Nothing is working !!!

3 whole weeks? WOW!

I've been trying various methods on this forum and a few other places where I was suckered into buying methods for the last 4-5 years and I still haven't hit the big time.

You are lucky you only lost $30, I've lost hundreds trying methods that failed in the past!

Do you want to know your real problem, other than three weeks. You probably do not understand that it is not what you do, but the way that you do it.

Treat IM like s real business


IM is way harder than s regular job to earn a living

Just don't quit and keep adding the failed methods to a list and move on

there's obviously something very wrong with op

Listen closely.
3 weeks isn't shit. In the beginning it's NORMAL to spend more than you earn, this is actually called Deficit Spending. You spend more than you earn for a length of time with the intention of earning x (insert number here) in the longterm.

@OP, you're giving up WAY to early. If you want to run a PPC campaign, you should at least have $1000 for testing budget.

I just love the OP, "I need to make 1000$/month", waw... I need to make 100.000.000$/month I want to make more, but I'll work for even more that's how it works over here I think... wanting or needing something wont make it real until you work hard for it, fail several times, spend some budget on it until it became alive.

Hey, looks like you already have a bad mindset on making money, you must get that fixed first if you want to start making some real cash

Elliot305 said:

Here is a simple way to earn some cash...well over $1k a month.


Step 1: Buy a CL scraper (around $30 to $50).


Step 2: Scrape CL sections for regular emails .


Step 3: Sign up with self-serve email marketing platforms that have free trial offers. (Google "email marketing free trial).


Step 4: Send out any of the attached campaigns.

Most free trial offers will let you send 500 emails per account and then you'll need to sign up for a new one. So your work-load will be mostly churning and burning through accounts. The campaigns are a little dated so you'll need to update them with current offers, etc... Although posting on CL and emailing afterwards is way more effective it also comes with a ton of barriers/road-blocks CL will throw at you. So to keep it as simple as possible just scrape regular emails and utilize free trials to send.

P.S. I suppose a major caveat is to partner up with a network who is cool with this. Some are, some aren't.

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Could you offer some more insight into this method please? I'm completely new to IM. I'm assuming this is what's called direct email marketing, right?

-are all CL scrapers the same, and if not, what should I look for in one?
- is it better to just send a single campaign to every email I can find or is there some way I can use targeting, either geographically or by content(i.e. send things about cellphones to CL cellphone sections)?
-I'm someone with zero IM experience and not from the US. My written english is good, but my accent is horrid, so sh*t is going to hit the fan if I'm contacted by phone. So with all of that in mind, what kind of networks(if any) are there for me?

Thank you in advance.

Unbowed said:

Could you offer some more insight into this method please? I'm completely new to IM. I'm assuming this is what's called direct email marketing, right?

-are all CL scrapers the same, and if not, what should I look for in one?
- is it better to just send a single campaign to every email I can find or is there some way I can use targeting, either geographically or by content(i.e. send things about cellphones to CL cellphone sections)?
-I'm someone with zero IM experience and not from the US. My written english is good, but my accent is horrid, so sh*t is going to hit the fan if I'm contacted by phone. So with all of that in mind, what kind of networks(if any) are there for me?

Thank you in advance.

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No, some scrapers are better than others. The one I used either has new ownership and changed the design or has been taken down. The scraper that seems good is craigslistemailharvester.net and I believe it's a variation of the CraigslistEmailHarvesterPro edition or simply just took their domain name after it was taken down.

Yes, scraping certain sections and pairing certain offers to those sections will always yield better results. However, you may not find enough emails to collect if you just target smaller categories. You can scrape backwards, meaning past posts up to 6 months I believe and then you'll have more for a certain section. But that will go by rather quickly if you're sending a lot per day.

Best advice is to scrape just US for the previous day's posts and just scrape the community and for sale sections. Other sections only have @cl addresses and some just don't make sense to scrape. Housing for instance is one of them. Majority of posts are Real Estate agents who (1) are not going to fall for random email spam and (2) post everyday so if you're doing this everyday you'll be sending to the same people. Community and For Sale have more regular people who don't post everyday, although you'll have car and furniture dealers mixed in there too.

With my campaigns you don't need to target too in-depth because the origin of the campaign is purporting to come from CL directly, which applies to everybody you have emails for. I also ran successful car insurance campaigns on CL and I targeted just a few sub-sections in the For Sale category. However, in that case my campaign wasn't designed as being from CL so I needed to target deeper.

As far as network are concerned, I can't really give you advice on that since the 3 I used for this all folded. Maybe someone else can help you with that. I'm sure there are plenty of new ones out there. Just be upfront about your campaigns and strategies. It's best to know right off the bat if they don't want that kind of traffic.

P.S. I did this shit years ago so I'm sure a lot has changed since then.

PrinceVisi said:

Some rules to follow, if you want to succeed:

1. Don't expect things to be handed to you;

2. Read, Learn and Experiment all the time, until you find the perfect method;

3. Think long term;

4. Treat IM as a business;

5. Prepare yourself to lose some battles, before you win the War.

Good Luck!

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Well said bro. Those are advices to keep in mind, true that at first it is had but later you get profit.
Cheers.

For fuck's sakes it's only been 3 weeks. Most people start earning within months. Not even 1000/month yet.

Keep pushing through and stick to a plan

or

keep whining and quit like a little bitch

3 weeks? I have been trying since 2 years and still in zero

armom said:

3 weeks? I have been trying since 2 years and still in zero

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its time to hang it up

Don't worry losing money in the beginning is a very valuable lesson you have to learn, start with niche research and keyword research and then competition research. You can find all the information you need on these topics and methods right here on BHW, just take the time to find them and put them into action.

nakamura said:

is this thread serious?

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I think this is a very serious.......................................................................................................................problem.

Make a patient and try more

Hey dude, just keep going!
Ive been on this for 50 more weeks than you and finally im starting to see the light buddy
Ive been here for more than a year and i just got the grasp on this man!
Keep going and keep testing until you find a winner, and when you find a winner just scale it up to the sky!

First legit money I made was after 4 months of hard work man. You need to find something, learn all you can about it, put it into action, and stick with it.