I want money NOW!!!!!!!!!

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I currently am jobless, I live with my parents and am considering going into the airforce if I don't get something going soon.

Like I said in another post i'm having a hard time sticking to anything, its like everytime I find something that I enjoy my family puts some pressure on me to just make this thing happen. Currently I've been on the 10 articles a day "diet" , I am writing for a niche that I enjoy and have some unique imput on the information marketing side of it but I'm not sure if its something I can really make alot of money from.

But since I've gotten pressured to make some dough, I'm wanting to move into the amazon affiliate sites and make money off of that. IS this just me wanting to move onto the next thing like always...because I have yet to really sink my teeth into anything every thing has just been slightly nibbled. Then I just move on, and its been swiching from doing the things that I love in a niche that could get me traffic but may take longer to make money and just going straight for the dough with affiliate marketing.

What should I do? Also I'm hoping that I will be able to make enough money to go back to college next year after a year off. (im 20 now)
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard A.Cox
    First of all, the sig link your post, is that your blog?
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard A.Cox
    Well, as you have not answered my question I will have to assume it is your blog.

    Now, in your blog you describe yourself in the following way

    "I am now an expert in human communications "

    And yet you use a nickname 'Trojan' instead of your real name, as you are doing in this forum, only, here you wish to be known as "Hililud".

    My advice to be to stop hiding your identity and to start being yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author greenghost071
    Keep posting your blog, drive traffic,place adsense in right places, make it popular.
    You are done to make money now :
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  • Profile picture of the author valerieSONORA
    Money now? Donate plasma.
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  • Profile picture of the author Star69
    What a bunch of lukewarm responses. I thought we were WARRIORS!

    Okay, you don't have a job and you need money, like now. You're 20 years old and probably don't know squat because you are so young, am I getting close?

    I can almost tell you for a fact that, other than selling something on eBay, you will not make an 'immediate' income online. Hate to break it to you but that's the truth.

    There's only two ways to make money online: sell something or provide a service.

    You can create your own product (do some research. Google's a great tool for that) or you can sell someone else's product, either as an affiliate or by purchasing a PLR and rebranding it (do you know how to rebrand something like that? Try a Google search or search this forum. There's a huge amount of information right here in this forum and it's all free.)

    You are writing articles. Are you any good at it? Just because you say you write articles doesn't mean you are good at it. (I'm not trying to be hurtful, just getting to the point. I'm taking your age into account.) Are you good enough and confident enough to offer your services as an article writer to people who don't have that ability? Can you pump out ten 500-word articles in a day? (Don't forget, you'll need to spend a few hours doing research if you don't already know the subject inside and out. That will take up a lot of your time.) Can you meet a deadline?

    Do you know how to create your own websites and get them online? (I should first ask if you have hosting and domain names. You won't get anything online without those. Do you know how to use hosting and domain names? Do you know how to use FTP?)

    I don't know you or your abilities. If I did I might be better able to offer something you can use. It seems to me, from your jumping from this to that, that you are suffering from information overload, a normal ailment of almost every newbie, and the best advice I can offer at this point is for you to stop jumping around and pick ONE thing to concentrate on.

    What do you think you are the best at? Might that be what you should concentrate on? What do you know the most about? Pick ONE, and only one and focus on that. Tell yourself this is it, this is the one thing you'll focus on, the one thing that you will make work come hell or high water. Giving up will get you nowhere.

    And if your family tells you you will never amount to anything, IGNORE THEM! Many Warriors have heard the same from their family.

    A good start would be to ignore the emails from everyone else with the latest neat thing that will 'make you rich'. Those emails will always be there and trust me, you are not missing out on anything. (I've been there, done that. I've been down your road.)

    I would suggest that you find a job, any job, even part time, and get at least some money coming in. Count your blessings you are still living at home and dad is covering the bills and putting food on the table. That is saving you tons of money.

    Focus on one thing. Keep banging away at it, keep learning about it until you are making money at it. Then try to increase the amount of money you are making each month from it. Build it, master it.

    Here's an idea. You say you write articles. Write a 20 or 30 page report about how to write articles. (Don't know how to write a short report? Search this forum and use Google! Learn!) Make it a PDF. (You can do this for free using Open Office Writer if you don't have MS Word. It's a free download at OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite )

    Open a PayPal account if you don't already have one.

    Once that's done, go to Free Classifieds - USFreeads and create a free account. This will allow you the ability to place a limited number of ads there. Then create a sales page and get it up at usfreeads. (You'll create it in their compose window.) They provide the hosting and domain, it's free...usfreeads.com

    Do you know how to create a sales page? If not, look at other people's sales pages for ideas (be sure you don't copy them word for word, as that is copyright infringement and will get you in trouble. Use your own words. Just notice the way their websites look and design yours in a similar fashion.)

    This way you will have your own product (the How To Write Articles report) and a way to sell it (usfreeads) that won't cost you much money, if any.

    But don't expect that to flood you with money. It won't. You might not make one sale per month. I'm not going to lie and promise you the world. But at least once you get something up at usfreeads, you'll have a URL to send people to, and you can advertise 'your' sales page. (That's called driving traffic. The more people who look at your sales page, the more who might buy your report. There are still many people who don't know how to write good articles but wish they did.)

    What about creating something and selling it here in a Warrior Forum WSO (Warrior Special Offer) or running a classified ad on this forum? Look into that if you haven't yet.

    You might spend time creating more blogger blogs. That doesn't cost you a dime. Set them up for Google adsense. Drive traffic to them, get backlinks from other blogs and get your view count up. The more people who look at your blogs, the more who might click on the Google ads. Tell all your friends and neighbors and everyone you know about your blogs and give them the addresses so they can look at them. Add your blogs to your forum signatures so we can look at them, too. Be proud of your blogs.

    If you have one free blog making you $5 a month in adsense clicks, why not create additional blogs and make a few bucks off of each of them? Choose popular topics. Think 'what's hot?' Use Google Trends to see what people are searching for. Google Trends

    Right now the name Jim Breuer is #3 on the most-searched list. Who is Jim Breuer? Is there a way you can create a free blogger blog about him? Figure out a way to use his name in the title of your blog so it ranks high in Google search page results. That alone will help you get traffic because anyone wanting to know more about him will search using his name.

    You might want to blog about something that has a longer 'shelf life'. Jim Breuer has slipped to #9 just in the short time it took me to write this.

    Anyway, look for a job to get some money coming in. Create free blogs and hopefully get some adsense clicks (that definitely won't make you rich but you might get a $100 check from Google one of these days. That's something you can show to your doubting family. You might just want to frame it.) Consider creating your own report and selling that. Look into running a WSO on this forum (that'll cost you $20).

    Don't look at the internet as a pile of money waiting to fall into your lap. It can be tapped and provide a lot of money, but it will not happen overnight.

    If all else fails, there's always the Air Force, which might not be such a bad idea. (I assume you are an American.) They'll probably fly you to Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas (not the best place to be in July and August...), they'll cut all your hair off, feed, clothe and house you, your basic training drill instructor will yell at you and make you think you can't do anything right, they'll break you down and build you up the way they need you to be and get you into the best shape you've ever been in, and once you get out of basic you'll have a steady paycheck and a roof over your head. And they will definitely teach you how to focus on one thing: follow orders without question!

    You might find out you really like it and decide to stay until you put in your 20 or 30 years and be a career airman. Rise in the ranks and make more money each month. I know right now 20 or 30 years seems like an eternity to you, but trust me, it's not, you'll realize that when you get into your fifties like I am. Being career means once you leave the service you'll have one heck of a steady pension check coming every month. You won't have to worry about where your next dollar will come from.

    Being in the Air Force doesn't mean you can't do internet marketing. You won't work 24 hours a day in the service. You'll be stationed somewhere and go home after your shift, just like civilians. You can continue your internet marketing experience and try to make even more money.

    Okay, this is long enough. Take it and run with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hililuud
      Originally Posted by Star69 View Post

      What a bunch of lukewarm responses. I thought we were WARRIORS!

      Okay, you don't have a job and you need money, like now. You're 20 years old and probably don't know squat because you are so young, am I getting close?

      I can almost tell you for a fact that, other than selling something on eBay, you will not make an 'immediate' income online. Hate to break it to you but that's the truth.

      There's only two ways to make money online: sell something or provide a service.

      You can create your own product (do some research. Google's a great tool for that) or you can sell someone else's product, either as an affiliate or by purchasing a PLR and rebranding it (do you know how to rebrand something like that? Try a Google search or search this forum. There's a huge amount of information right here in this forum and it's all free.)

      You are writing articles. Are you any good at it? Just because you say you write articles doesn't mean you are good at it. (I'm not trying to be hurtful, just getting to the point. I'm taking your age into account.) Are you good enough and confident enough to offer your services as an article writer to people who don't have that ability? Can you pump out ten 500-word articles in a day? (Don't forget, you'll need to spend a few hours doing research if you don't already know the subject inside and out. That will take up a lot of your time.) Can you meet a deadline?

      Do you know how to create your own websites and get them online? (I should first ask if you have hosting and domain names. You won't get anything online without those. Do you know how to use hosting and domain names? Do you know how to use FTP?)

      I don't know you or your abilities. If I did I might be better able to offer something you can use. It seems to me, from your jumping from this to that, that you are suffering from information overload, a normal ailment of almost every newbie, and the best advice I can offer at this point is for you to stop jumping around and pick ONE thing to concentrate on.

      What do you think you are the best at? Might that be what you should concentrate on? What do you know the most about? Pick ONE, and only one and focus on that. Tell yourself this is it, this is the one thing you'll focus on, the one thing that you will make work come hell or high water. Giving up will get you nowhere.

      And if your family tells you you will never amount to anything, IGNORE THEM! Many Warriors have heard the same from their family.

      A good start would be to ignore the emails from everyone else with the latest neat thing that will 'make you rich'. Those emails will always be there and trust me, you are not missing out on anything. (I've been there, done that. I've been down your road.)

      I would suggest that you find a job, any job, even part time, and get at least some money coming in. Count your blessings you are still living at home and dad is covering the bills and putting food on the table. That is saving you tons of money.

      Focus on one thing. Keep banging away at it, keep learning about it until you are making money at it. Then try to increase the amount of money you are making each month from it. Build it, master it.

      Here's an idea. You say you write articles. Write a 20 or 30 page report about how to write articles. (Don't know how to write a short report? Search this forum and use Google! Learn!) Make it a PDF. (You can do this for free using Open Office Writer if you don't have MS Word. It's a free download at OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite )

      Open a PayPal account if you don't already have one.

      Once that's done, go to Free Classifieds - USFreeads and create a free account. This will allow you the ability to place a limited number of ads there. Then create a sales page and get it up at usfreeads. (You'll create it in their compose window.) They provide the hosting and domain, it's free...usfreeads.com

      Do you know how to create a sales page? If not, look at other people's sales pages for ideas (be sure you don't copy them word for word, as that is copyright infringement and will get you in trouble. Use your own words. Just notice the way their websites look and design yours in a similar fashion.)

      This way you will have your own product (the How To Write Articles report) and a way to sell it (usfreeads) that won't cost you much money, if any.

      But don't expect that to flood you with money. It won't. You might not make one sale per month. I'm not going to lie and promise you the world. But at least once you get something up at usfreeads, you'll have a URL to send people to, and you can advertise 'your' sales page. (That's called driving traffic. The more people who look at your sales page, the more who might buy your report. There are still many people who don't know how to write good articles but wish they did.)

      What about creating something and selling it here in a Warrior Forum WSO (Warrior Special Offer) or running a classified ad on this forum? Look into that if you haven't yet.

      You might spend time creating more blogger blogs. That doesn't cost you a dime. Set them up for Google adsense. Drive traffic to them, get backlinks from other blogs and get your view count up. The more people who look at your blogs, the more who might click on the Google ads. Tell all your friends and neighbors and everyone you know about your blogs and give them the addresses so they can look at them. Add your blogs to your forum signatures so we can look at them, too. Be proud of your blogs.

      If you have one free blog making you $5 a month in adsense clicks, why not create additional blogs and make a few bucks off of each of them? Choose popular topics. Think 'what's hot?' Use Google Trends to see what people are searching for. Google Trends

      Right now the name Jim Breuer is #3 on the most-searched list. Who is Jim Breuer? Is there a way you can create a free blogger blog about him? Figure out a way to use his name in the title of your blog so it ranks high in Google search page results. That alone will help you get traffic because anyone wanting to know more about him will search using his name.

      You might want to blog about something that has a longer 'shelf life'. Jim Breuer has slipped to #9 just in the short time it took me to write this.

      Anyway, look for a job to get some money coming in. Create free blogs and hopefully get some adsense clicks (that definitely won't make you rich but you might get a $100 check from Google one of these days. That's something you can show to your doubting family. You might just want to frame it.) Consider creating your own report and selling that. Look into running a WSO on this forum (that'll cost you $20).

      Don't look at the internet as a pile of money waiting to fall into your lap. It can be tapped and provide a lot of money, but it will not happen overnight.

      If all else fails, there's always the Air Force, which might not be such a bad idea. (I assume you are an American.) They'll probably fly you to Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas (not the best place to be in July and August...), they'll cut all your hair off, feed, clothe and house you, your basic training drill instructor will yell at you and make you think you can't do anything right, they'll break you down and build you up the way they need you to be and get you into the best shape you've ever been in, and once you get out of basic you'll have a steady paycheck and a roof over your head. And they will definitely teach you how to focus on one thing: follow orders without question!

      You might find out you really like it and decide to stay until you put in your 20 or 30 years and be a career airman. Rise in the ranks and make more money each month. I know right now 20 or 30 years seems like an eternity to you, but trust me, it's not, you'll realize that when you get into your fifties like I am. Being career means once you leave the service you'll have one heck of a steady pension check coming every month. You won't have to worry about where your next dollar will come from.

      Being in the Air Force doesn't mean you can't do internet marketing. You won't work 24 hours a day in the service. You'll be stationed somewhere and go home after your shift, just like civilians. You can continue your internet marketing experience and try to make even more money.

      Okay, this is long enough. Take it and run with it.
      Thanx for taking the time to write this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
    Go to the airforce.
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  • Profile picture of the author valerieSONORA
    That was a long response Star. Very thoughtful of you Didn't you know you could be kind. (Ok, joking :p ) Hope it helps the OP. Aren't you glad you didn't press reply just to see an "invalid thread" link

    There are only a very few ways to make immediate money online. If you want to actually build a business that takes time as well as an investment sometimes. Of course for fast money, you must provide a service such as graphic design, writing articles, copywriting, etc and find customers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Star69
      Originally Posted by valerieSONORA View Post

      That was a long response Star. Very thoughtful of you Didn't you know you could be kind. (Ok, joking :p ) Hope it helps the OP. Aren't you glad you didn't press reply just to see an "invalid thread" link?
      Ha! That's why I highlighted it and clicked on Copy before posting it to the forum! Just in case, you know... :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author Yudha Andika
    Keep updating your Blog [ at your sign link assume ] drive more traffic...monetize via adsense and kontera or infolinks....
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  • Profile picture of the author laaminologie
    belive in your dreams
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  • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
    Flip a website. You can get $100 in 24 hours.
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  • Profile picture of the author aapillc
    I would also like to thank Star for taking the time to write such a response, this is the reason I like the WF so much. There seems to be some great people in here that are willing to share with those of us that are eager to learn. Thank you for the information Star, and good luck to you Hililuud.
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