Side business or focus on main goal?
Hey Monkey's,
Being the off-topic section I felt it would be appropiate to ask this here
I am going onto my third-year at university and my main goal is to get into high finance, mainly Investment Banking....
However I feel as if an extra stream of money would be beneficial (other than having a day job) so I wanted to get some opinions on Affiliate Marketing or IM (internet marketing)
First off, I'm not a complete newbie to this, I have researched it and like anything in life it obviously isn't easy money, but it is a hell of a lot more convinient than operating a ebay business or what not (at least that's what I think)
So my question is has anyone else done this and do you think it would be a good activity to do, I'm thinking of targetting either investing (forex, stocks, options) tips and the weight loss/workout industry... The reason being of great interest to me and the fact I can generate good content for both of them...
Have any of you done IM before, if so do you suggest it as being a good secondary job/activity ?
Of course I'll be treating this more as a business than an activity but I still will be doing it relatively since I enjoy it... Just like I want to get into banking ... a bit contradictive saying as I want it as an extra source of income, but I mainly want the income to supplement my educational costs
Cheers!





i tried to do this a while
i tried to do this a while ago selling web hosting services and its harder than you would think. How do you plan on market these products? Do you have a blog? are you a spammer?
Well the basic overview is
Well the basic overview is you go:
SEO keyword (takes quite awhile) ---> Create Landing Page ---> Opt-in forms w/ free product usually a review that you can write 4-5 pages ----> Post every now and then some content on front end (landing page on back-end using WordPress) ----> Keep SEO keywords in posts ---> Use ezinearticles, backlink programs to increase google ranking
Pretty much that is it if you do not want to spend more money then setting up the landing page and mailing list
Of course getting into PPC and solo ads are better but it has to be targetted since you want to have relevant traffic, its not good to have 10,000 visitor's looking for cooking recipee's when your niche is dog training
hmmm, considering that you
hmmm, considering that you only have 1 year until your SA, I would suggest against starting this business. It takes a while to acquire a following for what you are doing. I feel that if you tried to do this, the benefits to running it will not outweigh the opportunity cost of networking for your high finance job. btw, don't waste money on ppc and solo ads because the big dogs with a lot of capital will always beat you in the bidding battles
Yeah the reason why I wanted
Yeah the reason why I wanted to ask on here is to get an opinion, AM isn't something you can do on the side, you really have to treat it as a business. The paid crap is not really an option for a small guy and quite frankly I don't want to spare my capital in it especially since it is such a hit-or-miss thing and bigger dogs outbidding you...
That said I might still look to find a relatively untapped niche and see how it goes, it only costs like $20 to get it started up and I can limit myself to spending only an hour on it each day if I'm not seeing any progress I can try and at least sell the site or something... in any event it will be a different experience
Don't do internet marketing.
Don't do internet marketing. It's a shitty way to make income and it's like being the sleaziest type of salesman. I'd rather freelance write or work in dining services...
good luck, but i think time
good luck, but i think time would be better spent learning how to program a website if anything, not setting up a wordpress blog
Yea above posts are correct
Yea above posts are correct likely I will not do it, probably will instead make a blog about my investment banking pursuit or something like that and monetize it if it actually turns into something.. lol
But wordpress isn't that bad you can really use it to your advantage, learning how to code from the bottom-up is sort of tough but I do use lynda so I can make it slowly there