When To Move Up In Stakes

So, I recently made the decision to make ring games my primary game selection. Prior to now, I have focues almost exclusively on SnG's and MTT's, with only the occassional foray into ring games.

Since I decided to make ring games my primary game selection, I have been doing rather well, and my BR currently supports moving up to the next stake. However, I don't have a large sample size at my current stake.

How should I make the decision to move up in stakes? Should it be based on what my BR can sustain, or should it be after showing profit over a large volume of hands? Or should it be both? If I do move up in stakes, what guidelines should I place on myself to make sure that I don't get in over my head?

I will say that i'm currently playing .10/.25 and looking to move up to .25/.50. I do have a sample size of approx 1,000 hands at both .25/.50 and .50/1, and I have turned an overall profit at both stakes based on that sample size. Like I said, I know that is not high volume, so any advice on how to move forward here would be appreciated.

Move up to 50NL when you have about $3K (60 buyins)

You need to be aiming to be playing 100NL with 100 buyins ($10K) and managing your BR in such a way that that when you get to 100NL you have around 100 buyns so each increase in stakes also needs an increase in the number of buyins.

1,000 hands is not a sample size.
pace yourself, just pace yourself.

Good advice...Thanks. I haven't ever really paid attention to the rules of BR management for ring games, so i've just been playing off the cuff.