A couple of days ago, I mentioned a challenge that I was going to present to myself and to the readers. The challenge was to follow a step-by-step plan to add an extra $1,000 per month to my business (or an extra $12,000 per year to my income).
This 30 day challenge is based around the old saying, “The money is in the list” and the commonly told statement that “one subscriber on your list is
worth $1 per month to you“. We’re really going to put these statements to the test this month.
I talk to a lot of marketers and I hang out in a lot of the circles that some of the most well-known marketers in world hang out in. One thing that I’m constantly hearing is that email marketing is getting harder and harder and people just aren’t making as much money with their mailing lists as they used to make.
Over the next 30 days, I’m going to attempt to go from zero subscribers and absolutely no name recognition to a list of one thousand subscribers and an asset that will generate $1,000 per month or more.
I’m going to do this by creating a free product that people opt-in for. I’m going to use a pen name so that no one knows that it’s me giving away this product and I’m going to register a brand new Aweber account so that I can show proof that I’m starting from scratch.
To generate traffic to this opt-in page, I’m going to purchase paid traffic from a couple different sources and attempt to build the list as fast as possible. Once my list passes about 500 subscribers, I’ll talk about how to leverage the existing subscribers to grow the list with a couple free methods but the majority of the traffic will be a result of paid advertising methods.
I will monetize this process in a few different ways.
First off, I’m going to put a couple affiliate links inside the free report that I give out. After reading my free report, if anyone wants to grab any resources I mention, I will receive an affiliate commission.
I’m going to monetize my thank you page, first with an affiliate link and possibly later with my own product. So as soon as someone opts-in for the free report, there will be a screen that says something along the lines of “Thank you for opting-in! Your free report is waiting for you in your inbox. In the meantime, I recommend checking out this product to help you with X.”. If I have time within the next 30 days, I may create my own product as an upsell after the opt-in so that instead of making only 50% of the sale, I’ll take 100%…
Finally, I’m going to monetize the list that I’m building by promoting affiliate products in the followup sequence. So once someone is on my list, they will be added to a daily followup sequence that is a combination between free training and help and an occasional resource that I can use my affiliate link with.
That’s the whole process right there.
To recap… Create a free report to give away in exchange for an email opt-in. Create a squeeze page to send people to. Use paid traffic sources to send loads of traffic to the squeeze page. Make money from affiliate links within the report itself, make money from affiliate links on the thank you page, and make money from the followup sequence once people are added to the list.
That’s the business model…
In theory, if I can add 1,000 subscribers to this new list, I can add $1,000 per month to my business.
Ok… So here’s the step-by-step / play-by-play that I’m going to put in to action.
1. During this first week, I’m going to spend some time creating my free report. I’m not going to reveal the niche to you yet because I want this to work without bias. Within this free report I’m going to include recommended resources and use my affiliate link for those resources. The report won’t be long… Maybe 5-7 pages in total. We’re giving this away for free. We want it to be extremely high quality and give loads of value but we don’t need to write an entire book. It’s going to be great detail and great quality but very “to the point” as well. I recommend picking a niche that works online for the traffic sources we’ll be working with. (i.e. WordPress how to, coding, graphic design, traffic strategies, the basics of how to use the internet, etc… Something that shows how to do something online). Make sure you have knowledge in this area. Don’t go attempting to teach something you know nothing about.
2. During this first week, I will also generate a squeeze page for this free product. The squeeze page will be very simple at first but I will do some split testing once we start sending traffic to it (more on split testing in a future post). To make things really easy, I will probably just use Optimize Press to make the squeeze page look amazing and have it online in a matter of minutes. You can also use The WP Cash Cow method that I’ve taught in the past and that I teach inside The WordPress Classroom to create your squeeze page. If you don’t want to use either of those, you can always do a search on Google for “Squeeze Page Template” and work with you find. For me, I love Optimize Press. (Note – You will also need hosting and a domain name to get started. I recommend using Hostgator if you are just getting started.)
3. During this first week, I will create a “Thank You” page. This will be the page that people see immediately after opting-in to my mailing list. On this page I will inform people that their free report is on its way and to check their email. I will also use this space to promote some sort of related affiliate product. Everyone who opts-in to my list sees this page (whether they use a garbage email or not). This is valuable real estate. When I dive in to split testing, I will probably split test the offers on this page as well and see what makes the most money. Again, for this page I will probably use OptimizePress but really, any WordPress page will probably do just fine.
4. During this first week, I will create a brand new Aweber account that’s 100% empty. I will create a “Thank You” email that links subscribers to where they can download their free report. (I’ll upload the free report in to my WordPress installation and just direct link it in the email). I will also write the first two or three followup emails that subscribers will see the first few days after joining the list. They will probably be helpful hints and tips to make the subject of my free report even easier to grasp but I will also throw in some affiliate links in here and there.
5. After this point, I will begin generating traffic to my squeeze page using paid traffic methods. My preferred paid traffic methods are 2nd tier PPC networks like 7search, Ezanga, and Adbrite, PPV networks like TrafficVance and LeadImpact, and solo ads (paying to mail out to someone else’s mailing list). I will attempt to keep my costs below $1 per opt-in. If we are assuming that one opt-in is worth $12/per year ($1 per month) we can probably actually allow leads at a cost higher than $1 per opt-in. However, to keep the math simple and to maximize profits as much as possible, I’m going to work towards a goal of less than $1 per opt-in. This will make more sense as I start showing examples of my tests and campaigns.
I may spend upwards of $100-$200 per day on some of these campaigns with the idea that I will generate more than $100-$200 per month from the leads that these campaigns generate. $100-$200 per day in theory should add an extra $1,200 – $2,400 per year to my business. Spending this kind of money on traffic can definitely be scary when you’re first starting out. Feel free to build upon these theories and methods as slow or as fast as you’d like. Personally, I’m willing to spend $1 to make $12 back as much as I possibly can…
6. Once I’ve built my list to 400-500 subscribers, I will experiment with Adswaps… Adswaps are basically leveraging your existing list to grow it even further. What I’ll do is I’ll find other people that have similar list sizes to mine and ask them if they’d be willing to mail their list and tell them about my opt-in page in exchange for me mailing my list and mentioning their opt-in page. We are essentially sharing each other’s leads and growing both lists even larger. I’m not a huge fan of adswaps because there are a lot of people out there who offer really sub-par quality products for free. If you start doing adswaps, make sure you opt-in to the other person’s list first and see what they are giving away. If you promote other people’s freebies and they are complete crap, you’ll start to hurt the relationship that you are building with your own list which will do more longterm damage than it will do good.
7. Towards the end of my 30 days, I expect I will have at least 1,000 subscribers. At this point, I will pick one product that I really like and support and do a large promo for it (2 – 3 mailings about 1 product). At this point, hopefully my list is responsive enough that I can generate a good amount of sales from this promo. I will tally up the sales from this promo as well as all the affiliate sales along the way and report back. If I made over $1,000 from all of this in the next 30 days, we can call this a success. If I don’t, we’ll play it be ear whether or not we call it a success or failure…
I’m going to have to be real careful with my reports over the next couple weeks. I don’t want to give away my product or my pen name to people following along. This needs to stay completely unbiased so that I can prove that anyone can do this starting from scratch.
It’s going to be a fun journey and, if it works, there’s no reason I can’t continue to duplicate the process. There should also be no reason that anyone else couldn’t duplicate the process as well. It may take a little bit of funding to get it rolling, however, in the grand scheme of things how many businesses can you think of on earth have overhead of less than $1,000 per month and profit margins of over 1,000%?
You can play with SEO and free traffic methods but, for now, I’d like to show people how to create income almost immediately. With free traffic methods, you could be talking months before seeing your first sales… With paid traffic methods, we’re probably talking days (if not hours) before your first sales…
I hope I explained this all clearly and I’ll be posting frequent updates. Make sure you’re on the mailing list (below this post) to ensure you receive all the updates on the progress.
If you have ANY questions at all, ask them in the comments. I’ll do my best to clarify anything you want and to make sure that anyone can follow along.
More Posts In This Series:
1. Add $1,000 Per Month To Your Business in 30 Days
2. One Thousand Email Subscribers in 30 Days
3. Creating A Free Report And A Simple Squeeze Page
4. Traffic Generation And Challenge Hiccups
5. Your Questions Answered And More Stats
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Matt, I’m really impressed that you are taking this challenge.
It must be a little scarey leaving yourself exposed and being public about how things work out.
I am very interested to learn of your progress.
Good luck with everything.
You are a real inspiration and I am looking forward to learning from you and sharing your journey in the best way i can
Thanks Dave. I’m well underway with the tasks that I’ve listed. I should have another status report soon.
Great paint by numbers post. It was very clear. For me I’d consider this a success already. You decided to do it. You’ve got a plan and will work it. You’re going to learn something and you’re going to help others learn along with you.
That my friend is success.
I love this quote by Wayne Gretsky: You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Stay strong.
I’d love to hear about people who follow the challenge right along with me and take some serious action! It would be really cool to have a posting at the end of all this with success stories from anyone who followed along.
Thanks for commenting!
Matt,
We’ve missed you brother! I know you’ve been busy in the WP Classroom, but man dude we’ve been ready for this!
Can’t wait to see you make this happen! What a great way to get our internet marketing kicked into gear!
Too bad we don’t know what niche you are choosing. I get it, but too bad anyway.
Thanks for laying this out for us and the best of luck to you!
We’ll all be following, so keep us up to speed.
Thanks Bob. I miss posting on my blog. It’s one of my favorite things in the world to post what I’m thinking or what I’m doing and get almost instant feedback.
I’ve had somewhat of a barrier lately where I feel like, unless I’ve got something really grand or amazing to teach, it should go on my blog. I’ve changed that thinking to make my blog more of a journal of what I’m doing and the results I’m seeing. i.e. income reports and 30 day challenges to myself. It’s all about accountability to myself and showing people what’s possible.
What a great idea! I’m going to try to follow along and see if I can mimic your results. This will be challenging, but also should be fun.
I hope the results are great!
Great Bernard. I would love it if you would post your results as you go along in the blog comments. If you show us that you are following along and seeing similar results, you’ll prove to everyone else that it is possible.
Hi Matt,
I’m VERY keen to see how you go with this, I am a newbie and have been for some time, this is where I stall, building a list! Hence the reason my IM efforts have never got off the ground!
Look forward to the updates.
All the best
Pete
Hi Pete. I’m going to show you how to build a list easily. Sometimes you’ve got to spend a little bit of money to get the ball rolling. But, once it’s rolling, it’s a lot easier to keep that list growing… You’ll see.
Matt, I will be following your progress closely as it could serve as an excellent blueprint for me. List building is always the key so I am very interested in your ad swapping exercise. I’ve heard of it but was always skeptical as I have no practical experience with it.
Looking forward to your next post.
Jeff
Thanks Jeff. I’ll post results and my experience with adswapping as we go. I’ve done it before years and years ago and it was effective. Let’s see if it’s still effective in today’s email marketing world.
Hey Matt, this is a great little challenge! Thanks for putting yourself out there on a limb.
I’ve told our over 800 blogging students to watch carefully what you’re doing. And I’ve bagged a ring-site seat
I’m especially keen to see how you use paid traffic.
Awesome Mary! Thanks so much for the support. I hope to not let anyone down with this challenge.
Matt, best of luck with the challenge.
Your plan is very detailed and something I will definitely refer back to. I haven’t built a list, though I’ve been online awhile – I’m still getting to grips with building sites.
I’m trying to keep my focus on one thing at a time but will be watching how you get on with this.
Tom
Great Tom. I agree that it’s best that if you’re focused on one thing right now, don’t let yourself lose focus and try something else. Stick to what you’re working on, see it through, get results, and then start looking for new ways to increase the income.
Take Matt up on his advice and gt optimise press. Your site building journey well last about 2 days max. It soo awesome and will do everything you need
Thanks for the post. I’m especially interested to see how you go with paid traffic. Will be keeping a close eye on your future posts.
Sheryn
I’ll definitely keep you updated Sheryn. Paid traffic can be so much fun once you get the hang of it. Once you learn you can spend $1.00 to $1.50 it gets a lot easier to pump a little money in to these types of things.
Hey Matt, what a great idea you have. This challenge is a fantastic way to earn credibility. I will definitely follow along and because of this act, my respect for you has increased. Nice one dude.
Thanks Sam. I appreciate the kind words.
Matt
I have started my journal in OneNote. I want to have a play by play or action plan to follow once the journey is done.
I only wish I could stop my shiney object / product syndrome…its bad…real bad
Mike
Hey Mike. Everyone goes through the shiney object phase here and there. I still go through it from time to time. It happens to us all. I’ll post the play by play as I do it. I have my moleskine notebook here that I’m handwriting notes of everything I’m doing so I can make sure I share all the details with everyone here.
Matt
I look forward to following the challenge.
Donald
Thanks Donald. It should be fun.
Here’s an interesting variable that I’ll throw into the mix just for the sake of discussion. All other things being equal, one guy BELIEVES HE CAN; the other guy BELIEVES HE CAN’T.
You’ve done this before with your business and not only do you believe you can, you KNOW you can pull this off. Well, at least you KNOW it’s possible for YOU.
Here’s what I suggest – pick some random newbie out of your list of subscribers; someone who hasn’t made ANYTHING yet, therefore (s)he doesn’t have the kind of belief system built up.
My guess is, pretty much everyone who follows you BELIEVES YOU can do it! That’s why we follow you!
I’m suggesting it isn’t the skills, tactics, methods, whatever you want to call it. The difference is in THE BELIEF.
It’s proven – you take money away from the rich guy and he’ll have it back in no time. You give money to a poor guy and in no time he’ll be broke or in debt again. PROVEN!
The difference? BELIEF!
Test that variable! That’s something I would LOVE to see!
All the best from Toronto,
Russ
Hey Russ. You make an awesome point! Business and actually making money is so much mindset than anything else. If you can get your mind in the right place and know that you can do it, chances are, you’ll make it happen.
I got in to online marketing when I lost my job back in 2009. I made it work for me because I felt I had no other choice. My back was against the wall and I had two choices. Make my own online business work or go out and compete with the 1,000s of people vying for the few jobs available. My choice was clear. I knew I could make it work, I stuck with it, and I made things happen. Getting your mind in the right place is way more than half the battle.
As far as bringing someone along with me to train 1-on-1… I’m not going to do that at this point in the experiment for one reason… This IS still an experiment. I’m not 100% sure that what I’m trying to do is still effective. I don’t want to force someone to spend hard earned money on paid traffic until I know that this challenge was a success for me first.
Once I finish this and prove to myself and others that it does work, then maybe I can pick a couple people work with them one-on-one and let them share their results. But for now, I’m going to put the risk only on myself until it’s 100% proven.
Matt! Wow. I just made the assertion on my blog that I can make a small side business that will profit $1,000 per month, starting from scratch, in an area where I don’t already have a business presence. MY challenge was more to teach my son about entrepreunerism than anything else… but I’m very excited to see someone else doing this kind fo thing with a blog!
I’m actually involving my son in my challenge. He and I are starting a small screen repair business in Colorado Springs. We hope to be up to $1,000 extra, part-time, in 30 days or less as well.We’re excited to see how your challenge does too! I’ll be back and check in frequently. Thanks for doing this and doing it so transparently.
Kurt
Hey Kurt. Great minds think alike.
I’ll follow along to your challenge at the same time. It’s going to be great to see the results of both.
Great idea. As a newbie just starting out and needing traffic/list etc I will follow with interest. Must say the comment by Russ about believing you can do it (done it before) does throw a curve ball.
Will watch this space……
Gill
I wanted to make a quick point, especially where Matt says he will be buying traffic and spending up to $100/day. I KNOW there are going to be people who zoom in on that alone and have an instant knee-jerk reaction, “OK, I’m OUT!”
So READ CAREFULLY as Matt describes how he will make this plan SELF FUNDING!
Even still, as soon as you put money into the equation, that will definitely rattle some folks’ belief systems. I’ll be the first one to admit, I’m STILL working on MINE which is why I brought this point up in the first place!
All the best from Toronto,
Russ
Russ, you are so right about belief systems. I once was a sales mgr for a direct sales co and started two new guys from the midwest and one of them came out of the gate flying, making many sales in his first 2 weeks. His buddy made none. 2 months later they were on the way back home, because this business was “obviously too hard to make money in”. The non-performer convinced the performer that it was too hard and then he too quit closing deals and was ready to throw in the towel. That is why it is so important to stay away from naysayers when trying to venture into new challenges in life. The mind is the key. Anything can be accomplished if just believed….. Sometimes just making baby steps until some success appears can be enough to break the spell. It is certainly worth trying, when following proven success.
Steve
Hey Gill. It’s definitely true that having seen it work for me in the past does change my mindset from “will it work?” to “this works”… But I’m not sure how it throws a curve ball. The idea behind this challenge is to change EVERYONE ELSE’S mindsets from “does this work?” to “this absolutely works”.
Once you see my results (or follow along and see your own), you’ll never doubt it again.
Hey Matt, I will shadow your steps in a new niche and post my results. I finally got some traction in my IM/Mobile list, (over 1500 now), and wish to leverage it as well as create others. Have made decent money w/affiliate promotions & paid traffic, but am always fighting Google TOS issues. Time to follow into some of these other paid traffic sources. It should be interesting….
Steve
Great Steve! I can’t wait to hear about your results. Please post them as we go!
I stopped playing with Google when their latest update came out and almost all my pages started disappearing from the search engines.
Think about this… Google makes all their money from their search advertising. It’s extremely beneficial for them to make SEO as hard as possible because they want people to pay to get the top results. There’s a reason they keep changing the rules. If they make it easy to rank, they stop making money off you…
Hey Matt: Yet another great post. Really enjoyed reading it. Must say though, as Newbie who hasn’t made a dime or dollar yet online, in 8 years, yes 8 years (my kids think dad is crazy now, haha), I’m not sure I KNOW how to do everything you are doing.
Over the years, I have purchased a LOT of programs; I have 3 sites up, for months now, but none are making anything. There are a few things you’ve mentioned that I don’t know how to do, however, will do my very best to keep up with this challenge. I would just love to be one of your Success stories, and then just Rinse & Repeat, as they say, haha.
I will also honestly admit, after 8 years of failures, I’m having a difficult time Believing I can still do this, but, I HAVE NOT QUIT! . The other difficulty I may have is the $100.00 a day in Advertising. Not sure I can match that right now. Keep Rockin on this project Matt…Cheerz….RJ
Thanks for the comments and feedback RJ. What sort of things have I mentioned that you don’t know how to do yet? I’ll do my best along the way to explain things so people can follow along.
Hey Matt: Wow, thanks so much for replying. I honestly didn’t expect that. I may be getting ahead of myself with my concerns. I’m kinda assuming that most people here are already a member of WP Classrm, which I haven’t joined just yet, so know how to do everything you’ll be doing. Just wondered, although you won’t tell us ‘what’ niche you’ve chosen Matt, which is understandable, will you be offering any direction on ‘how to pick the niche’? Also, will you offer any guidance on writing up the short Free giveaway. I’m guessing for sure there won’t be any video tutorials; just you explaining each day WHAT you’re doing and your progress, probably with screen captures.
I think I just need to be patient, keep up to date with this Challenge, and just do what I can, to follow along. If I have questions, or hit a snag, I’m sure I can just post that here. I can honestly tell you Matt, after 8 long yrs of struggling, I’m Believing I’m on my way to my First Dollar. Cheerz…RJ
Matt,
Great post – but my reply is because I cannot find a good email for you to send this request…
In one of your previous Podcasts you mentioned a guy you met in Austin at a MasterMind meeting who is killing the Insurance lead gen business – has a lot of sites and is generating a substantial income.
I have been working in this niche for several years and would like to talk with him. Could you email his name, email and/or phone no.?
Also please give me a good contact email for you – my email address is in this reply.
Thanks,
Jim Forbes
Hi Jim. His name was Austin but I never actually got contact details from him. He was a friend of a friend and we sat down and had beers for a couple hours one night. He explained his business model and we chatted marketing but I never did get his information. I can do my best to try to track him down again.
Matt,
That would be great if you could try and find out who he is. Any information on the venue or group would help if you cannot find his information so I could look – but hope you find it.
Reach me at the email address attached to this reply.
Thanks Again,
Jim
Great stuff Matt. I will be following your experiment.
You mentioned several different traffic sources but do you have a favorite one or two that you like to start using in the beginning?
Hey Eli. I’ll talk more about traffic in my next couple posts as I start to generate traffic to my new site. My two favorite sources to start are going to be Solo Ads and TrafficVance PPV traffic. TrafficVance will require an upfront deposit to get started though which may make it a little more unattainable for people just starting out. I’ll also be playing with AdBrite and 7Search in the beginning as well which require less money to get started.
I loved your layout plan and am keeping step-by-step notes in (for the rinse and repeat). I have two completely different ideas percolating in my brain but am not yet sure which way I will go.
Russ’s variable was great (pick me, pick me!) but as he also commented a little later relative to knee jerk reactions, my own initial reaction to the paid leads was “oh hell! I am out of this, my non-existent budget is simply not going to allow me to take part”.
None-the-less there is more than one way to get to the other side of the mountain. You can go over, under, around the sides or just blast your way straight through the middle. It all depends on self-belief and determination. Slow and steady is just as good as a fast sprint to get to the finishing line.
At my advanced age a sprint is likely to give me a heart attack anyhow…lol.
Hey Sandy. Thanks for commenting. I’ll test out some free traffic methods as well in this process. The paid methods are just the fastest way to get to your destination. Free traffic can work, it’s just going to be a much slower build up.
When it comes to free traffic, I HIGHLY recommend getting in to forums and helping people out. Make sure you’re squeeze page link is in your signature. This is probably the most effective free method that I know of. Forum marketing kicks butt as a free traffic method.
Hi Matt
I am going to follow this one closely Matt because i want to build an online subscriber base.
I love your openess and transparency here to share with us how to build a business online.
I had an idea that i wanted to talk to you about so give me a shout when you get a chance.
thanks
John
Thanks John. I’m looking forward to hearing your results along the way.
yo bro this is crazy i am relatively a newbie online and i swear jus a couple of days ago i came up with this same idea to do exactly what you are doing in the challenge because after mnths of careful investigation i have noticed that this is really how a lot of the so called gurus that sell us all that crap really make their money. bribe people with something free to collect their email and create a mean a## sales funnel for months to come that will consistently bring in residual income. I know the $100 a day budget sounds scary to a lot of people but it makes good business sense if you spend a $100 and get $150 back its a no brainer. but since my money is not as long as yours lol i will start up slow and just keep reinvesting because i figure if i pay $100 bucs for a solo ad that gets me 200 clicks to my squeeze page i should be able to break even or even make a lil profit from my free report and the affiliate offer on the thank you page and then i just keep repeating the process over and over again. i may not achieve 1000 subscribers as fast as you but i will build a list thats going to make me money for life without really losing any money. pls let me know what you think of my theory and wp classroom is definitely going to be one of the offers in my sales funnel
You are definitely right on a lot of points. Give away an “ethical bribe” to get people on your list. Then offer them tools and resources that will help them on their journey. I don’t sell crap and I don’t give away crap for free. I want everything I offer to really help people. If it doesn’t I wouldn’t put it out.
As far as budget… All said and done, I’m going to be spending much less than $100 per day. Some days I will spend more and some days less. Averaging it all out, it will be much less in the end. PPV and PPC traffic I haven’t been spending nearly that much. I use very small budgets to test a page’s effectiveness. Once I know the page converts with my chosen keywords, I’ll scale it up by throwing more money at that keyword.
I ‘m very interested ,and going to follow your 30 day challenge
I think that is a project for helping people to understand the process to make money
Thanks Matt
Thanks for commenting. I’m looking forward to showing people that this works.
hey bro i wasnt refering to you as the gurus that give away crap i think you are one of the few genuine marketers out there who really tries to help people and i am really glad you are doing this challenge to help us newbies. i will be following you every step of the way and i am also in the process of building a microniche website to promote your wp classroom because i think its a great resource and i truly believe in your products. unlike a lot of marketers out there i only want to promote what i believe in and wp classroom has definitely helped me out a whole lot. thanks a lot and keep doing what you are doing
Thanks so much! Let me know if you need any help with your microniche site. I always love helping out people that are interested in becoming affiliates.
Matt, I think your my new fav marketer
You are soo awesome to do this, really gonna help alot of ppl. I’m following on but couldn’t do the $200 per day.
Once I start I will try and report back but dont know if i cant start in enough time to be beside the challenge but either way it will be awesome. Maybe we could try other methods and report what worked which you could collate into a report along with the results and offer to the rest of your followers as a gift?
Many thanks once again x
Thanks Cherrelle! With this challenge, I’m going to a bit of an extreme with my budget. I highly recommend that anyone doing this start off slow and scale up as they learn. I just want to prove that if someone was willing to invest in the beginning, they can generate results.
I think I will do multiple challenges. Possibly one every 2-3 months. I’ll put various business models to the test and learn what’s still working and what’s not.
I’m using this as my first challenge because it’s almost identical to the way I started out over 3 years ago. I wanted to test to see if someone getting in to the game today can get in to it the same way that I did when I started.
Still following along and very interested to hear more about paid advertising since it’s something I’ve never ventured into purely because I have absolutely no knowledge about it and guess I’m scared of paying too much for for not enough and taking the wrong route!
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Paid advertising can be intimidating but it’s definitely the fastest way to generate loads of traffic to a website right away. If your page converts well, you should have no problem being profitable.