You have got $0 to start with, and have to make your first $1,000 in 30 days or less.
This post is a complete guide to complete the challenge stated above. I guarantee you, if you work hard and have commitment this is very much possible. You do not need to spend six hours in a day, but you must put in your best.
Since you have nothing to start off with, and I am assuming that you are completely new to the world of earning online, I will be covering a bit of the basics.
Firstly, you need to sign up with two forums. I would recommend, Digital Point and Webmaster Peers. Both forums are a great place to find freelancing jobs, and Webmaster Peers is a great storehouse of knowledge.
The first three to four days, I feel will be the most testing. You will have to work as a freelancer. There are several methods, but as you need to get $1,000, you have to avoid work like copy and pasting which pays very badly.
I have done my research thoroughly and these are your options:
Content Writing
There are always webmasters and bloggers out there that need fresh, unique content for their blog or website. Writing for these webmasters is probably the easiest way of making money through freelance work, as all you need is to write down some words and form a unique article. Obviously the higher quality article you form, the more you get paid, but there are webmasters out there willing to pay for very low quality articles, so it’s definitely worth a try.
Forum Posting
Another great way of making money by writing is forum posting. Forum posting is fairly self explanatory - you go and post on someone’s forum. People will pay you to do this as it makes their forum look more active, which will in turn make the forum look more appealing to new members who will sign up and post for free. It will also get them ranked in search engines. Prices for forum posters are generally quite low (around $0.10-$0.20 per post), but it really depends on the webmaster and what sort of posts they are looking for.
Designing
If you have a talent as a designer, this is definitely for you. It could involve designing logos or websites, depending on your talent. If you are a designer, there are loads of ways to get work as there are loads of designing contests around the web as well as lots of jobs that you can get directly from different people. The main thing for designers is to have a good portfolio that will really show off your best work. This will bring in new customers and also lets people see what they’ll be getting from using your services.
I am sure within three to four days; you will have collected around $100 easily using the methods I have mentioned above.
Next you need to buy two to three niche domains. (Picking the right niche is very important, pick a niche that has a demand and is not to competitive) Then you should install a blogging platform with a decent design, I highly recommend Word Press. (You can go in for Elegant Themes if you wish to use premium themes; you have some spare money so you can go in for it)
The next two to three days, depending on your speed, you should write loads and loads of content on these blogs.
Then you go to the Site Point marketplace and list these blogs under startup websites. If you have three blogs it will cost you $30 totally.
I am assuming that you have put in your best into these sites; the minimum average of these three blogs should be $150 each. That makes it totally $450.
*As of now if you have not spent the earlier $100 completely you are above $450*
You should have completed all of this, way under two weeks.
Your next step is repeating the part of setting up the niche blog. This time you go in for seven or eight blogs.
This is important, since you have money with you, you do not need to write the articles yourself, you can hire a writer to write unique articles for your at a cheap rate.Build on these blogs. Give them your best shot. You can invest the $450 (your wish) in premium themes, and maybe a bit of promotion.
Again you sell them at Site Point under startup websites. I am taking the lowest average possible, of $150 per blog. (I am sure you may get more than that)
That means there’s a profit of $150 per blog (at a guess).
8 blogs x $150 = $1200.
There you go! You’ve made $1200 under a month. If you are new, you may take just about a month. But I assure you, this target is very achievable.
One piece of advice, do not waste time. I cannot stress on the importance of how important it is to do things. Just DO it!
You can thank Teenius, for a bit of the outline of this post.
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Case Study:
I started off this way too; I wanted to check if this strategy works.
I immediately started off with three blogs; I used Elegant Themes on all of them.
A Forex Blog: I loaded this blog with ten articles on forex trading and strategies. I did a little blog commenting (blog commenting is when you leave a comment on another blog, leaving your blog as the link back) to promote this blog. In no time I had visitors coming in and comments too started coming in. Also, since I did have a few posts on forums, it helped putting the blog in my signature links.
A Weight Loss Blog: I write fifteen articles for this blog. I used the same strategy of promotion as I mentioned for the forex blog. This blog too was ding well.
An Internet Marketing Blog: I wrote twelve blog posts on this one. Here instead of doing a lot of promotion by commenting on other blogs, I decided to contact a blogger of the same niche and I asked him if I could write a guest post on his blog. (A guest post is a post you write, but is not published on your blog. You publish it on a big and well known blog of your niche) This way I got many comments and visits from guest posting.
Please note that all the articles I wrote were- over five hundred words, 100% unique and well researched.
I was successful in getting an average of 180$ per blog.
So, yes, it is very much possible for you too to do the same in a short time.
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April 29th, 2009
Great post ! Looks like a shortened ebook is published out there. Really those are some of the ways you can expect more money.
April 29th, 2009
Actually I was planning to give this as an Ebook, but I decided to write it as a post.
May 3rd, 2009
Sure, these are ways to make money but a lot of potential is seen when you hire freelancers.
For ex: People pay 5-10$ for a article, but in turn they make 2x times the money easily. So there is a bigger potential in MAKING PEOPLE WORK FOR YOU instead of WORKING FOR PEOPLE..
May 3rd, 2009
Agreed, but in the beginning when you have nothing to start with (that’s what this post targets) you just can’t outsource.
Thanks for commenting!
May 3rd, 2009
An ebook would be great, but I think there are already loads of books out there about this, so you’d have to add a new twist to it to really making it appealing.
May 3rd, 2009
Yes!
Plus it has helped increase my comment average
April 29th, 2009
Cool. I’ve read many “How to Make $1000 online from nothing in 30 Days or Less” articles, but this one is simply awesome. Especially the case study. I mean we’ve read so many people talking about how to make money, but very few ever tell how they made money.
April 29th, 2009
Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it
April 29th, 2009
Great post.
I’ve used this method in the past and have earned a few thousand from it. It definately works. Cool post, great idea
April 29th, 2009
It sure does
April 30th, 2009
Seriously a WOW Post.. really helpful and well written
Good luck to me !
April 30th, 2009
Haha Good Luck!
April 30th, 2009
thanks for sharing this tips - there are really lot of ways to earn money online even with 0 budget..
btw, you have a nice looking blog theme.. i love it!
April 30th, 2009
Thanks a lot for the comment
April 30th, 2009
Farhad that’s a very nice post and true.
Even I started my career as freelancing from these forum. That was for fun but later on I saw the good money lying behind it.
That’s how I landed into the world of blogging.
Along with all the methods you have described on how peope can make money from forum, there is one more way ..if you are very active on forums you can also sell your signatures.
Good writeup man! keep it up.
Meanwhile do take care of your permalink.
April 30th, 2009
I had actually included sig links in this.
The rate is $1 per 100 posts. And 100 posts will take time. Rather you spend that time on blogging. And honestly when our target is 1000$, $1 is very significant.
Your suggestion is good on the long run
Thanks for the comment.
April 30th, 2009
Nice tips. Btw you can also mention Blog commenting as a great source of income. Some people charge about 2$ per comment
April 30th, 2009
Yes, that is right.
But newbies may nt have do follow lists and also they will spend a lot of time on this, rather blog.
But its a good suggestion.
Thanks for the comment.
May 1st, 2009
Ya, it takes time but once u have the lists, its a good way to earn some bucks
May 1st, 2009
Agreed
Thanks again for the comment.
April 30th, 2009
Wow. Great article. Inspiring and you have made it sound humanly possible, which till now i thought I could not! Am starting on it. Thank you
April 30th, 2009
Thanks for the comment.
Hope you do well
April 30th, 2009
Farrhad –
You’ve done it again. I love how you lay all this out for those of us who haven’t discovered and taken advantages of these opportunities … yet.
Thank you.
– Daniel
May 1st, 2009
Thanks a lot Daniel
Glad you liked it!
April 30th, 2009
Honestly, I dont think one can make $1k in 1 month through these methods, even if they did, its gonna be a real tough task, but atleast you gave ideas to people.
May 1st, 2009
It is not at all impossible, as I said it requires hard work and dedication
May 1st, 2009
Great post. Nice list on how to make money online. I have been working as freelance designer/wordpress developer, and as of now this is where I make most of my money online.
May 1st, 2009
Thanks a lot
If you develop WP themes, it is a huge bonus.
May 1st, 2009
In this article i would think the most difficult part would be finding niche. What are you suggestions on that.
Also I checked Sitepoint and there are tons of websites added long time back that has no bids on them. How would you recommend getting over it?
Cheers,
Sid
May 1st, 2009
Firstly thanks for the comment
-Finding the niche is definitely the most important. You have to do your research. I will be releasing an ebook shortly to pick the right niche, stay tuned!
-You need unique content and a good sales copy- It will work out.
May 1st, 2009
This is an amazing guide!
You have written it very well.
May 1st, 2009
Thank you very much.
May 1st, 2009
Hello Farrhad!
Great article! What I like best about it is the fact that it challenges us! Many people may first read this article and recoil in horror thinking “No Way!” but that would only be a reflection of their own self-limiting thoughts! I love the closing phrase “One piece of advice, do not waste time. I cannot stress on the importance of how important it is to do things. Just DO it!” You couldn’t have given any better advice than this.
Thank you for the challenge and also for the ideas!
May 2nd, 2009
I think the fact that this method is so EASY is what will put people off. I find a lot of people think that this method is exclusive to experienced webmasters, but it’s actually extremely simple!
May 3rd, 2009
Thanks for commenting guys
May 1st, 2009
Sounds good for newbies. Some people decided to do PPC when they are just starting out and then failed to reach the $500 benchmark and just quit. What pity.
I have a friend who made over $3,000 a month just from content writing.
May 1st, 2009
I suppose that if you do it full time, that’s $100 per day. If you charge $0.20 per word (as a lot of pro content writers do), that’s 500 words per day which isn’t that much when you think about it!
May 1st, 2009
Hmm….
Thanks for commenting guys!
May 2nd, 2009
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May 4th, 2009
Hmmm, what again?
May 2nd, 2009
Great post. It really helps me considering that I really need some cash.
May 3rd, 2009
Yeah, and this method IS great for turning pennies into hundreds of dollars
May 3rd, 2009
Glad it is helping
May 3rd, 2009
Wow! Nice methods! I would have to definitely try that after working on my upcoming poetry book and exams. Good luck for me!
May 3rd, 2009
Haha Enjoy!
Thanks for commenting.
May 3rd, 2009
I started doing a lot of posting now. Its not easy to find a job to post in forums. Lot of competiton. Are there any other sites where you can land these jobs?
May 3rd, 2009
I know of one site, I will just search for it
Till then you can see this: http://is.gd/tgrz
May 4th, 2009
This would be easy for people that have a blog. But for people with new blog, it would be a daunting task.
May 11th, 2009
Didn’t know about being paid to write posts on forums. Nice to know.
May 13th, 2009
Cool article, it’s good to see someone backing up their advice with an actual case study of their own experience. I am surprised you were able to make $180 on average for each blog, that’s more than I would have expected. Quick question, how long are the posts you create for each of the blogs you sell? You wrote 10 - 15 posts on each blog but what was the average word count?
June 1st, 2009
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