The end of the first day of my Double-Up Experiment is drawing to an end.
I've been drawing up a general plan of action for doubling my overall annual income over the next 12 months (or less).
I came to the conclusion a while ago that the best thing to do with information from the "gurus" is to ignore it. Today I read an interesting eBook that basically confirmed this.
The thing is that whenever you buy the latest "system" from the gurus, there's always a big flaw. It's probably true that their latest thing earned them tens of thousands of dollars, but they have mailing lists of 50,000 people or more.
For us lowly beginners who are yet to build a list at all, it's no use whatsoever.
So they promise you a system that sells itself, but they don't tell you that you need an established customer base to sell it to.
Anyway, the point of this is that I have decided to ignore the mailings that pile into my email inbox every day, and just concentrate on getting a single income stream going, and where possible, completely automated. Then once that's running, work on the next income stream, and the next, and the next and so on.
The idea being that even if each income stream brings in only £100 a month, together they will eventually be enough to equal my salary.
So, I'm now working on my first income stream which will be selling my own software, and maybe a few other software products written by other people.
I have several programs that I have the right to sell, and I shall continue to create more.
I've given myself 1 week to set up my online software shop, including writing the web pages, building them into a complete site, preparing the digital downloads, and setting up the eCommerce required to sell my software online.
I'd prefer to use one of my forthcoming website generators to create the store, but they're just not ready yet. A pity, because the site would be its own advertisement for the capabilities of my eStore Builder program.
