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"If You Had X Days to Make Y Dollars"

by WebPen
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These threads are flippin' everywhere right now.

Here's the deal folks-

Myself- and hundreds of other internet marketers- made our first REAL money by offering a service.

Writing
Graphics
Web design
Backlinking/SEO
Etc.

Yes, I know it's "trading time for dollars."

Yes, I know it's "not scaleable." (unless you hire someone else to do it)

But if you've been "doing internet marketing" for more than a few months and never made a dime- you aren't trading time for dollars.

You're trading time for absolutely nothing.

Learning is the easy part, folks. Stop learning 100 different things and start doing SOMETHING.

So if you really want to start making a bit of money online
-Learn one skill (if english isn't your first language, graphics, web design, or SEO are better choices than writing)
-Practice your skill
-Offer a few review copies to clients to get testimonials
-Get paid clients
-Make money

Is this going to make you a multi-millionaire? Probably not.

But at least you now have a formula to make $Y within X days. Just put in Z hours of work until $Y has appeared in your PayPal.
  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    There is one of those just above yours LOL...
    Good point though looks like these x,y,z threads
    are flave of the month at the moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanmilligan
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    The whole scaleable thing isn't one hundred percent true - if you are good at what ever service you offer and make a name for yourself, then you can charge a lot more.

    Although you'll probably still have the same number of clients, you earn a lot more money.

    Like when I first started copywriting I had to write sales pages for $97-$197...

    ... Now I've had a couple of $997 clients.

    Traditionally scalable; not really.

    But, you can earn a lot more money doing the same amount of work.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Justin, I think that a lot of those threads read so much the same that I'm convinced there's a product floating around touting the "Joe Kumar" approach.

      For those who weren't around back then, a marketer named Joe Kumar (who was working, I believe, with Mark Joyner) came out with an ebook detailing 30 ways to make money online using the "if you had a gun to your head" angle. 30 marketers contributed to the book.

      Just by some strange coincidence, every single solution involved buying the product that marketer was selling at the time. :rolleyes:

      He later came out with a follow-up where another 30-something marketers got to flog their products under the guise of a make-money blueprint.

      I confess to buying the first book. After reading it, I requested a refund. Instead of the refund, I got a nasty email from Kumar accusing me of trying to steal his book. I never got the refund from Kumar; I did get it from Clickbank.

      Later, Kumar showed his true colors in a scandal where he allegedly sold limited resale rights to a product and oversold by many times the original limit, then disappeared with the money.

      I think a lot of these "if you had to make $X in Y days (or per month)" threads are clumsy attempts at research to follow the same model - hopefully minus the grab the money and run scandal...
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