Finding investors..
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As a n00b I feel your pain, except I'm a bit luckier in the financial part, since I have a full-time job.
However, if you go into the newbie section, which should have been the first thing you did, you will find some threads worth looking at. They have been put together by experienced members of this board to help n00bs like us along.
They will gives you step by step instructions on how to make money with $0 cash.
Read this one SLOWLY: http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/80450-its-your-business.html
After you are done with that look at this thread:
http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/34498-no-excuses-part-2-a.html
WF members are actually helping you out taking all of your excuses away.
All you need is a pc and a internet connection. Your local library will supply you with both.
In the end it's like everything else. There is no real 'secret' bullet just hard work in front of you. Just cause some folks here make 5 figures while they are sleeping, does not mean they are not working their arse off.
Start small, read, more importantly LISTEN, try, fail, try again...
Now stop surfing WF and get your ass to work!
However, if you go into the newbie section, which should have been the first thing you did, you will find some threads worth looking at. They have been put together by experienced members of this board to help n00bs like us along.
They will gives you step by step instructions on how to make money with $0 cash.
Read this one SLOWLY: http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/80450-its-your-business.html
After you are done with that look at this thread:
http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/34498-no-excuses-part-2-a.html
WF members are actually helping you out taking all of your excuses away.
All you need is a pc and a internet connection. Your local library will supply you with both.
In the end it's like everything else. There is no real 'secret' bullet just hard work in front of you. Just cause some folks here make 5 figures while they are sleeping, does not mean they are not working their arse off.
Start small, read, more importantly LISTEN, try, fail, try again...
Now stop surfing WF and get your ass to work!
I'm not trying to be a dick to the guy, but honestly you make your own destiny.
If you are broke, find a way to make money. I made a couple hundred bucks doing Fiverr jobs making logos/banners. You can torrent Photoshop/Illustrator easily and teach yourself how to use it with Youtube videos.
That's just an example but there are tons of ways to make small money to fuel your campaigns.
If you believing in yourself isn't enough justification for somebody to loan you money then fuck them, you just yell "Haters gonna hate!!" and punch them right in the throat. You don't need their negative energy wreckin your game and stoppin you from stackin made cheddar like the little 5 star stunna your mommy always told you could be if you believed in yourself enough.
Just remember:
Business plans are for pussies
Boot strapping is for chumps
Beg and ball little g, beg and ball.
You need a plan if you intend on approaching people for investment purposes. You have to be "excited" about YOUR idea and sell it. It all comes down to selling. You may not be selling a physical product but you are selling yourself. The investment you are asking them to make is in YOU. Do you know what you are going to bring to the table?
Icanhaz monies ?
But seriously , get a job if you need invesments than invest in yourself , trust me investors are not worth it , giving them a % of your hard work of profits is just isn't worth it IMO . Grab some government loan or somethin,
But seriously , get a job if you need invesments than invest in yourself , trust me investors are not worth it , giving them a % of your hard work of profits is just isn't worth it IMO . Grab some government loan or somethin,
How do you "know" you will make money?
How do you know you won't just flush their money down the toilet? As an investor, this is what I would be looking at - a proven track record.
I "knew" I would make bucketloads of money at IM and lost $15k in my first year doing CPA PPC. Yeah, maybe I'm a slow learner. My point is that most people fail, and fail big, before they "make it".
How do you know you won't just flush their money down the toilet? As an investor, this is what I would be looking at - a proven track record.
I "knew" I would make bucketloads of money at IM and lost $15k in my first year doing CPA PPC. Yeah, maybe I'm a slow learner. My point is that most people fail, and fail big, before they "make it".
Not that I want to into it too much, but it wasn't just $15k down the drain - I made around $50k, but had to spend $65k to do it. Probably tried around 40-50 campaigns but I got too attached to each one and tried to optimize stuff that I shouldn't have bothered with. It also seemed that every campaign that was profitable for me I either could only get a trickle of traffic from that source, the advertiser cut me off because of "bad traffic", the affiliate program shut down or they changed the terms and conditions to exclude the traffic source I was using.
Note that the loss also included outsourcing costs for landing pages and a few software purchases.
When I started PPC, you paid big money to hear a 'guru' say the words "media buy", much less tell you anything about it.
hahahahaha. investors to do affiliate marketing. that's a good one!
You have no money, which means you have no history of experience in aff marketing. why the F would anyone ever want to invest in you?
If you think you are good at it, get a job doing online marketing, save up, and invest in yourself with your own money.
If you ask any real investor or person with money to invest in you to do aff marketing you will be laughed at and then they will call security, that's IF you ever get past the secretary.
You have no money, which means you have no history of experience in aff marketing. why the F would anyone ever want to invest in you?
If you think you are good at it, get a job doing online marketing, save up, and invest in yourself with your own money.
If you ask any real investor or person with money to invest in you to do aff marketing you will be laughed at and then they will call security, that's IF you ever get past the secretary.
you "know how to go about affiliate marketing" but have you every made any money at all? Any? if you haven't then how do you know that you can succeed at affiliate marketing with someone else's money? If you have made money in affiliate marketing and just need to scale up then approach them as if you had a marketing firm and spin it that way. Show them proof that you know what you are doing. Otherwise slap a hoe and pimp a bitch or get a job.
Let me get this straight? So you have no job, no cash, no business plan, and no real experience affiliate marketing. To top it off you want to pay back your investors *after* you've proven it works, on their dime, and profit is made off that dime. Explain to me why an investor would take *ALL* the risk for a small piece of the profits you *might* make.
Dude, hustle landers and graphics. Save your cash, invest in a campaign, roll your profits forward. Welcome to the hustle.
Dude, hustle landers and graphics. Save your cash, invest in a campaign, roll your profits forward. Welcome to the hustle.
Would you invest 5-10K in some random nobody with no track record, no prior successes, no presentation, no contract, no collateral, no backup plan, and no projected ROI? You must be drunk.
How does anyone find investors? They pitch them their business plan. If you were legitimately approaching it that way, print up a 10-15 page business plan with pretty graphics, offers, traffic sources, your prior affiliate history, and your revenue/profit projections based on
their investments.
That's if you want to have a rat's fart of a chance. Saying you "think you can do a good job" will only get you ruthlessly mocked.
How does anyone find investors? They pitch them their business plan. If you were legitimately approaching it that way, print up a 10-15 page business plan with pretty graphics, offers, traffic sources, your prior affiliate history, and your revenue/profit projections based on
their investments.
That's if you want to have a rat's fart of a chance. Saying you "think you can do a good job" will only get you ruthlessly mocked.
stop thinking and start acting.
Apply for 10-20 credit cards online and see what happens.
If your under age go to those stores where they got a guy near the entrance asking people to sign up for the store credit cards there's a higher chance you' ll get approved for that. Even if its not a mastercard or visa just do a cash advance and dump into a traffic source. then just ?????? and profit :rasta: