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How to make your first $1,000 online (even if you’re starting from scratch)

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Jo Barnes
Jul 07, 2025
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Cyprus - Where I made my first $1000

There’s something magic about your first $1,000 online. (To be honest your first $100 online!)

It’s not life-changing money. But it is a life-changing moment.

Because when you earn that first bit of income from something you created and sold yourself, everything changes. It’s not a job or a wage. It’s your idea, turned into something useful, that someone else was willing to pay for.

Suddenly you start to see the possibilities ahead! You stop questioning yourself quite so much, and instead of waiting for the perfect plan, you start making progress.

Each small action you take starts to feels like a step forward, and before you know it, this whole idea of "working from anywhere" starts to feel less like a dream and more like like a decision you’ve already made.

I still remember to this day, making my first $28 from a PDF I put together from a video I'd seen about how to use Aweber optin forms!

It wasn’t fancy or polished and it was only $7 for goodness sake…

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