Back in May time I mentioned about wanting to buy a car and hoping to reach a target of £2,500 to help pay for it. However this whole year has been mad for my business. We've been working long hours and weekends and after a long day in front of the computer the last thing you want to do is spend the evening on the computer doing exactly the same thing. We've probably made around 40% of that figure from AIS alone however the last couple of months have found the figures lessening.nnDespite this blow in earnings I still went and bought a car (I'm a woman, what do you expect!). Luckily I have this on interest free for a year, so this now means the plan is to save £600 a month for the next 11 months to easily cover the cost. So £600 a month is £20 a day which should be doable. Of course I can easily top this up with my own wages but it would be nice to say this time next year that I paid for the car by AIS alone.nnPlans to get to this targetn1. Finish off the upgrade to one of our product selling sites. Changing the products from 12 to almost 100. Adding a shopping basket and automated system for sales and distribution.n2. Next year is hopefully the final meeting before a 3 year old business will start. Stage 1 can go online and start earning money whilst stages 2 and 3 are still worked on. Stage 4 will be the real money earner but won't be done for over a year. Initial sales will be good as we've had potential customers asking and waiting for us to go live. This is a pretty automated system besides accounts once a week/month depending on how busy it gets.n3. I want to finish off sites I've already started before starting anything new. I have a half done site which needs to be worked on ASAP as it's on skiing and therefore pretty seasonal between now and April (as far as Europeans are concerned). Hopefully if I can get a few more posts on there between now and Christmas then I can start to get a few rankings in Google and start to pull a few more visitors in. I have other domains from a few months to a few years old, all of which has a plan for!nnNow that business has finally started to ease down I'm hoping to keep the work to a manageable amount giving me time to pursue my AIS sites too and not get stressed out about it all!nnAnyhow, Santa's come early this year and I'll have my new car on Monday. Can't wait :D

Trackback URL for this post: http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2006/11/23/my-target-a-new-car/trackback/
  • Matt Comments:

    Funnily enough we have a new car comming next week as well, and saying goodbye to a car and 3 vans…

  • Sarah Comments:

    Anything nice? Picked the car up Monday, gotta say it's a nice ride. Will stand the test in a couple of weeks driving to my parents.

  • Latest Tweets

    • Had a busy day but feel like I've tied up a lot of loose ends of work, plus getting the ball rolling on a new job. Fun month ahead! 7 hrs ago
    • Gorgeous but cold day out there. Nappies already out on the line getting plenty of sun. Shame I have to work, great photo ops out there 20 hrs ago
    • I've just increased my Dropbox space by over 3GB for free by syncing the photos off my phone. So easy :-) 1 day ago
    • More updates...