Hello BHW!
This is my first real good share I can contribute. I hope some of you enjoy this and profit off it, I did and am going to again this year. This time I'm going to go all out with it though. I talked to 10 kids who wanted to go to college and sent them to my offer. 9 became leads. I cannot see this method getting saturated, which is why I'm sharing. It is also very targeted traffic.
First, it would help a LOT if you're still in high school, have a few friends still in there or know a teacher or ARE a teacher. If none of this fits you ya can still easily pull this off. Go visit your favorite teacher and ask him to do it.
Yup, this method is aimed at kids in high school. It is also pretty much 100% offline promotion and you can get DAMN sneaky with it if you go to a trade school with a graphic arts department with printing presses. We'll talk about this part at the end.
Step 1.)
Alright so to start off with this method you're going to need to sign up for some EDU promoting sites/networks. Yup, pay per lead college offers. Copeac has some and there is a ton of others out there. Once you've signed up to one that has a decent payout ($13.25 per lead or more for some offers) and also has colleges that are in your area. Makes sense, right?
Step 2.)
Now that you've got the offer you want to promote, you're going to need to make a simple website about colleges or education in general. It would be a good idea to get a domain name like, GetAccepted.com or something like that.
So now that you have your website set up all about how you got accepted immediately to the college you wanted, and it's all because you applied at this website :insert banner for offer here: or use a text link with a meta refresh to the offer itself, using the colleges name as the link. Make the page look nice, and legit. Almost like the school had made it themselves.. I wouldn't be surprised at all if schools actually did this.. maybe they do!
Step 3.)
Open up Microsoft Word, or any text editing software that can make nice looking papers. This will basically be your offline landing page. On this piece of paper we will list all the colleges in the area that are involved with your online offer. Give a brief description about what they teach for each. At the bottom, have it say something like this; "Easily see if you can get accepted into the college you want by visiting this site,
www.domain.com and even if you don't want to go to college, try it anyway just to see if you could. Maybe you'll change your mind if you do get accepted! It's EASY, FREE and takes only 5 minutes! What do you have to lose? Nothing!"
Also include how "college graduates can potentially make millions more in a lifetime than persons who haven't." Make this so damn convincing even you'd jump to the computer to give it a shot.
Step 4.)
Now that you've got your really professional looking landing page all done, and website all set up with your links so they are working properly, it's time to get down to biz. Go to a school, or the HS you graduated from. Find your favorite teacher and go in there and give him/her a visit. Tell them about how you got accepted into the college you wanted (Finally! Wooo!) and they asked you personally to hand out these papers at your high school. Have your teacher look over the paper and ask them if they could ask every class they have if they're interested in a college, and if they can to photocopy the papers and have other teachers do the same.
Now, most schools already do something like this. I'm not sure if they're making money off the leads or not though, so lets hope the teacher is clueless. If the teacher fails, and you know no kids who'd do this, go talk to your old Guidance Counselor. The guy who tries to get kids into college; and try to get him to hand the papers out.
This is where it can get a little bit difficult, which might lead you to having kids spread it for you instead of the staff. I prefer to have kids hand it out but the choice is up to you.
Offer the kids you want to hand out the papers, $3.25 per person who applies .. Force them in your computer lab to do it! Some schools even have forums for parents, so you could do it this way also. You don't even need to limit yourself to high schools, you could put flyers around town like infront of grocery stores. Parents will see this and encourage their kids to try it.
If all else fails.. then go visit your high school, and infiltrate where they hide the boxes full of these college signup papers and sneakily put your stacks ontop
Innocence is key here. Act like you have no idea its gonna be generating you a hell of an income. Your just trying to help others.
Step 5.)
If you successfully pull this off, sit back and watch money roll in.
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This is where you can get the advantage if you are in or were in a trade school with a print shop. I could have 10k of these printed in one day (for free) and handed out to the entire junior/senior class the next day. Either by students, or the teachers who love me. You need to be convincing though, and be prepared for questions.
This is where you can get sneaky.. If you are actually a STUDENT in one of these print shops, (or know one) find the .pdf file they print out every year to hand out to kids. You can either add your domain to the list of websites they offer, or register a domain that looks like the ones they have on there and change it completely. Offer to proof-read if this is a newly created paper, but chances are it's not so they wont even proof read something that was completed 3 years ago. This would make it extremely easy!
I don't know what else to write here now, but please if you have any comments or suggestions to make this better please contribute, you'll get my thanks. I will also add more ideas to this to get around some of the flaws with it as I come up with them.. Needa eat. Peace.
My EZ Method to Make Decent Money.. My 1st Good Share - Kinda Long
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