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    Many entrepreneurs are famous for the impossible challenges they set themselves. Robert G. Allen is famous for the impossible tasks he has set himself such a taking 3 people from an unemployment line and teaching them how to create wealth and buy property in just 90 days, or his challenge to earn $24,000 online in 24 hours (he earned over $90,000 in 24 hours).

    Recently I set myself some goals (which you can read here) and I have pretty much smashed all of them. So I (Ryan McLean) have set myself an impossible challenge for myself (being the entrepreneur that I am). The challenge is this:

    Earn $1,400 per month by 1st January

    This means that in January I need to be earning at least $1,400 per month every month. This seems completely impossible as my blog only gets 150 uniques per day and that everyone knows that blogs grow exponentially and mine is still at the bottom of the scale.

    But I say screw the statistics and screw that everyone else says it cannot be done. I am going to go for it and I am going to go hard and just you guys wait. By January 2009 I will be earning over $1,400 per month every month and I will be a full time online internet marketer.

    Ok so how do I plan to achieve the impossible? This is a very good question

    1. Write Quality Content

    I want to continue writing killer content that is really really useful to my readers and that is so good that people will link to it and bring in more traffic from other sites and from search engines

    2. Get a Success Team Around Me

    I was reading ProBlogger recently about How To Use Stumble Upon To Get Traffic and I am looking to build a team of bloggers in my niche (around 20 of us) who can help each other stumble and digg and talk about each others stuff. We will all work together to help each other other, both with social media sites and with other marketing strategies. If you would like to be in my success team then contact me, my door is always open.

    3. Run a Competition

    This month I have been running my Top Commentator competition and next month I am going to up the prize pool and offer more for commenting and also for writing reviews about my site. This will drive a lot more traffic to my site increasing my income.

    4. Give Away Free Stuff

    I will be giving away free ebooks in order to build up my newsletter subscribers. I will market them both on this website and through forums in order to gather names quickly. Once you get 10,000 names and email address of people who are interested in a certain topic you can easily become a millionaire. At the moment I have 120 which is 1.2%…not a lot but better than none. I want to build this up to over 1000 by January 1

    5. Write My Own Ebook

    I am currently writing my first ebook which will be up for sale titled “How To Make Money Commenting”. This will be for sale for just $7 and though I will need 200 sales to make $1,400 I believe this will be a good thing to supplement other income.

    6. Sell Affiliate Programs

    Once my newsletter subscription readers over 200 people then I will begin running affiliate sales campaigns of products that I believe will be really helpful to my readers. This will hopefully make me around $300 per month by January

    7. Receive Donations

    Although I don’t expect to receive any donations I am hoping that some generous people out there will donate to Smarter Wealth so I can afford to spend more time on it and make it even better (and then I could increase posting to twice per day) and still really good quality posts

    8. Advertise

    I am thinking about advertising once I release my ebook. I will advertise through getting product reviews on other sites, through some 125×125 banners (maybe) and maybe experiment with some pay per click advertising and see if I can make any money.

     

    Did all this confuse you? Then here is a simple list of my goals in order to achieve $1,400/month by January 2009.

    • Gather over 1,000 names and email addresses of people interested in making money online
    • Increase traffic from 4,000 unique pageviews per month to 50,000
    • Create and sell over 200 copies of my new ebook “Make Money Commenting”
    • Increase RSS readership to over 1,000 Readers
    • Run Affiliate Sales Campaigns to make $300/month

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35 Comments
  1. #1 sean
    September 26, 2008 am30 12:17 am

    some ambitious goals there. good luck with it all. I really think that anything is possible.

    Are you getting any income at the moment? I’d like to know a breakdown of how you are going if that’s not too personal a request.

    sean

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  2. #2 Young entrepreneur
    September 26, 2008 am30 12:40 am

    Ryan good luck, I hope you’ll succeed. Btw I’d love to compete with you -I’m talking about the income, not the other goals-.

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  3. #3 Clog Money
    September 26, 2008 am30 12:50 am

    Good luck bud. Count me in on the twenty or so bloggers. Would be good if we could get people around our age group ;) Shoemoney/John Chow at the likes are a little old don’t you think ;)

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  4. #4 Clog Money
    September 26, 2008 am30 12:51 am

    and rather than at….. One day I will learn to proof read rather than hitting the shiny submit button straight away.

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  5. #5 SuiteJ
    September 26, 2008 am30 3:16 am

    The Success Team around you should be number one Ryan. ;) Very valuable.

    You have a good plan, but I’d also consider creating more sites that are built around promoting a niche affiliate product. More baskets for your eggs. :)

    Cheers!
    Jay

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  6. #6 Keep It SEO Simple
    September 26, 2008 am30 3:17 am

    Great GOALS Ryan, what is your plan or how will be mainly getting that income. Are you thinking private ads or adsense? Just wondering…or do you have a special product up your sleeve for us!

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  7. #7 frogstr
    September 26, 2008 am30 3:20 am

    Good luck with achieving these goals. These are very ambitious goals as Sean said, but you do have a good plan.

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  8. #8 Dave
    September 26, 2008 am30 3:33 am

    I want to join your success team but the problem is we’re not on the same niche.. But I’m very interested in your niche..

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  9. #9 rebel
    September 26, 2008 am30 5:59 am

    One thing about not trying impossible goals is that you will definitely fail. That si awesome to set those goals and work towards them. I believe you can make it.

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  10. #10 Ethan
    September 26, 2008 am30 6:56 am

    Great goals Ryan. It may be hard to achieve but if you get there, man, you’ll be off to a good start at trying to do stuff online for a living. Won’t you need about $4000 a month to do it full time?

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  11. #11 Tara @ Home Business Blog
    September 26, 2008 am30 8:27 am

    Your list of goals is great. Have you considered any micro sites to drive in additional traffic or small niche sites to increase your revenue as well?

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  12. #12 Jake
    September 26, 2008 am30 10:41 am

    Best of luck Ryan

    I was thinking of doing the same as #2. Let me know how it works out for you.

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  13. #13 Dave
    September 26, 2008 am30 5:09 pm

    @Ethan >off topic is your site down?.. I go to your domain and I only see * blog/ * wp-includes/ folders..

    @Ryan in your “list of my goals in order to achieve $1,400/month by January 2009.” all of it is hard.. but I think you can achieve it :)

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  14. #14 Desmond - DesmondBlog.com
    September 26, 2008 am30 5:48 pm

    Remember that Thomas Edison failed a thousand times before creating the lightbulb.

    Nothing is impossible. Even mission impossible is possible. LOL

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  15. #15 Tom - StandOutBlogger.com
    September 26, 2008 am30 9:56 pm

    I’d love to join your success team! I had an idea for something similar but since you are starting one I’ll just join yours!

    Hit me up via email

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  16. #16 Jay
    October 2, 2008 am30 3:56 am

    Those goals aren’t that bad and I definitely think you’ll be able to accomplish those by the beginning of the year.

    I have a few of my goals as well which is a little above yours but then again, I probably have more bills to pay than you do. :P

    Jay

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  17. #17 Sherry
    October 2, 2008 am30 11:36 pm

    good post, I want to start a contest in my blog. Its my new domain blog which I want to boost.

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  18. #18 Freddie
    October 3, 2008 am30 2:20 am

    Good stuff, Ryan. You have to set high goals that his how you stay off your ass and keep it moving in the right direction. It is easy to get comfortable and not continue to push yourself.

    I am an ignorant entrepreneur as well and don’t know what is impossible on the Internet Marketing scene, so I say YOU CAN DO IT!

    I will be watching and taking notes!

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  19. #19 David
    October 3, 2008 am30 4:15 am

    You have set a very realistic goal of $1400/mo.

    I am interested on being on your team.

    You have an edge up, in that your content is better than most.

    TAYL

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  20. #20 Escoofield
    October 4, 2008 am30 11:28 pm

    This is so interesting and i will be happy to be on your team.. when i think about it.. it reminds me the times when i was young…. LOL joke^.^ i am young i will live forever young=) This is possible if we work all together.. nothing is impossible if work together! since you have a good relationship to your subscribers that is very important :) and i am so happy to see you with it!

    Escoofields last blog post..Mirror Illusion

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  21. #21 Sherry
    October 5, 2008 am30 10:28 pm

    earn $1400 per month, I don’t think I can do it.

    Sherrys last blog post..Sponsoring contest with EC

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  22. #22 Escoofield
    October 7, 2008 am30 11:55 am

    Sherry maybe not now but in the future i am sure you can do it :) just believe in your self.. and important thing is to ask help from others don’t let your pride kill you ^.^ Good Luck!

    Escoofields last blog post..How to Make Cheese

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  23. #23 Rahul Jadhav
    October 9, 2008 am30 3:37 am

    I hope tht u achieve the targets that u have set….even i would like to be part of the team

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  24. #24 Rahul Jadhav
    October 9, 2008 am30 7:54 pm

    hey ryan…..hows your chellenge goin on…it would be nice to recieve some updates on it

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  25. #25 Escoofield
    October 14, 2008 am30 4:48 pm

    Yah ryan how is the challenge going on?.. I really wanted to know.. hehehe :) Rahul :) careful not to double post in the same day hehehe :)
    Escoofields last blog post..First day being a fire fighter

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  26. #26 Jeremy Day
    October 15, 2008 am30 3:31 pm

    Ryan,

    Great Website! Love the challenge. You know, things do start to grow exponentially when you hit a certain point.
    And I do like your idea of growing a group of 20 to do Digg type posts. That would help all our articles gain traction and we can all grow together. I am in!

    Jeremy

    Jeremy Days last blog post..Tip’d is Digg for the Financial Community

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  27. #27 Escoofield
    October 16, 2008 am30 9:56 am

    @Jeremy Wow you look so formal lol :) is this true ^.^ you got a nice blog out there ;) but i suggest you should make some line breaks in your article.. because when i read it it seems that i will not finish reading lol.. hehehe :)
    Escoofields last blog post..And the Winner Of Weekly Contest Is …..

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  28. #28 Jeremy Day
    October 16, 2008 am30 12:50 pm

    @Escoofield lol. thanks! I think? My articles are long aren’t they? Id like to think people can appreciate them for that. loved your site. its nice to get a few laughs in before bed. ;-)
    Jeremy Days last blog post..Blog Action Day 08: Fight Poverty

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  29. #29 Rahul Jadhav
    October 19, 2008 am30 12:49 am

    hey what happend to the team…no news

    Rahul Jadhavs last blog post..Choosing A Niche For Your Blog

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  30. #30 Jeremy Day
    October 19, 2008 am30 1:14 am

    Hey Rahul,

    Chill dude. The dude is getting married here soon. Give him a break. We will still be forming it. ;-)

    Jeremy

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  31. #31 Escoofield
    October 19, 2008 am30 5:34 am

    @Jeremy Day So sorry for my slow response… I didn’t know that you wer the first person who thanked me using comments.. i am so happy to help you I agree that your posts are long but they are interesting to read :) heheehe keep it up! Someday you’ll reach the top when someone dies Lol…. there are people that so hard to compete with ..

    Escoofields last blog post..Political Horror Picture Show

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  32. #32 Rahul Jadhav
    October 19, 2008 am30 4:23 pm

    hey jeremy i realize what you want to say….you are right the chap wants some rest ….hes busy with the marriage

    Rahul Jadhavs last blog post..Choosing A Niche For Your Blog

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  33. #33 Sophie
    October 24, 2008 am30 7:26 am

    Remember Ryan:

    You have built a solid foundation at the moment…you just need your “boom” moment and I am confident that you will achieve all your targets! Make sure you keep us updated!

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  34. #34 misanthropope
    October 28, 2008 am30 4:44 pm

    or you could do something _really_ original: make money blogging about making money blogging about making money blogging. with bloggers.

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  35. #35 Eric Tan
    November 16, 2008 am30 9:52 am

    its alright to dream big! If you don’t make it and only hit $1,300 a month you are only a few more months away from hitting what may seem like an impossible goal! good luck man!

    Eric Tans last blog post..Dear Mr. Obama

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