What would YOU do with if all you had left was $10000??

Get a flight to Chiang Mai - $1000

12 months rent (living frugaly) - $6000

Capitol in reserve to buy tools - $3000

Then I'd start a blog, much like what I do now, and work on it 12 hours per day for a year, but hopefully I'd be successful much quicker.

Yeah, $10,000 would not last very long for me at all. I would also have to get a job.

Then I suppose I would use the $10,000 to invest in content for a website and product or series of products.

But even for that, the $10,000 really wouldn't go that far and since I'd be working the job all day, I wouldn't have a lot of time to put into the business. Perhaps the smartest use of it would be to learn how to buy traffic properly and put the $10,000 towards that.

Or maybe I would just take it and go on a nice big vacation and forget all about IM.

First, I'd take a week off to relax, clear my mind, and stop stressing about money.

Second, I'd give myself a month or two to see how I go at building an online income that can save me from ever having to leave home to earn my money again. I don't just mean building lists or establishing affiliate revenue, which typically takes time and perseverance, but to begin with I'd hedge my bets by freelancing myself out in a way that could capitalize on my present skill-set. In other words, positioning myself with an immediate service or product related revenue stream that would pay my bills as and while I simultaneously build a non-service related revenue stream. If you can do X, hire yourself out to those who need someone who can do X. All you have to do is find online where those people are, and make your offer heard.

I wouldn't cast my mind too much further than that for now. First, set yourself up so you can get the money you need week to week. Second, build the path to getting the money you want.

A couple of people have brought up the idea of getting a job. For me, that would be the last thing on my mind, unless you consider freelancing on line as "getting a job". With $10,000 in the bank, providing you don't have any serious financial commitments weighing you down, that should be ample to get your online money making endeavors up and running such that you could avoid ever having to get a job again. If you really do need a job, consider going for a casual one. That way you get higher rates but still have the free time to build your online freelancing and residual income business.

My advice is pretty simple when you break it down: $10,000 is enough to build a lucrative business. See it as your opportunity to do so. Get a job as a last resort, or get a part-time/casual job as a last support

Good luck with whatever path you go!

LOL.... ur a funny man

Great comments everyone, I should have made my initial post a bit clearer.
All your day to day expenses are all covered, and the 10k would be used solely to get you back in the IM game.

What would you do to generate an income online (or off) in the shortest amount of time, if this was your scenario?

To be honest, I've always been one for achieving my online money making goals while trying to spend as little as I can to do it. Not through a fear of spending, but through a genuine desire to maximize what I can earn without having to spend a cent (or close to) to do it. Since 2005 every cent I've earned has been online, so I can honestly say I've never once needed to think about investing thousands of dollars to do it. It's usually my time that I'm investing, although I admit, one could argue my time IS money...

Nonetheless, if I allocated $10,000 to burn on an IM business strategy, I think I'd still choose not to unless a really, really compelling opportunity was presented to me - and I mean really compelling. So that said, I wonder if you should be thinking about how to start your successful IM strategy by spending as little of your $10,000 as possible?

Just a thought.