Aequitas,
Its ok, i know you guys think im stupid to leave my job, thanks for the warning, but that is my decision... im prepared to fail miserably... im a realistic person , im not expecting to succeed on the first try, i know that would be foolish... so if that happens, then too bad, ill move on and try something else...
If you had to start from scratch all over again, with only 8000$ in your pockets... what would you do
Good keep this realistic attitude and you'll one day succeed, I'm more then willing to share my knowledge with the people who are willing to make this work and who realize that it does take work, so lets begin.
If I was starting from scratch I would set aside $1K for my PPC (Pay Per Click) Campaigns and start with those, I would read up about keyword research (buying keywords vs searching keywords), split testing my campaigns, I would run them on Adwords, YPN, and MSN Adcenter (Split up the $1K into these three areas, say $300 in each account and then keep the remaining $100 for additional research (P.S. Don't spend that money on an eBook, you'll just get fucked).
alistdirector ,
You say to to build lists, what do you mean ?( directory list ? ) I dont get what build list means... can you give more details ? possibly examples ?
By this I think he was referring to building an eMail list, getting customers to your site is one thing but getting their eMail address without pressing it and without spamming their address can be a powerful way to get return buyers.
stanley,
Why is ebay bad, bag in the days i knew someone who made lots of money with it, but that was back in the days, although im sure its something to consider today too.
eBay requires you to buy tangable items, sell them at a profit, deal with shipping and all that crap, with an Affiliate network you are promoting other peoples product, you only have to worry about getting the person to fill out a form or two in order for you to get paid, less headaches.
Xrproto,
Are you saying to find affiliates on those ad networks that pay you when ppl do certain actions ( fill forms ) , if so , you say my job would be to create a landing page that send these visitor to these forms, but why not just send them to the form right away ?
Sending a person directly to the form to fill out is bad in a lot of ways, its better to create a landing site (A site which explains to them what benefits the product will give them, it doesn't need to be a huge website, just a page with some quality well-written information), your goal is to only include your affiliate links inside of that page so with any click they make will bring them to the form, its your job with this page to encourage the person to take action when they get to the page, if you just send them to a form they won't know anything about it and probably won't sign up.
Another suggestion is to read a couple marketing books they are super helpful, it doesn't have to be an online marketing book it can just be a plain old marketing book, most of the online marketing books are outdated (I'm talking hardcover books here not the eBooks you get online), the good thing I find about reading these books on my spare time is it gives me ideas, better ways to promote online as well as offline, lots think that doing internet marketing online requires and online effort, you can advance that effort to offline things as well.
As I said most of the information might be a bit outdated but try to find the most recent ones they will give you a better insight into the history of marketing, where it stands today, better ways to make people take action, its an overall eye opener that sparks ideas, it gives you a better understanding of how to cross-reference some things, how to better intice people to take action and earn you some extra money.
P.S. do a search here on wicked fire to find the thread listed full disclosure campaigns, they will also help you learn a lot of things when your running your campaigns.
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" and they are more talented than you are in terms of testing, they test and test and test until they somehow have figured out what works.