Are my goals unrealistic?

Your goals are not unrealistic except the way you want to achieve them. Before you start asking questions and getting lots of bad advice...

1. Decide the way you want to make your money. There are so many ways that no one can tell you which way is best for your circumstances.

2. Start researching the threads that discuss the method you have chosen.

3. Start taking action.

4. Now start asking specific questions about things you need help with. This way you will get better answers from people that have actual experience.

Are your goals unrealistic? Not by a long shot.

It seems you have the technical skills to be an affiliate marketer. What you lack, for the time being, is the knowledge.

I'll give you a general blueprint and perhaps you can use this as a jumping-off point.

1. Decide on the right niche.
2. Put together a business plan (that includes a monetization strategy).
3. Register a relevant domain of value.
4. Put together a monetized affiliate site with suitable content.
5. Grow traffic from free traffic platforms.
6. Outsource operations.
7. Rinse, repeat.

You have a lot to learn. I began around 21 years ago. But you can certainly piece together the necessary information to achieve those goals within the stated time.

Tom

Every method can make money.

What you choose should depend on what you're good at and what you'll be interested in spending time learning and growing in.

Perfect. Affiliate marketing is a great way to meet your goals. Focus on that one method and don't get sidetracked. Now your next step, like Tom mentioned, is choosing the right niche. Search out the threads that talk about that and you will find some good pointers.

$1000 / month is very achievable and realistic, I tought i'm gonna find another noob looking to make 10K per month from the start off. But good, choosing 1K a month as a first goal is very mature, and your first step into success.

Well from skills you have stated, starting a small MNS would fits you well.

Just one advice, choose a niche you are really passionate about, if you like your niche, you will not give up easily even if you don't make money..

Starting a website about something you don't like, and you don't have knowledge about, will be overwhelming & unenjoyable, and eventually you will quit it sooner or later.

Here are three KEY RULES you need to follow

1) Research on your own - DO NOT WASTE MONEY on 'gurus' or 'coaches'

2) Focus on ONE THING

3) Measure your success based on what stage you're on

1,000 in 6 months is actually realistic and I'm positive you can make more once you find a viable method that works for you. Here is a brief mental map of questions you need to ask yourself however

Monetization:

How Am I Going To Make Money
1)Affiliate Marketing- Comission Based Income
2)CPA- Cost Per Action
3)Selling My Own Services
4)Selling My Own Products

How do you want to make money online?

1)Passively: Slow building, but once you have some income coming in, you no longer have to work for it and requires low or no maintenance.

2)Actively: Immediate income but requires consistent maintenance and work.

What Market Do I Want To Get In?

1) One I am already familiar with
2) A market that I am not necessarily interested in but I don't mind promoting and has high profit margins
3) Evergreen Markets
4) Niche markets with low competition
5) Etc

Traffic

Where Am I Going To Get Traffic

1) Video Marketing
2) Ranking Websites For Search Engines
3) Social Media
4) Web 2.0's Such As Tumblr,Blogspot
5) Forums
6) Article Directories


The basic formula is Monetization Method + Targeted Traffic = Money

You need to understand what you want to monetize and how you are going to generate traffic and then stick to it and don't try to do multiple things at once

Learn email marketing.

Your goals are not unrealistic if you are willing to work hard.

Start browsing the forum to search for answers to your questions. Then take action. It's that simple.

Cheers,

C.G.

I am about to hit my 5K/month. All you need to do is "TAKE ACTION"
you need to stuck with single method (for example freelancing..) and work heard on it.

You don't need a high capital to create an authority site. Everything can be done for free if you do it by yourself..

Not being funny but $1,000 per month from a site within 6 months probably won't happen. Don't get me wrong, authority sites are king and they will indeed earn you loads if you do it right, but remember you are completely new and your first 4 months will probably be all trial and error. Unless your sometime of super hero

If you choose to go the affiliate marketing route and are hoping to get your traffic from SEO then keep in mind you may get off to a very slow start so don't get discouraged.

My amazon affiliate site made $2 in its first month but at the time I was just doing it for fun so that didn't discourage me. In my sixth month I made over $500 and all signs point to having my first $1,000 month on the site's 1-year anniversary.

Surely it is possible to do twice as well as I did. Everything else I would suggest has already been mentioned above.