Ok, i want to start earning money online, i have a budget of $250 to start me off. Ive been reading and readind for almost a year so know quite a bit, but not sure which direction to head in, so if someone could show me the right path, i would appreciate it
$250 is not much. first a years, hosting aprox $60 Domain name $10 Hopefully you can create your own site, otherwise, wordpress and a free template $0 WIth that little money you can't buy much descent content, your better off writing your self if you can, otherwise you can get 5-7 well written pages and use up your budget, or a bunch of low quality pages that won't do you much good. try to save a little money to buy 2-3 good links, don't waste it on 1000 poor ones. Spend your time trying to come up with ideas that will make people want to link to your site and create the content.
Depending on what do you want to do, what do you like to do. I think the easiest way to earn money (not always easy) is copywriting, built your blog and write about subjects that you like but also are "requested" and go well for audience, I am not the best to talk about copywritting, so check some tutorials out there. The only expense would be a good hosting and a nice design, 1 year hosting and the custom design will fit in 250 very well, you also can go for some adverts.
My biggest mistake in the beginning was pre-paying for a year of hosting in advance. Doing that gave me an "oh I've got plenty of time" attitude towards the site and it never materialized into anything of worth. I now pay my hosting bills every month even though it costs me a little more per-year. Needing to pay that bill every month works as a nice reminder to update sites at least once a month.
I think joebert has a good point. It is probably also best to figure out what you want to do, what is profitable, and what you really enjoy before spending a lot of your budget on a year's hosting. Writing articles yourself for niche websites is a great way to start if you don't have much money. Even writing on a topic just because you love it could bring great results if you put your enthusiasm into what you write.
I pay either 3 or 6 months. Anyways hit up a hosting company thats cheap and has many options like servage? great host for starters. use auto installer and install wordpress, google wp themes and download a hot wp theme. Choose a niche and start writing quality content, cant write buy articles. apply for adsense buy 1k backlinks aprox 60 bucks now you should earn 1 usd per day after a month. good luck!
I have a better idea, instead of comming up with a domain name, buying a domain name, buying content, buying pr. There are sites with pr=2 or pr=3 with traffic and great contents for cheap. someone already built it, you buy it and improve it. dont waste money building from scratch as I did...total waste.
I would beg to differ about building a site from scratch being a total waste. The best way not to get ripped off is to do yourself what you're paying someone else to do for you at least once.
you could do a little ppc, and see if you have some talent in that... or you can invest it in some kinda script, maybe a shiftcode website and start a gpt
The best option for you could be that buy hosting and buy a well established site here at DP. And start working on it. Im sure you can buy hosting and a decent startup website for $250.
I think that Oranges is right, you could definitely afford an option like this. At the same time you could work on your own projects and practice what it takes to make money by writing yourself, or through any other method you enjoy. It's best to try a few things if you aren't really sure yet.
I hate to add a "me too" post but Oranges and mspennylane and 100% correct. There are some great deals going and the best way to get started is to buy something that's already proven itself. Particularly if the price is right. This page may be of interest to you - it explains just why it's better to buy a site that's already running.
wow, thanks for all the responses guys, im definetly going to look into buying a website, but then the problem for me would be monetizing it, this i think is my weak point and would need some guidance on it. I read the link you gave me merkersarl, very interesting Also does anyone know if theres money to be made in forums? I was thinking of maybe creating something like a poker forum which would be relativly easy, and then i if it was to get big enough i could make money by posting poker bonuses for various companys using affiliate links? Just an idea
I strongly suggest you read my posts at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/search.php?do=finduser&u=42981 since its not possible to type them again and again. In other words, I always suggest people to preserve the money they have and utilise it properly. Not to discourage you, I can help you setup websites on different niches at best possible rates? The problem, will you be able to promote and market them effectively without incurring more expenses? Well, I think not. Nothing happens overnight. Once you have your website, don't think that it will have tons of traffic. You will have to put efforts to drive visitors to your site. And visitors must find your website useful or they would leave it within a few seconds which we call as bounce. You have mentioned you that you have $250 but didn't mention that in which field you have knowledge. I can help you setup websites on:- search engine shopping mall niche portal social community site (local classifieds community) business directory and so on... And the investment is not much. You need a domain, web space and the script. But for that you need to pickup some niche i.e. topic or subject. For e.g. people start a website on flowers, on autos etc. Just let me know once you have decided on which topic you would like to start a website.
Do some website flipping and also setup your beginners websites(e.g if you offer design services, SEO or write content, setup a website to sell your services. This will give you some bucks to invest into more projects and those websites are must-have for every marketer). If you want to make good money ($100+/day) head over to blackhatworld.com and read methods until you feel like you are a millionaire already, then start working. If you want little bucks/day, read what the others are saying.
For me better why to spend $250 is use it with PTC neo program.,it quite profitable for me,without spending so much cash,combining it with link connector I believe you can get more money from the PTC click return,it just advice for anyone who want to do "less study then they can afford"
250 $ looks good for a Affiliate Program. Get a high traffic website and place ads from affiliates. Then, spend those 250 $ on a GOOD AdWords campaign. You might actually make some 500 $ if you know how to work with it.
$250 is not a huge sum. BTW,you can try proxy coz it the easiest site to owned and run. Or you can try dropshipping by selling product at ebay.