What Can You Build in a Day?

[chrismc]

You might think there's not much you can build in a day. A small adsense site or something, but not something more complex.

You can build a lot more than you might think.

With approximately 6-8 hours work yesterday I built a fully-functional online store and blog which has already taken in a small handful of orders. Total costs came to about $38, which I've already made back

Read the full skinny on my blog, or view the site ("England's World Cup Glory") here.

Making money gets easier if you K.I.S.S!

[chrismc]

Quick update - As I'd broke even already, I decided to try something different to get some promotion. Right now, and for the remainder of the World Cup, the site is donating all store revenue to charity. This has given the site a bit of a traffic boost through word-of-mouth. There's not yet been any real difference in sales conversion but I'm hoping as things gather pace things will pick up. After all, the site's only been online 2 full days!

[Carlos]

Are your pay pal links supposed to be working?

[chrismc]

Are your pay pal links supposed to be working?
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They were yesterday

[chrismc]

Ah, it was a stat-tracking package I installed was playing havoc with the buttons. All fixed

[oliciv]

Total costs came to about $38, which I've already made back
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If you don't mind me asking, what promotional methods did you use to get these sales so quickly?

[chrismc]

Word of mouth only. I have English relatives who are in football supporters clubs, so all I did was email them with the link and things took care of themselves from there.

So far I've not done any other promotion other than the odd email and forum post. Obviously there was the excitement and buzz from England's first game which gave things a boost (beer played a part, I'm sure!). Sales aren't exactly astronomical, but I've broke even which is the important bit for me just now.