RPM's Journey to $5mil Dollars Profit in 2014

This thread is really motivating to see! I love to see people that are motivated and up for any challenge that they'll have to face.
Also I don't think that your goal is unrealistic, people only say that because they have never actually put in a lot of work or effort into IM!
I've only been doing IM for about 2 months and my income is already at $50- $80 a day which might not be that much but hey, we all have to start somewhere!

Good luck with your journey bruh and work hard!!

Good luck bro ! If you have a strong determination and a deep passion to achieve something then yes you can do it ! Never give up ! Your never know how close you are to success. But success cannot be made just with in these things. You need a solid idea and a work plan.

I will be watching you updates

I officially have my first hater! That was quick. I must be doing something right haha

Dan Da Man:
You have a lot of valid points. You've definitely been here for awhile so I see where you're coming from. Thanks for the constructive criticism and 2-3 million would be just fine with me

And I actually technically have made money off of IM. I have a modest baseball website that I made with wordpress so I'm not a complete newbie to the internet and web design. I have a bio, training philosophy, and a page with lessons and pricing. Haven't done any SEO or advertising.

Gotten a few leads from my site by handing out business cards with my site on them. I've gotten a few weekly clients off there and I charge $60/hr. So the site and hosting has more than paid for itself already!

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You need a million dollar idea to get a million dollars. Promoting your health/fitness product in the most competitive niche isn't a million dollar idea, maybe it's a million people's idea. Unless you figured out something drastically different about health/fitness you're selling sand to bedouins.

It might get you somewhere your plan and an extremely well executed marketing campaign, but for the love of God, lower your expectations. You better stop creating money goals, and create physical goals like: achieving 100 visitors to your product, or 1000 likes to your FB fanpage, etc... and then scale up your goals.

P.S.: when i first read your topic title in forum's "home" feed, i sincerely thought you are already making 1M$/year.

rpmmarketing said:

I just retired from playing professional baseball (injury) and even though I never made it to the major leagues, I'm still going to get my big league contract.

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details on this?

teranu:

I see what you're saying and it all makes perfect sense. You are 100% right.

I am obviously going to set those smaller goals along the way, and by no means do I expect this to happen overnight. $5mil is a personal challenge. If I hit it, most likely its going to be selling physical products on Amazon or through my own online store.

Are the odds in my favor? no. But if I achieved my goal this would be a legendary journey and not only would I have a ton of cash, I'd have achieved something not too many people thought was possible. I live for a challenge.

Nothing motivates me more than someone telling me I can't do something. People told me I would never play sports in college, and once I made it to college they said I wasn't good enough to play professional. I've been dealing with adversity my whole life.

I guess I'm just going to have to prove myself.

The online weight loss industry is estimated at 20bln, so if I can gain a .025% share of the market I will achieve my goal. It's certainly not impossible.

I guess time will tell if I can make it happen or not.

Big dreams.
I wish you luck and it should be interesting to follow your story.

So I finished my craiglist ads. I posted 5 ads with a weight loss affiliate offer. I'll check in the morning and see if I have any sales. Nothing huge, but hey at least I am doing something.

So you have no experience yet you know you're goingto make $1mil from IM within 1 year? GTFO! I'm not a negative person, I like to encourage people to dream big. However there's a huge difference between a realistic goal and a crazy goal. I'm not saying it is impossible to make $5mil in 1 year in IM. As a matter of fact it is possible to make $20mil in 48h and it has been done. What i am saying is it is highly unlikely for YOU to make that kind of money in that time frame in that market. From hundreds of factors and variables you have only one that you control - will/dream. That's it. And that goes to shit when you hit a slightly larger bump.

Make $10, $100, $1000, $10000 and then based on the experience up to that point you can come up with a $1mil plan through scaling various things. I can dream of making $5mil in 1 year from selling dope even though I never even saw dope in my life and have no experience in that field and I'd probably have a higher chance than you to make it (because dope is high ROI and bc of other factors).

The hardest things have to do with yourself not external factors. Thats the most difficult battle. And it takes a long time to evolve personally into the $5mil/year man - especially from IM - from where you are now. Problem is not you want $5mil but bc you want it in 1 year. It is not you want an amount of money in 1 year it is bc you want $5mil. On top of that is lack of experience and knowledge and skill.

Having 10years experience in IM & IT and being a bit of a blackhat mastermind and I still dont think I am at the level I could achieve $5mil within 1 year. Even if i'd go all in and risk tons.

@OP, great goal to achieve but this is like me saying I'm going to be playing in the MLB within 1 year even though I have no experience whatsoever. How many people have made it to the MLB within 1 year when they don't even know how to catch the ball or swing a bat? Especially in today's league? I'm pretty sure no one did...

I've been doing IM for 5 years. When I first started, my goal was to reach $1million in 5 years. Let me tell you... I still haven't reached that goal yet. I found that setting smaller goals were so much easier to attain and it motivated me to keep going.

But good luck OP. Be prepared to go through many failures and disappointments with IM.

Cheers!

rpmmarketing said:

I officially have my first hater! That was quick. I must be doing something right haha

Dan Da Man:
You have a lot of valid points. You've definitely been here for awhile so I see where you're coming from. Thanks for the constructive criticism and 2-3 million would be just fine with me

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Trust me I hate haters but your thread is just lame. And it is okay because you are beyond a normal newbie. You will realize quite quickly how the real world works. It will slap that unrealistic dream right off your face.

Dreaming big is awesome, no doubt it but things take time. Just like you didn't become a pro baseball player overnight did you? And if someone came to you saying they wanted to be a pro ball player in a year and they had no experience, you would laugh at them right? Because you know it took you 10-15 years of playing ball, figuring out how to throw, finding the right ways to throw, finding the right coaches and the right information, probably getting tons of homers hit off you and loosing many games.

Tell me if I am wrong OP

You're already on the right path with your baseball website, you'll pick up a lot once you start trying to rank it.

Have you heard of Elliot Hulse? He's a strength and conditioning coach that has and is successfully marketing himself on youtube. I don't know if he's a millionaire in terms of money but if you can bring some kind of flavour like that with your baseball knowledge you should be able to get that much closer to your goal.

I wish you success in your journey, I'll be following along to see how you progress

Thanks for the advice guys. I realize that from a distance this goal seems impossible. And your baseball analogy is correct.

My best bet is honestly to find a mentor and join a mastermind group and use my real world social skills to work together with ultra-successful marketers on product campaigns and referrals.

Time will tell. One thing is for sure. Talk is cheap and results speak for themselves.

I'm done defending my goal...I will be posting updates all the way through December 2014. Feel free to mock me and flame me the entire way through.

Let's see how much money I have at the end of 2014.

12/9/2013

I did 3 baseball lessons today for $180.
None of my craigslist ads converted.

I decided today I am done f'ing around with spammy free traffic for now and I am going to run a dedicated facebook ad CPC affiliate campaign starting at $50/day. I will be split testing and recording stats.

If my ad is turning a profit I am going to up the advertising to $200 or even possibly up to $1000/day.

I'll be honest, I have no idea what I'm going to promote. I'm doing my research on BHW and on google right now. I'm not gonna say the exact offer I'm advertising but it will most likely be in the dating, weight loss, or luxury concierge industry.

I am going to buy a few domains tonight off of namecheap and then put a simple, clean optimized landing page (based on some frank kern videos) for each of my offers and start collecting emails. My plan by the end of the week is to have a handful of 1 page (landing page only) sites complete with a contact form and links to my offer.

Which also means I need to set-up an email autoresponder. Judging from this site I am either going to use aweber or interspire. what do you guys recommend?

I'm beginning to realize that it will be easier for me to build a bunch of pages, purchase SEO optimization on BHW and then funnel paid advertising on top to my landing pages. I'm planning on using the same template for all of my landing pages and then just changing the offer accordingly.

This should also give me a good start on building that double-optin targeted email list I was after. I am just going to have to make sure that I manage the different lists accordingly and keep them separated so that I don't lose leads.

How you make it big in SEO: you figure out how to make small money in a method that is scalable.

The scalable part is the key. Everyone can make a few bucks directly trading their sweat equity for $. But you only have a fixed amount of hours per week to work.

So far I'm not hearing $5 mil ideas or even $100k ideas. Creating websites, and promoting them using BHW promotional packages? IF you're lucky enough to have the proper content, pick the right keywords, not overoptimize your pages and have the good grace not to trip Google's algorithms, maybe you have slightly better than minimum wage going on there. These are not easily scalable, your bottleneck there is in content creation and keyword research. Sure you can outsource that, but how you going to know if you have good outsourcing if you don't know how to do it yet?

Buying ads on Facebook, or Google, isn't a fast track to millions either. The auction process for bidding on keywords, Google and Facebook is the winner there. Advertisers will compete against each other, saying "I can still make profit even though I bid more", and as a result Google takes the lions share of the profit available, and you only get to keep the little remaining left over because you outbid the next guy who stopped considering it a worthwhile return. People lose money on adwords all the time ... only if you're really good, lucky, have experience and good keywords to bid on will you make money like this.

My original comment of going to the warrior forum and selling IM materials (even though you don't know successful IM yet), I wish that was just a joke ... but most of the people there are doing the exact same thing. So far, that was your best idea.

Well, this thread is nothing if not entertaining.

The true test here is if you'll still be doing IM at all 1 year from now.

Good luck.

Dan Da Man said:

Trust me I hate haters but your thread is just lame. And it is okay because you are beyond a normal newbie. You will realize quite quickly how the real world works. It will slap that unrealistic dream right off your face.

Dreaming big is awesome, no doubt it but things take time. Just like you didn't become a pro baseball player overnight did you? And if someone came to you saying they wanted to be a pro ball player in a year and they had no experience, you would laugh at them right? Because you know it took you 10-15 years of playing ball, figuring out how to throw, finding the right ways to throw, finding the right coaches and the right information, probably getting tons of homers hit off you and loosing many games.

Tell me if I am wrong OP

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stop shitting in his ice cream, let the guy dream big, he'll learn what he needs to learn on the way to 5mil

rpmmarketing said:

Thanks for the advice guys. I realize that from a distance this goal seems impossible. And your baseball analogy is correct.

My best bet is honestly to find a mentor and join a mastermind group and use my real world social skills to work together with ultra-successful marketers on product campaigns and referrals.

Time will tell. One thing is for sure. Talk is cheap and results speak for themselves.

I'm done defending my goal...I will be posting updates all the way through December 2014. Feel free to mock me and flame me the entire way through.

Let's see how much money I have at the end of 2014.

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Illegitimi non carborundum

BHW is a tough crowd, and you can't please everyone. Dream big, but know it takes small steps to get there, and it won't be fast or easy. Like sogeking said, you will learn what you need on the journey.

The only reason you guys aren't making millions yet frankly is because you're too busy meddling in my thread telling me I can't do it. Is it really outside of your reality that someone could do 5million in one year?

I live in the Silicon Valley. You read about people my age making way more than me off an app or an aquisition. My buddy sold his app for 3mil a few months ago.

I'm not even dreaming that big. If they can do it, so can I.

I didn't say I was going to make 5mil in IM.

My biggest source of income is going to come from private label goods. Who's to say I can't make 5 million pushing product on the internet in one year. That's how Mark Cuban got rich. Maybe come march I'll be selling poo flavored ice cream on amazon for 10 dollars a bucket.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. -Henry Ford