I'm sure others have better ideas than me, but what I've been doing is only making the IO's I have found recipes and salvage for. The cost of crafting them is expensive enough.
I have not been hounding the market, but salvage and common recipes are starting to get less expensive. If you know what you are looking for, find it on the market, bid 10-500 influence for it and hope someone too impatient sells it cheaply.
But really, you'll need to just play, earn that influence, make your new nest egg. LoL, then hope we don't have to start over on a new server anytime soon.