How much do you invest when starting out?

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I've been reading quite a bit on this whole AM thing and have decided to start my online marketing venture. However, I had a couple of questions concerning what is needed to start off and also what to expect.

a) How much money would you recommend investing when starting off for the first time?

b) Where would the above money go into (hosting, ppc, ppc/seo tools, etc...)?

c) What sort of ROI should I expect to see in the first month or 2? (So far, from what I have read, I only see figures but I want to know the return as a % coz anyone can make $10k a month by investing 9)

I would really appreciate all your responses and hopefully I'll see the bigger picture.
 


A) As much as you can afford. Don't start out running large campaigns however, you'll probably get burned.

B) Hosting is the cheap part. Do you know how to design and program sites/landing pages? PPC is probably a must. Don't need any SEO tools.

C) ROI depends on how good you are. Some people have and ROI of 1000%, others a -100%.

Honestly, just read as much as you can here. That is your best start.

elabs said:
I've been reading quite a bit on this whole AM thing and have decided to start my online marketing venture. However, I had a couple of questions concerning what is needed to start off and also what to expect.

a) How much money would you recommend investing when starting off for the first time?

b) Where would the above money go into (hosting, ppc, ppc/seo tools, etc...)?

c) What sort of ROI should I expect to see in the first month or 2? (So far, from what I have read, I only see figures but I want to know the return as a % coz anyone can make $10k a month by investing 9)

I would really appreciate all your responses and hopefully I'll see the bigger picture.
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Thanks for your honest input Dimaseo. I will start looking into different niche markets and will hopefully have a few blogs up and running soon.
 
anyone else? im interested in others' answers as well. i dont know web design or programing, so would xsitepro be a good and sufficient tool to use in order to design landing pages?
 
Never heard of xsitepro and after looking at their crappy site, I would suggest to go and get a copy of Dreamweaver CS3 which is about the same price as xsitepro. Although, there are many free html editors with which you can create basic lps.
 
i have used xsitepro....it is more of a cms than a designer.......u still need to create or buy content and design.
 
elabs said:
Never heard of xsitepro and after looking at their crappy site, I would suggest to go and get a copy of Dreamweaver CS3 which is about the same price as xsitepro. Although, there are many free html editors with which you can create basic lps.
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LOL why pay for Dreamweaver CS3...ever heard of Warez?
 
100 dollars on ad spend 6 dollars on hosting and 9 dollars on a domain. 109 total enjoy and get to work
 
Seems like this board need some math lessons haha!

But only start and invest what you can afford to lose and what you are comfortable with.

Take it slow and then scale up at your own pace.
 
That domain name will be yours for a year, but the hosting is a monthly recurring charge.
If your site doesn't look professional you'll have a low conversion rate. That being said many of the advertisers site don't look professional. No matter what anyone says, I love a tool that gives me search volume and competitors sites and ads. Maybe it just makes me feel secure to have something to start with. Then how much you need for ppc depends on the niche. Generally you want 50 to 100 clicks on a keyword before you cut it out as a loser. then you just keep testing, cutting your losses and letting your winners run. By the way, not everything converts equally well on the web. So expect to lose and then when you find a winner scale it up to hell and back until the offer ends.
 
I started with 1k to spend and managed to find something profitable before that ran out.

When someone says they "made 10k" I hope they are talking about profit. But there are plenty of retards that would say they made 10k even though they had to spend 9k to get it I suppose.

I've been doing this for less than 2 months and have found 3 profitable campaigns, all 3 of them hover around 100% ROI. The thing is as you scale you loose the ROI but your volume increases so in the end you have a higher profit which is all that matters.
 
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