Posted by Ben Cook as Site News
As the title says, welcome to the Blogging Experiment. Everyone knows what a blog is but you may be asking what the experiment is. The concept is simple; over the course of the next year I’ll take this blog from $0 income to generating a full time income. I’ve decided on today for the launch because, what better way to (hopefully) celebrate Independence Day next year than realizing my dream of being independent from my day job?
Of course everyone has their own definition of “full time income” however, for the purpose of this blog I’m going to use $60,000 annually or an average of $5,000 a month. As I said, I’ll be starting completely from scratch. I do own and run several other websites but I won’t be using them in this experiment. I’m not the first blogger to set out a quest like this but I do hope to be the first to document each and every step along the way. Whether I fail or succeed, my goal is to make this site something that anyone can duplicate if they are willing to put in the work. Speaking of which I’d better get to it, but have a fun and safe 4th of July!
13 Responses
DazzlinDonna
July 9th, 2007 at 11:05 am
1Lotsa luck! I’ve subscribed and I’ll be watching as your success grows.
Fatgadget
July 9th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
2Hi Ben
Good luck with the site, very interesting idea. I am a new blogger myself, as I only started my site in May this year.
It will be interesting to see how you do over the next 12 months.

Bryan Taylor
July 9th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
3Ben
Best of luck. I am trying to generate some form of income with my two blogs. I will be coming back to see how you do and if your experinces can help me in my goal. Not so much a full time income just enough to help cover bills!
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Mukund Lahoty
August 28th, 2007 at 3:35 am
5Congrats but one question……………..
Suppose you succeed in your goal and start making a full time income in 1 year, ten what will you do after that? Since this experiment will be over then….
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Ferry Mulyono
January 7th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
7Hi,
Could you tell me what other sites are you running, and some urls maybe? It would be really interesting to see how you run your other sites that got you to write this blog.
Good luck for your quest by the way
Brad Huntsman
January 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
8Great site. Great idea. I’m going to do what your site suggests, to learn from what you are doing and make it applicable. I don’t intend to be a copycat, but a learner (as my url states). Thanks for the great tips, and I’ll keep you updated on my progress. You know I’ll be watching yours.
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January 13th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
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Vaibhav
January 14th, 2008 at 3:10 am
10Actually, whats interesting is that there are so many comments on the first post…
Anyway… I am tasking myself for reading your blog… Because I am going to start a new blog myself….
And as of writing this comment, its pretty obvious that your blog is doing well… so Good Luck for the rest of the way…
Charles Hamel
January 21st, 2008 at 12:20 am
11I just found this site and you are halfway done, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Starting right here with this post.
Good Luck and let me just say Intentions are more powerful than you think, know it is already done in your heart. And your goal will be easily achieved.
I will be keeping up, and am subscribed through Bloglines.
Have a Great Year!
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Albert
March 15th, 2008 at 12:02 am
13I’m just interested how you were able to get so many comments (12) on your first post?
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