In order to make $1200 starting from scratch you will need a lot of determination and a lot of hours spent working, but it is possible.

What you are going to do is write PLR articles and sell them in packages. If you wait for income to come in from regular article marketing, you may miss your deadline; however, if you do the keyword research for articles that would make money given some time, you could sell those to marketers here in the WSO section.

Step 1) Find a niche that has a lot of demand (see what is selling in the WSO forum)
Step 2) Check Google Trends and Twitter (the trends on the right side) and see what people are looking for now.
Step 3) Check Google Insights For Search and find breakout keywords related to the trends you’ve spotted.
Step 4) Write 1 to 3 350 word articles optimized for each keyword. Be sure to include the keyword in the title, first paragraph and last paragraph.
Step 5) Bundle the articles in groups of 10 and sell a limited amount of PLR licenses

Lets say you are a slow writer and you can write 2 articles per hour. (Very achievable)
Say you have 4 hours to write every day (Usually a matter of going to bed later or waking up earlier)
That would yield 8 articles per day.
21 one days would result in 168 articles or close to 17 packages of 10 articles.

If you price your packages cheap (to generate fast sales) say at $27 and you sell 3 copies per package you end up with:

17 packages X $27/package X 3 Copies each = $1377

I detailed this process in my Fast Cash | Emergency Cash package.

I hope this helps.

-Guillermo

What would be the most challenging part of following this blueprint for you? Please leave me a comment.

First of all, your idea has to be something that excites you and drives you. You have to be completely passionate about what you want to do in order to be successful at it. It is very hard to find a successful entrepreneur that doesn’t like what he is doing. When you think of a business idea, consider whether you would be happy doing that for the rest of your life. Is your investment buying you freedom or is it buying you a job? It is interesting to me to see the number of people that invest their life savings in a business that doesn’t appeal to them; you see them buying franchises to become professional burger flippers, pizza toppers and chicken fryers, and they slave away firing manager after manager in order to make their business successful.

Once you have found an idea that sounds exciting, you should try to determine whether you can afford to carry it out. In this stage of the process it is necessary to find out how much will it cost to launch the business, but most importantly, how much it would cost to keep the business running. At first it is very likely that you will not be profitable; you have to make sure you have enough capital to run the business for at least two or three months without making a penny. It pays to be pessimistic when it comes to this. You should find out whether you are going to need partners, investors or creditors in order to finance your operation.

Another point to consider is how much work (labor) will take to keep the business running. If you are going to require a customer service department, or shipping department, then you must see how many people you will need to employ. This will be closely related to the budget aspect of your business plan; the more people necessary to run the operation, then the more money you will need to start out.

Last, but not least you must consider the most important aspect of all –the one you have no control over: time. Do you have the time to manage your business or will you have to hire somebody else to manage it? The more time your business takes out of you, then the less time you will have to start another venture.

In conclusion, you want a business idea that drives you, something that is within your budget, it doesn’t take too much labor to keep it running and it is time friendly. Only with a business model like this will you be able to succeed online.

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