What is the quickest way of making a couple thousand dollars?



kakaboo said:
Start a service, with your English standards(based on your first post) you can probably get at least
$2.5/500 words.

That might seem a bit too low for you but if you are desperate these low prices will help you get many orders and you can always raise your prices afterwards.

20 articles at $2.5 everyday = $50, in 1 month you would have $1500
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I've always been a fan of this approach, and would do it if I was in your shoes. You'll learn a good bit and make contacts too.

A grammarly demo account will help too. And a bottle of caffeine pills.

Good luck. I am interested in you charging the world at age 17.

Long term, keep pounding away at your site, but right now you need cash and can put your spare time into that. SEO is a journey not a one month quitter hitter... at least for most of us

Edit: Why do you need so much money? Find a less nice place with wifi and roommates. If I know of places in CA where I could survive and work for under $1000, I'm sure you can where you are too. Use couchsurfing or something and pay someone minimal to sleep on the couch while you build up funds if you have to. Not ideal but it'll work until you have a few G's saved up.
 
Apart from this forum, you can sell services which you thing you are best at on many freelance sites like odesk
 
I don't know your skills. But I think the perfect answer for your situation is to get yourself a job. I know many here don't like the idea of working for the man. However, when you don't have shits, sometimes you have to sell your time to make some capital for your IM business.
 
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"quickest way of making a couple thousand dollars"
This statement is scary. As Berto said, SEO is a looooooooooooong journey, until you get there, you need food on the table, bills paid...etc. The quickest way of covering that is either by getting a job or starting a service. Content, Linkwheel or whatever, if your service rocks - you will get flooded with order = good money.

At 17, you should be full of kick energy, use that to your advantage, but don't let you ambition surpass reality.
 
Obviously get a credit card and launch a PPC campaign. Haven't you seen all the gurus talk about easy internet profits? Just pick some random offer, I usually prefer to use a blindfold when doing this, and like do some razor sharp targeting on a boss traffic source like POF. Be careful though, if it's too sharp then you might cut yourself. Anyways so like if you pick e-cigs, then target smokers on POF. So simple right? No dipshit you need to drill in deeper. Target 24 year old female smokers who have been divorced. As big blogging superstar Justin Dupre says, you gotta RAZOR target (without cutting self) and make the uber profits. You don't want to target more than 10 people at a time so you can really personalize those ads. That is how you can make easy monies onlines. Don't tell anyone though bro.
 
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Goonerboy said:
So basically the possibility of me living on my own at 17 is getting realer and no conventional part time job will earn me enough money to live off my own
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It is possible. I did it myself in the past while putting myself through college. I just had to share an apartment with somebody else.
 
potentialeight said:
^^ I was 100% sure that was going to be a dickroll.
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me too

faceblogger said:
This is a good advice.

OP

You may start your content writing service here - Content - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum - Internet Marketing Webmaster SEO Forum

But make sure you read all the rules before starting the service otherwise you would be banned in minutes.

First, start making some money and then think about making thousands!
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Good advice but I was really disappointed. Was it by mistake? neg rep added bro :)
 
I am cracking up at some of these answers, but here's my attempt at a serious one:

$2,000 is £1,300 approx. You're unlikely to be able to make that in the time you're looking at (unless you have an established business), plus go to school, plus do home work, plus have a life.

You could move in with someone either renting (might be a bit young to get landlords looking you seriously) or a mate. Or other family?

And for money get a part time job or work on your biz until you make money. As other people have said offer writing services to start with...etc.

Or you could just suck it up and move with your family. No offence, but you are 17 and aren't even considered an adult yet according to the law. Might be a bit early for you to be striking out on your own. When you're 18 you can do what you like.

If you move now, since the school year has just started you can probably pick up where you left off in a new school although it's never usually great starting somewhere new, especially a completely different area.

Unless you've already answered this, I have to ask why are they moving out of the area and think it's a good idea for you to change schools? A Levels aren't exactly easy at the best of times, especially if you have to settle in to a new area.

What are you studying by the way, and what do they want you to study? It's not really their decision what you study, but depends what you've chosen, maybe they have a point. How were your GCSE results?

If you do A Levels at college/school during the day and work a shop job in the evenings, you can maybe earn enough each month to pay for a room, for food...etc. Might be a bit tight, but you'll probably be the only person in your school with their own place...

Or you could take a year out, work full time to pay your own way and build up savings, and go back to school or college a year later to finish off your A Levels. Being put back a year isn't the end of the world when it comes to A Levels, I know someone who did that (failed A Levels first time round) and he's done fantastically - got a degree, good job earning £60k+...etc.

Why do you have the figure of $2,000 in mind? If you rent a single room and eat baked beans, you can maybe squeeze by on £700 or £800 a month. Depends where you are in the country though.

Don't know if that helps at all. Probably not.
 
Good mood.

The only way you are going to make that, is to PROVIDE A SERVICE OF SOME SORT.
Nothing that doesnt involve direct labor will get you cash flow fast enough.


The guys talking about content are spot on. Do that except, charge 1cent a word to start. Charging less will just get you a bunch of jewients. Spend a little more time proofreading/ researching then you think you need to. Your goal is to get better and charge more.

You can make 10-15$ an hour no problem once you get a solid research method down and can deal with the monotony. Given a little talent, dedication, and the right marketing you will find there is an infinite demand for solid content in the 1-3$ per hundred words range.
Dont use a service like text broker. Sell directly one wickedfire. The connections you make and the things you learn from people are FAR more valuable then the initial compensation.
 
jjjay said:
I am cracking up at some of these answers, but here's my attempt at a serious one:

$2,000 is £1,300 approx. You're unlikely to be able to make that in the time you're looking at (unless you have an established business), plus go to school, plus do home work, plus have a life.

You could move in with someone either renting (might be a bit young to get landlords looking you seriously) or a mate. Or other family?

And for money get a part time job or work on your biz until you make money. As other people have said offer writing services to start with...etc.

Or you could just suck it up and move with your family. No offence, but you are 17 and aren't even considered an adult yet according to the law. Might be a bit early for you to be striking out on your own. When you're 18 you can do what you like.

If you move now, since the school year has just started you can probably pick up where you left off in a new school although it's never usually great starting somewhere new, especially a completely different area.

Unless you've already answered this, I have to ask why are they moving out of the area and think it's a good idea for you to change schools? A Levels aren't exactly easy at the best of times, especially if you have to settle in to a new area.

What are you studying by the way, and what do they want you to study? It's not really their decision what you study, but depends what you've chosen, maybe they have a point. How were your GCSE results?

If you do A Levels at college/school during the day and work a shop job in the evenings, you can maybe earn enough each month to pay for a room, for food...etc. Might be a bit tight, but you'll probably be the only person in your school with their own place...

Or you could take a year out, work full time to pay your own way and build up savings, and go back to school or college a year later to finish off your A Levels. Being put back a year isn't the end of the world when it comes to A Levels, I know someone who did that (failed A Levels first time round) and he's done fantastically - got a degree, good job earning £60k+...etc.

Why do you have the figure of $2,000 in mind? If you rent a single room and eat baked beans, you can maybe squeeze by on £700 or £800 a month. Depends where you are in the country though.

Don't know if that helps at all. Probably not.
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my parents didn't like me studying media, english and drama. They wanted me to chose the maths and the science subjects. I got B CD U for AS and for GCSE got A* A A and a few Bs. The A* was for English. The problem I face is that I've already started my personal statement for uni+applications etc and they want me to redo 6th form when I'm already a month into year 13. Another thing is that not only do i have limited interest in maths/science my GCSE grades wouldn't neccesarily be good enough to get in at this stage. A lot of schools say that you need to get an A grade at Gcse to get into these courses.

That was the original problem, now in about a week they've decided that we're all moving to Milton Keynes from Essex and didn't tell us that the owners wanted their house back. I had the option to stay with me Gran in London and still go to school but she now is giving her house back too.

I'm at a loss because they want me to redo yr 12 with subjects I don't enjoy while I can stay in yr 13 at my current school and get better grades+resits in the subjects I do enjoy. In fact my predicted grades would now be good enough for most Unis with ABB.

The reason I wanted that amount of money so fast is to be able to find a place to rent so I could stay here if my parents were really serious about moving.

thanks for the reply.
 
Host parties every week - Sexy place, Booze, lights and a DJ - That's all you need. That's what i do. I make about 300$ per week and at the same time have fun while doing so. In the mean time, i do SEO for a couple of my clients and provide content writing services.
 
secretagentdad said:
Good mood.

The only way you are going to make that, is to PROVIDE A SERVICE OF SOME SORT.
Nothing that doesnt involve direct labor will get you cash flow fast enough.


The guys talking about content are spot on. Do that except, charge 1cent a word to start. Charging less will just get you a bunch of jewients. Spend a little more time proofreading/ researching then you think you need to. Your goal is to get better and charge more.

You can make 10-15$ an hour no problem once you get a solid research method down and can deal with the monotony. Given a little talent, dedication, and the right marketing you will find there is an infinite demand for solid content in the 1-3$ per hundred words range.
Dont use a service like text broker. Sell directly one wickedfire. The connections you make and the things you learn from people are FAR more valuable then the initial compensation.
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Pretty much this, and if anything just e-whore. TONS of Affiliate offers accept craigslist and can make you money.
 
Goonerboy said:
my parents didn't like me studying media, english and drama. They wanted me to chose the maths and the science subjects. I got B CD U for AS and for GCSE got A* A A and a few Bs. The A* was for English. The problem I face is that I've already started my personal statement for uni+applications etc and they want me to redo 6th form when I'm already a month into year 13. Another thing is that not only do i have limited interest in maths/science my GCSE grades wouldn't neccesarily be good enough to get in at this stage. A lot of schools say that you need to get an A grade at Gcse to get into these courses.

That was the original problem, now in about a week they've decided that we're all moving to Milton Keynes from Essex and didn't tell us that the owners wanted their house back. I had the option to stay with me Gran in London and still go to school but she now is giving her house back too.

I'm at a loss because they want me to redo yr 12 with subjects I don't enjoy while I can stay in yr 13 at my current school and get better grades+resits in the subjects I do enjoy. In fact my predicted grades would now be good enough for most Unis with ABB.

The reason I wanted that amount of money so fast is to be able to find a place to rent so I could stay here if my parents were really serious about moving.

thanks for the reply.
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I'm kinda with your parents on this one.

Media studies is not a worthwhile A-level. What are you going to do at uni with a Media A-level?

Please don't answer "a media studies degree". If so, you're about to get £50k into debt for a totally worthless qualification.

I wouldn't recommend doing Maths & Science if you don't like them, because your grades will suck, but your parents sort of have a point.

They're not kicking your ass just to control you. They're genuinely worried about your future prospects. I think I can see why.

What do you want to do after your degree? Any ideas at all?

Also - what universities are you applying to?
 
Take a video of you in your underwear, and diggin in your ass and rubbin all over your nuts, then spit in it and blow your nose in it. Then wipe it in your eyes. After that, head over to Etsy and sell it for an easy $1999.99.
 
amateursurgeon said:
I'm kinda with your parents on this one.

Media studies is not a worthwhile A-level. What are you going to do at uni with a Media A-level?

Please don't answer "a media studies degree". If so, you're about to get £50k into debt for a totally worthless qualification.

I wouldn't recommend doing Maths & Science if you don't like them, because your grades will suck, but your parents sort of have a point.

They're not kicking your ass just to control you. They're genuinely worried about your future prospects. I think I can see why.

What do you want to do after your degree? Any ideas at all?

Also - what universities are you applying to?
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bournemouth, lincoln, nottingham trent, hertfordshire etc.

Narrowed down my preffered proffesion to producer or director.
 
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