If you had $5000, and 3 months to turn it into 10,000..

What would you do?

I have little to no knowledge of anything like SEO, website flipping, black or white hat techniques...

But I'm all about making my money work for me, and I've read these forums.. I'm wondering if $5000 could make me any cash flow this summer before I go off to college.

Could I pay someone to make me a cash-making website or what? Throw me some ideas..

You may try the buy and sell thread of this forum.

Try the JV section there are people with business models and offers that want to scale up or do something new... maybe its worth investing in some of them and spreading the risk.

if you find a way to double 5k in 3 months, forget college. just repeat and you'll be a millionaire in 2 years. in other words, its easier said than done.
making a website is more of a long term solution. if you do it right, it will pay off but you wont even break even for a few years.

bump please

I would invest in PPC.

If you truly do have the $5,000 cash, I'd say PPC. We have expert PPC Affiliate Managers with us that can easily help you reach your goal.

Yup, PPC is definitely the way to go. Although you better hope you figure it out before you run out of money. I'd take about 5-600 of it and create 1-2 larger sites so that even if your PPC fails you have something to fall back into.

1.)invest
2.)invest
3.)invest

Try an authority site but I recommend them for long term returns.

So pay some random person to make me a PPC-oriented site?

PPC-oriented site? That doesn't make too much sense man. You generally use PPC to either direct people to a website that has a service/product to sell, or to a site that captures leads, of course if you're going the lead generation route you need to be compliant by Google's rules. And regardless of what anyone tells you, Google is still top dog when it comes to generating qualified leads for things debt, credit reports, mortgages, repossession, etc.

If you go the product/service route, make sure it's something that can offset the cost of the PPC campaign, it'd be best if the purchase wasn't a one time deal, but rather a reoccurring service, or product that needs to be continually purchased, that way you can build a user base.

Regardless of what you do, make sure you personally collect the leads for yourself as well. If you're going to do a PPC-CPA campaign, have the users land at a landing page that you created, capture that CPA lead, filter it to your own autoresponder or email list then send it to the offer.

I just meant a site that's main purpose is to earn money from PPC methods, and alright thanks.