If you had $500 where would you invest?

Hi Mark,

1- Get into CPA networks that will pay you weekly and with paypal. ( $500 will be gone so fast )
2- Do a niche research to get into a profitable niche. Invest about $30-40 in a domain name for 3-4 years.
3- Go to easy outsource and get your landing page for about $50.
4- Get to one of this advertising networks if possible Google, Bing and Yahoo. All 3 would be fine because you could get banned anytime.


Good luck my friend

I think i will buy some domains,because i am a newbie in online marketing.

Either buy existing domains with good backlink profiles, or develop your own domain and use the money to buy some relevant, high quality backlinks. In the past two or three months I have spent $80.00 to $100.00 on backlinks, and last night I got a big jump in PR as a result.

My advice would be ...

First invest some part of your money to learn on how to use and properly apply a specific traffic source , channel or system . Always focus only on one traffic source , channel or system .

Once , you learn and master the traffic source or channel , you would know how to properly invest the rest of your money .

So , your first task would be to invest your money into learning some stuff . Research a system that really works , learn and do your at most effort to make it work .

With $500 I would:

- Pick a niche that you like - look at the offers on your networks & let that guide you, remembering to be realistic about whether or not you think someone interested in your niche will take the time to convert on the offer.
- Purchase a related domain, set up wordpress, hire content writers and create about $50 worth of content on the site.
- Create a facebook page (make sure you create a page for a business & choose website as your category)
- Promote the facebook page with fb ads to get fans
- Promote your offers through your facebook page - send them to your site where the offer link exists, don't directly link to the offer from the facebook page.

Make sure you read the guidelines at facebook before you decide your niche, none of your offers may be allowed & might get you into trouble with FB. Make sure that you do market research before you start running your FB ads - "reverse engineer" sites using quantcast.com, google.com/adplanner & alexa.com (others if you know other sites). Start with a small budget on FB, maybe $50 per day, split test multiple images and ad content for your page. Also, when you promote your offers, be sure that you're using multiple formats - put up links to your page, and if possible include video highlighting the offer to entice more clicks (this would also work well if you're selling physical products that you could get your hands on...)

My best advice for someone who's just starting out - be upfront about exactly how you're going to work things - talk to your AM on the network, tell them what you plan to do (whether it's what I'm saying or otherwise), and ask them for offers that are converting well using the method that you're planning on implementing. Be sure you know the requirements of both the advertisers you're promoting as well as any advertising platforms or websites that you're going to be using.

With $500, if you're meticulous and careful, you could realistically come out at the end in the black and have a method that would actually generate good income when scaled. The trick is to do your homework.

There Are many ways to to with $500. Even it is possible to launch a profitable PPC campaign.

I agree with Mike.

Probably I'd go for SEO and free organic traffic. I will pay most of the money for backlinking but not all at once.

Also you can buy an established website on flippa.com. If you are up to buy a website remember that some websites are "too good to be true". Take the deal that sounds reasonable.

Just my 2 cents.

~ Omid

I would grab a great offer and throw a big ol flyer campaign and outsource to every college i could find.

I would invest in learning completely what you need to be successful in the CPA market. Then, if you have money left over, use that to invest into the method you will use for CPA.

i would invest in some sort of backlinking tool..get some squeeze pages designed. and start some blogs. use some very good seo on the blogs for free traffic. use the backlinking tool to increase the authority and traffic. and then drive people to your squeeze pages.SEO is the way to go!

Mike Morgan said it best. Pick one traffic source and master the hell out of it. Personally I would stick with social traffic for starters. No need to blow your whole wad when you can easily turn a profit with half of that.

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I mean $500 isn't a tremendous amount and it can go quickly, so I would probably try going down the social or viral route. Your biggest asset right now is your 2 employees, not the $500, so I would stick with trying to monetizing that manpower the best. Whether it's creating a product, setting up facebook fan pages, building out an SEO campaign or something like that.

But I think the trick is remembering that you want to best utilize the 2 employees rather than focusing on the $500.

Just my thoughts

Buy a start up website with good content and focus on backlinks and social marketing. In the long run it helps a lot.