I'd buy a domain and hosting, every single time.

If I had to do it all over again I'd:

1. Do something I love. Period. Forget about doing this for money... find something you're interested in and pursue that. Then figure out how to make money doing that. It takes a LOOOT of effort to keep doing something that you don't like to do. As much as you might hear to get into hot markets like Weight Loss, Love/Dating, Make Money Online, it's almost pointless unless you actually ENJOY doing those things... because you won't do the amount of work that you need to do to succeed.

2. Focus on ONE thing. When I first started, I made niche sites for like 1000 different things.. eventually I found myself struggling to even update all of the wordpress installs, let alone produce content and manage the sites. It resulted in me making almost zero money.

3. Outsource ASAP. Work ON your business, not IN it.


So, if I had $10 to spend on starting a business, I'd put it under my mattress until I figured out exactly what I wanted to do.

Then, I'd buy a domain, and hosting, and I'd focus solely on:

- Producing content/products/etc.
- Building a list/managing that list
- Building a steady stream of traffic to fuel those two.

You blogger allows you to use your domain name for no charge, so you can buy your own domain name for a total cost of $10 for the year hosting on blogspot.

Whether it translates to any revenue is a bigger question.

Offering freelance services on the job marketplaces or fiverr seems more practical for a nearly nill budget.

i like how he says, do something with affiliate links, then he goes.. BUT IT HAS TO HAVE VALUE with all the weird hand gestures.. god this guy kills me, lmao

Thing is, what could you really get for $10 anyway in terms of link building and gain significant results?
Better to begin as you mean to go on and treat it like a real business.
Hosting, domain name, $1 trial with Aweber.
Then use free tactics to drive traffic.

Well the questions was £10 (British pounds). At today's conversion that's $15.97 (USD). So for that amount, I would look for a good WSO for under that amount that would teach me how to make money online starting from nothing.

Hopefully there's some left over for a coke and a smile.

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I started with $0. There are plenty of ways to make money from nothing. Offer some services! Then, I used that money to buy my hosting and domains. After I got those set up, I worked on getting my websites set up and getting backlinks. Throughout it all, I was offering services. I posted up a thread in the Warriors for Hire section for more business.

Personally, I couldn't afford to lose any money. Everything I spend on IM I earn from IM.

No, it is $20 which I earned by offering services on freelancing sites.

If you are worried about spending $10, I would say use blogger. There are many people who is making fulltime income using blogger. The best thing is you don't need any web design knowledge. The back panel is very easy too.

Buy a keyword rich domain name and get paid webhosting that is an easy one.

When your site starts getting some decent traffic start building an email list and make that money.

I don't think that you can effectively start an online business for just ten dollars. What I would do to get more capital is paid forum posting and try to sell a few articles. Any capital made can be set aside to later buy a domain, develop a product and then sell it.

i guess it just takes too much effort to start with $10. i might as well do some freelancing or some part time jobs so that i can accumulate more capital to use some simple services to help me along when i start my website.

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For me, one can start with nothing, if you are resourceful enough to find ways then that's it. You just have to be creative, and merely copying any ones technique is not an assurance of getting the same results. Hard work as well as having the right skills is the key to achieve your goal.

Why's Matt wearing scrubs?

Sam

Will buy a domain with keyword and host it.Then I will start doing SEO for a profitable niche and God is in my favor, I will have a business. It will require lots of hard work.

On just $10 alone this is what I would do:

1) Purchase an appropriate domain name at 1&1, you can get one
for under 10 bucks and you can register it privately at no additional cost.
People may disagree and tell you to go elsewhere. I have had
minimal problems with them so I can only speak of my experience.

2) Open an account at Weebly and create a site hosted there with
your domain name. I like their templates better than Blogger and
the free Wordpress blogs, plus it is brain-dead simple to use. Create
a page for services and prices, testimonials and a contact page.

3) Offer free review articles through your forum signature in exchange
for a testimonial, and make sure you do a good job on them. Once
you collect enough testimonials place them on your site.

4) Change your signature to something catchy offering your writing
service. Once you have a few paying clients under your belt create
your own "Warrior For Hire" ad - the cost is only $20, so your first
paying client or two should bring you enough cheese to get going.
Please don't just post what you think will work best - look at some
of the successful ads and post titles and craft yours accordingly.

5) You should be able to get a few takers on your ad. Follow the rules
and bump accordingly. As you build up your client base, be sure to
keep in regular contact and let them know about any deals you have
going on. Also, let them know about other content services you are
offering (eBook creation, AR series, Press Releases, blog posting, etc.)

6) Keep delivering quality stuff and deliver it on time.

You can make loads of money from nothing. $10 is a treasure trove.From the information I posess I can make $10(if I have only$10) into a fortune again.

Most of the people fail because they don't take action.The persons who are making money are taking some serious action and know that they have to succeed at any cost.This type of attitude can only bring nothing but success,success and sucesss only.

I must agree with warriorseo.... it is really incredible what can be done if you target the right keyword! A full time income can come from just one freaking keyword to be honest

10$ to start off with this type of online business??? It`s too expensive hehe.

You can get a quality domain + hosting for just 2$:

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Where is he getting hosting and a domain name for under $10?
I want in.

If someone has $10 I don't understand for the life of me why people would recommend they spend that, and, assume they will recover within 30 dyas. Someone with no experience, heck even someone with experience, may not make money for 6-8 months. I think some of you assume this person already has the skillset and the learning curve to get it done. Most don't....In fact, their first campaign maybe a flop. Either you have time, or, money.

i Started my first IM product for $0 investment and made $36 on my first sale...

10$ is pretty much for me ... I would create a IM product such as a informative ebook and invest some money on hosting and domain .. boom made money ....

I would buy 1 domain name, make sure I have something to write (give value to your audience), free hosting.

I would then write a report to give out (between 10 to 50 pages) and I would create an email list from that. Mail Chimp is free up to 1,000, so I wouldn't need money to spend right away.

I would focus mainly on adding value to the people who subscribe before even thinking about making money.

I think matt is right.

There have been people start with nothing, but if you have a domain and hosting that willl start you out.

YOu can use a free auto responder, then make some money to buy a proper auto responder and pay for more hosting, then spend time driving Traffic, traffic, traffic to your squeeze page, building a list an get more good stuff to them....

then on wards and upwards, get affiliates to one product, sell the guts out of it, and keep making money till you can out source the traffic.

Then just think, more products, and more affiliates. If you do this correctly you could go from $10 to 1 Million in a few years. But its all about how much action you take.

The "uk". Im in the UK I do not remember being involved in any thing like that lol. Bad English that was of him.

Anyway. I would buy a .com through blogspot. $10 for a year

but most of the time its not going to work out with just $10 or pounds for that matter.

if you do adsense then where does your traffic come from?

paid ads you need to pay as the name states.
free traffic would only be SEO and that takes time, not to mention you need to know how to do.
by then end of the month lets say you get 1st ranking but your hosting is over, you finally get the traffic but your property is taken away because you have nothing to pay for your rent which is your hosting.

then you are back to square 1.

so you really need more than $10 if not you are not getting anywhere, i would rather go to starbucks and get a drink. !

I agree that $10 isn't much, and you won't even get hosting with it.

But if you can get a domain name and someone to sponsor you into the War Room, you're golden.

1. Put my $10 in a BANK
2. Open PayPal account and verify with bank account (free)
3. Write short report in OpenOffice (free)
4. Set up as a product at DigiResults (free)
5. Integrate an iContact list (free)
6. Register for forums in my niche (free)
7. Offer review copies of the report in my sig (free)
8. Send review copies via Skype to get contacts (free)
9. Those who like my report can promote as affiliates (free)
10. AFFILIATES + PROFIT + LIST = WIN

I'd spend the $10 on a domain and hosting then head over to Fiverr, spend a few minutes posting a few offers and spend a day or 2 recouping the $10+(always cover your bets just in case the unexpected happens). Then I would spend the rest of the month working on my new site.

For $10, I would head off to Fiverr and see what type of promotion folks are willing to do for $5, you'd be amazed how far the $5 will go

I've started my business with -$35,000. Starting with $10? Child's play!
Seriously... It's all about you. Your mind, your brains, your feelings, your willingness to "have it", your "obligations familiales"... In the beginning, I was just trying to get out of debt. Now, I'm living a beautiful life I have never expected.

Here's my starter toolbox: Google keyword tool, free blogging platform, free autoresponder, RSS feeders, etc. all free but... I assume you got that $10, so spare $1 for Aweber and build your list. Create a product, market it on Facebook... Research, create, market.

Do these all around winner keywords and you are set

I just built my first website with hosting, before that I did gigs on Fiverr, and the contextual back links program on Factoidz pays well.

Oh, hey believe me I already do it!

1. Local hosting (from my country, it has 200 MB storage, advanced features, and very excellent in customer service) : $0.99/month. I pay for 3 months in advance = $ 2.97

2. Purchasing domain .info in Namecheap : $2.99/year

3. Autoresponder : $ 0
I use imnica mail free account, it accepts up to 1000 subscribers. Even if you use paid account you only pay $3/mo for 1000 subs and $7 for 2500 subs

4. Writing articles, link building, forum marketing, guest blogging : $0
I write and do everything myself.

5. Internet connection : $0
I use a campus wireless for free


Sum total for me to start up : $ 5.96

$10 is enough to get anyone going in the internet marketing world. Someone starting will be persevere enough to write his own content, install his own wordpress, promote his own website etc. $10 is not rally a small amount, it depends on how you look at it or how you plan to spend it.

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These suggestion are quite insightful.
personally with $10 ,i would buy a domain with my primary keyword and build content around it

That's the toughest part and most people fail on this.

sounds great after i watch the video.But anyway even if you dont have a $10 in yourr pocket you still can make money through online.Just find and try to be resourcefull.

If you are unemployed with $10 to your name, it will be very hard for you to start anything. A good VPS hosting already costs you at least $20 per month (I don't think shared hosting is a good idea for many reasons I will not list here). And a domain will set you back by another $10 more or less. So there's nothing much you can do here, thus don't get deluded. The best thing you can do is to stay with your parents and look for a job.

And then when wordpress.com bans you're account you gotta start all over.

$2 for .info domain
$0 crappy free hosting
$5 in a 3000 backlink link pyramid on MultiTaskr
$2 on 32 red and hope I have enough to buy more MultiTaskr gigs?

build it for a month with bum marketing, and sell it for $200-$500. Then you can start the right way.

If you're more a service kinda guy, just start for free on a gig site. Let them do all the work, all you gotta do is make free gigs and rake in your money. Find free ebooks, sell them for $5, etc.

If you only have $10 to spare...please, don't put it in IM. I'm pretty sure anyone in their right mind can come up with $20 or maybe even $50 if they are serious, which will buy enough backlinks to do something. If you really only have $10 spend it on food for your next meal will be at a mission.

I started with $3,000. I blew $2,800 on crap "Guru's" were spitting down my throat untill I finally figured out they're all a bunch of scam artists. In the end I had $200 to actually start this business I am running now and with it I turned my humble beginnings into a massive empire. If I can do it anyone can.

CD mentioned icontact list. Could someone give me more detail of how does that help? I am not familiar with icontact. Is icontact some kind of affiliate managing software?

Domain and hosting every time. Think monopoly. You are buying up property and building 4 green houses and then hotel on...charging rent for the right to stay (advertising/link/buy).

I dont know about others but have never been able to get a blogger site to rank anywhere near a WP on host on my keyword rich domain.

I'd take the ten bucks and cruise some yard sales and thrift stores looking for something I knew I could flip for three or four times the cost. Then I'd sell that sucker on eBay.

I actually used this model for about 18 months and built up a thriving business. I let it go though because I need to be writing. All the eBay activity kept me from serious writing.

Okay, What If I have a 10$ and want to get a domain name + hosting ?

Can I get it for a year for 10$ ?

E.g. will it work if I Purchase a domain from some site like Go-daddy, names-cheap etc. and transfer it or host it on a free hosting site like byethost or word press ?

PS. Word press domain costs 17$ and I have 10$.

And I think those 10$ won't fetch you a ready website page or a sales page along with hosting and domain. Or Am I wrong here ? I think that's where wordpress hosted sites come handy.

what do you experts suggest and advice ? Ignore if you find these questions a little dumb . I am a total newbie to all this stuff.

Will be happy if somebody explains all this process of purchasing domain, hosting and setting up a website in a simple lucid manner.

Thanks in advance and regards,
Cantaxian.

@ Reallyranting

Its nice that you got all that for a year in 15$. I am trying to earn money in fiverr by selling ebooks. Will hopefully get on domain in the near future, till then trying to figure out the best options and my niche.

@ Mike Tucker,

That was really helpful, that would perfectly fit in my budget right now. But isn't wordpress more convenient than blogger when it comes to plugins and SEO ? I will wait for some more time if that is a good option. Can we purchase a domain and transfer it to wordpress to get those wordpress plugins and templates? And what about byethost as its a free hosting.

@ CDarklock,

I totally agree with you, I started with the blogger blog considering all this. But one has to think of getting ahead and upgrade to the next level. I am right now trying to figure out how to go to the next level.

@ Laurie Rogers,

I haven't decided on a particular marketing strategy or niche, I do have an account with Click Bank and have recently submitted my first article to Ezine and article base for the purpose of marketing my products and getting traffic to my blog. I would like to sell anything that takes my interest. E-books can be a good source to attract traffic if given free or as a bonus alongside the main product.
Yes But I am trying to find a particular niche for setting up a website. Its hard time learning the tricks of trade but I am ready to learn and determined to work. Its just that I need some time to get familiar with all the IM Stuff.

Thank you all for your valuable inputs . Looking forward to have a great learning experience in this forum .

Best way to start on a budget IMO is video marketing or Article marketing (not so much anymore) with affiliate marketing.

Yep, Wordpress is better than Blogger for Internet Marketers, but my understanding is that the free version doesn't like commercialization? Correct me if I'm wrong.

On the other hand if you can get hosting with CPanel, of course you can install Wordpress for no extra cost.


Maybe it's just me, because I'm technically challenged, but when I started blogging Wordpress was also more difficult to set-up and learn to use. Having more features also meant that it was more complicated. Blogger on the other hand is so simple that its hard to screw-up. Adding AdSense and Amazon ads were just a click of the button and entering the code.

• Use the $10 for gas to find a crap job.
• Then use the money from the job to build your domain empire.
• Quit that crap job once you start making more from your online stuff than the crap job.
• Then stop listening to Matt Cutts.

I started by offering my writing services right here on WF.

My 'For hire' advertisement was paid for selling my unwanted household stuff at a car boot sale.

Since that advertisement I have never spent a penny on IM that I didn't earn online.

My 'day job' salary has never been used to further my IM education or progress.

So, if someone were to give me £10, I'd probably use it to buy my lunch.

Yep, I agree 100% now... But when I started, it seemed more of a mess than Blogger.

And if you're in it for the long term, it's probably best to learn Wordpress anyway... You're going to want to use it eventually.

What it all boils down is starting your own trade and integrating other aspects into it. With your own domain and hosting you have the flexibility to tweak your website to fit your niche.

I would go for what you said about setting up a free wordpress.org blog or blogger blog.

With 10$ probably very hard, I would save more money and then start

I agree with you.... you can start by blogging. With blogging create unique and original content. For sure having great content you will get huge traffic. There you can start buy a domain name.

If i started out with $10, i would save that $10 and promote affiliate products using free websites like tumblr, blogger, wetpaint etc.

Then write content on my own, and build links.

The OP asked about hosting/domain costs somewhere there....a .info is $2.95 I think at namecheap (I hate godaddy just as much as another poster). Hostgator (only host I would go with now) has $7.96/mn plans with unlimited domains. It has the ability to load a WP blog in minutes. As you make more money, you can add more and more domains (on same account) and more blogs. Pretty easy actually. OK its $11 but go dig up some change from the couch for the buck.

Cracking-up, because a few hours ago my son was digging through the sofa for change for his piggy bank (he is 4 years old) and found exactly $1.

i appreciated your video.. i've gain more info.. thanks for sharing..

of course buy a domain on namecheap or go daddy

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Thanks a lot friends for your feedbacks. I tried to register a domain with blogspot but It asks for credit card details which I don't have. Other domain registration site requires "Paypal" and I based in India cannot send payments through paypal without a credit card. Seems Like I will have to find some other way out. I use Alertpay but it seems none of the site accepts it for domain registration purpose.

@ Laurie,
Thanks for suggesting IMgigz. I registered there as it has an option of selling e-books and I have a few with Resale rights . Fiverr does not allow listing of e-books it seems.

BTW I need to know something about transferring e-book to the buyer after receiving payment. How do people land on the download page directly after making payment ? What methods do they use ?

On IMgigz I have mentioned that the e-books will be delivered through the e-mail once I get the payment. Is it okay this way ?

Id open an adult site and steal content from other adult sites and then take the remaining 9.99 cents and buy a big fat juicy sexy cheeseburger from In and Out, wait why is all this suggestive. Hence, how the internet works I guess. I love how they say Facebook and google have the most traffic.. LOL Not even in comparison to p/orn collectively just saying 10 bucks buys you lots of desperate people on skid row ~

Buy a small domain & start working with it!

What I would do with $10:

1. Put my $10 on PayPal (if you have no credit card because you're minor, using unverified account will do)
2. Buy domain name in name.com ($9 or so)
3. Setup blogspot blog, change the domain name into custom domain, link it to my domain name (FREE)
4. Type in on google "free plr membership" --> get free plr video worth selling for $27 (FREE)
5. Get free one column theme for my blogspot blog, write a sales letter, put one or two plr video to youtube and embed it on sales letter for proof, add ecover using free online ecover creator (increasing my conversion). (FREE)
6. Get DropBox account, host my plr video using their server (FREE)
7. Upload another video on youtube for traffic, record screen cast about anything using screenr and upload it to youtube for another traffic (FREE)
8. Register to SimpleOneClick or DigiResult and list my product (FREE)
9. Optional: Create new account on google adwords --> get free $75 coupon code ---> advertise!

TRAFFIC + CONVERSION + OFFER = MONEY (it might be small money first, but at least i make some money)

I got a new domain a few days ago and have been thinking of a way to make money with it, now I have a solid idea but untill i can build this website the way I want I have installed a simple forum script with some basic IM topics, I would love some feedback from any and all warriors reading this.

note; not trying to steal readers from warrior forum.

I find it hard to believe one can start an online business for $10, I mean there is a slight chance that it is possible, but for the majority, its almost unlikley

@michaelburke,
You would have to give us the domain name for anyone to look at it.

@Zaney,
Did you read the previous 131 posts, which are full of excellent ideas on how to do just that? What makes it "hard to believe" for you?

to have any real chance of success, the easiest way to succeed is probably around $200.

EMD + content + links

But you've got to know SEO up front, you can't buy that for any price.

That's specifically what cutts is talking about ... $10 worth of seo investment. While it's possible, the odds for success when you only have $10 is very, very slim.
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If you've got the $10, to get your startup capital to where it needs to be, seo is the wrong way to go about doing it. I'd sign up for plenty of fish and start flirting ... having your "dating profile link" in the form of an affiliate link to a dating service ready to pass via PM at any time.

Yeah, it'll make you feel a bit creepy but the real answer is "get a job and raise enough money to start out the right way" ... but I know none of you want to hear that.

I would also start with a domain and hosting and then build content from there of which you can find plenty of on the web.

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I would build a free blog on Blogger and just order 2 gigs on Fiverr.com one for writing content and one for promotion.

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Thanks for showing me this! I have been using fiverr to earn some money to get me started with internet marketing and im thinking about buying some backlink and traffic gigs soon enough!

You can start with $0. I did. I decided I was putting no money into this until I started seeing some solid ROI - that is to remove any financial pressure where you're driven to succeed because you have X dollars invested up front (and which you're going to second guess whether or not that was spent wisely should it takes longer than you initially thought it would to make it back). I prefer being driven for the intrinsic reward that comes with successes (big and small) and operating in niches I enjoy in their own right (though each was researched to ensure a shot at profitability through enough searches and reasonably low competition, as its still a commercial undertaking).

I bought my hosting and 2 domains from outsourcing to other Warriors within my first couple weeks here while I'd launched a free trial baloon on Blogger before joining. I pulled the content from Blogger on July 4 (Independence Day was an apt day to do it, even though I don't live in the US - I still appreciate what it symbolizes) and registered the first domain out of that and paid for my host service the same day.

FTR I didn't get into IM to become a millionaire. I aim to attain the maximum success possible simply because that's how I've approached every prior venture; and the financial gain is only one yardstick (not a trivial one). I have milestones in mind, but they're flexible to account for the unpredictable things life throws up. For me, I succeed as I continue improving upon what I'm doing and learning more about the process as I go. The money quotient will inevitably follow and increase over time.

-Spyder

Good question, I would get a Facebook fan page. Spend five dollars on fiver to get at least 25 fans so can get a fan page URL. Once I did that I'd build up a following on my fan page and once that fan page started generating money. I would then buy a domain name, hosting, and an email service and tell all my fas to sign up for my emails.

Buy $10 worth of business cards. Build my new company a Facebook fanpage and Google Places page... then go email, call and visit local companies to sell Facebook and Google Places set-up and maintenance/content update services until I make enough to expand to other services (and you should have enough to expand in less than a week).

Well, you can start an online business with nothing. Start by providing some quality articles to your clients and from there try to save that money before you would invest or use some money in purchasing domains or so on.
Conceptualize a plan first before you try to spend some money doing some Internet Marketing business. Make a plan and try to focus on that plan, hence; when you are already familiar with the basics, then you can't spend that $10 to purchase something that will help you in your business.

yup so bottom line is take this $10 put it in the bank or spent it on starbucks.

dont bother trying to hope for that $10 to grow into millions or thousands or even hundred no matter what u do with it unless u gamble it and u win 10 times in a row then u will get $10,000.

if u really think that will happen then u must be dreaming. lol. but anyway if u want u can try roulette. lol.

Writing online for revenue sharing sites is free, that's the best beginner's way to build confidence

I started without even investing 10 bucks.

I joined an adult type dating affiliate program (the 1 that is older than time itself) for free, then with my affiliate link, I started finding interested prospects using free online classified sites, like craigslist, MundoAnuncio (dot) com, olx (dot) com, and others. I had them write to an email address, to capture their address, then promoted my affiliate link to them to join.

I think I made about $40 my first month doing that, then grew from there.

Now I do things completely differently, (SEO, paid banner ads, etc.) since placing free classified ads all day is not the most efficient use of time. But if you are short on money when first starting out, then place free classifieds all day long.... you will make some bread.

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For $10, by your first domain name. This will be the place for your first product.
You can use example.com/squeeze.html has a squeeze page.

Create a 20 minute interview and give it away for free. This interview can answer a few questions about your topic that people would want to know about.

Start posting in a forum and build a relationship. In a week or two come back and add your signature link and make this go to your squeeze page.

Try that out and see how it works.