quickest way to make $100k in a short time

Then maybe you should give us or him an example?

WP keywords and Make money go for $5 upwards or way too expensive.

And sure some "remove a mole" kw's might work, but not in the 100k sense.

I did a 7 month PPC course with Amit Meta, (he makes 70k a month) and the other one, so l know a fair amount.

And yes, he obvious held back key information, although he did go through one product that converted well, although not continuously, and it flopped.

I gave up after l realized that l would have to create a similar product from scratch to succeed with it, (an area l knew nothing about). Or cough up $250 per test to hopefully find something that gets past the one off kw sale barrier.

Like anything online it takes a year or more and a few head butting moments of clarity to make real money from it!

Unless you or someone else is prepared to devolge some hard won secrets, (l admit that l am included and won't) then it is throw a lot of money at something that may cough up, or invest a modest amount, and work hard for a bit longer for similar results.

That's funny!

Thanks, mate. I hope it helps

You have a bunch of other useful replies up top, too. Claude makes the best contribution, I'd say, but you have some great ones from Jonathon, Mike, Ryan, DWolfe, and Frank.

These quick money posts are common on marketing forums and, whilst we old-timers get a bit sick of them, I can certainly understand why they pop up so frequently. We get sick of them (well, speaking for myself) because the question indicates a somewhat childish disconnect from the reality of the profession. The person asking the question has, so I think the question indicates, not put in the effort to understand the profession well enough to know that riches won't come overnight for the majority. This lack of effort can pee off a professional marketer because that marketer tends to respect hard workers; since they themselves are, out of necessity, hard workers. Other side of the coin: the person asking the question is simply unaware of what goes into doing well as a seasoned online marketer so, to them, it's quite logical to ask the question. The result of all this is that you tend to get a handful of peed-off marketers who are sick to death of seeing a question which, to them, signifies laziness and silliness. You rarely get good answers, therefore, and I can understand that. As I say, though, most of the time the OP is just doing the natural thing - asking how to make money on a forum about making money - without knowing that he or she should first have done a little homework to understand that the question is quite a silly one to ask when talking about quick money.

Those of us who can answer the question (again, guessing, speaking for myself) will only rarely chip in our answers. By answering, you see, we open the flood gates of negative replies in our own direction. Consider the situation. You hop on a forum and see the quick money question. You've seen it a billion times before and you feel mildly irked that the OP has failed to put in even a basic amount of effort to realise that his question could be answered by gaining a mild understanding of the industry; which he could do by reading a few marketing threads. But then you step back and put aside your irritation because you realise that the poor chap can be forgiven, since he has arrived in a place where the majority of solution-givers are offering overnight success to sell their products. Maybe the OP has been on the forum for 2 minutes or 20 years. Regardless of time, it's entirely possible that the OP has simply not engaged the forum well enough to cut through the BS of instant riches and understand his question is of the silly variety. So you step into the thread and, reading between the lines of the OP's post, you understand that, whilst the question is silly, the man behind it truly requires help. At that point, you have two options. You can click back and return to whatever it was you were doing, or you can try to give an answer to a question which, truly, is an impossible one to answer with efficiency. If you opt for the latter, you partly do so for sig views, partly to enhance your online resume, but you also do so for reasons of altruism. The downside here is that, indeed, the question cannot really be answered efficiently (or won't be answered efficiently, due to the value of such an answer), and you open yourself up to the negativity which, more so even than the question itself, can be irksome. All of which results in a handful of fairly decent replies, a handful of fairly indecent negativity, quite a bit of bitching, and a few newcomers offering up their thanks.

To find use from such a thread, I think you need to take the advice at face value, ignore the negative remarks, and use the information as a springboard for further research. Many of the negative remarks, you see, will be entirely justified, since not all of the information will be good information. But some of that negativity comes from either jealousy or ignorance, where the people making the remarks are unaware that the information is solid or dislike the information-givers or are simply too ignorant to know good from bad when they see it. If you find yourself being new to online marketing, and therefore unable to tell good from bad, and having a good reason for that, then I think ignoring negative remarks and using all of the information at hand for further research is a sensible idea. Research will soon indicate good from bad, and clear up any misunderstanding. You won't receive an actionable step-by-step plan from such a thread but you may at least be set off on the right path.

Finally, I think it's helpful to keep in mind that $100K is only $274 a day, when you're earning that much each day for a year. It is, therefore, not the insurmountable mountain it would seem at first glance. The newcomer almost certainly won't earn that figure - partly through lack of education, partly due to startup capital - but it is not a financial goal that is beyond many newcomers. The sensible answer to the question is audience collection. There is, as you've seen, more to it than that, and more ways to climb the mountain, but collecting your audience across different platforms (email lists and socials, predominantly) is the sensible route. It is not the easy route; just the sensible route. The more consumers you have personal access to, consumers who want to hear from you and are willing to at least consider taking action, the greater the likelihood of you earning increasing amounts of income. This is why you'll see seasoned marketers talking about lists and YouTube subscribers and social followers of all varieties.

Content is King, yes, but only because content allows us to grow what really matters: our audience.

- Tom

That's reserved for his opinions of Adobe and Windows.

Ok, it sounds like l am saying that it doesn't work, but some probably can make it work.

But if some here want to risk possibly every cent they have to make Adwords work for them, then more power to them, but l am not the type of person who will throw a lot of money at something, blindly hoping that it will work.

All things online do not work, (at face value) and it takes courage, some ,money, hard work, adversity and determination to hopefully make them all work.

I have made flyers work for me, but not after a year or so of effort, then giving up since it would take too long, (most do) then after a year of trying fonts, (since l listened to a few that said it was great) discovered a way of doing them fast, (flyers) and now it is viable.

This guy wants 100k fast, and he will have to come to the realization, that everything online looks impossible, but some and possibly most are not.

But l am not going to tell him to do PPC or build a blog, since the first may blow every cent he has left, and it is a lot harder to make it work now than the past. And a blog or site, he may get one working after a few months, or spend years at it, and get virtually nothing back.

But l agree that l should have said that it didn't work for me, or better still that it doesn't work at face value.

This plan commenced 9 months ago, and initially my projections matched or slightly exceeded my sales, then it started to veer off.

So based on new projections, l can achieve minimal wage from this within a year.

Then an average wage the year after that and so forth.

Ok, Claude good point, PPC can work well with bricks and mortar businesses, but electronic, not so well.

I don't agree with your second point though

I read a box of books on motivation, and apart from Rich Dad,....and Talk and grow Rich, the rest were entertaining, but worthless overall.

Well, The Worlds Greatest Salesman, and one idea from Unlimited Power, were also useful.

Sure it doesn't take motivation, persistence, money and hard work, to watch cat videos on your Laptop all day, but it does take that and more to risk your money, stare in the face of adversity, have times when nothing goes to plan, have your stupid friends and family garbage your ideas, and invest years of your life, (hard work) to achieve your goals.

Everyone would be going online if it was easy, but when they have put a fair amount of time into something and it fails completely then most will give up for good, (meaning forget about online wealth and go back to cat videos).

Exactly!

Amit, (the 70k a month PPC guy) did a video, telling us about how he got started.

And how his wife thought that he was crazy, how his parents thought that he was throwing his life away, (he gave up a promising career in medicine).

And he had to borrow money from his parents to pay for groceries, for his family, etc. He had times when he was literally in tears, and it wasn't working out for him, but he kept going, (most would have given up if it is was easy).

And about a year or so later, he succeeded with the 10k profit before xmas, (which dropped down to 2k in January, but by then he could see the potential.

It takes plenty of courage, blind faith, and determination to make it online.

When you start a business - online or offline - you RISK your money and your time. Easier to watch cat videos - and the number of people looking for 'easy' may be reflected by the huge number of cat videos available.

That is so true and it's the #1 reason new offline businesses fail. You have to 'maintain' flow in your business - supplies in - sales out - ads placed...and that takes cash flow. So many new marketers seem unable (or unwilling) to invest anything in a startup business - and failure IS an option....always.

Reading books is good - but hands on business books and management books will get you farther than motivational hoohah. When I started online in early 2000s I calculated how many extra hours I needed to work at my 'day job' to pay for my startup online. I wasn't willing to risk the mortgage payment and "nut" I needed to cover each month. So, though I love cat videos (for about 10 minutes), I looked for ways to cut costs and increase income to get what I wanted.

If what you have to spend on a new business is taken from money needed to maintain your lifestyle....time to find a service business that requires less cash flow.

Writing numbers is easy - doing the work not so much. Learning from booksis great but business and management books may work better than one motivational book after another.

"I started really small, and slowly expanded"

Never a truer line spoken

FYI Speaking of PPC why not give Bing Ads a try also. Google is expensive and Bing offers free coaching if you need help with your ads. Put a ad up last night and saw the coaching information on the right side once I was ready to post the ad.

True, went through all of that motivational crap, although drooling at the occasional tropical getaway is allowed.

Well, blind faith in the context of everything stuffing up, and not having the motivation to keep going, since you know that others have made it work.



Dammit, true again. True l have about 7 years experience in graphics online, and a few of those are in flyers, (most of my experience was in product creation, or website graphics).

And l can tackle things now that l couldn't in previous years, so l am getting pretty good at it.

Sure that l am learning as l go. Sales have not matched projections for a few months now, so l had to use several baseline GR members flyer sales to extrapolate the most likely unit to sales ratios.

Baseline meaning no outside traffic, only what the site offers.

So if things go to the new plan, 10k a year is a realistic projection, (based on creating over a year, not what l have already done) and that is 10k a year, indefinably. I doubt that a kid at Maccers is going to get a 10k raise every year?

True, my name is not Moot!

Lol, l will need to frame that one!

Also tried bing, over and over, and it Never converted.

Fun and interesting thread, but to return to the OP's question:
to make $100k in a short time you must own $100k of something. That means you own some stuff or skill that people are willing to pay 100k for.

You'd be doing great if you inherited a house in a hot neighborhood that had some 120k of equity (so you end up with 100k after closing costs).

If you're not in that position, you need to own skills (so you can sell consulting or such) that people are willing to pay 100k for (you must be in stratospheric levels of skills because, to get $100k in a short time, you'd have to charge a lot per session / hour / idea. Just so you know, 1 hour at $100k gets you $100k less expenses; 10 hours at $10k gets you $100k less expenses, and so on).

If you don't have such skills (or the desire to sell consulting), do you know anyone who owns something worth a tad more than $1,000,000 who wants to sell it but doesn't know how to or cares to sell himself/herself? And do you have the ability to convince them to give you control of the selling?

Or do you know how to get control of someone else's valuables so as to make money (as in, you get a 100k house under contract and sell the contract to someone for 105k)?

If none of the above apply, you need to sit your ass down and make a list of your skills and likes.

Based on that, you'll determine what you do next. People talk about having passion for something, I don't... It is sufficient that you have passion for making 100k.

What comes next means you choosing a business model. There are many.

You can be an affiliate (online or offline). Which can mean you blog or you create affiliate sites.

You can create a product and sell your own product. (I know of someone who buys shoes from China, adds baubles to them... i.e., makes them more attractive... sells them on Etsy. You have to find your own way of adding value.)

You can become the product (you consult).

You learn sell a service (you know how to deliver).

Within each method, there are many ways of setting yourself up and delivering your value.

Notice, in all of these, you add value somehow.

Value means a lot of things (I buy bread not because I don't know how to bake my own but because I don't want to spend the time to do it. Not to mention that I don't like that kind of work; I use a real estate attorney not because I cannot become one but because it would take too long, cost too much in relation to what I need him/her for, and I don't like that kind of work; I buy a novel by a mystery writer because I want to relax and a good mystery novel does it for me; I buy a bike because I want to exercise, it would take too much effort to learn how to build one and set up a shop to build my own and I don't like getting my hands grimey).

The problem is with the fast part. If you don't have skills that translate, you'll have to spend a good chunk of time learning them. If you do have and at a high level, you don't. But if you did, you wouldn't be asking the question you did.

Since I have EXPERIENCE with both...

Here's the downside of Printful...you have to do orders by hand and upload and fill out the customer info each time, whereas with Teespring you upload your design and then they take care of everything.

I would start with Printful to test and then if you feel you can get a bunch of orders in a short time maybe switch to Teespring.

Printful does seem to have some sort of automation if working with Etsy, but I don't have any EXPERIENCE with it, so I don't know how it works.

The Woods of Wooster is where Claude was arrested for cottaging.