I will first share our situation and then share our plan. I will update this thread 3-4 times/week minimum. All questions, requests and information will be shared right here on the thread. Again, NO PMs!

I have been involved in online marketing for well over 8 years. For past two years two of my good friends who are partners and I started doing offline marketing, providing SEO and other online marketing services to local business owners. It worked out great, we went from 4 man team to 50+ employees and from 1 city to 6 cities in less than two years and obviously making a lot of money. Dont assume that it was easy, none of you have any idea what all we went through to get there not taking into account the 20+ years of combined experience my partners and I bring to the table and during that time, we were newbies struggling just like most of you here.

Long story short, we thought we were invincible and we need to grow faster. We opened offices in 4 more cities and hired 24 more employees in last 2 months. We failed to replicate our success in the new cities at the pace we were expecting. End result was that we had to shut down the new offices and get rid of the sales team. We were left with 4 long term leases and 18 employees even after letting go of sales team and few other people. My partners want the employees gone and they are trying to cut our losses short but only one out of these employees was able to find another job and the rest started begging me to put them somewhere at the main office. After a lot of debate, meetings, arguments my partners and I decided that we can cover costs for upto two months and it will be my responsibility to cover costs within two months or everyone loses their jobs. Now my partners are not too happy with me and my employees are cheering for me. Some have even shown interest to work for less than minimum wage until we can get back on our feet. Anyways, after trying a couple of basic things and asking many friends for advice. I have been granted following from my partners

New LLC with $60k in account (enough for two months)
20 desktop/laptops
7 offices and all the furnishings
17 employees : 12 content writers and 5 data entry
All the tools and everything else you can think of to make this work

In addition to all the above. I also have access to as many offshore employees as I need if I can cover their costs from our budget. We have an offshore office for our main business so I can always use those people for grunt work. I believe our costs for a qualified person is around $200-$300/month fulltime

I have 60 days to start making atleast $30k if I want to continue. If I dont reach that target, we will have to let all these people go and I will be back working at main office. In the meantime, my partners will be managing the offline business and I will be focusing on this 100%. If I am successful, I will have to return the initial investment and I get to keep all the profits no matter how big this gets. If I fail, well I really dont lose much myself so its a win-win for me but I have a lot of responsibility on my shoulders. I am under extreme pressure and borderline depressed. I thought I'd share my story here and invite others to join in with us on our journey.

Lets just hope we can make it work.

Today, I will be getting the new offices setup (same building as our main offices) I will be meeting a few decision makers, attorney, CPA and others and from today on I will be the attorney and I will be the accountant or whatever else role you can think of. I will have until Monday to plan everything and have everything ready for everyone. Monday we start the work and from that point on I have 60 days or maybe less because I have already spent almost $5k today on lot of important stuff.

I will be sharing the exact process and plan on how we are going to achieve the numbers. It will be through building content rich websites and monetizing them through adsense and affiliate marketing.

60% small niche websites (I dont call these micro because they all will have atleast 10 pages of content)
40% big authority websites (these will be picked from small sites, best performing ones will be converted to bigger websites)

I will share more detailed plan later on tonight but thats the gist of it. 100% whitehat, adsense and affiliate marketing through quality content. I will share all the numbers and past experiences in next post.

Lets take a look at what all I have done today so far!

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But anyways all the success and luck of the world for your mate !

Looking forward to your thread. Best of luck to you!

Before I share my plan of action, I would love to hear what others may do in my situation. How would you make this work if you have all the resources that I do and same amount of time.

Originally Posted by Lordsenf

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But anyways all the success and luck of the world for your mate !

I was kicked out of my other office so I had the comcast guy setup internet asap and I told him to do the wiring later, just get me online for right now.

Hope you success even if looks hard

in!! I suscribed gl OP

Man good luck. Your not starting these websites from scratch are you? As if you are you've give yourself a month to rank them to get paid by the end of the second month. Unless you have other sources of traffic than just natural?

Anyway good luck wish you the best as you are not in my town

Originally Posted by ginder

I was kicked out of my other office so I had the comcast guy setup internet asap and I told him to do the wiring later, just get me online for right now.

I'm aware of such problems, "just get me online everything else isn't important" I've done such constructions by myself, but it's funny

Man I hope you can accomplish your dreams and goals - looking forward for this thread

Good luck. But remember, you walk before you run. You run before you sprint.

You cant just go from walking to sprinting. Unless your battery powered. GL.

Sub'd, good luck mate!

Wow! Good luck man. Agree with above though, try to build it properly, don't give yourself unreasonable goal - even if you fall a bit short of your goal but have a good projection you'll be good.

wooww.. I will ride the biggest wave with you mate! catch me in.. I mean subscribed!

Man, one thing I love about BHW...everybody wishes the other members the best luck and success <3

no homo lol

I understand what you guys are talking about but I have years of experience. I already know what works and what doesnt and we are basing our goals on past experience.

I dont necessarily need to start making 30k starting first month. We are good to go for 2 months, actually 3 since we pay salary at the end of the month and thats the biggest expense. As long as I know we can make it work, I can move money around from my personal savings or even convince my partners to get in. 30k buys us 1 month so if we can make 30k in two months, we will have another month to make this work. I think we can go on like that. Now for the plan, here are the details.

I have personally done this before. Right now I own 120-130 adsense niche websites. I am making $3000/month on average from these websites. Plan is to replicate the same process.

1 content writer can write upto 15 500+ word articles a day under extreme pressure. Almost everyone is willing to put in more than 40 hours a week, some are even willing to work on Saturdays.

1 Data entry person can complete keyword research and website setup for upto 5 websites per day without an issue.

Based on the above numbers this is where we stand.

We will create a niche website with 7-10 500+ word articles to start with. We will use 10 150 word posts for BMR to rank the website spread out over a period of 1-2 week. Based on these numbers, one content writer should be able to complete 1 website per day. Possibly more!

With 12 content writers, we will be making 12-15 websites per day. 6 days a week! We will do nothing besides building a website and basic link building using BMR. We will let the website sit for 15 days, after that we will take the winners and expand them as much as we can. If we can get 100 pages of content in one niche, we'll do that.

We will invest more time and money in the winners by adding content and doing more link building through article marketing and private networks.

Based on my previous experience. Average website makes $10-$12/month after first 30 days. After 60 days, our average per website is $18/month. This is with no additional content and no more link building.

On average 35% of the websites make 80% of the revenue so the rest are doing less than average but almost every single website makes atleast $5/month.

Now the plan is to make 500+ websites/month. Based on our current numbers, the first month batch should be making atleast $7k-$8k within 2 months. If we can expand on winners, I am confident we can make way more but thats speculation at this point since I dont have any experience doing that. I am going to base my numbers on what I have already done so far!

With that we should have 1000+ websites after the first 60 days and they should be making $15k-$20k per month. If I can hit these numbers, I know this can work so I'll have no problem re-investing more money through personal savings or getting my partners to come in with me on this.

While we do all of this. I also plan on selling no more than 10% of our websites for cashflow. Now this part I am not too sure about, as of right now my plan is to sell a batch of 10-50 websites on flippa every week.

If you look around, people are selling shitty 1-2 page websites for $99+. Sad part is most of these guys arent making money from these websites themselves, yet they keep advertising insane amount of profits. I have not seen a single service provider setting reasonable expectations. Yea I know its very possible to make $500+/month from one of these sites but you also have to keep in mind that for each such website you are going to have 50 that are doing less than $10/month. Anyways!

If we can make $5k-$10k/month selling the websites and make money off of the rest. We will be in a great shape!

So what do you guys think?

Is there anyone else who feels that this kind of money in such a short time and that too only from SEO traffic is possible. I doubt that.

If i had this, i would try to build the services business itself and may be try out freelancing stuff in addition to building own sites.

Originally Posted by imserious

Is there anyone else who feels that this kind of money in such a short time and that too only from SEO traffic is possible. I doubt that.

If i had this, i would try to build the services business itself and may be try out freelancing stuff in addition to building own sites.

Its hard, not impossible. We are going after low hanging fruit. Trying to get EMDs and targeting long tail keywords.

For those of you who have experience in micro niche websites, they will understand what I am talking about. You really dont need much offpage SEO for these websites.

Good thing is ezinearticles has been trashed after Panda update so its pretty easy to secure longtail rankings now that its pretty easy to beat article directories!

So lets get started now!

This is the goal for next 3 days.

Select and research 200 niches. Buy domains, .com .org and .net only. Ideally we would like an exact match domain for the main keyword which must be getting atleast 1000 exact match searches/month. I am not going to bother with CPC but none of the niches I select should have less than $1 CPC but I am not going to limit myself with CPC.

Monday we will start the keyword research for each domain for secondary pages. For secondary pages we require 100 searches/month minimum. Goal is to have 3000+ local exact match searches per month for all the keywords in one website. Data entry guys will do the keyword research and provide titles to writers. We will be using market samurai for keyword research.

Once a writer turns in all his work to data entry person, s/he will make a website using wordpress. I am still looking for good themes for high CTR, if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear those.

Once the website is complete, we will submit atleast 10 BMR posts and spread them out over a period of 1-2 weeks. After which we just wait and expand the winners.

Winners mean, websites which secure good rankings on search engines and start getting traffic. Even if they are not making a lot of money, we will still consider it a winner if its getting enough traffic.

After a period of 30 days or so, we will test other methods besides adsense. CPA, clickbank and maybe even content locking. Whatever works best! we will stick with that.

Please share your thoughts, feedback and advice. I need it all!

will be following you on your journey

Good luck with everything. even if you dont reach your goal as fast as you anticipated. Dont give up. hopefully you come very close to that goal

Goood luck! This is a big investment for too low time, I will follow this topic!

Wow, if you stick this out this is going to be a killer thread.

Good luck, wish you all the best

What do you think about building lists in the various niches? You could easily get your content guys to put together an email autoresponder series for a niche?

Best thread for the past few months...
GOOD LUCK MAN!YOU'LL MAKE IT!

In regards to wordpress and getting sites up and fast I use the Clickbump engine with the Jumpstart Pro plugin that it comes with. It basically sets me up in minutes rather than building out a whole wordpress site. Could come in handy when it comes to building hundreds of sites quickly. Good luck and I'll be following your process.

Originally Posted by SpeakToTman

Wow, if you stick this out this is going to be a killer thread.

Good luck, wish you all the best

What do you think about building lists in the various niches? You could easily get your content guys to put together an email autoresponder series for a niche?

Right now, I do not want to complicate things more than they already are. Going to keep it simple for right now. Building lists is definitely the best way to make money online and probably the most secure method available but it takes time and lot more research and preparation than what I am willing to do right now.

Originally Posted by boatybotany

In regards to wordpress and getting sites up and fast I use the Clickbump engine with the Jumpstart Pro plugin that it comes with. It basically sets me up in minutes rather than building out a whole wordpress site. Could come in handy when it comes to building hundreds of sites quickly. Good luck and I'll be following your process.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that and see if that can work for us. I would love to hear more suggestions like this! Thanks

good luck to the OP....

interesting...I'll follow your journal along

Good luck OP, however as someone else has posted in this thread, I would try and start selling some services as well to bring in some instant cash as well as making a long term income. Mainly because making a fully established websites takes a few months.

Hope everything works out

With that many sites, you're servers are going to be consuming a ton of resources, so hosting costs are going to go up, up, up. The more reliance on particular content contributing plugins, the higher your resource consumption will be, which means more money spent just keeping your servers attuned to handling the ever-increasing load. Failure to do so means slower sites and lower rankings as a result.

Wishing you the best of luck. Will follow the thread.

I going to follow your thread it might be interesing

Anyway good luck!

You have a good mindset of a business person and I like it. From what you write it is clear that you know how to lead people and organize things.

However, your goal is so high(I do Adsense myself so know what it means..), speaking about profit from sites, not the revenue. If you achieve this, I will consider it amongst the biggest business successes I have ever seen.

Wish you good luck, because you will need A LOT of it.

following

Subscribed. Good luck.

Instead of making so many micro niche sites, please please make some massive authority niche sites, with thousands of pages. They will make some serious cash for years and years. I know they take longer to set-up but its less work required in the long term as you don't have hundreds of sites to maintain and do link building for.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

go get em bro!

Go big or go home!!!!!!!!!

IamNRE! dude you should change the font or something. Its messing up the thread, I'd appreciate that. Thanks

Originally Posted by StopWhiningAlready

With that many sites, you're servers are going to be consuming a ton of resources, so hosting costs are going to go up, up, up. The more reliance on particular content contributing plugins, the higher your resource consumption will be, which means more money spent just keeping your servers attuned to handling the ever-increasing load. Failure to do so means slower sites and lower rankings as a result.

Wishing you the best of luck. Will follow the thread.

These are small sites. Average hostgator shared server can handle 300-400 sites like this but ofcourse we need to hide the footprint too. I dont want someone finding out all my niches and keywords, infact thats the biggest concern I have at this point.

So we are going to spread it out on multiple shared accounts with multiple C class IPs. Multiple domain accounts and as long as godaddy free private registration coupons work, all our domains will be private.

Same with adsense account. We will be using multiple accounts so no one can track all the websites using adsense account. We will be registering multiple LLCs and DBAs to get multiple accounts. We already have enough businesses registered that we wont need to get more.

Originally Posted by Kikerinka

You have a good mindset of a business person and I like it. From what you write it is clear that you know how to lead people and organize things.

However, your goal is so high(I do Adsense myself so know what it means..), speaking about profit from sites, not the revenue. If you achieve this, I will consider it amongst the biggest business successes I have ever seen.

Wish you good luck, because you will need A LOT of it.

Thanks!

Please keep in mind that my goal of $100k is a longterm goal and I will most probably need to increase resources to get there or it will take a long time. I just need to make it work, enough to cover costs.

If I can get the cashflow for this venture, we have nothing to worry about and like I said once I know its working out great which I'll know for sure in less than two weeks, I can move money around. Money is not the issue.

The only unknown in this experiment is how far we can scale this. I have already done it on a smaller scale and based on that we should have no problem hitting our targets but I am not too sure how to scale it to the level I need to.

Like with any business, I am 100% ready to deal with unforseen circumstances and issues that we are not aware of yet but we are going to face once we start.

I do not worry about problems that dont exist. Thats what most people do, spend their life worrying about problems that dont even exist yet. They live and die in fear. Forget the if-then scenarios, I am not going to worry about problems that arent even real yet.

I wish you the best of luck in the world, as you will need it! It looks like you are going to make it!

Start small, outsource the money you have to odesk. You will save big.

You sound like you know what you're doing and I wish you the best of luck. With all of the people you have available to you, I do think that offering some type of service to bring in some money would be a really good idea.

I am subscribing to this thread so that I can follow your progress. One of the best threads I've read in a long time.

what is BMR ?

Good luck man!

I am beginning to build niche websites also but obviously at a lower scale. lol

Will be following this!

wow, this thread looks like its going to be awesome, best of luck. I will be following your journey!

Good luck man!

I am beginning to build niche websites also but obviously at a lower scale. lol

Will be following this!

Thanks for all the encouragement guys! very much appreciated.

For those of you who recommend that we sell a service. We have already tried that on a small scale. I really dont see a point of selling an article for 3 bucks when I can make many times over that through adsense in a longer run.

Selling services is a good idea for cashflow but the money is peanuts compared to what you can make on your own. I mean, people buying your service must be making money off of you or they wouldnt be buying it so why not make it all yourself. Also, selling services is not easy! it comes with a lot of hassles that I am not willing to deal with so screw that. I'll keep it all for myself

Hell! I really have nothing to lose. Worst case scenario, I am going to feel shit for letting some people go but thats also part of business which I need to start experiencing if I need to be successful in business (thats what my partners tell me and I agree with them) I am just trying to help a couple of people in this economy and I am hoping I'll create a good handsoff income with their work for my time spent. Win-Win for everyone!

One thing I know for sure is that, I'll make the initial investment back even if this is a major failure so either way its going to be successful.

To hell with naysayers!

Originally Posted by valhalla777

what is BMR ?

Its build my rank. A blog network which offers you link back for each post you write.

Its a paid network but worth every penny.

Best of luck man!
I will be following your journey.

Originally Posted by ginder

These are small sites. Average hostgator shared server can handle 300-400 sites like this but ofcourse we need to hide the footprint too. I dont want someone finding out all my niches and keywords, infact thats the biggest concern I have at this point.
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This part I had to chime in here. I'm doing something pretty similiar to what your doing. but, the average hostgator can hold 300-400 sites? You might be in for a rude awakening.

I currently have 17 shared servers with hostgator across 450+ sites. Even with the 17 servers I'm on the phone with hostgator almost daily for to much resource usage, database problems, Inode usage I could go on and on and on here. If you plan on sticking with one shared server good luck to you.

Originally Posted by hunar

This part I had to chime in here. I'm doing something pretty similiar to what your doing. but, the average hostgator can hold 300-400 sites? You might be in for a rude awakening.

I currently have 17 shared servers with hostgator across 450+ sites. Even with the 17 servers I'm on the phone with hostgator almost daily for to much resource usage, database problems, Inode usage I could go on and on and on here. If you plan on sticking with one shared server good luck to you.

I have been with them for years, their support is amazing so even if there is a problem its always taken care of asap!

Now I was just throwing a number out there but I am pretty close. Feel free to do an IP check on any hostgator shared server and you will find almost every single IP has 200+ sites.

We'll stick with what works for as long as it works. Hosting is least of my worries! I dont think hosting cost is even compareable to some of our other costs so even if I have to get dedicated servers or VPS! I have no problem.

I would love to hear more feedback and advice from you. If you have 400+ sites, you are probably one of the best persons to ask for an advice.