Extra Cash From Home

For many years I’ve dabbled a little here… a little there… read a lot, researched even more ’till I felt like my eyeballs would bleed. I’m a researcher. I can’t help it. Unfortunately, that’s led me to a place called information overload. This causes me to absolutely nothing.

Recently, I decided that my main focus was going to be building and flipping minisites. It allows me to use my abilities:  graphics, web design, and writing. My husband thinks it’s a good idea. He said it’s the first real plan I’ve come up with that has a good possibility of making me some money.

I’ve been waiting for the moderators of the War Room to accept my thread. It’s the one where I offer up a free pack of Wordpress themes for the members. Unfortunately, they have yet to accept it. I sent for help in their support area and was told that it can actually take up to 4 weeks for my thread to be accepted. Holy cow! 4 weeks?!? I hate waiting.

I finally decided that waiting around for my thread to get accepted was a waste of time.

I spent most of yesterday gathering up all the ebooks I had on finding niches, building minisites, writing articles, and flipping sites and read them all. I took notes and condensed everything down to a few pages that I’m going to print out.

I finally finished my note-taking this morning. I’ve read and reread everything. I had to take action.

I started to get nervous as I purchased a domain that will collect emails from people interested in buying my websites, as well as a domain to create my first minisite. I’m on a very limited budget of $200. I was able to find a coupon online to use which knocked down the cost of my Godaddy domains from $20 to $15.

Since I’m on a limited budget, I’m using the free Bravenet mailing list. Once I start making steady money, I will switch over to Aweber.

I created a simple black theme for my main site and uploaded it. I had to go through the motions of adding the 2 new domains to my hostgator account, creating databases for both, as well as email addresses. I then uploaded and installed Wordpress (an awesome free blogging platform that is widely used) onto both domains. I have to install the necessary plugins on the site I’m going to flip.

It’s been slow going not because I’m a novice at all this (I’ve been a webmaster since 1999), but because I’m nervous and don’t want to fail. I’m scared shitless.