I've got money, but no time for IM. Need advice/help..

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I've tried my best, absolute best, to put time to be successful in IM, but I never really made it. Right now I'm happy to say that I've secured a full time job, with good pay, and a job that I like too. (thank goodness).

But still, I do not want to waste my efforts on IM that I've put in. Its coming to 4 years and going. My sites are all up and running, newsletters, product recommendations. i can safely say its complete. but i just dont have the time to maintain it now. (if there's any kind soul out there, who can honestly, check my site out, advice me what to do, point me services and stuffs to increase my earnings, which is zero now, please, i beg you kind soul, PM me.)

So right now I've come to the point where I want a course, or advice, or someone, or anything!! that I don't need much time to put in, but can settled with money.

For example, Virtual Assistants. I pay the person, he/she helps me with my IM work. (probably most of you all will say to go this route, but I wanna look at other options too. VA can be quite expensive).

Another one is PPC. Never really tried it but the years of doing affiliate marketing got me eyeing this method. Pay a sum, get a bigger sum later. (to put it roughly i guess). Any good course on this?

I don't think I have time to slowly learn and pickup new skills (like understanding PPC), as my full time work wont allow that kinda luxury.

anyone out there, a little help?

thank you ever so much....
#advice or help #money #time
  • Profile picture of the author Charlotte Jay
    The bigger your business grows, the more you will need to outsource it anyway, I hate to say it. VA's are actually very cheap if you can hire them from places such as India, Pakistan, the Phillipines etc. It can be very cost effective.
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  • Profile picture of the author fedor50
    Originally Posted by darkclaw3000 View Post

    I've tried my best, absolute best, to put time to be successful in IM, but I never really made it. Right now I'm happy to say that I've secured a full time job, with good pay, and a job that I like too. (thank goodness).

    But still, I do not want to waste my efforts on IM that I've put in. Its coming to 4 years and going. My sites are all up and running, newsletters, product recommendations. i can safely say its complete. but i just dont have the time to maintain it now. (if there's any kind soul out there, who can honestly, check my site out, advice me what to do, point me services and stuffs to increase my earnings, which is zero now, please, i beg you kind soul, PM me.)

    So right now I've come to the point where I want a course, or advice, or someone, or anything!! that I don't need much time to put in, but can settled with money.

    For example, Virtual Assistants. I pay the person, he/she helps me with my IM work. (probably most of you all will say to go this route, but I wanna look at other options too. VA can be quite expensive).

    Another one is PPC. Never really tried it but the years of doing affiliate marketing got me eyeing this method. Pay a sum, get a bigger sum later. (to put it roughly i guess). Any good course on this?

    I don't think I have time to slowly learn and pickup new skills (like understanding PPC), as my full time work wont allow that kinda luxury.

    anyone out there, a little help?

    thank you ever so much....
    The best thing you can try to do is outsource some of your work. This allows you to get more things done in less time while still making money
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  • Profile picture of the author AdwordsMogul
    I would say you don't have a clear picture of what you want.

    What kind of business are you in? What do you actually offer?

    Those answers will help you with your questions because then you can start figuring out how to get where you want to go.

    At the moment it seems like you've not zeroed in on what your online business does for people. Think about it, and then you can decide what kind of people you need.

    If you want understand PPC check out Perry Marshall or just join the Google Professional course (it's free).

    But until you know what you REALLY want no course can help you.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    So put a link up already. Can't evaluate something we can't see.
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  • Profile picture of the author Microsys
    Before doing PPC you should probably focus on if your site can sell? (You wrote your earnings were low, but it can be hard to get started, so that should not deter you too much.)

    However, PPC can also be a great way to test various traffic (search keywords) and see what converts and what doesn't. (May be faster than creating SEO'ed pages, getting them o rank etc.)
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    • Profile picture of the author AdwordsMogul
      Originally Posted by Sitemapper View Post

      Before doing PPC you should probably focus on if your site can sell? (You wrote your earnings were low, but it can be hard to get started, so that should not deter you too much.)

      However, PPC can also be a great way to test various traffic (search keywords) and see what converts and what doesn't. (May be faster than creating SEO'ed pages, getting them o rank etc.)
      With PPC you really need to know what you're about - you need to convert with your PPC ads so you get qualified prospects to come to your site.

      Then you need to convert those prospects on your site.

      It's best if you have at least a $1000 to "burn" so you can get the grip on your market.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimmymc
    Plenty of money and no time... why screw around with internet marketing? Put your stuff up for sale and relax.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Petal
    With the Google updates, so many sites have been affected. I think you would have to spend money to maintain your sites and have the hassle of giving your VA's daily or weekly tasks. You might be better off selling up. During the weekends, consider keeping up to date with IM by visiting this forum and taking on a part time IM project that doesn't require too much work
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Since you have the money, run a few advertising campaigns and see if you can make a profit on the frontend, or at least break even. You probably don't have enough customers to decide how much you can afford to go negative on the frontend... so until your business grows and you continue to get more and more recurring sales from customers... see if you can at least break even.
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  • Profile picture of the author darkclaw3000
    Thanks all for reading and replying.

    I'm doing affiliate marketing. I've got free ebook offers, articles ready, newsletters all up, backlinking, still little traffic though.

    Here's one of my site that net me one sale after a year of being in the web.
    SingingHow.com

    What exactly do I go from here? How do I continue on the driving traffic part? How do I get more traffic and sales?

    Do I need some kinda backlinking service again? SEO management service? More articles? A VA to handle everything? (do I say to the VA, "Hi, I want u to get me sales, this is my site". Coz honestly I'm not sure what to tell her)
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  • Profile picture of the author CyborgX
    Have you ever tried solo ads which will build your list and increase your traffic? Do viral and places some quality ads at low rate just for starting!
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  • Profile picture of the author alfid
    You can pay to outsource most things like article writing, etc and also you can buy sites that already make money from Flippa. That's what I would do.
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