I thought I wouldn’t be able to post this until monday but here it goes! The sooner I make money, the better!

So this is the first week into this case study and I gotta choose a domain name and get a web host. Remember that my budget is actually $100 at this point and I will not spend more money than this unless I make profits.

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As I’ve said earlier, this make money online case study will be more or less based on the one GoogleLady did lately. The website will focus on coupon codes but I’ll try my own techniques to get it working.

Here’s the plan:

• Get a domain name (already done) and a web host
• Install Wordpress 2.5 and slap an SEO’ed template against it
• Write the usual stuff: about page, contact and privacy policy
• Decide on which affiliate programs I’ll use and which offers I’ll promote.
• Put up some initial content so people don’t land on an empty site (about 25 posts)
• Build and / or buy some traffic (maybe I’ll buy some if I’ve made some profits)

At this point I’m running a bit out of time to write additional content on a regular basis so I’ll to wake up an hour earlier every day.

Stay tuned for week 1 coming up!

A few months ago while reading GoogleLady’s blog, I found out that she was starting a case study to see if she could make money out of a coupon codes blog. At the time, she was to begin with affiliate offers from Amazon.com, Buy.com and BestBuy.com if I remember well (and maybe there were a few others).

Anyway I thought about putting on a friendly contest and see who was gonna make more money. Turned out I thought Amazon’s Associate Program sucked and prefered investing time in some other projects.

Needless to say, she made a decent amount of money within 3 months (over $11,000), so I learned my lesson and I’ll shut my mouth next time!

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