now, you are 'playing with house money', and you can risk that without too much problem.

Almost anything should work, including muni bonds, or even rental property. The better the yield, the more money you have to risk on this venture.

Understand what I'm saying?

Take a few weeks, and do your due diligence, to find out who the real deal guys are who are making money hand over fist, and have been, reliably, for a long time. Cost: free.

Take a little time after that to find out which ones among them offer mentoring. Cost: free.

Contact people who have been mentored by them, see how it went. Cost: free.

When you find a guy you're comfortable with, sign up to be mentored. Cost: whatever it costs. Probably still a lot less than 100k, though.


In short, throw your lot in with somebody who is a proven success, who also has a track record of making others successful, and you practically can't fail.

If I were you I'd quite simply have a someone build a squeeze page for me and buy about 500 solo ads

Thank you all for your advices so far

If I had $100,000 to invest I would definitely look into PPC and get a really good training course on that. If you can find a good website designer to do landing pages for you and then learn how to max out Adwords and Facebook, then you can probably run profitable affiliate campaigns within a short period of time.

I would also invest in a really good SEO training course and learn it all. Then I would go out and buy or start a few websites aimed at moderate to high competetive ('cheap flights xxxxx' instead of 'cheap flights') keywords with a 1-2 year goal of ranking nr. 1. Get some really slick websites up and then buy every backlink product out there. Outsource the use of them and article writing. Do all that and you will be on Google's first page within a year or two and that's where the big money is.

I just think you should try all this out for yourself for some months before investing too much and thinking about outsourcing, but you definitely have an advantage bringing that much capital with you.

My best advice would be to not jump in and start spending right away even though you have it. Since most people get started with virtually no up front investment other than their time, I'd recommend you do the same. Play it safe and save the money for when you have a really solid idea for how you'll use it and leverage it to build your business/income. Just wanted to throw that out there

Create an action plan for youself, and don't do anything untill you have a clear plan of what you're going to do and how your going to set about doing it.

Work out what your personal interests are and create a online business model that suits it. You're going to need to create a method that draws in the traffic, some way of retaining the traffic (mailing lists) and some way of monitizing the traffic through PPC ads, Affiliate ads or your own set of products or services.

That's pretty much what every single person is doing online in one way or another.

AT,

I read about the first 20 messages in this thread and it seemed everyone was saying the same thing - so if this has been said, just ignore it.

The first thing you need to do is pick out a business model. You need to decide what type of business you want. There are many variations and if you bounce back and forth, then you will have diminished results.

Niche Affiliate sites(amazon, etc), adsense, information products, e-commerce, consulting, guru business, software, and others.

Decide on which business you would like to own and then you have a place to start. The advice I would give is much different for someone who wants to start an information product business than the advice I would give to someone who wants to build an adsense business...etc... So, I think clarifying what exactly you would like to have in a year or two is the first step.

And... you can eventually own businesses of several different types to diversify. But you really need to FOCUS on one til you are killing it then branch out. (in my experience).

forget aboutt he $100k..do not go and buy 20 $2k courses and think that's going to supercharge you along.

Start with nothing.But a domain. What bizz are going to do? Start with 1...start small. try to mkae a profit, tweak, change, adjust. scale up...Duplicate IF you need products or you need to outsource parts of it to expand do it..One step at a time.

BE very careful. I'l lbet you PM box is full of kinds of "unbelievable" offers. Best to ignore them all and do what I said. Good luck.

Hmmm..it would be so easy for every person with some spare cash to think this but it hairy fairy land.......I'll bet 99% of those sites are scams...so BEWARE. Yes there are golden nuggets but it's a needle in the haystack...

I would hire an expert for $10k whose only job would be to find me the best $90k website to buy.

If you do this then you know that the decision making process has been made by someone with a proven track record, not yourself.

Not that I am not saying you don't know what you are doing, but if it was me I would hire an expert. I think neither you or I have been in the situation of buying $100k websites before, so why not hire a professional consultant or broker that has the necessary experience.

Or you could just wing-it, your choice!

-Hire a keyword researcher
-Hire a web designer
-Hire a SEO team
-Monetize your site once you start getting the traffic
-Rinse and Repeat (if it works).

The beauty of the IM business is your ability to test,test,test without a large investment.
Be careful with flippa as the name implies.

The question becomes how is he going to know that the expert he hire is really viable? There are people with credibility that aren't really as great as advertised. You have consultant firms taking small business owners for $50,000 a pop and not producing much ,but, psychological satisfaction. A catch 22 for sure....

On the other hand, I understand that if buying existing businesses is good enough offline then it has to work somehow online. Hence: Mergers and Acquisitions a lucrative endeavor in which the investor never gets his hands dirty in day to day task.

I have a good idea and chance for you, I think you dont have to invest all your money at once, just 1 idea could make you a lot of more, I am looking for a partern who want to work with me in the spanish niche, I have contacts, mailings list and the top 5 super affiliate is my budy, if you want to know my idea please contact me at: gisselle "AT" gissellealeman.com

thanks!

AlphaTurk,

I have not read this whole thread - but it looks like your getting the same advice i usually get from warriorforum - and although it's great advice its not right for your (or my) circumstances.

Most people on here will tell you to save your money - and work from the ground up. Lean with small amounts, or even invest your money elsewhere.

I know EXACTLY what you are saying, as it sounds like you are like me...

I know php/mysql/seo/css/java/vb/flash/etc -- without sounding big headed - i can do almost anything to do with the internet - except affiliate marketing.

I make $12k a month online - all with a couple of sites using SEO -- no running costs at all. Years of work has paid off. This has let me save up enough to start something else.

It's no good for me to think - i'm making enough to live off - as any day, my sites could lose their rank in google and my money has gone. I need to learn affiliate marketing - using pay per click advertising so i control how the visitors come to my sites -- not google.

If we say at this point -- we are both the same... Skilled in all aspects of web design and seo. Enough money, so we don't have to start at the bottom, and wanting to find a new way to give us security and more money.

So what can we do?

We can outsource as much as possible - I've always paid a guy to write my articles and submit them to ezine. at $2 per article submited to ezine - it's not worth my time doing them.
I'm just trying a guy on here "Shane Natan" who seems really nice - He does 10,000 backlinks for $89 -- there is no way i could compete with that, so i'm hoping to use his services a lot in the future. That's more outsourcing.
We could pay people who are really skilled in graphics to make our landing pages, write our copy, and even create our site templates. Any job that will take you time - you can pay someone to do it, and the chances are they can do it cheaper, faster, and better.

I personally write the content and meta for my sites - as i feel i can get the SEO better. But apart from that i outsource.


Anyway, here is a few options...

I've always been sceptical about buying a site from flippa. If you pay 10k for a site - and a few months later it stops making the 1k a month it was making - your kind of screwed.

What i am trying at the moment is making 300 sites each earning $10 a day each. I've had success with minisites before - but only $1 or $2 a day. I'm still trying to get these going. Trying to do this all with SEO.

Affiliate marketing - this is my real goal. Why spend months doing SEO - when you can just pay some money and have people on your site from day1. I'm going to try this in a month or 2. Using PPC.


I suggest you go for affiliate marketing. Pick an offer with a company - pay someone to make you a landing page with a site (or make your own), and just try it with adwords (supposed to be the hardest to master - but i guess if you do it - facebook/yahoo/msn/etc will be easy )


Please note - anyone who reads this - please dont think im being big headed! i worked hard to learn what i know, and to get the money i make. I'm in no way insulting the way anyone else has/does make their money.

As many have already stated with that kind of capital to invest you are not limited by any means as many of us where when we first started. I personally got started from taking little chunks out of my unemployment checks when this recession first hit. If I would have had the amount of capital at the time with income coming in already. Things would have been ten times easier for me.

As everyone has already stated I would go buy a site with proven traffic and income from flippa. I would then outsource anything I did not want to do or know how to do. Much like running any brick and mortar business. Your freelance workers are just that your workers. You pay them to do the work so you do not have to.

Now I do not know how much you do know about im there but you could always go the product creation route. Outsource everything to free lancers. Then a few weeks or a few months later you can do the same thing again.