Noob with Small Success: Made $217 in first 3 weeks

Maalik

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I know it's not much to talk about lol but, it's enough to let me know I'm going in the right direction. I just need to scale up.

If you remember, I made a thread a few weeks ago about wanting to make $30,000 in 6 months. I might have to expand that deadline :D. As for the thread, to be honest, I could've been further along had I not spent alot of time over analyzing, researching and scaring myself before I actually put things into motion. I have some savings (<5k) and I didn't want to blow it on some bullsh*t idea.

(Paypal screenshots)
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Anyway, I've delved into e-commerce, as I have some history with that. I put up a website on March 8th, 2012 and as of now, I've made $217 and some change. My goal is to scale the site up to $500/month in the next coming months. My idea is to build 6-8 additional websites (all e-commerce/service/product based) and attempt to make $500.00 from each. I will put up a new website every 1-2 weeks (slow but, i have college to juggle). Doesn't sound too difficult right?

6 sites making $500.00 a month - $3k/month, $18k/6 months
8 sites making $500.00 a month - $4k/month, $24k 6 months

If I can automate quickly (as in only checking Paypal -> Filling Orders -> Sending Emails + Promotions), I might try for 10 or more.

I wanted to thank BHW for inspiring me again. I earned somewhat good money online before but, I got seriously discouraged after massive failure. Posting on here made me realize that I needed to get back on the horse.
 
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What method did you use? Mind sharing or you could PM me? :)
 
congradulations..

Anything you can make even $5.. if the return on investment was good (hopefully 50% or more), you know then you can always scale up and do better.
 
If you are relying on Paypal as a payment method, I would not bother. Paypal love nothing more than wrecking peoples online businesses for the sake of it. I was doing really well running an eCommerce store many years ago until paypal put and end to it, just for the fun of it.
 
If you are relying on Paypal as a payment method, I would not bother. Paypal love nothing more than wrecking peoples online businesses for the sake of it. I was doing really well running an eCommerce store many years ago until paypal put and end to it, just for the fun of it.

i know about PayPal all too well...trust me.
 
Sounds like a great start! Just be sure to not get bogged down with too many projects/sites going at once. Its easy to get caught up launching new stuff and not spending enough time on the current projects to make them really profitable. I've just had that problem in the past.

Good luck!
 
Holy crap, I did not know paypal would do such things.

Regardless, good work!
 
Holy crap, I did not know paypal would do such things.

Regardless, good work!

PayPal freezes accounts for no apparent reason (they say suspicious activity or fraudulent activity)...

Screw paypal...use 2checkout!
 
Congratz OP! Scale it up and outsource the boring stuff! Your job should be counting the cash!

I'm not sure what's wrong with PayPal, I've made over 200 transactions with them and never had any major issue.
 
Congrats mate.. scale it up.. Dream big.. we don't spend anything for dreams, but we get a let of success in return.

The best ROI in human history comes from big dreams and positive attitude.
 
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