My best outcome of this challenge was that I decided to research currency trading to build a site. I had 50 articles written, built the site and was getting Adsense income started. I decided to put an affiliate product on the site (a new idea for me then) and in researching products, I got interested in Forex and started to learn to trade.

The end result was that I never made a new website for 2 years after that… I went trading. I now have a strong passive income from Forex trading, have retired from my day job, and I’m now managing trading accounts for a growing list of clients who don’t have either the time or inclination to trade or learn to trade themselves.

Am I making over $100 a day from the Internet?

You better believe it!

Our challenge was mentioned on blogs like Problogger and WorkBoxers which has brought a lot of traffic and a lot o…

If I can join the conversation…
First let me say thanks for the mention!
All your blog posts have given the challenge a great boost in
traffic and awareness.

I’m going to add a post tonight on websitenights about my plans, but let me just add here that my original plan was earning 75% from PPC campagins.

The blogs and content sites I’m building are long-term projects that will hopefully start bringing income by the end of this challenge.

Nadav

I’m participating in this challenge and Darren is right – we can use whatever floats our boat to earn that $100 as long as we start with completely new projects. So, my previous websites/earnings are inadmissible for this :).

Personally, I think earning $100 a day from AdSense alone is quite a stretch and Russell is the only one I know that is actually going that route (more power to him). A lot of sites mention AdSense (heck, even I’m using AdSense), but they’re also looking at other viable means as well – PPC, affiliate sites, their own products, etc. coupled with AdSense.

I notice the conversation is hovering around solely creating new blogs to

I have at least 2 affiliate sites that I’ll be adding to my $100 per day challenge portfolio. I’m thinking about long term viability of each of the sites I create.

After this challenge is over, I don’t want my earnings to dwindle with it and I don’t want to coddle any of those sites on a daily basis either (at least not the ones on the subjects I’m passionate about).

As Darren mentioned, the challenge is about being fun and productive and motivated to simply do something — anything. That is the biggest problem with most people seeking to make money online – they get paralyzed and never actually do anything.

Even if they don’t make it to the $100 a day mark, at least people will see that they can do something – and with a little added dedication, they can achieve all of their goals.

Okay, that’s my 2 cents :)

Its not a competition – rather a challenge that people are working on together.

Even if they don’t make it to $100 I think it’s a good challenge – fun, productive and hopefully something that they’ll all learn something from.

Check out some of their blogs – what some of them are doing is interesting.

For new sites there is nothing they can do to get out of the “sandbox” in 12 weeks.

I guess I can write an entry about how I would tackle it.

I’m just looking at my earnings for the first two or three months of most of my blogs and the majority of them were still only earning a few dollars a day at that point (many still are to be honest).

I think if you started 10 new blogs today and worked your butt off on all of them that you’d find one or two would hit the $25 mark in three months with a bit of luck – another 3 or so might hit the $10 mark and the rest might sit in the under $2 category. It is possible – but it really depends whether the blogs get picked up by others quickly or not and if they get indexed well by SEs I guess.

But you’re right – if I was going to try going from $0 to $100 in 12 weeks I’d start multiple blogs on a variety of topics.

What about multiple blogs? If someone could get 3 or 4 blogs live and running within a month, you think it’s possible to pull $25/day each in a couple of months?

Scrivs – You don’t think it can be done without PPC? I wasn’t planning it myself and I’d be interested to hear your opinions (you too, Darren) on that.

Anyway – I think it would take someone doing something pretty amazing to get a blog f 0 to $100 in 12 weeks unless the blog/blogger was either:
- already live and generating significant traffic
- very lucky and got some massive inbound links
- they were doing something dodgy (spam?) to get traffic and click throughs
- a famous person already that could pull a large crowd
- came up with some amazingly smart gimmick that everyone started linking up to

Of course it could be done with PPC which is what I think some of them are doing.

I’ve never taken a blog from anything more than $50 per day in three months and that was a fluke.

what do others think?

I think it’s possible, but not for 99.99% of the people out there trying to do it. It’s hard enough to almost get $10/day from a site after 3 months so if anyone actually accomplishes this then I would be very surprised. Mad props for trying though and making it public.

This is where I got the inspiration for my Big Money Tips Project, but couldn’t participate because obviously I am going to link to that site from my other ones.