Another Easy Way To Make 100k/Year

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Alright so this is a brutally simple way to make some good coin online. I haven't done it myself because it actually involves some work (and I'm lazy as hell), but if you need money you can definitely make it this way. I had a friend that made $1-2k/day doing this...it's really not hard.

Step #1

Make a web design site and make it look good...you're now a web design firm. Call it w/e you want it doesn't matter that much.

Step #2

Go to places like (I know this will hurt) Digital Point, eLance, and any other webmaster board that has like a Buy/Sell/Trade type of place. We're looking for people who need websites designed.

Step #3

Find people that need designs done, landing pages, full websites (more $$$), any of that crap. Say that you can do it for $500 or whatever is a reasonable rate, you can jack the price up as people will pay a lot.

Step #4

Hunt for designers anywhere. Recruit some on Digital Point (everybody goes there for cheap labor), eLance, web design forums, etc. Basically get a list of designers that will do reasonably cheap quality work.

Step #5

Once you get a project in, make a quick writeup of the project and send it out to your list of designers. If you're charging $500 for the site, write out and say "The first designer that can do the job for $300 gets the job", something like that. Or just email them individually and say "Can you do this job for $300 by next week?" and go through 1 by 1 until you find somebody.

The more work you do for people, the bigger portfolio you'll build. People always need websites designed and the more you do, the more reputable you become.

The only real drawback is that you have to coordinate everything, which will take time. Getting the projects, finding a designer, communicating between both parties.

I'd imagine once you really got used to it and it was easy, you could just hire someone to manage everything and pretty much do it all for you.

So yeah, it's a really really simple thing...find work and outsource it, but people are always begging for easy tips so this was one of them. It doesn't really have to do with affiliate marketing but like I said I had a friend doing a few designs/day like this and some of them were pretty expensive (over $1k), and all you have to do is manage everything.

Oh and you don't have to do this with just websites, you can do it with anything. You can find a cheap article writer to crank them out at $5/pop and sell them for $8, it's just a lower payout and probably a lot more work.

While we're at it, another similar technique you can use is another oldie but goodie. Find items on Amazon or Overstock.com and put them up for auction on eBay and just resell them for a higher price. Once somebody buys the product on eBay and pays you, just buy it from Amazon and put in the persons address and it'll be shipped straight to them. So once again all you have to do is manage shit and worry about finding products/buyers. You could even get hardcore if you find something really good and try and buy straight from the manufacturer or wholesaler and get the products for even cheaper.

Anywho just some food for thought, I've never really made a productive post here so I thought why not, you guys all love me even when I don't help.
 
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So you want us to buy low and sell high? What a novel concept. :-)

Of course, for step 1, you should go to a place like 99 designs and have someone else come up with the cool design for you.

That whole business model is what IBM and every other consulting place uses. Get cheap labor, charge a margin and profit.
 
I could have swore after I read the title I thought this is what the post would have looked like.

Step #1
 Run a successful campaign.

Step #2
 Start a blog.

Step #3
 Get 3000+ rss readers.

Step #4
 Start an uber camp that costs $5,000/month.

Step#5
 PROFIT!.
 
I never said it was new, I said it was a direct step-by-step way to make money. If you can't do the above and make enough money to quit your job, business probably isn't for you. It's bare naked business but people want to know how to make money...well this is how.

coglethorpe said:
So you want us to buy low and sell high? What a novel concept. :-)

Of course, for step 1, you should go to a place like 99 designs and have someone else come up with the cool design for you.

That whole business model is what IBM and every other consulting place uses. Get cheap labor, charge a margin and profit.
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Step#2 and #4 are highly conflicting. Buying services at wholesale and turning around and selling them at retail is the basic underlying premise of all businesses however I dare anyone to be able to sell a design at DP for $500. There's just too much cheap (and crappy) labor there.
 
I told my buddy (who works at a grocery store but wants to make some coin online) about this same idea a few days ago, when he questioned me on how he could start making some money with his limited knowledge. I told him about logo design because I know for a fact that companies here charge $1000 and up(!) for logos. You can outsource that shit for a few dollars and make serious bank.

This is one of those ways that don't require any experience running offers or affiliate campaigns. Managing it is the real work, but that too could be outsourced.

Unfortunately for my friend, he's too skeptical of ever trying anything on dem thar scary intrawebs...it's "safer" to stay with his minimum wage grocery store job, lol.
 
Even though this post is painfully obvious, it's a definite strategy. I'm working with a partner on www.psd2wordpress.com and we'll be offering psd to wordpress services as well as psd to html and full design. just a heads up ;)

but dont underestimate the work it takes to manage all those people. making other people get shit done is not easy at all
 
LotsOfZeros said:
Step#2 and #4 are highly conflicting. Buying services at wholesale and turning around and selling them at retail is the basic underlying premise of all businesses however I dare anyone to be able to sell a design at DP for $500. There's just too much cheap (and crappy) labor there.
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It's all (click) arbitrage.

One would find clients in other places, eLance, other forums, in real life, etc. and match them to a decent team they already had a relationship from earlier projects. Or even pawn them off on crappy teams from DP if the client will accept the work.

That's exactly what big consulting firms do. Hotshot partners match up clients with low cost (and sometimes crappy) talent to complete the job. In the end, the people at the top of the pyramid make the cash.
 
Oh boy what a great idea ... i think i should sign up for uber camp ... $5000 seems a real steal if you give out great ideas like this . :xomunch:
 
jdprgm said:
You make finding clients sound easier then it really is.
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Exactly. I run a web design business... it's not cake. But if you can find a steady flow of clients and good team (problem with outsourcing is that you don't know who you're dealing with initially) then you can make 'coin'
 
I wanted to butt in earlier, but as jdprgm implied, its not at all easy to start getting high paying clients with your new web design company.

One of my friends does know someone that makes over £40k a year ($80k for you Americans) by offering web design services at extortionate prices to stupid, local businesses, and then outsourcing the work to a bunch of Estonians. So I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to milk good cash out of businessmen in the 'real world' who would easily give you a couple of K to get a simple website set up. However, this is all provided you can build yourself a presence among LOCAL businesses. Don't bother trying to do this online, going local would be a lot easier and more profitable.
 
ImagesAndWords said:
I told him about logo design because I know for a fact that companies here charge $1000 and up(!) for logos. You can outsource that shit for a few dollars and make serious bank.
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I see a lot more potential with logos as well. :thumbsup: The time required to make one of these is far less than that required to put together a website design. I would assume the margins would also be a lot better in this instance. Likewise, the service can be pitched via local newspapers to companies that may not even have websites. I'm tempted to try this out myself once a few campaigns get going.
 
Demon said:
what the hell are you talking about
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I'm saying what I've heard "some people" say about affiliate marketers. That they are "click brokers," etc.

I don't believe any of it, because I'm realizing how much work it really is. By my definition, something has "value" because someone's paying you to do it. If Affiliates had no value, there would be no payouts.
 
actually an "easy" way to make $100k/year is to take some low-level corporate job and skate by putting in 2 hours of 'real' work a day while riding long lunches and early afternoon departures, and of course working on your own business/campaigns while in the office.

What you're suggesting is well- simply the core concept of any business, and in my (generous) experience there is **NOTHING** easy when you mix a bunch of people in the middle including the customer.

Hell getting AWAY from people and the hassles/ineffeciency that comes with them was one of the core draws of the internet to me back a decade ago.
 
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