There are now 10 participants in the $100 challenge: Year 3 *! Yay. Our new participants include Shawn, Shailee and Katelyn. They’ve all been added to our $100 Challenge: Year 3 participants list. Welcome, everyone.
Now, here’s how my projects are doing (based on March ‘09 events).
Project A Update: A long-time blog that needs to increase income after major shifts. Initial target is $100 a month, working towards $100 a week.
Although this project’s Adsense income went from nearly $70/mo. the month before to about $45/mo. this month, its other income increased. Primarily, through direct advertising. This is the first month that the banner ads went in to full gear for this site – and one sale alone made a lot of difference to the income.
Here’s the tally for this site so far: Month 1 was $66, Month 2 was $147.80. Month 3 was $154.06. So, there you go. Two months in a row that the site exceeded its $100/month target. And, it looks like the trend is going upwards. I’m hoping that it will continue in that direction. We’ll see!
Project B Update: Bringing a Brand new site to make its first $100
Again, this is proving to be my biggest challenge, largely because I am more involved in other projects than this one. In fact, I haven’t touched this project at all for at least a couple of months now. So, making money from it isn’t going to be as easy. I’m wondering if my other new projects will make money faster due to this. We’ll see. In any case, it still made 21 cents in Adsense even if I’m not doing anything on it. That’s passive income for you. 
Project C Update: To see how long it will take for a relatively new online venture to make its first $100.
Month 3 for this project was definitely a lot more productive. I received $51+ for my efforts. This makes it a total of $71. Just a few more to go to meet this project’s goal!
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I just started monetizing the site and am happy to report that I’ve made $1.74 so far for the month of May. So, for my new project, I have only $98.26 to go before the first hundred. Honestly, I’m pretty happy, since I haven’t even put Adsense up yet.
Thanks for the update on this, Katelyn! Keep it up! Looking forward to more news.