The $15k Challenge came about ultimately because I drank too much Absinthe on a night out with my friends. The slighly longer version of why is below:
Every second Friday of the month a group of my so called friends get together for a ?marketing (excuse to drink and bullshit) meeting?? you know, the kind of stuff normal people do without the profit angle (ah for the good old days)
? anyway. .. as the evening went on we started discussing what would we do differently if we had to start all over again?
Now, this is where it all started to go downhill? apparently (and I beg to differ) I came out with the following smart-ass comment? ?If I had to start all over again then I could easily make ten grand within a month?? well that was it? fate sealed.
And even if I disagree, and don?t remember uttering those words, my ?good friends? decided that I should bend over and reach for the soap?
? and that?s how the challenge started? (actually, I spent the next hour or so trying to get out of it, but the Absinthe and my friends eventually wore me down) ?
The Rules
* I have 30 days to earn $15,000 (I initially said £10,000 which is around $18,000 but they were nice and rounded down)
* Starting capital is $150
* No loans, or any credit financing. Anything purchased on credit cards will be deducted from the allowed amount.
* No use of any existing software, scripts, or products that I own. With the exception of standard tools such as an HTML editor, graphics apps, FTP etc.
* The $15,000 is net profit not gross income.
* It has to be in a non-internet marketing niche.
* All income has to be derived from the Internet and can?t come from the sale of any site or business that I create.
* No existing mailing lists may be used, and I can?t use any existing sites I own or friends/friends lists to promote the business.
The Forfeit
A lot of time that evening was spent discussing what the forfeit should be if I lost the challenge. The current ideas are making me run around in a pink leather thong at some popular city night spot, or as suggested by Jason ?Profit? Moffit (thanks) ? walk into McDonald ?s, wait in line, and order a number 4 all while in the comfort of my Fruit Of The Looms.
All of this of course will be caught on camera for YouTube to archive for eternity.
The plus side to this though is that if I actually make the $15k, then my friends have to do the forfeit instead
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About Me
I am an Internet Marketer and have been working online for just over six years. I mainly sell niche products (both physical and info), but over that time I have also created quite a collection of profitable content sites.
I have never had a million dollar day in the John Reese sense, or a billion dollar day like Frank Kern (I?m sure he said it was that ;), but a few months ago my business partner and I sold a chunk of our niche sites for just under $3m. (credit where credit is due, we would have never made as much if it wasn?t for some excellent advice from the Yoda of niche marketing? Ed Dale? and some nifty ninja tricks learnt from Frank).
I am also married, have a body like a temple, and dine with royalty in my castle most weekends. (ok, one of those three is true)