Paying off my debts...

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shithappens said:
You need to learn to fail quickily as possible and often as possible. Everything you start a project and it doesn't work out you need to go and celebrate. You did something most people don't... that is TRY... Just keep working/failing/learning and one of these times something will happen and it won't break and it'll work and you'll look back at your post like... "woah, I can't believe I wrote that"
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100% agree with this, with one proviso. You need to learn from your failures. Keep a journal of all your experiments (for that's what they are), and what you learned from them. Each lesson brings you closer to success.

I know this sounds like typical self improvement BS, but it works.

Embracing failure is one the reasons Silicon Valley venture capital firms do much better than us miserable Europeans - investors here won't touch an entrepreneur who's been through a massive failure. Investors over there often won't take them seriously until it's happened at least once.
 


Bam Bam continuing with most of the sentiments above - just keep working at it, honestly you will find a fairly profitable niche soon enough.

If you looking at the PPC route and are already in debt I would highly suggest you don't take a risk on anymore! Work on some database sites, put some ads up and just keep developing with your PHP skills - something will hit the spot eventually.
 
Yeah, i barely did anything with PPC as i don't have the money to waste.

I haven't tried database sites though, we talking Baby Names, Lyrics, etc etc?
 
Yes, honestly though it can really be anything. As long as its unique data that is relevant in someway to someone then you can catch shitloads of longtail traffic.

And once you get the knack of getting Google to index most of your site you can set them up every week and just let the advertising revenue explode.

A little gem I always use is those old FTP servers that ISP companies set up for people with 56k, any public FTP server does but they have a few beauties lying around.

Another good idea is just to scrape from google, try searching for SQL, CSV and Excel files with the filetype command - some great results.
 
bam bam - have you thought of becoming a "Drug Guinea Pig?"

When I was in the UK me and a mate needed some cash to go to Ibiza for a few weeks - so we signed up to Drug testing clinic in Manchester.

Basically you have to live totally clean for 2 weeks, no beer or drugs (legal or illegal), unless they say you can. But with you being skint - that won't be a problem.

There was 10 people in our group, 5 with the real drug and 5 controls (fake - just tablets) and you have to show up a certain amount of times a week (again changes for each) and get tested.

We got £1450 each for the 2 weeks (12 years ago) and as we didn't grow any third eyes, extra penises, eight toes or anything like that - I'm sure we got the control.

The best thing about this is that you can do other work whilst earning this :)

My mate has done quite a few more since, but I stopped - mainly due to Chick Pressure - she didn't like the idea.

I know there are clinics in Manchester and Chelsea - but you'll have to search cos it might have all changed.
 
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bam bam - have you thought of becoming a "Drug Guinea Pig?"

When I was in the UK me and a mate needed some cash to go to Ibiza for a few weeks - so we signed up to Drug testing clinic in Manchester.

Basically you have to live totally clean for 2 weeks, no beer or drugs (legal or illegal), unless they say you can. But with you being skint - that won't be a problem.

There was 10 people in our group, 5 with the real drug and 5 controls (fake - just tablets) and you have to show up a certain amount of times a week (again changes for each) and get tested.

We got £1450 each for the 2 weeks (12 years ago) and as we didn't grow any third eyes, extra penises, eight toes or anything like that - I'm sure we got the control.

The best thing about this is that you can do other work whilst earning this :)

My mate has done quite a few more since, but I stopped - mainly due to Chick Pressure - she didn't like the idea.

I know there are clinics in Manchester and Chelsea - but you'll have to search cos it might have all changed.
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Don't EVER do this. My wife is a medical researcher & used to work for Parexel (who administer a lot of these tests). There is so much they don't tell you it's untrue. The odds are you'll be fine, but gambling your health for a few K isn't worth it, and whatever they tell you about "safety" the companies who run these tests are only interested in one thing - getting drugs passed so the pharmaceuticals can start making money.

They do it as cheaply as possible, so the staff often aren't trained properly.
 
If I was in your position I'd be looking for projects in the $300-$500 range. Consulting is best because you really don't have to know what your talking about or doing. I don't know about your job contract but you should figure out how to get around it.

Long term, you really don't want projects where you directly trade hours for dollars, it just doesn't scale.
 
Well decide what you're the best at, design, article writing, coding, seo link building, etc etc then setup a quick site and start advertising on DP and in the For Sale section here. The hey lets do stuff together usually doesn't work unless you have a strong skill set. However just like picking a niche if you focus on 1 thing and say I have skill in this niche you'll become a qualified expert in that niche and be able to ask a premium. Just some food for thought.
 
Define irony...rather...screw that. Coincidence?

It's like what my 2nd post here and I decided that all that fake assed shite that I've been into for the last 8-9 years is just not gonna work anymore for me anyway.

I need to REALLY freakin' creative and have essentially retitled myself a n00b as far as raking it in. I know huge $$$$ can be raked in cause I've done it.

Caveat. It gets lost just as damned fast.

My thinking is along the lines of what the hell to do when you turn your back on "old school" stuff.

Truth. I'm a young guy stuck on a pension that barely covers my crap. I also feel for ya, because I have an immediate ~$3500-4000 to clear and the rest can be dealt with in a less pathetic fashion.

I know I need to earn a little over $2k ASAP because that is priority debt that I wish I never got into at all.

All the above suggestions are helpful I hope, but here's a question (I'll be reading and participating more so not to dupe posts like this)...

1. What the hell happens or what does one do if they have no CC or funds for PPC traffic yet? I suppose do something else would be a good response.

2. If one cannot pay for the reg fees for the freelance boards are there any places that even list crappy hours for dollars jobs like support desk or something?

I suppose offering up tech services or SEO with people here being way more experienced than me would be nothing short of a joke, but I'm just feeling my way around in the dark at the moment too. :anon.sml:

Wow look...a damned doctoral thesis of a post I have here--holy crap.

Time to hunt for work & try to add value to this place as I am totally sick of some of the other places BS that I used to spend my spare time at.

Suggestions, abuse and general kicks to the junk are welcomed and deserved. At least for now.

OK, I'll shut up and try to learn something new now.

Peace and good luck to the OP.

.A.
 
amateursurgeon said:
Don't EVER do this. My wife is a medical researcher & used to work for Parexel (who administer a lot of these tests). There is so much they don't tell you it's untrue. The odds are you'll be fine, but gambling your health for a few K isn't worth it, and whatever they tell you about "safety" the companies who run these tests are only interested in one thing - getting drugs passed so the pharmaceuticals can start making money.

They do it as cheaply as possible, so the staff often aren't trained properly.
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I second this.

In UK, around 13 people died and one left severely diabled after participating in drugs testing. When the participants felt dazzed and felt the effects, the assistants actually laughed as they looked drunk. When the they collapsed, they fell into a coma, and died shortly after. One of the guys had his head swelled up like a massive football.
 
OK so, i'm still in the same position.

Anyone need me to do any dog work for them?
I will literally do anything. (Well not ANYTHING::love-smiley-083: )
Link building, article writing, blog creation, SEO.

Lay it on me!
 
You could start a manual directory submission mini biz..

find a few hundred manual submission directories, charge $x to have people's sites submitted to all of them..
 
I did consider that, but i know there are ALOT of people offering that and the rates are way too low to make any sort of money for the amount of time i would have to put in.

Unless i can make it unique somehow.......
 
what's big nowadays is submitting comments on do-follow blogs; I know a guy who made about 1.3k in a week; he pulling about $100 per day now; minimal work though tedious.

Hit me up if you need a small list of dofollow blogs etc.
 
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