StealthMoonlighter: The Online Marketer

OK, so this is Month #1, Week #1. In fact it is October 2, 2007 (week 1 being Monday 10/1/07 – Sunday 10/7/07). The one basic detail is our budget for the month to do online marketing: $150.00

Our proposed revenue after expenses: $5,000.00

Note: This is, again, loosely based on Dan Raine’s $15k Challenge
which started August 28, 2006. On his blog for that project Dan says, “Over the next 30 days I am going to attempt to make $15,000 in clear profit starting with only $150.”

Now, Dan has the experience and skills to take $150 and turn it into $15,000 in clear profit in 30 days. Actually you’ll see by reading the post that he missed his mark by only about $500.

I, on the other hand, am not Dan Raine. I’ve only ever worked in offices, played music for a living, and failed pretty badly in commission sales and telemarketing. I’d be happy to make $1,500.00 in 30 days, which leads me to a new, more realistic idea for all of us.

Project A: Take a budget of $150.00 for the month and make $1,667.00 in clear profit by Day 31
Project B: Reinvest $150.00 of last month’s profits and make $3,334.00 in clear profit by Day 61
Project C: Reinvest $150.00 of last month’s profits and make $5,000.00 in clear profit by Day 90

So, here is YOUR most important part:
Pre-Requisite: Read through Mike Mendel’s abridged notes on Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge to get some background. If time permits and you want to be even more effective, join the Thirty Day Challenge site (now past the “in progress” mark) and become a member of the forum.

Month #1, Week #1:

1. Decide on a niche
2. Research 6 to 10 affiliate products to offer niche-related visitors
3. Write 10 articles based on keyphrases
4. Set up accounts with social posting sites, article directories, and various other sites like MySpace, FaceBook, Squidoo, OnlyWire, SocializeIt, HubPages, Tumblr, CraigsList, USFreeAds, AWeber, and eBay

Over the next few days I’ll be posting my progress on the steps above. On Week 2 we’ll get start to, as my pal Mike says, “Kick it up a knotch”.

Feel free to leave comments about your own progress. Perhaps we can be partially responsible for boosting the economy of or respective nations… It could happen!

That’s right — I said “WE”, and I don’t mean the Royal “We”. I mean you and me. If you don’t want to do this with me, then go do what I do — pay for help.

You see, I’ll be busy showing you what I’m doing. You can make comments and such, but if you have specific questions I won’t be the best person to ask. Your best bet if you want immediate answers is to get involved with (i.e., join, as in pay money or spend quality time to be a part of) any one of the following:

Immediate Edge
Wealthy Affiliate
Thirty Day Challenge Blog pages and forum (Still available as of 9/15/2007)

Now, someone commented on a YouTube promotional video for Immediate Edge saying that anyone could get all the information supplied by Dan Raine and company for free just by being a member of the Warriors Forum. And yes, that is correct with one big IF: IF you have the intelligence, focus, and drive to take a few ebooks and online articles and make a business out of them. Last I checked, not even some of my comrades on the TDC were at that point, and none of us are shy to acknowledge that fact.

Fact is, sometimes you need experts to show you what to do and how to do it. You need them to keep you moving and hold you accountable.