$15k Challenge – I lost
When the $15k Challenge blog first launched (August 2006), I signed up and followed along. The goal was for this guy Dan to make $15k, in one month. The catch was that he only had $200 to spend on anything he wanted. He couldn’t use any of his existing resources (contacts, websites, newsletters, email lists, etc).
I decided that I would give it a shot as well. He was going for a viral lauch and was promoting a craft membership site, and I followed along, just with a different niche. Each month this craft site was going to give away free books and patterns, etc. Stuff that interested people involved in craft…stuff.
I decided my niche would be scrapbooking and created this site for Scrappy Jackie (my alter ego…she needed to be female). I didn’t spend anything beyond the cost of the domain (and JackieWinton.com my alter ego’s full name) so less than $20 total.
I created an account at scrapbooking.com and a few of the larger forums. I created personal pages, and went full steam ahead. Over the course of a week, I posted about 200 posts in 6 different forums. A few days later I got some signups to my email form, but in a weeks time I had about 30 people signed up.
When Dan made his list he had over 6,500 people sign up. That told me that I either missed a part of the process or he was cheating!
Thankfully I didn’t spend any money promoting this site because it would have all been for nothing. Anyways, I learned my lesson, stay away from email marketing. I’ve never been able to get anyone to sign up for anything email related anways.
I guess that doesn’t really have to do with an idea for a way to “make money online”, but it does tell you how to not lose money online!
p.s. If the Jackie Winton is out there, I have a few websites for you!
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