Tired of Everyone Whining About How Broke They Are

Need some news for the Hoff? Here you go :-)

https://news.google.com/news/feeds?p...off&output=rss

Peace,
EJ

PS: Brian please check your PMs, sent you a new link :-)

Why aren't you charging for this information?

Or maybe it's part of your upcoming Hasselhoff WSO?

Steve

Great info here. Thanks for sharing.

Hasseldork crying poor to cut alimony because he just got engaged to a new sweetie....he gives new meaning to "icky"...

Little plastic surgery recently?

This is awesome stuff!

The only thing I'd be concerned with is what pics/vids I could use with out violating copyright. I have lots of niche blogs that make me money in different ways, and I'm always super careful about using photos on my blogs that won't cause any copyright problems. Mostly I create my own images to avoid that stuff.

I suppose I could learn a better way to figure out what I can and cannot use without getting into any hot water.

I also have a quick question about the comment you made regarding using the first paragraph of a story in an email and then linking to the full story. Would that be just to provide content to your email list? I'm only asking because I'm not sure how you could monetize that. I guess my mindset as an affiliate is that I would probably never send my email traffic to a piece of content that I did not produce and monetize. I send traffic to affiliate sales pages, but that's making me money. I guess I would have to break the habit of thinking that when I send my email traffic to a site it has to be designed to make me money. Then again, by providing great content to your list you are building trust and improving your open and click-through rates because people are excited to get your emails.

Regarding lead sales, I have a pretty cool thing I have been doing a little on the side lately. I have not made any money from it, yet, mainly because I just don't have the time to devote to it since I'm constantly spending all of my time building my list, creating products, etc.

Anyway, in a nutshell what I do is build a 4 or 5 page business website for services like plumbers, HVAC, dentists, plastic surgeons, etc.

I find keywords that are pretty easy to rank for, and then I set up a site using a business website WordPress theme I have. For instance, I might build a site for the keywords "plastic surgeon phoenix." I set up the website to capture leads. I don't add them to an email list. I capture the email address and phone number and I have a WordPress plugin that just captures the info and if I want I can download it to a CSV file. I built around 10 sites so far, and I'm quite surprised at the amount of leads I've been getting.

Now, these leads are not like leads that you would get for let's say, building a niche in the "make money online," or even "the weight loss" niche, etc. These leads are VALUABLE. A new patient to a plastic surgeon or a dentist could mean hundreds or even thousands of dollars in revenue for that business.

Now, there are a few ways to moentize these sites. The first way, which is easiest, is to contact businesses in the area that you are collecting the leads for and offer to sell them for so much per lead. This is not really the most viable way to do it, because each lead is not a guaranteed sale and I've found that most of the busiesses I have approached have balked at the idea of paying for an email and phone number from someone they don't know in hopes that they will be able to convert that lead into a client.

However, there is a second way which is awesome and works great. You contact the business with a proposal and show them the site and offer to rent them that site for a set amount of money every month. Let's say you have a site that is producing 20-25 leads per month for the keywords "air conditioning service austin." You simply start contacting air conditioning companies in the Austin, Texas area and show them the website and explain that for a monthly fee you will rent them that website. The website will have their phone number on it, and you simply set up the contact form to forward the leads to their email address as soon as the information is submitted. They can then call these people pretty much right away and ask what services they are inquiring about and convert theminto a customer.

Like I said, I have not had the time to do this right, but I know of a couple of people who are making a killing from this business model.

Think about it. Let's say you charged $250 per month for a plastic surgery website. Even if the plastic surgeon renting the site only gets one patient from that site every month, they are making a huge profit on that. They would probably gladly pay you $500 a month or more. A great way to get them on board is to give them a free month. You simply set up their phone number on the site and set up the contact form to forward to their business email and sit back and then contact them 30 days later. If they got 1 or 2 clients form that site, I can almost guarantee you they are going to come on board.

The great thing about this is there are tons of keywords that are not hard to rank for at all. Also, you can do some outside marketing for these sites. You don't have to worry about just getting organic traffic. You can contract out a couple of professional videos and you can upload them to YouTube and then buy some YouTube advertising. This opens up another income stream because you can offer your service as a marketing manager for local businesses. The beauty part is once you upload the videos and set up the advertising it runs on autopilot. This is easy to profit with because again, let's say you charge $500 a month for this service. You purchase $250 per month in YouTube ads and pocket the other $250. Even if the business only gets one or two clients from these leads, they are goig to make much more than $500 and they are going to be happy. This also means you can call the business in 3-4 months and see if they want to upscale their advertising to $1000 a month. Now you buy $500 in advertising and pocket $500, etc.

I could go on all day about how many ways you can make money from the Internet.

I'm not blowing my own horn here, but I'm a pretty successful affiliate. I make 90% of my income from that. Let's say that tomorrow all of sudden affiliate marketing was illegal and I lost my entire income. I wouldn't even sweat it, because there are literally hundreds of ways to pull money from the Internet.

I agree with the OP 100%, I am so sick and tired of all of the "I'm broke and depressed" and "What can I do with $50" threads.

Instead of putting up a thread and expecting somebody to take you by the hand and show you step by step how to make money, take the time to look around and do a little research. Think outside the box a little bit.

There is NO REASON why anybody cannot make enough money to live comfortably working for themselves online. NONE. If you are willing to put in the work and you are motivated and want it bad enough you will succeed, period.

Awesome post. I never knew about this matter until now. Great reading stuff like this. I gained something new.

Was very emotional reading Kindsvater. And educational...high 5!

I also cried the time I read how this Pro Golfer was irritated at the taxes he has to pay.

Mega-Rich Professional Golfer Complains That Paying Higher Taxes 'Doesn't Work For Me Right Now'

But he found a way...

Golfer Phil Mickelson To Repay $1 Million In Gains From Insider Trading- Is It Tax Deductible?


Phil Mickelson Wired $3 Million to a Bookie Who Then Got Nabbed for Money Laundering


As famous rapper once sang...Mo Money Mo Problems.

Not for those who are mo intelligent...

What's a good "broke" thread without a little theme music?

Celebrities seem to create their own reality. I guess it's a good thing we have "show biz" cause I don't think some of these folks could make it in the real world...

Leonardo DiCaprio just flew 8000 miles (France to New York - and immediately back to France) - to accept an environmental award for his "work" against fossil fuels.

The message is what?....My carbon footprint is bigger than your carbon footprint?

Finally an interesting and worthwhile thread. I thank you my warrior friend. Funny how something like that is staring you in the face and you never even saw the possibilities. You have given me many ideas.

Now quickly delete this thread before anyone else sees it

Yeah this where he messed up at. Except if her name was Pamela Anderson.

Someone should do a case study ;-)

Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the night.

I'll write The Hoff's GONNA QUIT FRICKIN' SINGIN' Kickstarter campaign for 1% of whatever is pledged worldwide.

Result?

The Hoff remains solvent, I get some noo shoes -- and the planet is saved from spinnin' offa its axis into the void.

woooow I like this stuff, thanks for sharing