Update 13:
Okay, here are todays stats.
1) With Content Locking, I managed to get 3 conversions. I could of done much better but these 3 were simply all that I could get it. They were mostly from Youtube promotions. However, like I said, I was not going to give up until I made at least some money from Content Locking and I did.
2) I then chose 10 websites out of my Fiverr reselling list and I promoted them hardcore. Got 3 freelancers from Fiverr, spoke to them on Skype and they got to the work. I spent $15 for 3 of them for an hour. I also bought some targeted traffic from a friend who gave me a discount. Here are the results:
Site 1 - 2 sales at $70 (Profit = $60)
Site 2 - 0 sales at $0
Site 3 - 4 sales at $130 (Profit = $110)
Site 4 - 1 sale at $35 (Profit $30)
Site 5 - 2 sales at $20 (Profit $10)
Site 6 - 12 sales (FUCK) at $170 (Profit $110)
For that one ^, someone made a bulk order for 10 URLs.
Site 7 - 1 sale at $35 (Profit $30)
Site 8 - 0 sale at $0
Site 9 - 0 sale at $0
Site 10 - 3 sales at $105 (Profit $90)
So that went well. I definitely made back how much I invested.
3) I phoned up 3 major companies. 1 of them did not pick up so only 2 got through. Unfortunately they were both not looking for websites at that time, although I tried my best at persuading. So from this I got no sales.
4) I set up a Fiverr gig with PR 7 blog commenting. As far as I know, no one did this on Fiverr. I did some heavy promotion for this with my freelancers and I have managed to get 5 sales. So profit here is $25. ($5 goes to Fiverr for their fees).
5) This one was a new idea from me. I had some nice domain names which certain companies might want to use. I targeted companies in the same category as my domain. My first one was for a restaurant. It did not have the restaurants name but it had the cuisine they were specialised in and the country. (For e.g., Indian Cuisine). They were happy for a redirection of the domain to their website and I charged them $50 (for one year). If you are wondering how I had all these weird domains, in 2011, some guy on Skype sold me a huge list (of about 50 domains) for $20. So I accepted it because I knew I could do something with them.
I phoned 2 other companies but they did not seem interested.
6) I then phoned up 5 big companies nearby (they were quite far away actually) who weren't ranking in Google. I don't know but today I totally sucked. I made no sales although my persuasive language should of done the trick. Quite upset at that.
7) Now it was the referral part. I managed to get 24 referrals in total, and I made roughly around $40 from this. This was good seeing as it did take us a while to get things set up.
8) I started Clickbank. I guess you need some time to get some sales as I had 0 sales. But I will continue as see how it goes.
Total today = $555.
After going through and calculating all my costs (plus removing costs for advertising, websites, additional costs, outsourcing costs and all that), I can say that in these 5 days I have made over (in pure profits):
$2000!
I couldn't help calculating how much you could make in a month and year so here are the stats if you do this for a year or even a month as a PART TIME job.
Month: $12,000
Year: $144,000
However, don't get too happy. These results are just a rough estimate based on what I managed to earn myself. Now I spent many hours and tiresome nights getting everything set up.
Even if you make $500 per 5 days, you are still banking good. There is no need to be upset that you cannot make as much as me. There may be a few days where you make $0 and a few where you make $500+ from calling companies, (like I luckily did).
Ultimately, the point of this thread was to show you that you can make money simply by doing methods which are shared on BHW and to also make money by doing methods which you may not have done in the past. The mistake you are doing is missing out on these methods. Why don't you give them a try and see the results? I even spoke to 3-4 people who tried this method WHILE I WAS DOING IT and they managed to make $XXX easily.
Now.. for the next 2 days I will try to answer your questions. Do not PM me regarding the case study. I will just ignore you. I may not answer simple questions which have already been answered in the thread - so ask wisely. Thank you.