Today is the first of October 2008 and me and my blog are officially celebrating our first anniversary! Time passed by amazingly fast the last year and I’ve learned many things and achieved many goals on my way through the online business and blogging world.

I started TMME as a simple blog hosted on the free blogging service called Blogger.com and in these days had nothing, no money, no knowledge, simply nothing that would have helped me in starting a “making money online” career. But I started to fight and set me a goal, namely to make me $100 within the first 6 months. A goal that I achieved as I later found out…

Slowly, very slowly, my blog matured. I wrote several posts, joined many money making programs, got several new friends and somehow became a bit “popular” in the money making branch. The traffic to my blog slowly rose and my earnings too.

In the beginning I barely made 20 bucks a month from my work with PTC sites, article writing, sponsored reviews and whatsoever. Today I’m making nearly 30 times of that and I’m still working on bringing in more money month after month. The one thing I learned is to stick with your goals. You can achieve everything in the world if you only work for it hard enough, just like I did (or I’m still about to)!

I had lots of ups and downs with TMME in the last 12 months, but one thing never changed, the loyality of my readers and the support of my friends and family. Without you I’d never had come that far and I will therefore give you a big THANK YOU!

And because I feel so lucky and appreciate all the feedback of my readers, I WILL GIVE AWAY A TOTAL OF $100, namely the amount I set myself as the first goal in my early money making days! All you have to do in order to have the chance to get some of the money, is to leave a honest comment (minimum 100 words, no spam or useless blah-blah, grammar doesn’t matter ) on this post where you share your feels and experiences you made with The Making Money Experiment in the last 12 months.

An Online Randomizer will choose 5 random winners who will win the following cash prizes:

• 1st prize: $50
• 2nd prize: $30
• 3rd prize: $10
• 4th and 5th prize: $5

Winners will be paid via Paypal, so make sure to provide your Paypal email address for payments! The winners will be known by the thursday 8:00 pm (CET) and paid immediately afterwards!

Good luck to you all and now let’s grab some beers and let us celebrate the 1st Anniversary of The Making Money Experiment (and the new design btw) CHEERS!!!

See you tomorrow,
Querblogger

PS: The final 12th months report with a retrospect of the first year of TMME will follow soon. Stay tuned!