MISSION: $500 Within One Week on Bite-Sized Budget...

Hi Anthony, last year I finished University in the UK and was in the exact same position.

Because of your post count and relative inexperience, I will assume you are fairly new to this. I say this to let you know I am not trying to patronise you in anyway in my response to you.

Firstly, you haven't given us any background about yourself, and you haven't mentioned any business models which you think would fit your personality or aptitude. Ultimately, the only person who can give you guidance on this, is YOU! You know what you are capable, what you like and don't like, and thus how you make money falls to you.

With that said, here is what I did and how I went about aking money from the same position as you.

I got a domain and hosting. Domain name from godaddy and the hosting from hostagtor. I used fantastico ( a little smiley face at the bottom of your cpanel) to setup a wordpress blog. I found a nice looking professional wordpress theme and voila, very quickly I had a website.

I had decided in advance of this that the fastest way to make money online, with little experience or knowledge in the field was just to do crap stuff other people didn't like doing or didn't have the time to do. I became a freelance writer, and charged a reasonably competitive price (I charged on average 5 dollars an article). I also included other services such as setting up webpages, websites, making videos and audios. These services were slightly more expensive but I did get some orders from people.

**** Important to Consider ****

Content creation is not the most glamerous of ways to make money online and isn't necessarily the easiest. So why do it? Quite often, people don't ever see the real potential in offering this kind of service and its important to not think of it as a money-getting exercise, but more of a contact-getting exercise. Heres what I mean:

If you are writing articles and creating content for people and on top of that your rates are fair and work is good, then you're going to build a good relationship with your client. Having done some quality research and content creation for them, 9 months down the line when you might want to release a product in their niche, do you think it would be easier to get them to promote for you, compared with a marketer who doesn't know you at all? Of course its easier. Building business is about building relationships ( as I am sure you know) and this is a great way to get your foot on the ladder.

It also gives you a holistic view of Internet business and gets you a lot of experience in different markets, allowing you to cherry pick which markets/niches appeal to you when you decide to launch your own venture.


Marketing...

I got my business from the forum and twitter. I had contributed to the community already with posts and threads previously and had collected some twitter contacts from various threads in the forum sharing twitter contact details. Soon after, warriors started adding me without me adding them. I put a link to my site in my twitter profile and a link to my site in my signature link.

On my site I just advertised my services. To start off with though, I ran a couple of "specials" via Twitter and on my website, saying the first couple of orders would be free. The offer was snapped up immediately and I did some free work, got some testiomonials and began building my business.

Very quickly I secured bigger contracts which were earning me hundreds of dollars a week and I used that cash to setup other websites outside of freelancing.

USP
I tried to position myself in the market with a USP.

I focussed on the fact I was accessible, would provide skype details, email details and a phone number on request if people wanted it so they could get fast access to me. I sold my level of customer service as a benefit because at the time a lot of warriors had been ripped off by other article writers and I wanted them to know, just becasue I was new to the industry, did not mean I was going to take the money and run.

It was the fastest money I made, it was a big learning curve and gave me a little book of useful contacts. You certainly can make 500 dollars in a week doing it, especially if you apply the technique in digitalpoint as well. Its not the sexiest way to make money, but it does work, and often the long-term benefits of starting out like this online are over-looked.

I hope this helps you in your journey to financial independance.

Let me be honest with you, here, brother. I tend to be very blunt but only about 2% of the populace are weenies who can't handle it and they know who they are... but here it is...

Most people who know how to make $500 in one week are not going to tell you how to do it. Why would they want to give up their golden goose... their cash cow?

Honestly, do you see any of the accomplished marketers hanging out here?

And even if someone, like myself, DID share a technique for making $500 by next week, with 118k people here, do you think it would last long? Might it cause an avalanche that creates mayhem on the net, instead?

And, also, if someone DID give out such a secret, do you think the powers-that-be would let it stay? After all, in each persons signature file is their attempt to make money from selling you such secrets. How do you think they would like it if someone came in and made the bulk of their products unnecessary for you to buy.

Seriously, I'm telling it to you as bluntly as possible...

Sam

Thanks for the suggestion...just checked out the website...have you personally used this system?

This is going to interesting.

Good luck with your new venture.

I'll be honest, I have been involved with products that are ebooks in this company but I myself have not personally created and distributed my own.

I would strongly recommend using clickbank.com as a publisher.

Possibly spend a few bucks on advertising at the clickbanksuccessforum.com (I think it will be within your budget) announce your product in the JV section of this forum, get some articles written, do some youtube videos etc and get them pointing back to your salespage for some backlinks and traffic.

Ok...thanks so much for you help EndGame!

If by "here" you mean Warrior Forums, yes, Sam, I do!

I'd consider people like Frank Kern, Marlon Sanders, and Harlan Kilstein, to be accomplished marketers... wouldn't you?

If by "here" you mean this particular thread, I don't see them here... I imagine they're likely tired of seeing the same beginner questions, and instead are on the forum to share their expertise with their peers, likely prospects, and others who have something interesting or fun to add to their lives.

But I think it's important to not underestimate the depth of expertise shared on the Warrior Forums.

Regards,
Allen

I've come across some survey companies recently and have applied to many of them but haven't received any survey offers above $1 or so...

Have any suggestions as to the best survey opportunities? And if they might be a misuse of time in comparison to other methods of building quick income...?

Thanks

Thanks TMG and simplyjo...

If you guys need any writing services PM me and we'll make it happen!

I'll offer very low prices and give you top notch work...no doubt about it!

Let me know...talk soon!

Star69...thanks...

Yep...I've actually discovered that most "survey" co.'s aren't what they appear to be as you've said.

I did complete some offers like this that I was interested in and had the amounts deposited in my account within 3 days so you can do it in one week however, I've exhausted most opportunities concerning those offers...

Thanks again

I am going to kind of echo what a lot of others are saying on here. I make WELL over $500 a week online, but I didn't do it in a week, I did it in about 4-5 years. It takes awhile to learn from your mistakes and come up with good ideas. I constantly build new websites and I have a few popular ones but usually I keep 1 out of every 5 I develop and sell the rest off to barely break even on them. It is like any other business you will win some and lose some with investments. As far as making $500 a week that is not a lot of money in the real world but for someone just starting out online it will be very tough to make. I would recommend using some skills you have doing freelance work as that would probably be the easiest way, but if someone could tell you how to make $500 on a blog or other website in your first week starting from nothing then I have a job for them.