Buy Me A Ferrari

Hi everyone that may or may not be reading this blog post (just realised it’s a bit silly saying that as you’re obviously reading it right now and those that aren’t can’t read it… if that any sense!)

I’ve decided that Buy Me A Ferrari is still going to be a blog about making money but it isn’t just going to be about making money online. I’m going to keep track of all my money making (and money losing) in my life.

This therefore includes anything made online or offline and also anything I spend online and offline.

I’ve decided to do this as I have just got myself a weekend job at Mercedes-Benz of Newcastle on reception. I kind of stumbled upon this job accidentally as I was doing my second work experience there (in the sales department) and it was revealed that there was a vacancy on weekends - which is ideal when I am still at school.

The wage is £6.50 per hour and initially I will be working 2pm to 5pm on Saturday and 10am to 4pm on a Sunday. Once the girl that is currently doing 8:30am to 2pm leaves I will also be doing the hours that she is.

Hopefully I won’t end up spending it as quickly as I earn it but I will be detailing everything like that on this blog, both the highs and the lows.

The second income I have at the moment is EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance), which currently stands at £30 per week, only if I was in school for the full five days the previous week. So if I am ill one day the previous week I won’t receive it at all.

That also reminds me that I need to fill out and get sent off the new EMA form for next year at sixth form.

I’ll leave it at that for the moment, any comment about the new ideas would be appreciated, whether they be negative or positive.

Some of you will and some of you wont have heard about the Thirty Day Challenge but nevertheless it will become apparent to you at the end of this post.

I originally signed up to the 30DC last year, with every intention of following everything that went on. However, things didn’t really go to plan and my GCSEs got on top of me and I had very little time for anything else.

This year however, my AS Level exams are out of the way and I have free time to basically do whatever (except for ICT work as that’s all coursework based).

Quick 30DC Intro

I’ll take this straight from the Thirty Day Challenge website as Ed and Dan can probably explain this better than I can!

In a nutshell… The Thirty Day Challenge is about making your first $10 online. For a full 30 days we are going to be showing you exactly how to start your own Internet business and generate your first income online without spending a dime.
That’s right, this is going to cost zip, diddly, nothing, nada, ziltch. The entire training program is free, and you won’t have to spend a thing to get your business started and begin making money. No credit card required.

So there you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth, so-to-speak.

Why I want to do it

I really want to do this as I’d love to start making some decent money on the internet (to buy my Ferrari of course :P).

Strictly speaking I have already made my first $10 on the internet through advertising/Google AdSense etc. However, this does not stop me from entering into the Thirty Day Challenge. I’d love to have a proper internet business and also continue blogging.

When does it start?

The pre-season material has started to be published today but the challenge itself commences on the 1st of August and lasts for (as the title suggests) thirty days.

How do I join?

Well all you need to do is visit their website and enter your name and email address. However, if you are feeling really kind, you can register using my link HERE. But it is entirely up to you which you use. I have no idea yet what I get for referring people but point make prizes, so I am told and when I refer someone to the challenge I get points!

If you don’t want to register using my referral link, feel free to click here instead. It would be appreciated if you registered through me though, but whatever you prefer

I’ll now finish this introduction to the Thirty Day Challenge. I will be posting very shortly about the first piece of pre-season material.

Yup - I know, I’ve been really lazy lately and haven’t been posting half as much as I should be. This is changing as of now as I am not going to stop posting like I did lately.

At the moment I’m looking for a job and selling stuff I don’t need from the house - this is in an effort to purchase car insurance and get myself a car as I have a license and no car to drive at the moment.

I have a load of random stuff on eBay at the moment from children’s books to DVDs, there will also shortly be a load of computer parts going on as I need to have a clearout and generate as much money as possible.

If you’d like to have a look at what I’m currently selling and possibly even have a bid or two you can do so on eBay here.

So the sole purpose of this blog at the moment is to document my path to afford a car and insuring the car. I will get back to the Ferrari one day.

Any web designers willing to do me a cheap page?

If so, I want a one page website set up. If you can help drop me an email: me [at] daviddunn.co.uk and we can discuss this a bit more.

Where is Buy Me A Ferrari going now?

I will be continuing along the same lines as I was before but I want to make money now rather than in the long run as I need a car and insurance now.

I’ll still be talking about different things to make money on the internet etc. but I’ll also be talking about the ways in which I am making money and how close (or far away) I am to being able to afford a car/insurance.

Anyone got any quick ways of making money that I could use? Also, I need a web designer for another project idea if anyone is interested? Drop me an email.

All donations to the same PayPal email address are great and you will get a mention. Bidding on my auctions is great too.

I recently came across an interesting forum post by Viraj on the Blogger to Blogger forum - the post itself was asking why bloggers still list their prices in dollars rather than pounds.

This made me think as I am from the United Kingdom and therefore my primary currency is GBP (Great British Pounds), however, I still charge for advertising in dollars.

At the time of writing my advertising page, I thought that listing my prices in dollars would be more widely accepted with most viewers coming from the US. Thinking about it now though, even if the advertiser is from the States, there’s no reason why they couldn’t pay in pounds using Paypal.

If I’m advertising somewhere, I have to pay in dollars usually so can’t see it being much of a problem if people have to pay me in pounds.

I’m now off to update my advertise page with updated prices.

Let’s see how this turns out, if you have any comments let me know as I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Well, hopefully anyway! These are the different things I am going to try in my journey to making some money on the internet. Note; some of these aren’t just things I am going to do on Buy Me A Ferrari but stuff I will put onto other sites, or new sites altogether.

Monthly advertising

You will probably notice that there are several slots on the pages of Buy Me A Ferrari that you can purchase on a monthly basis. Yes, none of these have been purchased as of yet as my blog is really new, but since the 18th (7 days ago) I have had 631 visitors and 1,123 page views so this should pick up.

These figures are increasing every day so hopefully people will start purchasing the ads. However, I haven’t been promoting these spots too much as I hope to implement a theme that I will purchase shortly, then and only then I will go and properly promote the ad spots (you can still purchase them now though and they will still be affective when I change the theme).

Project Wonderful

Project Wonderful seems to be a relatively new concept but I have it implemented on both of my blogs as the idea is really good. Advertisers bid (from $0.00) for a specific spot on your website, the more visitors you have the more money you will make as the site shows how many hits you are getting.

I like the idea as the advertisers are able to bid up to what they deem an appropriate price per day - keeping both the publisher (me!) and the advertiser happy. I am currently making at least $1 a day from this, for something that I don’t need to do much to, to keep it going.

Rubicon Project

Again, I think this is a relatively new idea that is still in BETA (isn’t everything on the web these days haha!?). I am only running these ads on FerrariDave as I decided not to have and AdSense type ads on Buy Me A Ferrari although it may be something I will look into in the near future.

From FerrariDave I currently have around $8 in my account although I have only been running it since about the second week of January.

If you too are looking to make money, Rubicon Project may be a good idea for you as it serves all sorts of different ads from different networks, they must work and be more appropriate for your visitors as I wasn’t making the same sort of money with AdSense. Sign up here.

Kontera

I have Kontera running on both blogs and basically what it does is picks out keywords in your pages and links them to different adverts (you may have noticed the orange links). Kontera isn’t going to bring me my Ferrari any time soon but it does bring me the odd dollar here and there.

Matched.co.uk

Matched brings me a set amount per month for displaying an ad that looks similar to AdSense. I’m currently only running this on FerrariDave and it brought my in £8 (~$16) for last month. I like this one as it doesn’t depend on people clicking on ads, I’ll get the cash whether people click on it or not.

Affiliate programs

I am definitely going to look into affiliate programs as all the top bloggers talk about them so they must be good for making money. Anyone like to give me some pointers where affiliate programs are concerned?/

Other ideas

I have several ideas that are currently work in progress or maybe just in design stages but most of them will be supporting ads and hopefully making me a few dollars/pounds here and there. Most of the ideas however are something I am interested in, not just something I think I can make money doing.

All of the above things will be talked about in more detail in up and coming blog posts on Buy Me A Ferrari. I will of course be updating about the money I am making (or not as the case may be). If you would like to be kept up to date, please Subscribe to My RSS Feed.