December 2008, First Progress Report

Posted on 03. Jan, 2009 by Derrick in Results, The Net Experiment

Ok. . I have been meaning to do this report a while ago, but now that a whole month has passed, I thought I would do a complete month report on what results I have achieved and how much time and money I have invested so far:

Web Traffic Statistics

So first up are the statistics: below is the google analytics for the month of December. Bear in mind this current Blog was only established on the 21st December (prior to that I was using my personal domain name) so really it is for the first 10 days and over christmas. Click on the image to open into a full size image:

Just over 100 Visits - So nothing amazing there (Yet) - and haven’t reached my initial target of 1000 visitors.

Google Analytics Dec 2008

But what have I actually achieved in this time?

1. Got my head around wordpress and an understanding of how to set up a word press blog
2. Learnt about some of the best ways to get traffic and started using them.
3. Started to get to know some of the other students!

Capital Invested:

Alex Jeffreys‘ Coaching Program : US$497
Domain Names : US7.69
Aweber Autoresponder Account : US$19/Month
Screencapture Software US$89.00
WebHosting US$24.95

Total Costs Accrued : $637.64

Time Invested

Total Time : 87 Hours (Approximately 2 Weeks full time)

Breakdown Of Time Dec 2008

So what are the takeaways. Looking at the time breakdown, I definitely probably shouldn’t have spent so much time working on the look and feel of the blog itself, and spent a bit more time on traffic generation strategies. I think that would be the main takeaway, focus more on the things that will make the biggest impact on my blog.

Also I’ve been rather picky with the look of my site. . you may notice the site changing quite a bit as I find the right look for it, to the left is a screen shot of how it looked before. .any comments thoughts and suggestions would be most appreciated. The reason i’ve changed from that theme, is because I was told by other students, they thought it looked too comical and not serious enough - what do you think?

Popularity: 22% [?]

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4 Responses to “December 2008, First Progress Report”

Colin

05. Jan, 2009

Hi Derrick,

I followed you from Dave Dunns site, where I noticed that he was having a problem setting up Gravatar. Originally my email address was in default until I realised that Gr. and W.press shared the same database, so I startet again.

Thanks for your video on Gravatar. Great job it works. I don’t know how it appeared but it did thanks to you, miracles of science!!!

I will be including you on my Blogroll, if you can do the same it would be appreciated
thanks….

Best wishes for 2009
Colin

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- admin
  
  05. Jan, 2009
  
  Hi Colin,
  
  thanks for dropping by, and great to know that the video has helped!
  
  have added you to my blogroll
  Cheers,
  
  Derrick
  
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Vincent Chow

07. Jan, 2009

You can be serious and fun at the same time IMO. Why so serious, after all?

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Paull Hamilton

17. Jan, 2009

Hello Derrick, this is my first visit to your site, I am slowly working my way round all the students, but it takes time.
I do think your new site design is better.
Regarding humour in amongst all this learning, I think that things would go much slower if we couldn’t have a laugh now and then, after all, as the old saying goes ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’.
I would appreciate your visiting my site to see my latest post because it concerns a poll about Alex.
Thanks in anticipation.
Paull

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