If a friend needed to make 3,000 per month what programs would you suggest?

To start off, why not suggest using Clickbank affiliate for your friend? Your friend can start selling others' products from Clickbank. At least they will get a feel of things and depending on what direction they want to undertake. Clickbank does have a good range of products or services where your friend can promote without having their own products. It is always a good start as that is how I began my journey with Internet Marketing. I have gone through the ups and downs, over-spending at times and now am more cautious to pick the right choices. I do believe being an affiliates will be a good start but choose wisely on what they want and start promoting. Do remember that it will take time for things to pick up so do not hop from one to another too quickly before success comes into play.

Just PM'd you Larry.

Roy

I actually started here on the Warrior Forum - charged $25 per article to start as I recall - but I was a newspaper reporter for many years so I used that as a reason to charge more than the average.

I know that Tiffany Dow started on freelance sites - I think elance.com. From what I gather, she started out by providing killer quality and not charging a lot, got great testimonials, and was able to raise her prices.

Once you get some customers who give you good feedback, and testimonials, you're golden. It's like anything else - when you're just starting out, you can't charge as much. When I started out as a reporter, I literally waitressed to support myself and did a free internship at a newspaper until I had clips and a reference.

When you are brand new at anything, you have to prove yourself and work for very little at first, and then you can start raising your prices.

You can write articles and get paid at:

eHow | How To Do Just About Everything!
Helium - Where Knowledge Rules
http://www.assoiatedcontent.com
Squidoo : Welcome to Squidoo
myLot

Hi Kay:

Thanks for the post. I don't believe the neighbors feel they have to join a program but their thought (it made sense to me) was if you had a program called Kay's ABC Internet Course and the contents included how to pick a product, how to develop one, getting traffic, videos, audio, emails responders, Private Label Rights, Special Offers, etc they would encompass a lot of information in one place and learn step by step what systems to put in place, what take the most time, how to allocate a budget and so forth.

That was their general inclination.

Thank you so much for taking the time on a weekend to help them! Enjoy the day.

Hi Craig. PHPBay Pro is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to inject live Ebay auction listings into your pages or posts based on the keywords and/or Ebay categories you specify. The plugin is very customizable allowing you to display listings in rows or columns, exclude certain keywords, specify how many listings you want to show. It also includes a widget that allows you to display auction listings in your sidebar if you prefer.

There are a number of similar scripts including BaNS (Build a Niche Store), but I only have experience using PHP Bay Pro. The script costs $79, and that gets you the plugin itself and also access to their forum, which has a lot of fantastic information on how to really supercharge your earnings. If they don't want to shell out for the Pro version then there is also a PHP Bay Lite plugin which has limited functionality, but will give you a taste of how it works.

One thing that I have learned in my experimentation is that PHP Bay Pro works best when you build a store and add some blog posts to it, rather than building a blog and adding auction listings to it. Reason: People come to a blog looking for information, and rarely become buyers. People coming to a store are already looking to buy so the conversion is much, much higher.

I've heard that it is more difficult to get into the Ebay Partner Network these days, but the same guy that built the PHP Bay plugin also has an Amazon Associates plugin now, so that is another option as well.

Hi Justin:

Thanks for the response. There is a large consensus for the article marketing route. Great suggestion about a couple of the Boot Camp programs.

Enjoy the weekend!

Thanks for the answer to the post. It looks as if the neighbors would enjoy writing articles, having a blog, posting on forums, and building a website. They aren't sure on the niche for the site but as for the articles they have a background that is impressive and can use their skills to create the income they need.

It is tremendous how the fine Warriors gave so many usable responses and the amount of views for the thread have been growing.

May you all have a fantastic Sunday.

Hi Loren:

Hope you are well. Sometimes the amount an individual places on an object, project, etc. isn't because of looking to take a short cut. It is very possible if the neighbor had 750.00 dollars they would invest that into the idea of an internet/home business. It may not be that they have less desire but not the income.

There are times somebody can succeed because their eyes and ears are open. Is it possible that they could take the 200.00 budget as well as free information and earn 902.00 dollars. Then take 702.00 for their savings and invest another 200.00 in the business? I have to believe not every person that ever made a good profit had good spending income the first time around.

Thanks for your insight and I hope the coming week is great!

There are many reasons but here are just a few:

1 - The owner (Dennis) purchases lots of products that allow him the rights to pass on to his members. In some cases the members can use the actual product and make money with it.

2 - The forums members are extremely forthcoming in their postings and helpful. Many examples of what is being done to make money.

3 - It is a good balance to this forum (between the two forums you have everthing you need to succeed online).

Don't get me wrong, there are several other forums that offer good info also and can be just as helpful to your neighbors such as Wealthy Affiliate, Niche Rockets...etc

No matter which membership they choose they will still need to spend a weekend just reading, taking notes, soaking information in and finally outlining some battle plans to pursue.

Tim