(Part of the One Month to the 1% series of posts)

Services like consulting are great ways to get cash, but their huge drawback is that they produce income only while you’re on the clock.  I’d love to have a product that sells itself even while I’m asleep or out of town, like I was today for Easter.

Fortunately, I have at least three such initiatives in progress for my $30k goal:

• Affiliate links on StoppingInEveryState.com
• Stock photos on iStockPhoto.com
• An ebook on Amazon

One of them, the ebook, managed to move the needle off of zero yesterday!  Specifically, it now stands at — brace yourself —  $0.70.  Amazing, right?

The ebook was produced only as an experiment to see what it would take to produce an ebook.  It’s simply a reformatting of content from one of my blogs, and it’s not the still-being-written version of my hockey trip.  As such, I haven’t promoted the ebook at all, lest it become confused with a proper book-writing effort.

A variant of this photo has been my most popular stock image to date

My inclusion of the ebook exposes one of my interpretations about the one-month challenge: I can use product that I’ve already put in place or put forth effort developing.  I need not start precisely from scratch.  Don’t worry about that making the challenge too easy, since the total revenue from all three of the aforementioned income sources has been less than $100 — not per month, but in total.

Clearly, there is room for progress.

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Status: $0.70 (0.0023% to the goal)