The $1000 a month challenge

So readers, I have decided to set myself up for a challenge.  After working very, very hard on my main business GirlMogul – encouraging successful tween girls, I finally think I might have it headed in the right direction.  After thinking long and hard about what I really wanted and needed from starting a business as a mom, I’ve decided to take the $1000 month challenge.  Okay it’s a made up one, but in it I am going to take on of those make money on the internet courses and implement it step by step and see if it works.  You can get to watch me blog about it and see if I can do it.  I will disclose my expenses, my revenues, my methods and my thoughts, plus the products and techniques I use.  And I think $1000 is a nice number.  It’s big enough to be motivating (I mean there is a lot you could do with $1000) – it’s enough so moms can quit jobs, or really help out with family expenses.  In the grand scheme of business revenues, it’s still a small number  – in other words, a “real” business person isn’t going to get excited about that amount of money.  And since one of my requirements is that I can build and maintain this business in my spare time, it should be that I am not working 100 hours a week for a measly $1000.

The goal is to build an online business that yields $1000 in revenue a month, with minimal start up costs, overhead, and expenses, in one month.  Other requirements include:  It has to be something I can build and run in my “spare time” since I already have a business, a family and lots of other responsibilites.  Also, no shipping of product.  The money has to come from advertising and product referrals (otherwise known as affiliate marketing).  And the subject can’t be about how to make money on the internet.  And startup expenses (inclusding advertising) can’t be more than $500.   And as I said, at the end of the month, I want it to be generating $1000 in revenue from advertising and affiliate marketing.  And I am going to follow a course or book step by step  – to see if I can do it too.

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