The Double-up Experiment

Having been spurred into action with regard to my online marketing activities, I've decided to set a target and see how long it takes to reach it. So, I am now running the Double-up Experiment.

My target is to earn the same amount of money as I earn with my day job, taking taxation into account. So I need to earn online the same as my gross annual salary, and ideally within 1 year.

I think that's a reasonable target for a beginning Internet Marketer. After all, the plan is to be able to give up my day job and concentrate on my online business.
If I can earn the same amount of money, but part-time, then I know it must be relatively safe to give up the day job.

As I go, I'll keep a diary of exactly what I do to earn that money, and I'll also report back on this Blog.

I'm not going to reveal my day-job salary here. The actual amount is not important.
What is important is whether I can equal that amount through my online activities.
I can live off my salary, so I want to prove to myself, and anyone else who's interested, that I could live off my earnings on the Internet.

What I shall do is report back how much I have earned as a percentage of my target sum. As I do that, I'll keep track of the percentage of the year has elapsed so that I can see how on target I am.

As I won't be able to do any work on my internet business until tonight, the project will officially start at midnight tonight (00:00:00 10 July 2007)

That means that as of today, the current status is:
Year elapsed: 0.0%
Target reached : 0.0%