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AM methods with minimal investments (18)

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I joined this forum yesterday. I've been fooling around in different sections and threads but very confused about where to start? Can anyone please help me with the links of forum posts where i can learn AM methods which i can start with very little minimal investment? Thanks in advance.

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What do you consider is a very little investment? Just to have a clear point of view.

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Welcome to the forum.

Have been in your situation just a few ago. Best to start with is the 1 USD guide --> https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...e-Introduction

For less than 10 USD you get to see how things work. You will run your first campaign and likely have some conversions aka money

I would just concentrate on that in the beginning. Don't worry about becoming overwhelmed. Is quite normal. You will get to understand things more quickly than you can imagine in the beginning.

Have fun and once you feel confident start a follow along.

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To be specific, By minimal investment i mean $500 in my case.

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Thanks, I will give it a shot. Let me know if you have any other methods which i can test within $500.

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The problem is when you want to start with too low investment you will most probably make decisions based on emotions and not based on stats because your main goal then is not to learn and succeed but rather to save as much money as possible.

Then it would be good to know what your goals are.

When your goals are to make $xx,xxx/month from that $500 then it´s pretty unrealistic.
But as larsometer says, the $1 guide is a very good starting point to get first campaigns running and to see if it is what you want to do or not.

Then you could scale to the 40 days pops tutorial and then stay with pops or run push.

But when you think about starting FB or native with $500 then better forget it, for this it´s way too less and you have very low chances to start there with such investment.

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Thank you for being honest. Your advice is very practical and you're right about me getting emotional. I want to get into adult/dating push. How much budget do you suggest i should start with? Is there any good step-by-step guide on push dating traffic that you can recommend?

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I don´t know about the combination push/dating specifically but usually it should be at least $2.5k-$3k.

It´s not that you will lose all the money but it´s always better and easier to run stuff when you don´t have to fear to lose your last dollars.

When you test a campaign and need $50 for it then it would be 10% of $500 investment but only about 3% of $3k investment so you probably would keep the same campaign running for longer until you reach statistical significance when you have $3k instead of only $500.

I just publish a push guide, you can find it HERE

But the guide is not about push for adult dating.

That being said, push is not the best match for adult dating anyway.

Several users here say that they got quality issues with adult dating on push.

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Thank you very much. I really appreciate your help. Reading your thread now. Will think about changing niche from dating to any other with push. And i will arrange around $3k and only then start.

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Push + sweeps seems to be interesting for a start, and might be even possible with "only" 500 bucks. Payouts around 1-3 euro might have a chance to survive and be profitable with that budget. But safe a bit more and you have more choice when it comes to verticals and traffic sources.

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Yeah, i was able to find good sweep offers on maxbounty. Will do some research in forum and start with this.

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Goodluck, don't rush and you don't know what's a good offer, because data hasn't told you yet

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@arjunsuru - Do you know basic html/css, copywriting & how to set up a website?

If not you could just build an SEO niche site first. It would probably fit your budget better and you get to learn some basic IM skills.

I started with SEO affiliate sites and you learn a great deal building them without the added stress of losing money every day. Now I'm moving into learning Paid traffic slowly and some of the beginner guides I'm reading (like Amy's) make more sense than if I never learnt the basics.

Hope that helps

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Don´t get me wrong, you can start with $500 but it will be a lot harder then.

The amount you need to start with is not only that high because you will lose all that money before you see green.

Another important point is that you need more money for a better cashflow so that you can keep your campaigns running.

Let´s say you spend $200 for tests before you find a real winning campaign.
When ypu start with $500 you would have $300 left at that point.

Then let´s say your winning campaign can spend $500 a day, in this situation you couldn´t even run it for one day and you would have to stop it.
Then you have to wait for the networks payment so that you can continue.

When the payout takes some time it can also happen that the campaign isn´t even working anymore.

You see, it´s not only about the money you will lose during the tests but also about having enough cashflow for scaling.

And additionally there are the costs for forum, tracker, server and stuff.

So again, you can start and succeed with $500 but it will be alot harder than starting with higher budget.

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Haha, that's correct

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Thanks for this suggestion. I already know basic HTML/CSS and how to setup a website and landing pages. I've done affiliate marketing with social media free traffic. Now i'm moving towards paid traffic because social is getting harder to scale.

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I totally understand what you're saying. Gambling with less money is the risk of losing all money. But i'm in this for the long term and just don't want to throw $500 randomly. I will research properly and then start with $3k budget.

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Well if you have not much money, but lots of time, you can always do SEO, but that takes a long long time and is hard to scale.

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