One Year On

This blog is now one year old.

It started out as a log of my attempts to make money on the Internet, although it did change focus from time to time.

Well one year on, where am I in terms of making money? My grand plan was to have earned the equivalent of half the amount I earn from my day job. So how did I do?
Not even close!
I sold an ebook for $30 (£15).
I made $20.25 (£10.12) on Google AdSense.
I earned $20 (£10) on "buy me a beer" donations on a forum.
Total for the year: $70.25 (£35.12)
That doesn't even cover the costs of buying domains and hosting them.

The problem was that I really had no idea where I was going with it. Sure, I'd bought and read all those ebooks about making money online, but they all seem to have one or two things in common.
The first is that they don't tell you the whole story. You get part of the way down the line, and then realise that there's something missing.
The second is that they all assume that you either have a large mailing list, that you can easily create a large mailing list, or that people are just going to come to your site like magic.

Since then, I have met up with some like-minded people and we're working on an excellent project that should get us all earning some money together.
It doesn't come without some hard work, but we know that it's going to be worth it in the end.

In that time I have also written a number of programs and scripts which I plan to sell. I am currently working on a script for which I have several customers waiting in the wings, which is all good news. It confirms that I must be on the right lines with my ideas.

So, although I haven't made much money over the past year, I just know that this coming year is going to be huge. It may have taken me a long time to get there, but it will be sure worth it.

If you're struggling to make money online, all I can say is keep at it. It can be done, and this year, I'm going to prove it. Big time.