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I would suggest create your own product to sell on ClickBank, that way you will have others to promote the product for you.

Keep the money until you have some business running and know how well it works for you. Build something, test it, get customers and if it is worth to make it bigger, then spend money on advertisement. If you spend your money earlier, you are going to lose it.

Don't spend the money because you don't need to... yet.

Most of the things you can do to get a proper IM business up and running are easily done by yourself. A little outsourcing along the way will help if you are not competent with certain tasks but I wouldn't just spend the money because you have it.

The single biggest thing that will make a difference to your success in IM is your own persistence and hard work. Money can't buy that. You can throw $5000 at plenty of things but majority of them will fail to give you the return on investment you are looking for. Throw some hard work and persistence at something and your results are likely to be much better.

Spend it on mentoring.

I highly recommend Internet Business Training :: James Schramko :: Fast Web Formula 1 2 3

James is approaching $10M a year and knows what hes talking about.

I suggest studying the things below, then decide if this'd be something worth your while:

1. List down reputable vendors in Clickbank with products that you'd want to promote. Alexa's 10-point checklist in this thread could most likely help...

2. Approach the Clickbank product vendors and offer your video development services for their pre-sell videos (among other videos that they'd be using in their network of sites, content syndication networks, ezine publication channels and guest posting partners). It's up to you if you want to give them a ridiculous discount for this, or give it away as a free service -- Your call...

3. Tell them you'll sign up as their affiliate and that they should include your affiliate link (which points to their sales pages) in the pages where they'll be using the videos you'll create for them.

4. Also tell them that doing it this way will not only give them unique video content that they can use, but free marketing services from you as well, since you'll be using your own resources to promote the pages where they'll use your videos, so they can get more leads and product sales, which in turn will generate more commissions for you as their affiliate...

5. Plan and implement your marketing campaigns for those pages where your videos will be used by those Clickbank product vendors...

This'll be a win-win situation for you and for those Clickbank product vendors. They'll get unique videos and an affiliate (you) who'll promote the pages where they'll use those videos. You will on the other hand benefit from the campaigns that'll be implemented by those Clickbank product vendors to promote those same pages in order to sell their products (linked by your affiliate link in those pages)... You'll be able to implement your own marketing campaigns for those pages. And, you can promote non-affiliate links (pointing to those pages with your videos and affiliate links) in online places heavily trafficked by prospect leads and buyers, such as relevant Web forums, blog networks, social networks and other online communities. You can also implement PPC/PPV/PPM, private advertising and solo email advertising campaigns for the non-affiliate links which point to those pages with your videos and affiliate links...

Definitely spend some money on multiple Kindle books + promotions.

A well promoted book will pay itself off quick.

5,000 $ is a good sum to start a serious project with.

You can spend it on a wide variety of advertising services.
I'd go and join ClickBank and start selling my own services.

If you need, with that kind of money you could outsource some of your work.

I think it's enough to start a serious project.

Then ask yourself: how you will be making ROI.

Otherwise, even with 1,000 $ you could still do a great job.

If I were you: I'd calculate how much the project will cost and spend that money on it. I wouldn't spend the entire 5,000 $.

Don't just start with a total sum and consume it... Think about what you need, calculate how much that would cost and I guess there will be plenty of money left for you!

If you do decide that you want to create your own product, just make sure that you take every single customer that comes through the door and buys your product and give them the option to become an affiliate too.

This should be a part of your back office when the customer is sent to your back office download page.

In my opinion, one of the things that are hot right now is being a solo ad seller. However, I think that being trained by an expert before diving into it could be beneficial.

Sounds like selling Kindle ebooks is popular.. anyone recommend any courses on that?

Find a good mentor, and educate yourself first.

I say find a niche, do free advertising to see which niche converts the best. Once you know how to convert it well, start putting a few hundred dollars into ppc ads and once you start mastering this, than you can start unloading the money once you know how to professionally promote your niche. Don't put all your eggs in one basket until you know what converts.

1. Don't touch the money right now.

2. Find a niche that is not "hot", but something that will stand the test of time. Something that is not only popular now, but has been in the past and will be 5-years from now too.

3. Nope. You can't touch the money yet.

4. Dive deep into research on what you discovered in #2.

5. Only touch as much of the money as needed to start the business..don't get carried about with spending thinking you know how it works or what your results will be. Instead conduct small scale tests, and keep testing, testing, testing.

save that 5k and get reading in the warrior forum.

Once you are ready, get yourself a mentor that can help you make money.

I say fail first, but have someone there to get you back on track, someone who is where you want to be. That has helped our business.

what have you done so far that makes/made you money? then invest there by scaling up

that should be a good start