3 niche sites a week challenge

Right. From now on, every week i have to create and sell 3 new niche sites. They’ll all be custom designed and sold on various forums. The aim of the challenge is to make $200 per week. Just to make it all official, i’ve created this;

Here’s some rules for myself to abide by;

• At least 3 sites must be created and put live every 7 days (unless for some reason i’ve areally hectic week like last week for example where otehr things take priority).
• At least 2 must be put up for sale in the same timeframe.
• All must have some sort of custom designed elements.

And now some time estimates;

• idea generation - 20 minutes
• domain hunting - 15 minutes
• buying domain / setting up nameservers / hosting etc… - 10 minutes
• logo design - 20 minutes
• template design - 2 hours
• content creation - 1 hour
• sales work - 30 minutes

Total max time allocated per site;  4hours 35mins.

• Current Minimum wage = $13.53
• 4hrs 35mins x Min wage = $60

So if i were in a normal job, i’d be getting about $60 for my time, or $180 for the 13.5 hours i’d be working. The aim of the challenge is to equal and preferably beat minimum wage as it’ll prove i can earn more than minimum wage from the comfort of my own home, on my own hours, with no work experience or 3rd level requirements

Finding the time to do this might be tough, but it’s only 13 hours or so tops (probably much less), i reckon i can fit it in until September and at the very least, i’d expect to make 1 or 2 sites during my ‘busy weeks’ - BeerChief version 2 launch and leading up to my repeat Maths exam.

This challenge has already started by the way - i’m putting myself under pressure now… we’re already at wednesday, so i have until Sunday to create 2 more sites (petprison.com is already up for sale). We’ll see how it goes…

They’ll probably all be wordpress - based as i’m getting more and more confident designing themes. But i might try and mix it up with something different after a while…

I’ll record as much as possible in excel spreadsheets and hopefully blog about my success or failure at the end of every week.

I know i said recently it’s not all about money, it’s not… this is about 70% for money, 25% for experience and 5% experiment I figured if i have the time, why not do something creative…

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