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Big Question : Need some help getting started.

by AuraVII
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  • Profile picture of the author Jenna7
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  • Profile picture of the author Jarrod
    Originally Posted by AuraVII View Post

    I learned from mistakes I will never do again.
    Good for you for learning from the mistakes. What were some of the main mistakes you learned from? Others could benefit from your experience.

    Originally Posted by AuraVII View Post

    I joined this forum not too long ago and I can tell the people on here are very intelligent....
    There's a lot of very intelligent people here, but don't paint with too broad a brush there.

    Originally Posted by AuraVII View Post

    but my question is how do I start?
    Build a list. If you ask a lot of tenured folks getting good results now what they wish they had started doing sooner, focus on list building is the most common answer.

    Originally Posted by AuraVII View Post

    I already know about getting a website and what not but I need to know how to start for zero investment (I don't have the money to waste on anything not worth it)
    Wait a minute. Do you have money to invest or not? You say you have no money to invest, but then in the parenthetical statement you imply that you do have money, just can't afford to waste it on something not worth it.

    So you have two options:

    1-Focus on only free methods.
    2-Do your due diligence and make sure that the money you spent is well invested.

    I certainly recommend the latter. There's really no such thing as "free". It all costs you either time or money, and no matter how little money you have, your time is almost always more valuable. Do your research, and only spend money on things that either:

    A-Has a money back guarantee. (And circle the date on your calendar, and get your money back if you give it your all and it does not deliver.)

    B-Enables you to do some testing. Example: paid traffic (solo ads, PPC, etc.) is not something you can get a refund on, but it helps you get traffic and test methods, which you are going to have to do at some point if you expect to get any results in this biz.

    If you do go the "free" route though, know that it will cost you a good bit of time, and it will also take a good bit of time before you see results.

    Hope some of that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
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  • Profile picture of the author elusian
    Do you have an area that you wish to focus on? If you need to earn cash to fund your marketing efforts you can always freelance as a writer on writer, or guru.

    You can also take on a ton of other small jobs on fiver.com

    Or you can write ebooks and post them on Amazon kindle for free. The returns here are small, unless you have a hit, but if you put enough good books on Amazon it can create a nice monthly income. The best part is, if you can write the book and create the cover yourself posting it on Amazon is absolutely free and your book goes up for sale in about 24 hours.

    I hope that that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author AuraVII
      That's amazing! I will look into that when I can, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mreese601@gmail.com
    Fist thing you want to do is pick a niche. Then focus on a sub-niche, then find a product to promote. Drive traffic to that product. Make sure it's a good product that helps people. Understand the your focus is to help people solve their problems.
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  • Profile picture of the author danstrik
    Hi there
    try first to get some free traffic form calssified site such as craigslist,gumtree and cracker,
    learn how to upload your post in the best way and i promise you that you will gets tons of traffic!!
    now all u have to do is think how you can earn from it
    good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author Mcfoxr
      This was the template I adopted when I delved into internet marketing.
      • Decide on a market
      • Find a need and fill it. Go to forums in your desired market and find a need or problem in that market, It is better if the forums gets high traffic
      • Design and build an easy-to-use website around the need.
      • You can create a product to fill that need or sell someone else's product that is a solution
      • Include an optin form on your site to capture emails.
      • Have a strong funnel in place to direct your subscribers through when they optin into your list. You may decide to offer a free product as an email bait
      • Use search engines to drive traffic to your site and if you may decide to use paid traffic. Depending on your choice. You dont get instant result with free traffic but with paid traffic, the result is instantly
      • Follow up with your customers and subscribers with e-mail and treat your list well for it to be responsive
      • Increase your income through back-end sales and upselling..

      OR

      Better still, create a product around the identified problem
      Set up a squeeze page to collect leads
      Have strong sales funnel in place to sell your product and other related product as well in other in increase your income
      Have a good email sequence in place and occasionally promote to the list.

      For Traffic, check out this post Here. The snag here is that it is free traffic and it does will require your time and after a while you will begin to see the results

      Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author James1212
    I would make sure you are solving a problem with what ever you are promoting. Use facebook, facebook,and google plus they are free and can create much exposure.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gh0zt
    If you want to make money, learn marketing AND not spend a penny....

    I recommend hardcore bum marketing. A simple, yet profitable system is to:
    1) Get a decent affiliate product offer to promote [i.e: from clickbank or similar]
    2) Get a free website - via blogger, or 00host, or any number of free options to give yourself your own webspace.
    3) Write a pre-sales copy for your webspace. Make it good, clear, presented nicely, gripping...
    4) Link it to the affiliate product.
    5) Use organic and bum marketing tactics to drive traffic to your site.

    5) Includes taking advantage of free adWords credits and other offers. viral marketing. social media marketing. and many other secret methods (sorry, I just can't teach about these at this moment.)

    That basic framework has the potential to earn you millions. It can be adapted (think upsells, email captures). And it can be upscaled massively if you money to invest: i.e: invest in sales copy writer, graphic/page designer, actual domain and hosting, email marketing service etc.

    I hope I answered your question.

    Peace,
    Gh0zt
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    • Profile picture of the author DinahJewel
      Originally Posted by Gh0zt View Post

      If you want to make money, learn marketing AND not spend a penny....

      I recommend hardcore bum marketing. A simple, yet profitable system is to:
      1) Get a decent affiliate product offer to promote [i.e: from clickbank or similar]
      2) Get a free website - via blogger, or 00host, or any number of free options to give yourself your own webspace.
      3) Write a pre-sales copy for your webspace. Make it good, clear, presented nicely, gripping...
      4) Link it to the affiliate product.
      5) Use organic and bum marketing tactics to drive traffic to your site.

      5) Includes taking advantage of free adWords credits and other offers. viral marketing. social media marketing. and many other secret methods (sorry, I just can't teach about these at this moment.)

      That basic framework has the potential to earn you millions. It can be adapted (think upsells, email captures). And it can be upscaled massively if you money to invest: i.e: invest in sales copy writer, graphic/page designer, actual domain and hosting, email marketing service etc.

      I hope I answered your question.

      Peace,
      Gh0zt
      This sounds good. I am in the same boat as AuraVII however my boat has holes in it.
      Digging my way out of a 7 year bad time and can't even think of a Niech, flunked out of English 3 X in College so there goes the e-book I would love to write if I could figure out just "What To Write" But a product...hmmm.
      I just need to make some money and be able to see I am moving in the correct direction. Progress. I have A LOT more time than money.
      I think what is really getting me is I can't see the money. I sold Life Ins cleared over 100K in my first year and then I started investing in Real Estate, became a wholesaler of single family homes. Another 6 figure income easy before the crash. 6 good years and
      And now. I have tried SBI and the Dating websites all of which needs (CONTENT)
      Never made it as an Affiliate or in MLM or even the Direct Sales Product...never looked at Click Bank.
      I have a lot to do and do not want to put time into something where I feel like I am spinning my wheels.
      So, I go now to find "hardcore bum marketing" and try to make heads or tails out of it.
      Thanks for your post.
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  • Profile picture of the author michakins
    Well...why not consider taking freelance writing jobs? If you think you're ready and up to the task, then you can do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    2) Get a free website - via blogger, or 00host, or any number of free options to give yourself your own webspace.
    No, do not.

    This is a huge mistake that many newbies make. You think you are saving money but what you are really doing is wasting time and effort.

    For a very small price $5 - $10 per month you can get your own domain and hosting and control what you build instead of leaving it at the mercy of whoever actually owns it.

    Every day it seems I have to post: Be VERY CAREFUL who you listen to.
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  • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
    My best advise for you is to see what your successful competitors do and try do the same or better.
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