Last year I was actually buying blogroll links from fiverr users who had blogs with PR3 or higher. I'd buy the links in the same niche as my money site. It worked unbelievably well until Penguin. I don't recommend that strategy anymore. I also used Fiverr for some video testimonials, article spinning, and some article writing. Now I have a team in the Philippinnes who do this for me and my programmers are in Romania. I've moved out of the affiliate marketing space for the most part and now I stictly do ecommerce/dropship sites. The next big thing at the moment is importing products INTO China if you can believe that.
Well if you have a good gig, that $5 adds up over time. Le's say you sell 10 gigs per day.. that's $50 per day which is $1500 per month. I had a Fiverr gig last year where all I sold was a list of sites where you could get legit PR6 blog comments from. The list had 20 sites on it and I sold the list over and over and over again on Fiverr. I was making about $600 per month on that gig alone and it required no work.
sounds fun but painful to have to re invent self all the time like that. Especially china. That's what I meant when I said convoluted. It's moving super fast to something else all day long. That's fun too but it also hurts my head a bit.
I'm sorry man, I was just giving swoly crap. But honestly my man, you should let this type of stuff motivate you. I used to work in a cubicle as a software applications analysts at a refinery. It was the worlds worst job. It stunk and we stayed in a little trailer outside the plant. When I had to go troubleshoot an application, I had to put on nomex and a hard hat and safety glasses and go out in the heat and deal with people all day long and answer help desk tickets over and over again. I'm telling you, first hand, you can get out of that but you have to sacrifice nights and weekends to learn, study and build your own thing.... I understand that it isn't for everyone but if you want it bad enough you will do it. (FYI my wife still gets frustrated with me at times when I'm working all weekend long and she wants to do something else). FYI I still work from a cubicle when I go to the office but it's in a shared Regus office. They have them in every city and you can get a membership there for office space, so cubicle's aren't bad, but having no freedom is bad.
I agree, it's always changing and you have to stay on top of it. It's a risky field. I have a programming background to always fall back on if I need to pick up contract work. But just think, if some people researched this and spent enough time learning about it as they do researching basketball players or stats or whatever...... they would be making it big.
I'm also in the online lead gen space and I love it. It's good working from home and seeing revenues come. It's a lot of work to learn and get good at it and be willing to pay for traffic etc. But you can make decent money. I'm in more of a different side of lead gen in that I work with creating leads for online lenders and facilitating monetization for companies traffic but it's all the same. I agree with SacTown. There are a ton of forums out there and if you read up on for a few weeks you can easily make 50 bucks a day and not even try. Just have to put the effort in. I have been in the space for about 6 years now and it has been good to me.
Thanks. They're a solid, well known marketing agency but they're sales people have left me unimpressed with their SEO work in the past.
I used to do marketing for an MLM company on a corporate level. Real crazy to see people trying to learn to build a businesses from home. Real methods, BS products. Really interesting though when you see those 2% of people that actually make it or the .02% that make $500k+ from home. Some guys lost thousands and worked just as hard as the guys making millions. Anyways, you definitely can and will lose your free time trying to build an online business. The pushing a button then playing on the beach sipping a margarita while your turn key internet biz generates significant residual income is a myth.
Sorry forgot to add, his prices are fantastic. He is 100% whitehat strats, and he charges a very reasonable price.
that's what makes the whole thing sort of unfair. Yeah life is unfair but there are some real bona fide chumps making cash from chumpy landing pages and all kinds of trash. Doesn't make it less annoying.
yeah the guy that works for live jasmin must be like the michael jordan of seo. My favorite is when the back button doesn't work
