Easy Way To Make 100k/Year

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Since getting pwned by an asian girl-ninja and having the most emberassing pics of my life posted all over the Internet, I've actually found another way to make some hellified cash.

Project: Niche Business Directory


Exp Level: Basic - Mid-level (The heavy rollers who want to make a shit-load of money can do this To)

Cost: $150 - $600 depending on software, advertising you want to do, etc...


The concept: you create an online directory tailored to a specific niche and sell advertising/listing upgrades to niched businesses.

**note: works REALLY well with offline businesses (at least that's what I'm currently doing)


The building blocks:

1. You'll need data. I had a YellowPages.com Scraper made and pulled data from specific categories

2. You'll need directory software. You can make your own or buy some.

3. You'll need a niche (daycares, pet stuff, etc), or you'll need to go very local. and by very local I mean get suburb about it. (ex: you live in Dallas, do Plano/Frisco businesses to start with)


Obviously you can grow this bitch into anything you want, but these are the essentials.


I suggest adding some niche/local recognizable brand CPAs to your site ad 'featured advertisers' to give the feel that the big dogs are already advertising on your directory. Not to mention start making money off the traffic you'll be driving to the site.

Then, start campaigning your services to the businesses listed in your database.

BAM! Cash all day fools.






ok ok... I know you want some tips to skip past all the bullshit.... fucking lazy bastards...


Tip #1: Rates - to sell advertising as a directory, you'll want to offer rates. What I do is offer HIGH month-to-month rates ($75-$80) Vs. low yearly rates ($175 year for featured listings)

Tip #2: Banners - you can charge to make the banner for your customer ($65 - $100) and then charge for placement (impressions or time... your choice)

Tip #3: FREE LISTINGS - this is a must, because it will allow you to collect the ever elusive email address from the business owners.

Tip #4: do some really good offline marketing. you'll have the mailing info for your target market, so hit them with a packet of info about your directory, or give them a call.

Tip #5: offer shit that YellowPages doesn't. Content, RSS, Event listings, whatever. be creative.



I've sold 5 $1,000+ packages and several $300+ packages in the last month, so I proved that this shit will work, is easy, and is actually pretty fucking fun if you just sit down and do it.

Now go my children.... MAKE SOME FUCKING MONEY


AND VOTE FOR RON PAUL!!!!!!!
 
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I'm currently doing ONLINE versions of this and can vouch for this method. Think of niches that have people just waiting to throw cash at you. That's all I'm going to say.

In my opinion, CorrectAD may be spending a tad too much time on one directory. All you need is one advertiser onboard then you can open the local yellowpages and send a quick letter telling them that "Hey, your competition is getting a leg up on you, here's how. And here's a similar directory we have that can put you in the same spotlight"

Once you start getting advertisers, you'll get more and more. Why? How many times have you opened the paper and saw some competitors ads and thought, "Hell, they are doing it, I should too!"

I'd rather sell 500 $500 packages via 100 directories then having just one really popular one making $1000 a premium package. Just saying.

+rep. Solid post.
 
One question:

Do you go to the businesses and sell this to them? Or do you just promote your site locally? I got into making money online so I wouldn't have to talk to people.

Can this be done from behind the scenes?
 
Solid post agreed... very interesting and full of info.

This shit is gold to n00bs... adding content... multiple monetization streams avail. here... Especially investing in a scraper...

Solid time put into something like this... in key niches - could be a very good thing...

Thanks for the very well laid-out post.

One question...
Say I have some really good content... for say "niche "x" doing multiple regions, etc... It would be fine for that content to be on each area/region's page (talking tons of regions w/ the right time put into this)... Articles, etc...

If that didn't make sense Im baked... just tell me and I'll try to figure it out...

Thanks
 
CorrectAD said:
Since getting pwned by an asian girl-ninja and having the most emberassing pics of my life posted all over the Internet, I've actually found another way to make some hellified cash.

Project: Niche Business Directory


Exp Level: Basic - Mid-level (The heavy rollers who want to make a shit-load of money can do this To)

Cost: $150 - $600 depending on software, advertising you want to do, etc...


The concept: you create an online directory tailored to a specific niche and sell advertising/listing upgrades to niched businesses.

**note: works REALLY well with offline businesses (at least that's what I'm currently doing)


The building blocks:

1. You'll need data. I had a YellowPages.com Scraper made and pulled data from specific categories

2. You'll need directory software. You can make your own or buy some.

3. You'll need a niche (daycares, pet stuff, etc), or you'll need to go very local. and by very local I mean get suburb about it. (ex: you live in Dallas, do Plano/Frisco businesses to start with)


Obviously you can grow this bitch into anything you want, but these are the essentials.


I suggest adding some niche/local recognizable brand CPAs to your site ad 'featured advertisers' to give the feel that the big dogs are already advertising on your directory. Not to mention start making money off the traffic you'll be driving to the site.

Then, start campaigning your services to the businesses listed in your database.

BAM! Cash all day fools.






ok ok... I know you want some tips to skip past all the bullshit.... fucking lazy bastards...


Tip #1: Rates - to sell advertising as a directory, you'll want to offer rates. What I do is offer HIGH month-to-month rates ($75-$80) Vs. low yearly rates ($175 year for featured listings)

Tip #2: Banners - you can charge to make the banner for your customer ($65 - $100) and then charge for placement (impressions or time... your choice)

Tip #3: FREE LISTINGS - this is a must, because it will allow you to collect the ever elusive email address from the business owners.

Tip #4: do some really good offline marketing. you'll have the mailing info for your target market, so hit them with a packet of info about your directory, or give them a call.

Tip #5: offer shit that YellowPages doesn't. Content, RSS, Event listings, whatever. be creative.



I've sold 5 $1,000+ packages and several $300+ packages in the last month, so I proved that this shit will work, is easy, and is actually pretty fucking fun if you just sit down and do it.

Now go my children.... MAKE SOME FUCKING MONEY


AND VOTE FOR RON PAUL!!!!!!!
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Meh..Seems like too much work for me. Hustling and off line marketing is for prostitutes and crash whores. I prefer just chilling at my computer, working my magic, and pulling in $$. No off line marketing required. No cold calling. And $600 start up cost is too steep.
 
You must not see the value in content based traffic... particular niches for direct info are not too hard... figure articles on like 6 unsaturated areas (gotta research and dig bro)
Build it and flourish it... content is not that hard to come up with... and monetize it!

I currently have a few college student friends that help with content for real cheap... like $10 a pop.. and its original, keyword rich stuff... They can get two articles on the sa,e type of content done in like 50mins... factual, researched.... etc...

Plus factor in the minimal time it would take to extract data from the scraper...
Make a few calls once traffic starts building up...
Hey Sir... I run a directory that serves your "business area"
If you offer them advertising to "x" amount of potential visitors/uniques at a good package price... there is you advertising expense cut to zilch (plus you could probably profit...

Its all about effort man... i could keep going but most should have caught on by now...

Time + Effort + Research = Big Bucks
 
breen said:
meh...ok idea but requires too much work and start up costs.
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haha I agree I want to make money online for FREE with ZERO Investment, CorrectAD I also want you to supply me with an exact tutorial, actually fuck it I want you to just use my paypal link so the money will go directly into my account, that way I can take all your money and you can do all the work.

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In case no one cought that I was being sarcastic, more or less what the fuck breen thats minimal investment, turn one sale and your in the profits.
 
I know... FFS...

Look at the potential scott mentions...

500 Well targeted areas/regions...
Great content... well placed Afiill products... monetize the fuck out of it... some damn calling or emailing, you're sure to get a lot of link space to sell off in 500 areas with X amount of decent niches...

Sorry bro, the time it would take on this and investment would be earned back pronto... This is really great info...

Time would be content... build, and monetization...

Gotta put it in to receive it...

Even gotta put time into eating just so you can spend that valuable 10-15 mins a pop and shitting brother...

Open the mind
 
Breen you're a fucknut go back to warriorforums. People actually work to make money here.

However I do have an amazing new ebook just released it's called "MAKE TON'z of Money While Doing Nothing" It's a numbered limited edition ebook and if you buy it before I release it to the public I'll give you a good deal for only 499$ rather then 500$. However I'm going to require a 2 page feedback letter on how I could improve it for that discount.

By the way flipping burgers is work to, on that note don't you need to get back to it?
 
Are we sure he isn't a certain members whose been banned repeatedly in the past?
 
Haha, breen is going to go far in affiliate marketing. $600 is too much, wtf.. Successful marketers will spend that in a day. I spent $1200 for a much more powerful system that can be themed, relaunched x 1000s if I wanted. The more I launch, the cheaper the initial cost was.

BTW, I don't do cold calling or offline advertising. They call me. Give a couple POPULAR people in the market some free adspace for a year and their names coming up in google will drive the adsales for any new site. You get to use their name, they get free advertising, no brainer.

Just fucking think for yourself sometimes. You might surprise yourself.
 
productionhead said:
i spend 600 daily just for water for my programmers, dem boys get thirsty from all that coding

noobs
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Priceless quote above, fell on the floor laughing. Great idea, looking into a particular niche myself right now and had similiar thoughts of implementing. CorrectAd: how much did the Yellow pages scraper script end up costing you?
 
if anyone needs a coder for the stuff described in this post (ie YellowPages scraper), PM me. im can write you a script to do that.
 
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