How would you invest 10k?

First thing I would do is invest in a thread title edit. Every one and their money grubbing dog can see that you have 10k. Prepare for a PM inbox full to the top... containing a ton of messages you can't reply to yet, but still... annoying.

Then I would find a method of income generation. Product creation, affiliate marketing, adsense, CPM ads, etc.

Once you find something that you are comfortable with, or can at least outsource with some degree of knowledge, then jump in and go from there. A XXk budget means quite a bit of resources for creating a product for a desperate market.

That is my advice.

I am no expert but what ever you do research about what your about to do any to make sure you know what coming and your not surprised when a message comes or something. Better to look in to it a lot then kick your self after wishing you had done more research. You probly already knew that all ready...

I am no expert but what ever you do, research about what your thinking of doing to make sure your not surprised when a something unexpected happens. Better to look in to it a lot then kick your self after wishing you had done more research. You probly already knew that all ready...

Outsource the following for a blog:

Buy Domain $10 per year (for blogger)
Articles $5 per (one per day)
Website Design $300-$500
Product Graphics $300
Product Pitch $300
Product Development and Videos $500-$1000
Advertise on other blogs $200 per month

Probably would be the extent of my money, and the rest would be used for PPC and getting on email lists.

If you can outsource everything will be cheapest, but it will take abit of time and effort. Also, you can outsource website building to some of the service providers, such as micro niche website builders. The returns can be quite high.

The problem is that if you don't know WTF you are doing you are unlikely to be able to invest that $10k without losing it. I guess you could consider it tuition.

It really depends on my goals. For things like real estate, 10K won't do too much unless you do creative real estate deals, then that money will go a long way. For simple things like being an online affiliate, then I'd gradually invest that money in driving traffic and optimizing my offers.

What's your goals?

I can't imagine why you would consider investing 10k in something you know nothing about to begin with. Aside from that, if you're willing to do some research you can learn almost everything you need to learn about IM free online. It's not a matter of money. It's a matter of learning which end is up--and that can be learned for free. --Mike

If you study enough, like 3-4 months worth and just devour the right information, then you can easily turn that $10k into $100k in a matter of months with an effective direct mail campaign.

You could even apply this direct mail to striking deals with local businesses. You just have to learn how to bring in the big fish and keep them

If not a website, what would you guys invest in?

Well I'd do what I do now, invest that money into traffic to my own offers as well as affiliate offers or just invest it in my start up tech company...

Is depend what you want to do with it.
10k can be small invest and can be big invest,

My ideas Is
buy some good stuff ( second hand ) and sale it again, make your money grow from 10 K to 100 K

example:

My friend did this , he bought watches from ebay second hand with popular brands with $1200 and he sold for $2900, Now he crazy looking for second hand watches to sale it again on ebay.
10K is good enough to start, you dont have to do the same as watch but you can do anything!

That is sample ideas instead online business. hope give you ideas.

The Value of Ideas more highest then money

Definitely would agree with the above. I certainly wouldn't make a habit of announcing $XX,XXX is up for grabs... that's like throwing a bloody goldfish into a piranha tank.

I mean you could take any of the instructions above, and maybe succeed online.

However, I would tread with caution for a bit, learn the basics, figure out who's who? -those who are actually here to stay? -vs- those who'll grub your money, and be gone tomorrow?

More importantly, learn who's actually making sustainable income? and How?

*I'm in that process now.

Then, if I were to do anything it would be jump start 25-50 'high demand' niche sites... there are at least (2) specific Warriors who I know of that do excellent work and have been around here awhile offering some nice pre-templated niche sites. *Some are already partially monetized for easy tweaking... and you can get into some niche sites fairly inexpensively.

Thus, you spread it out and target the evergreen market items (i.e. weight loss, dating, babies, puppies, dollies, etc...)

Once you have them up and running, focus on writing (or hiring writers) to produce quality... relevant content for article syndication, and start getting your links out their in front of a massive targeted audience. Build a HUGE subscriber list first and foremost!

Build relationships through email, and set-up several marketing funnels on auto-pilot...

At which time, you should still have 3/4 of your money, be generating revenue consistently, and can afford to start creating product, keep ramping up the traffic, and have enough data and split testing done to really scale up operations with some partners, product creation, and proceed to building an affiliate army of 'pushers' moving your goods....

Sounds great on paper, but in reality, I have been busting my hump for 7 months, and might be about 1/3 of the way there...

...And I left out a good portion of the tools, resources, unforeseen bs, and the massive learning curve... So, I'm NOT sure that money trumps knowledge here, but I'd venture into learning IM before spending it for sure!

All the Best,

Art

I think that if you don't know what to do with 10K and you're asking in a public forum what to do with 10K, you're inviting tons of pms from people shilling their products.

I would only invest 10K if I had a clear, well thought out plan in place to get a return on my investment.

You can buy sites from Flippa, but be aware that there are a lot of scammers on Flippa who sell sites with income claims that are "proven" with fake screenshots and traffic claims that are equally dubious.

You have to have good instincts and know what to look for when buying "revenue bearing" sites on Flippa.

Investing $10,000 when you are a "newbie" is a waste in my opinion.

Don't just toss out your money, save it. Learn with free methods first and get a hang of what's going on.

You are definitely going to end up wasting your money on useless junk if you just toss it out now, so be realistic.

I hope you are successful in your ventures, but please don't just toss out money.

10k is too much for investing online. You can start with $50-$100. You can do anything you want as long as you know what you are doing. Start from a scratch. Gather information, ideas and inputs. Study and learn.

I'd first get a few small budget pages for 1k altogether and work on them for a month or two so you'd get a hang of it. Later go for the high budget sites.

Hosting and website (nominal cost).

Invest in top notch, extensively researched articles by grad students in a particular niche (health would probably be best). $4K at $25 per article would put together 160 killer articles for website. Publish over 6 months.

Invest in backlinking.

Invest in an autoresponder.

Invest in same writers to write a killer product.

Invest in software/network for affiliate program for product.

Balance invested into driving traffic - perhaps Directory of Articles, guest post articles, Facebook (if relevant), Adwords, graphic design for banners for affiliate program.

i will start a website similar to airbnb (will outsource the development)

Hey guys!

Thanks for the replies, i'm going to start by investing in a website and have someone develop it for me!

I would probably invest in product creation and list building.

But I agree that everybody chooses his own way. And you would need a website anyway.

But first I would learn and choose which would be for me.

All the best!

My advice for you is not to go for product creation without market research, what ever your niche may be.

You will find tons of traffic in a niche. But You also need to find whether they would be interested in buying any thing. More importantly what is their problem that they would pay to get solved. These are serious questions you have to find answers before product creation.

Fortunately it is possible to find answers for these Question today. But I have realized this after 2 years in IM and after spending thousands. Please choose the right path before you embark.

You want to invest money but the field in which you want to invest money, you should have knowledge about the same. With out information or expert advice you should not do so. And you want to invest in real state it really nice and want to learn or gather information about HTML and CSS so, Dear friend these are basic tools of designing and you can learn these by searching tutorial on Google.

I would invest in PR 3-5 domains... internet marketing is becoming more and more like the game of Monopoly. Why try to get links from other web properties (rent) when you can own your own properties (Boardwalk!)?

I would be careful with Flippa.com. With the ability to purchase traffic, show false paypal accounts.. you really need to do your due diligence. I prefer buying aged domains = sites with authority and backlinks, I'm more worried about off-page SEO value than any on-page value

Do what you feel comfortable with at first. Testing what makes you feel uneasy can open you up to some surprising ROI's, but to initiate your endeavors into IM then I'd find what works first. Do you enjoy statistics, planning, and test? Then go with the grind mode of paid traffic. Hunt your demographics and keywords and test the marketing principles. There is tons of information, along with common sense of day-to-day buyers (which you are), that can bring you your first profitable $1. If you'd rather crank the website/seo game, which can be more predictable in the long run due to your knowledge of your user-base, then take the long route. $10k is enough to find a profitable campaign. Then again, $10k is enough to launch a few to scale decently for at least your first pay period. Of course, I'm speaking on affiliate CPL/CPS campaigns. This being the case, you should be able to receive good pay terms and even fronts (depending on who you're working with).

Learning is knowledge. Acting is actionable.

save your 10k and do the following

1) find a system that works.

2) Use free traffic to see if it is converting.

3) Have proper sales funnels and backends in place to make more money and increase profits.

4) Test different offers to see which one coverts the best.

Once you find the winner....use your money on PPC small scale and see if you can turn a profit.

1) Test small scale on the main PPC engine, yahoo, google, msn.

2) Track everything like a hound dog. See which keywords are converting on your smaller scale test, and then record it.

3) see if you can beat those results.

4) once you are turning profits, roll it out big time, and make more profits.

We have done this several times within a few niches and it works well. Our budget was around $300 starting. But you can do this with way less. Do not spend all your 10k at once. Find something that works or a product that converts and then roll out the big PPC guns, if ya know what I mean.

Hi;

What is your experience managing / building a website?
internet marketing in general?
This info is needed to give a good answer.

There is NO point purchasing a site ; if your experience level is not up to the level needed to maintain, build or in most cases "fix" the issues with the current site / system to get it profitable again.

Better off spending 10k on 5 , 2K foreclosure houses IF you have more experience with home repairs ; than internet marketing...

But if you want to take the plunge then please reply back... expect to spend 50-100 hrs learning internet marketing ; depending on your level now.

David

Don't start invest the 10k, you will loose money.

It's very easy to loose money, earn moeny it is much harder.

Its very tempting to invest fast to see high profits, but the odds are against you..

Your first goal is to be profitable, never having a negative month, never!
When you have a way to earn more money then invest more.

My story is that I started spending at the start, let say the first 8 months all were negative. because I scalled up a system that is not working.

my last 4 months are positive, and now I focusing agian to scale this up, because I have system that is working, and I am regreting inevsting so much in the begining..


Good luck

I say if you are new to network marketing, than I recommend only starting with $100 on a domain and a place to build a website. Find a free affiliate product and promote it through blogging, forums, and youtube. once you are familiar with this strategy, than I recommend you to start using paid advertising once you are more familiar with network marketing before blowing all your money.