An example of jobstyle design

In case you didn’t already know, I started my first online business a couple days ago. It’s Free WordPress Install by Nate.

I want to show you the thought process behind why I chose to pursue this business.

Here’s the criteria I had:

• Nothing less than $100 per hour for actual work.
• 25-30 minutes daily for promotion.
• Something that I can eventually outsource.
• No actual handling of money by me. Basically I want to get paid by check monthly.

I’ll cover these one by one.

Nothing less than $100 per hour for actual work.

You might think that this $100 figure is kind of ridiculous, and I don’t blame you. I thought it was too at first. But, it is very possible with my new business.

The absolute minimum that I will get paid per referral to the web hosting companies is $50. Depending on how many referrals I can manage to send monthly, that figure can climb to $125.

I can install and setup at least two blogs per hour. The process is actually really simple as many of you know.

That leaves me with an hourly rate of anywhere from $100 – $250 per hour. Neat isn’t it?

25-30 minutes daily for promotion.

The promotion methods I’m going to be using are some pay per click ads, SEO for organic search traffic and article marketing.

Pay per click stuff I can manage in just a couple minutes a day. The SEO stuff, or link building will consist of 20 link directory submissions daily. I have a really cool software program that makes this process simple and fast. I can do this in about 5-10 minutes a day.

So I’m up to around 15 minutes a day total. The other 10-15 will be split between writing articles for my article marketing efforts, and posting these articles.

My article marketing strategy is pretty basic. I’m submitting a unique article to the top 10 article directories. The cool thing is I only have to write one article. I’m outsourcing some “article spinning,” which means that someone else will basically rewrite my article 10 times.

Article marketing is great because increase traffic and backlinks at the same time.

I’m setting a very strict time limit on my promotion efforts. Not because I’m lazy, but because I want this to be a pretty regulated experiment in jobstyle design.

Something I can eventually outsource.

This is an important one to me. Eventually, I would like to pay someone else $10 or so per blog installation, and pocket the rest for myself. This won’t happen immediately of course, but it’s an idea for the future.

The ideal plan is to have me check my work email every morning, and then send my work assignments for the day to my virtual assistant. Any emergencies/issues can be handled by a phone call from them.

An important part of my business is that I tell my potential clients that their blog will be setup within 48 hours. I did this with a purpose, and that purpose is that I will only need to check my email once a day.

No actual handling of money by me. I just want a monthly check.

This is pretty basic, but something that was quite important for me. With this business, I will get a monthly commission check. I won’t have to handle any money in between. My clients pay the hosting company, and the hosting company pays me. It’s all good.

I hope that this post has been of some value to you. I really wanted to stress how much I thought about this before I got started. It’s the idea of jobstyle design in action.

A quick note: To be honest I’m overwhelmed with the support I’ve gotten over the last couple of days. I have received a lot of emails, tweets, blog comments and I couldn’t be more grateful. This entrepreneurship and lifestyle design community we are all a part of is incredibly strong, and it shows in the support we all give each other on a daily basis. So let’s all keep it up :-)