As I am building a site on budgeting and saving money I am coming across all kinds of cool things and ideas! I am actually quite amazed at some of the things people think of to save money.

Growing Your Own Food (and Fish)

There’s one concept available where people have gardens that grow with fish ponds underneath them and raise their food through this, saving tonnes of money on groceries through the system. I won’t say what it is just yet, because I’m actually going to try this out and see if it works. If it does, then I’m super happy! Of course I’ll probably have to wait until spring to implement it, just because the seeds aren’t likely to be available. And I doubt that the set up is actually as cheap as the people promoting it claim. That’s another thing we’ll see.

Negative Budget Tips

There are also budget tips that I find completely bogus and useless. One of those is to always use plastic containers instead of plastic wrap. Really. It costs me $1 to buy 30 feet of plastic wrap. This I use for those items that don’t conveniently fit into a plastic container. And how long is 30 feet going to last me? Assuming my roommates don’t use up all my wrap (I caught one of them doing that), it should last me six months or better. The time it saves me alone is worth it. So, unless you’re on the verge of starvation, there really isn’t any gain to that one. I could name more, but I’ll save those for my budgeting blog.

How Does Budgeting Relate to my Internet Marketing Goal?

Well, that’s easy. My next step, once I have enough posts on my budgeting site, and enough articles up, and the traffic is starting to come in, is to get my own products on line. The first of those is a simple budgeting spreadsheet that I will sell for $14 or less. We’ll see what it’s worth. I’ll include a simple manual on how to budget and a small course on how to use the spreadsheet to reach your goals. Jeez, maybe I should up the price for all that!

I could also offer a small budgeting course for free… Nah, instead I’ll offer the first part of a decent length, in-depth course on personal finance and budgeting for free. If people want the rest of the course, they’ll have to upgrade and pay for that. It won’t be expensive, because the people buying this aren’t going to be rich. But I expect there will be a lot of them and my overheads will be low, so I’ll probably make 80% margins, which could give me a decent salary (assuming I sell enough). That means that I’ll have to redesign the landing page of my budget site. That shouldn’t really be an issue. I have some ideas for that. And part of it will be making it into a sales letter page, with a sign up for my newsletter and another sign up for the free budgeting course introduction. I hope that will work. That also gives me something to focus my article marketing around.

Yes, I admit that I’m giving away my ideas here. But that’s also part of what running this whole blog is about - sharing. I know that I’m already an expert in several ares, including business management, financial management, teaching, fitness and personal development. I doubt that 99.999% of the people reading this could come up with products nearly as good as mine, or the variety of them, or as quickly. I have no problems coming up with products. In fact I have ideas for several more that I can create. My problem is actually getting the work done, including the marketing and site development (which I’m not so great at), on the current cash flow that I have. And that sucks! Anybody know how I can make an extra $1500 per month within the next three months, guaranteed? My fear is that my own stuff will take too long to reach that point (and beyond).

I know that with what I’m doing I will eventually make it past that magic $1,000,000 mark and then have the money that most people only dream about. I’m just afraid that it will take too long and I’ll end up losing everything I have first. So any encouragement and motivation I can get really helps!