When I talk about direct marketing, I mean stuff like long format sales pages and the sales pitch, like what most people on Warrior Forum talk about. I like DP because there's a greater cross section of ways to make money. I'm looking to diversify into NON-direct marketing. Any ideas? Adsense - totally passive and stable, I'm definitely looking into this web design for local companies. I don't like the idea of support but the rewards can be good any other ideas?
web design would count as direct I guess, but something similar would be affiliate programs. you can also do online serveys & provide seo services, web hosting, etc. you can run your own colocated servers. the cost of running a server is getting incredibly cheap. hard drives are dirt cheap and RAM is pretty much the thing that costs the most when upgrading a computer.
Blog Reviewing different work, social network profile on twitter, google profiles , linkedin and start speaking with people and do recomendations to people through your blog.. If you have good experience, send an article to a newspaper about a case study for example on "how small businesses can get return on investment through having good rebranding!" write the article as if its the journalist writing it and put a suitable picture. Journalist are lazy but eager to fill there colomns. and this way you help them fill there colomns while being lazy!.. Last thing networking events!!.. business cards and go to as many networking events as you can and speak with people and let them know your existance.. Thats my opinion and these are proven strategies that works for me and for many others