If you had to start IM from scratch again with no money how would you do it?

Learn how to set up a Wordpress blog and start writing/filming/developing about your passion. What do you like todo and what are you good at? Set up a newsletter form and start building a list of people that are interested about your passion as well. Thats the first step, money comes later.

I would pick something I was passionate about and stick with it. Make a blog, a website, a community. Build a name, then a business, all out of one of my favourite hobbies. It is what most IM end up doing in the end, they just spend a couple of years figuring it out first.

Below are some easy ways you can do to make money online. . You don't need a lot of money for this but it will obviously involve you spending more of your time instead.

1. Paid Surveys

There are actually a lot of companies out there who will pay people to fill up survey forms. You can earn anywhere from $1 to $50 per survey. Answering surveys for money is one good way to earn side income the easy way. Just go to Google and do a search

2. Write For Blogs

There are a few requirements however such as
Excellent English writing skills
Knowledgeable in at least one niche (marketing, games, health, entertainment, web design/development, etc.) Don't worry about this part because you can go to Youtube and Google to search and learn about anything.

HubPages – multi-niched directory where you can write articles and share Adsense earning.
Squidoo – same with HubPages, has over 1 million users sharing Adsense revenue.

4.) Free Article Directories

This is one of the most common and effective ways to market products online for free and make money. The internet marketer will write articles about products that they want to promote and make money from and then publish them across the large article directories. Each article will contain a link to a product for sale within the body, placed strategically. If the article is written very well it will prompt the visitor that see the article to click the link and hopefully buy the product which will generate some money for you

These are just a few places that I can think about off the top of my head. Hope that helps

Nowadays, I'd recommend that someone have some money (at least $100 USD) to start. At the very least, you're going to have to buy a training program of some kind in order to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to make some money. When it comes to using free, promotional platforms, they've just become more and more strict over the years in terms of what you can promote, how many links you can use and all that stuff.

Joey

I am not very much experience about your question too. But I have some idea and working on that. BlurbWiki
This is my first site and I am working on it by adding up articles then I share them with facebook, g+. I also have posted links on web-directories and now a days try to post on forums and get backlinks. I have approved account from info links and will soon be approved from adsense too. Hence I am travelling towards success and IM. I hope you can do it too. Not very tough : )

Here's exactly what I would do:

STEP 1: Create a digital product--either an ebook or a video (you can do this part for free).

STEP 2: Find something to sell on eBay, start collecting cans or offer to mow a lawn or two until I got a hold of about $100.

STEP 3: Get a domain name and web hosting.

STEP 4: Utilize a free or $1 trial for a good autoresponder service.

STEP 5: Use the left-over money to promote your product and build a list.

Here's what I would definitely NOT do:

Take most (broke) people's advice and spend 6-months building a blog and filling it with original content (although, realistically, it will take a LOT longer than that) and try to do everything for free until you start getting enough traffic to eke out that $100 so you can do what I suggested above.

Seriously, think about what I'm saying here. It will save you a lot of time. And, time is more valuable than money. You can always get more money, but you can never get more time.

Even if you completely fail at my recommendation, at least you found out you're not cut out for this business in a few days instead of wasting months of your life to find out.

There's nothing wrong with building a blog, I think that's a great idea to enhance your business once you get some money rolling in, but I wouldn't start with one as a plan to make money.

I'd start a thread about it on the warrior forum, asking what to do,
rather than using the search feature to find the other hundred times it's been asked already.

If by no $ you mean absolute 0... then I would suggest offering some services on micro job sites like freelancer, fiverr, odesk... many people are afraid that they have nothing to offer... but they just didn't revealed what they have... You'll find out that you can relatively quickley earn $20 - $40 that will give you an opportunity to get hosting, domain and autoresponder to start with business...

If you do have now $20 then you can get:

-hosting - usually a middle plan from HostGator, that supports unlimited websites
(now, some people will say don't get hostgator because of this, this and that)
I suggest getting it from them, because you have good support from them, you can easily find coupons on google... if you find something bad with them, you can easily change hosting, and go somewhere else... however if you try to find immediately the best one, that will keep you out of action, and you'll be searching perfect hosting for the next 2 months

-domain - NameCheap or Godaddy... everything from above applies for this one also

-autoresponder- mailchimp... because it offers free for less than 500 subs
(it can be any other hosting as long as it's free for now...)

Make squeeze page and wordpress blog, put booth in WF signature.
Make a optin form on your blog on the top and sidebar, find some free PLR ebooks/videos/software, and give it in exchange for email address (the same thing applies for booth wordpress blog optin form and squeeze page).
Load your emails with interesting tips/tricks and put affiliate offers from clickbank/jvzoo etc. (most of mails to sell someone's product you can find on site of product under "affiliates" tab)

Post interesting stuff on WF, but don't spam...

That's roughly your free business!

Nicole (:

I would have probably build my list earlier from a free autoresponder. Then go into product creation and do what I do right now, which is web design. I could have spent more time learning PHP at the beginning, so that is one thing I would do it earlier than later in my career.

I would have build my list way earlier, and at the same time branding myself as a blogger and after I have build up some trust with my readers, I would start selling ebooks or video courses with a paid membership section at the end of the sales funnel.

Hey Marvon,
NOT over- emphasizing on trying to form my own Online properties with incessantly producing a lot of Blogs.

I would have scaled it down some more, and focus on just a few.


- Robert Andrew

I would offer a service to online marketers (or in today's climate, current marketers and wannabes). I'd learn while I earned, and use the money to support my IM endeavors. I would need that money because I'd be trying out paid traffic as soon as possible. SEO traffic is great for ROI if you do it right, but it just doesn't scale like paid traffic does.

If you have no money to invest, not even $10 - $20 (which, come on, is really not that much!), then you could start a blog on a free platform. You could do affiliate marketing or try and monetize your blog best way you can (however, since it's a free platform ,you'd be very limited)

I would skip the PTC, Hyips, Forex, Stock trading and even Adsense years! and go directly to Affiliation & Marketing.

But everything has a reason, without trial and error, you can't be succesful.. I mean if I didn't start by adsense, and making basic html sites and building a knowledge about domain names, hostings.... building an online stamina. How can I persist as an affiliate?

If someone comes directly to an upper level (affiliate) he will be overwhelmed and confused, and he'll quit IM. (They say 97% fail on IM, maybe it's true.)

I'd essentially do the same things that I did, but better in terms of certain specifics. These are the things that I'd do:

• Since I'm based in a developing country with very minimal gainful employment and business oppurtunities for persons with disabilities like me (I'm completely blind) -- I'd first sell my services in microjob sites so as to cover my family's day-to-day expenses and save up on some money to scale up what I'm doing;

• Since I can tap competitive manpower resources where I'm based, and also since I want to focus on providing valuable B2B (business to business) services and handle 15 or so corporate and SME clients at a time -- I'd target players in B2B and B2C markets, specifically those that operate in industries where I have specialized expertise in and those that want the unique value I can offer;

• Set up a site, social media pages and content materials that effectively show the unique value that I can provide my target customers;

• Do extensive market research and prospecting so as to identify the most suitable B2B and B2C players to target in my chosen industries;

• Formulate custom sales / marketing / traffic generation / pre and post sales / upsales and tech support campaigns for each of my target prospects;

• Cold contact each of my prospects so as to give them an attention-grabbing introduction of the custom value that I can provide them, an enticing description of how I can specifically collaborate with them so as to give them the value they want, a desirable overview of the custom plans that I formulated for them, and a compelling offer to set up a face-to-face meet-up or a phone appointment or an IM video conference so as to talk in detail about my custom proposals for them;

• Close B2B service contracts with a paid 3-month trial agreement for finalizing SLA terms and renewable 6-month to 1-year contracts with NDAs / NCAs;

• Provide mind-blowing results and amazing support to my existing customers so as to strengthen my strategic partnerships with them, which in turn can promote contract renewals, industry referrals, portfolio improvements, growth and expansion for my business; and

• Continue to do market research and prospecting work so as to do the things above for my clients and to effectively grow my company...

I've been doing this since 1996 or so and I would not do IM again nor would I encourage anyone to do it. I'm so burned out, I just can't code one more site (hence the use of Shopify for our sunglasses). I would tell people to use the internet as a supplement to a real world business and not just a way to sell half assed ebooks.

To start IM from scratch with no money to invest upfront you first need to decide a strategy for a business model you would like to go with depending upon your knowledge about IM and skills that reinforce that knowledge.

Whatever model you chose however, you ought to have a domain name and a hosting account to set up your online presence. So your first aim is to earn that much amount to cover these costs at least for one year. For that you have to sell your skills as a services to other businesses online.

Then you can use your site for promoting a product or a service, either your own or someone else's. Initially, you have to take help of free traffic methods to generate income and then with substantial amount so generated you may go for paid traffic methods to scale up your sells.

Rinse and repeat. Either within the same niche or with a different one that you are comfortable with.

Well if I was flat broke I guess I would find my market and area I want to enter, find and pick me a good quality product and maybe even write the owner and ask for a review copy so I can learn and see if its something I really want to be behind. Once all of that checks out I would direct link to the offer and shoot for my 1 or 2% conversion rate.

As soon as I have made a sale or two and gotten paid I would invest everything back into the business and pick up a domain, hosting and a autoresponder service and go to work...

I'd immediately start to separate myself away from what everybody else is doing which is direct linking and not providing any value up front. Just going for the sale

Kinda a short way to live

If I had no money, I would forget about internet marketing and find a job. You need money to run a business.

I would start by developing a Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube presence with a Patreon campaign attached.

I'd then offer my fans/followers/subscribers a free report with a link in the back to the sales page for a paid report.

The initial investment from that would be hosting and a list provider. On the hosting, I'd start a blog with a podcast. And I'd upsell to a membership of some sort.

That's a suitable starting point to gather a couple hundred a month from subscribers and patrons, and you can start developing your product line further.

Without money??
With any doubts I find a niche that passionate me, open a free blog and connect it with an
AdSense account!!!

I'd start with using the search feature on this forum...

1. If you had to start IM from scratch again with no money how would you do it?
2. If You Had To Start From Scratch All Over Again How Would You Do It?
3. If you had to start from scratch, how would you do it?
4. if you had to start all over again, which free traffic method?
5. If you had $1000 and had to start again...
6. What if you had to start over with $100.
7. If you lost it all tomorrow and had to start again what would you do?
8. If You Had To Start Over
9. If you were to start from SCRATCH and had $1,500 to spend, how would you get started AGAIN?
10. If you had 100$ to start!?
11. If you had to start from scratch, Knowing what You know now, What You Do to make that 1st $100 fast
12. Start from scratch... today
13. What would you do if you were starting from scratch in Affiliate Marketing Today?
14. What Would You Do If You Started from Scratch
15. If you were starting from scratch today..

There's over 122 THREADS in this section of the forum ALONE with the words "start from scratch" - I could easily find 500+ with a few variations of the search phrase.



Just use the search feature PLEASE?!

I would make sure I was always learning a skill.

Something that's valuable to others, something you can sell as a service (... if s**t hits the fan) and something that helps your business work better.

Could be copywriting, could be driving paid traffic, could be social media. If you've a skill other people would pay for (... in addition to your business) you hedge you bets a bit too.

Maybe I'm just too cautious!

I'd become an immediate freelancer. I'd exploit sites like Fiverr, Odesk, Freelancer, etc - and offer my services there. From the money that i make from that, i would start a new site, and go in some of the most obscure niches on earth - and dominate.

I would work as a freelancer till I have couple of hundred bucks and then invest all in to paid traffic, only way to get back on surface in shortest time possible!