Yes, as others say $50 is not much. Buy something to eat or learn forex and earn money...or lose them. There are some forex sites where you can start trading as little as $1 but you have $50. Just sharing my thoughts!
In fact if you are not looking for very short term profits (like within few days) and ready to put forth some efforts - you can buy some valuable domains, raise a site and flip it (or monetize by selling links etc.) I have done it many a times (with less than $50) and have got returns for $150 plus within few weeks.
LOL You guys are funny telling him to buy something to eat! If you want your $50 to be a good investment just do what another poster said and buy some domains and maybe buy hosting for 3-4 months. You can't really do any more then that.
$50 in adwords is $1.64/day for one month. I don't think $50 of adwords is worth it. I believe any sort of return he MAY see with that sort of one time budget he can earn with free advertising. Perhaps he should just invest it in hosting or something to improve his website.
Read shoemoneys blog which is free. Study hot to write html and php online which is free. Get a hosting company and a domain ($20 per month) then 10 per month. (or find somewhere cheaper) Create cool content and get people to visit your site. Then make money. Then spend $50, or whatever is left celebrating!
Invest it into a roulette system and them reap the rewards LOL There isnt much that $50 will get you but it might be worth looking at some quality ebooks buying some domain names as someone else already mentioned or really just having a good look around. Remember you can make money from no investment if you use your head and do the right things so having some money is a bonus just dont get dragged ito things by people trying to take it from you promising stuff.
Unless he's highly experienced, Adwords will just put him in debt though. You can write yourself, or outsource the writing and mass submit to Associated Content. You get paid every Mon. Wed and Friday direct to Paypal. PM me if you're a non US citizen and I'll explain to you how to still get paid upfront offers for the articles with AC.
Yes I agree with you about adwords, I made the mistake of using to many keywords wen a made my ads and basically my ads were getting shown to pretty much anyone and my conversion rate was virtually zero, learned quickly though paused the ads and went back to the drawing board, now I am getting slightly better reults but still dont really think it is worth it unless you are already making big profits elwhere as well. Dont think I will bother with adwords anymore, expecially not just to advertise affiliates.
$50???? Why don't you invest the $50 in a lemonade stand? I'm sure you can double your money, then you will have $100 to invest in something else.
Take that 50 dollars and go get 75-100 Articles in various niches.. I think it's better invested into articles then adwords UNLESS you know what you're doign with adwords and you know you can turn that 50 into more.