6 weeks of research, this is what i have come up with

As a newbie to IM, I decided to read, read, and when I got sick of reading I read a bit more. I think they call it research, luckily I found WF in time to help me out

To put you in the picture, that was 6 weeks ago,

I had no idea what I was going to do to start an on line business, what to sell, what to promote, my product, other peoples product, how much money to spend etc, the list goes on.

This is my idea on what I have in mind to get myself started.

I like the idea of having many websites , my target is 25 sites in the first year.

A membership site - I like the idea of having one of these, but I understand they are expensive to set up, what are the set up cost for one of these?

Each site would offer a load of free information, lets use 'coaching kids soccer' as that is my passion. I would then offer a clickbank product, maybe 2 and possibly create my own ebook on the subject or out sorce it to someone who can write, (definatly not my strong point).

I guess content is the major factor in this, I have found 2 sites that look interesting,

Monthly content.com - this is run by fellow warrior Ryan Even's. he is offering a WSO membership for $15 a month which looks good value.

Easyplr.com - this looks good because you can buy what you want, when you need it.

Are there any others that offer a similar service? Are there any better ones out there?

To promote my websites I would do the following.

Blog
Submit articles to ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com
Use ebay

Any other suggestions?

In 12 months time when I need to renew my domain names 25+, wont that be expensive,
what are the alternatives? subdomain etc. not sure about this one.

I was thinking of using Hostgator for my hosting, but for no extra cost 'monthly content.com' is offering this service on a dedicated server, and I can have 50 sites on this, sounds good, but are there any advantages or disadvantages to this?

SO, IN A NUTSHELL

Become a member of, let say monthly content.com (that will take care of the content, hosting) $15 p/m
Build 25 sites over a 12 month period.
Submit blogs, articles etc
Get an ebook written for me for each subject, (this depends on cost)

All this should cost me less than $20 per month plus costs for a writer

I appreciate there are a lot of questions here, but if all you experienced warriors could spent a little time in answering these it would help an awful lot of us newbies and put us on the right track.

So come on fellow warriors, hit me with your thoughts, your input would be very much appreciated. POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

SIMON