[Journey] Freedom - $100/day

There is a lot of bulls*it everywhere, including this forum. Gurus lying about the way they make money... just to sell you a course. We don't know who can be trusted.

"People feel stuck, they feel like there is no reason to take action, because they believe that they will fail."
The "People" in the quote is me. I've been reading, I've been watching videos, reading books, learning skills... but I didn't take action, at least not as much as I should. It's time for a change.

Let's put that into the test. Is it possible to make money... *ekhem* good money online? Find out with me during this journey.

I promise you that I will be documenting here everything with those 2 things in mind:

1. No bull*hit
2. Reality

This is part 1 of my journey to Freedom. I want to become independent of 9-5. I want to acquire wealth, and for me that means having time to do what I want to do for the rest of my life.

About me:

• 25 years old
• recently finished master's degree in computer science
• living in Europe for my whole life (although we don't operate with EUR in my country)

Profesionall experience:

• Worked in Facebook/Meta as an Engineer for 3-4 years
• Now working in another big tech company
• Had a few failures with starting companies or side projects
• Years ago I was able to do some money by selling FIFA coins and selling counter strike gambling coins on platforms similar to ebay
• I've made some money from stock investments, but it is not a money making method for me. Just safe investments on the side.

What im planning to do:
I want to create a business that can become as passive as possible. One way to go about it is automatition. It will take a lot of work to start and grow it, but with time it should become much more passive.
I was thinking about dropshiping via tiktok organic, but this is a lot of work and a lot of responsibility. While it might work, I don't think this is the path I want to start with.
After reading some journies on this forum, I decided to try out affiliate marketing (CPA) with automationon Social Media.
Why not SEO? It is hard, it takes a looot of time and effort. It requires skills I don't currently have.
Why Social Media automation? I have the skills to start working on my own bots, funnels and landing pages (if needed) to try and convert people.

With that being said.
1) I am not automation expert, bot expert or anything like that. I did some Selenium automation in the past, but nothing special.
2) I've never done CPA, I don't know how to make people click on the smartlinks. If I should even use smartlinks? Use landing pages? Use directlinks? What niche?

I KNOW NOTHING
I will be learning and experimenting with trial&error. I might fail, I might quit. I don't know what lies ahead. But I hope this journal will keep me motivated to keep going.

Plan
This is the initial detailed plan. Might change overtime, might choose different social media platform. But for now this is it.

1. Figure out Social Media platform I want to automate first. Might be looking into Tiktok/Fb/IG or something less known? Maybe.
2. Figure out manual flow for monetization.
3. Learn, experiment and write bots that will perform this manual flow.
4. Figure out how to market the smartlinks. Custom landing page? Directly? How to cloak? etc.
5. Once the automation is working, experiment with different content, messages, links, landing pages, niches... until something works
6. Once I get something working, double down on that.
7. Get 100$ a day.

Unfortunately I still have a full time job... so the time I can put into this is limited. The plan is to do at least something everyday.

Updates
I will be updating this thread weekly until I achieve my goal or give up.

Final Words
I hope you will enjoy this journey, or maybe you will laught at me when I fail. It doesn't matter. I am taking action, and this is more than what 99% of people do.

I'm older than you and never work in big tech companies but we have very simular profiles.
I'll follow your journey.


Good luck mate!

I'll be following your journey and I wish you all the best. I am glad you woke up to those fake gurus that don't really make money online but selling information about making money online.

Good luck mate, remember to save your money up and get into a passive income business.

Good luck

I will follow. Good luck!

Why "including this forum" ? Please explain

good look in your journey bro

im 22 and im on the same travel, i have a little less expectations, with 1k a month i can be totally independent, i already have a plan and its in work but as you say, sometimes is dificult to take action... looking videos or making some reseach looks like work but it aint taking action, sometimes we avoid to do the thing we have to do, even if we knew what to do, we dont do it because we are scared or insecure about it. im fighting with that feeling day a day mate, i think is normal. but in that case making just a little bit like researching info is better than nothing

always head up, the sun rise for everyone

Kudos to you! Taking action is the step that requires the most effort. I have a similar profile, around the same age, am a freelance developer, and have little time to work on my side gig. But I’m committed to improving day by day. Please keep us updated!

Once you find that niche .... IMHO ecommerce did it for me ... make your money while sleeping, outsource support etc, easy ...

Good luck, seems that you have a good plan ,maybe break down specific steps and pieces will fall easier in place, however:

Kukiezi said:

including this forum.

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I would be very carefully with the choice of words. Yes, here are some gurus, but being a guru and making money with that is a skill in itslef. Some aprove some don't, at the end of the day we're here to learn and make a dollar and some others way more than a dollar with the help of this forum. The forum not equal gurus.

I rest my case, nevertheless, good luck, keep us posted with progress!

MR.Spuf said:

Good luck, seems that you have a good plan ,maybe break down specific steps and pieces will fall easier in place, however:


I would be very carefully with the choice of words. Yes, here are some gurus, but being a guru and making money with that is a skill in itslef. Some aprove some don't, at the end of the day we're here to learn and make a dollar and some others way more than a dollar with the help of this forum. The forum not equal gurus.

I rest my case, nevertheless, good luck, keep us posted with progress!

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Couldn't agree more. This is an amazing resource and if i was a newb, i'd be soaking it all up. I'd also wish him the best, he's going to need it.

MR.Spuf said:

I would be very carefully with the choice of words. Yes, here are some gurus, but being a guru and making money with that is a skill in itslef. Some aprove some don't, at the end of the day we're here to learn and make a dollar and some others way more than a dollar with the help of this forum. The forum not equal gurus.

I rest my case, nevertheless, good luck, keep us posted with progress!

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Well, my headline for sure attracked some attention, which I guess is good in the internet these days. What I meant is not specifically that this forum is full of fake gurus, but it is not entirely free of scams and said gurus. It is still a great resource, and it inspired me to start this journal. I will for sure be using the resources from this forum to achieve my goals. And Thank you for good wishes!

darkfury said:

Once you find that niche .... IMHO ecommerce did it for me

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damn. Looks good.

Moschoutis said:

Why "including this forum" ? Please explain

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tbh. didn't think much when writing this headline. But meaning is that this forum is not free of scams, fake gurus, selling low quality ebooks etc. it is everywhere. But also this forum contains more useful knowledge and a lot of great folks that are actually giving valuable information even for free.


Thanks to everyone for good luck charms. Currently researching my options when it comes to account creation. Some are expensive and easy, some less expensive and a bit more complicated. Probably will try to take approach where I do as much on my own as possible. Might hurt me in the shortterm, but should payoff longterm.

fralaco said:

good look in your journey bro

im 22 and im on the same travel, i have a little less expectations, with 1k a month i can be totally independent, i already have a plan and its in work but as you say, sometimes is dificult to take action... looking videos or making some reseach looks like work but it aint taking action, sometimes we avoid to do the thing we have to do, even if we knew what to do, we dont do it because we are scared or insecure about it. im fighting with that feeling day a day mate, i think is normal. but in that case making just a little bit like researching info is better than nothing

always head up, the sun rise for everyone

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Good luck*

The writer expresses support for the reader's journey and acknowledges their realization about fake gurus who sell information about making money online.

With your experience, I would focus on learning SAP - high pay for consulting specialists.
Why $3k when you can earn $40k easily?

Good luck with your journey.

GenesisOne said:

I would focus on learning SAP

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What is SAP?

adlogik said:

What is SAP?

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https://www.sap.com/about/what-is-sap.htmlFortune 500 most likely use this platform to run their business.

Why aim for just $100 per day when you have the potential to earn much more? I mean, you mentioned that you're a master in computer science, so creating bots and such should be relatively straightforward for you. Nevertheless, I wish you the best of luck on your journey.

darkfury said:

Once you find that niche .... IMHO ecommerce did it for me ... make your money while sleeping, outsource support etc, easy ...

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Damn this are some solid numbers man Are you still making the same amount i mean still in ecom business?