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Alright, so I know I'm really opening myself up to a flamefest here, but I'm pretty desperate.

I don't have a job and I'm losing my shirt with PPC campaigns that aren't converting. I have less than $200 to my name, and I've got a couple weeks before the next round of bills is due. No employer here would hire me because I'm going back home for summer vacation in less than two months. Not to mention I despise the idea of going back to a regular job anyway...

The two things that come to mind are SEO and article-writing, but 1) I don't have the 2+ months to wait for SEO to become worthwhile, and 2) I'm not getting a whole lot of business at my content thread (http://www.wickedfire.com/content/8...ality-native-english-writer-read-reviews.html). I don't know how to design or code. I'm competent enough to be a virtual assistant, but the people that need those probably have one already.

So I'm basically wondering if anyone happens to know a free, preferably non-affiliate marketing way to get some income online just to pay the bills and possibly have something left over for PPC. I'm aware that this is a stupid question for this forum (gb2 DP) but I've seen rare instances of compassion on here.

inb4 bizopp link
 
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do some article writing to pay the bills. you gotta hustle your ass off if you wanna get anywhere, and there are thousands of ways to do it. be creative
 
I've gone through the same situation, so i feel your frustration. Lots of way to make it works but sometimes you just have to step back and look at the situation more calmly. Sometimes stress and pressure make you lose sight of what your bigger goal is.
 
What I did back in the days...

1. Write a bunch of reviews about products in a certain niche (tip: Poker/casino software or finance related products).
2. Create a website around it.
3. When your site gets indexed, contact at least one hundred companies in your niche. Simply ask if they want a paid (positive) review about their product/website on your site. Be personal and state the benefits of your 'advertising package'. You'll see that most of them do not care about traffic or pagerank.
 
Tried doing some offline stuff?

...Can be a great way to make a few grand in the next week or two.

Since you don't have a site or anything it'll be harder - but justify that with your prices. Start cold calling around to local business' offering to bump them up the rankings for $XXX a month or offer to build companies, who don't have an online presence, a website and then you can just outsource the design and skim 40% or whatever off the top.

I respect the semi-hustle you have going on. But if you're between a rock and a hard place you have to reach out, pick what you're going to do, and lock yourself away for awhile.

...If that means writing articles for a dollar even though you deserve to be paid five or if that means you have to cold call every fucking real estate in your city to try and get an offline deal you just got to do it.

"It's a doggy dog world" out there and if you don't enter every day with a fierce passion to succeed you won't - too many people hustle harder - they deserve it more.

There's no such thing as luck. You create it. And the more your successful over time you are the "luckier" you'll get.

...

This reminds me of a Bill Zanker, president of the Learning Annex, he started off in his one bedroom apartment in New York with only one good suit.

...He'd go out to every meeting, every day, in that same suit because it was expensive and, frankly, all he had. He entered every day with a fierce passion and confidence even though his net worth was literally on his back.

He did what he could with what he had.

Took calls in him home and slept on his couch and kept his room as an office. He hustled so fucking hard and he deserves every dime he has to his name.

This industry for some people became too easy, too quick. And when tough times come they haven't developed that hustle and that motivation to keep going. We all know people who made X,XXX,XXX a month for a few and then after that traffic source dried up or the offer died they never rebounded.

It's because it's too easy.

Pull a Bill and just enter every day with termination and confidence and you will get the cash. But just never lose sight of that first fire in your gut - because that's the difference between long term success or failure.
 
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x2 with cold calling offering web design. You can charge a couple grand for this and get it designed and coded for about $300. If you don't, rest assured someone else will.

Include 'online presence', 'economy' and 'ten-fold' in your pitch and you're good to go.
 
Go to associatedcontent.com, write like 20-40 articles a day, after about 2 weeks you'll start earning like 100/day.

You could always take the easy way out and find one of those huge PLR packs, download a cracked copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking and do your own re-write of articles by talking into a mic.

Some times they do contests and you can earn anywhere from $10-$30 for one article
 
Do a list of 100 things you can do for us like:

1. cpanel configuration
2. link building in forums
3. Adding content in wordpress blogs.
4. wordpress plugin configuration

Stuff like that.
Everybody has little stuff that needs to be tweaked on their websites but damned if we are going to spell it out and post to this forum. But if you show how useful you can be by listing 100 things you can do for us, you'll have a better chance of success than the usually "I'm screwed for money, help me."
 
Wow, not a single roll or flame yet. Thanks for the honest feedback and suggestions. Wish I could hand out more +rep, but alas.

I think what I needed was a kick in the face and be told to just sit down and grind, even if I don't want to. I had completely forgotten about GaF and Odesk, and I saw plenty of requests for articles on there, so I've determined to make $50 today by finding article jobs and just doing it. Like FTC-Hater said, my pride says I deserve to be paid more than $0.60/100, but money is money and I'm sure not doing anything else with my time.

I'm somewhat clueless when it comes to SEO ("backlinks = good" is all I know) so I might not be able to do offline stuff, but I'll keep it in mind.

@Benji, thanks for that idea and I'll try and come up with something like that.
 
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I'm somewhat clueless when it comes to SEO ("backlinks = good" is all I know) so I might not be able to do offline stuff, but I'll keep it in mind.
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Keep in mind that neither do 99% of offline "professionals".

Read the stickies, ask a few questions to people who know their shit, and you'll be well on your way.

Good job on getting on the grind.
 
Yeah, doing the grunt work and grind like a madman is the way out of money crisis. I've been in these several times in the past year - that's when I started living on my own from "internet money".

And as always, my best ideas have been born when I needed money the most. So just sit down and do some thinking and then do tons of work.

Just writing articles is a very short term solution... Think about what you'll do once you make some money.
 
Alright, well I've posted a thread in BST (http://www.wickedfire.com/sell-buy-trade/86511-va-51-time-saving-things-i-can-do-you.html) with 51 things I can do to save people time. I've gotten one PM and hopefully more business will come from it. I've also gotten 3-4 inquiries about articles, but none have actually told me what they want or given me the green light, so I'm still waiting on that.

It would probably be a little difficult to do offline because of my college schedule and whatnot but it still sounds like a good idea that I will probably look into in the future.

Any other ideas for getting the grind on while waiting for business from VA/content writing?
 
What you need next week is all fine and good, but it's 10x harder to make money when you aren't thinking about the long term. As yourself how can I make a lot of money over the next year rather than trying to make $100 next week.

Trying to get paid fast with no investment is a sure way to spend a lot of time doing bitch work which only get's you paid 1 time. Next month when you're still broke, you'll still be doing that bitch work because you spent all your cash on food and gas. If you want to make money 6 months from now you need to start automating shit, putting up lots of sites, doing real seo, etc. Some of which takes at least a little cash.

My advice, at least split your time doing long term and short term work.
 
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