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Progress Update : 2009 Week 2 January 12th-18th

Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.

Ok, So a couple of days late. . but I have legitate excuses (Difficultly uploading video to Youtube - for some reason, it wouldn’t accept my HD version, and attempted nearly 10 times - the file was huge - over 700MB :). .Anyways, here’s my progress report for 12th to 18th of January. (times are approximate, as there were a few times when I was in deep concentration on making the video, I forgot to start the timer

My Achievements:

1. Brainstormed Ideas for Video Contest & Produced and Uploaded first Video (~16 hours+)
2. Researched Wordpress themes and revamped my blog ~ 15 hours
3. Initiated my first Joint Venture Project - I’ll reveal more of this later ~ 4 hours
4. Writing 2 Key articles - one on article writing, the other on directory submission ~ 9 hours
5. Spending a very small amount of time on Traffic Generation ~ 2 hours  (I think this is a little inaccurate - probably more closer to 4-5 hours and this was mostly oil rig hopping - visiting and commenting on other peoples blogs)

Below is a nice coloured graph showing you the breakdown:

Now that I have showed you what I have done - Lets check what the RESULTS are

My Key Performance Indicators from the goals I set in January were based on the following : Income, Visitors, and my list building.  As I have been focusing on producing content and updating my site (and subsequently very little on traffic generation) my results this week, have not suprisingly been bad :)  Firstly here are my google Analytics stats:

As you can see I nearly dipped to ZERO on the 16th, but I was luckily able to resurrect my traffic after I finally uploaded my Video to YouTube.  I have to say its very discouraging when you aren’t getting traffic, but its an adrenalin ride when you do:)

Ok. big question : have I made any money?  And the answer is NO. . in fact I’ve spent some money (spent $70 buying the WooTheme to update the look and feel of my site).  But I know I will very soon. . How about my list?  No subscribers yet either, but again I do have a plan. . so this will change very soon

One other bit of good news is that I have climbed in the Alexa Rankings - I’m now proud to say I’m at 580,385 Check it out below:

Oh, and one other thing. . I just passed 1000 friends on twitter :). . so all in all despite not being good to my bank account, it has been a good week :). . .

Well that’s it for week 2.

My plan this week is to continue working on my blog usability and functionality, adding lots of quality content, and spend more time in traffic generation activities

Would love to hear any questions you may have or your thoughts on how I could be more productive, or where you feel I need to focus my energies for the coming weeks - post your comments in the box below

Derrick

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Blogging Progress Report Thursday 8th January 2008

Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.

Hi All,

Had a busy day today.

Here are the goals I Kicked today:

TRAFFIC GENERATION

• Sketched out my 2 ideas to generate traffic. . to be implemented in the next two weeks - I’ll reveal these when they are ready to be launched
• Left comments on about 10 blogs - One thing I have to improve is to devise a better way to keep track of these other than ticking them off on two different sheets. . I’m finding its taking me about 10 - 20minutes per blog visit and comment, so end up spending about 1-2 hours doing this.
• Submitted my site to Alexa - by the way, I checked out my Alexa Ranking a couple a days ago, and was blown away by my ranking - I’m in the top 1 Million Sites Baby!
  

CREATING CONTENT

• Wrote my Jan Goals Blog Entry
• Wrote this Entry
• Wrote My Preview for 3 Software Programs
• Getting my New Blog Design Ideas together

RESEARCH & STUDY

One the major frustrations of building the blog, is that there are SOOO many things I want to get done - I have so many ideas, but at the moment am limited by time and assistants (ie I have none at the moment - so I need to look into how I can get some help
- Anyway one of the things I’ve spent 2-3 hours doing today is evaluating the value of some software that should save time, improve my blog standing and make money -  I’ve found three that look very useful:

• Directory Submitter - Free & Paid Version - Just submitted to 10 directories tonight
• Article Submitter - Free & Paid Version
• Ninja Affiliate - Paid Version Only - wordpress plugin to make affiliate management much easier

In my next post I’ll give a quick preview

Oh.  .yeah.  .and still no Moolah :). . (but that’s all according to plan - see my earlier post

Derrick

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Goals for Jan 2009

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.

Hi All,

Its been a couple days since my last post and I know what you may all be thinking - I’m taking a holiday already or getting lazy:). unfortunately not taking a holiday just yet and definitely not lazy! :). Anyway, I’ve basically been doing a lot of research on driving traffic and thinking about how I want my blog to look like, so over the next few days I’ll be updating you on my traffic research as well as some more design changes as I make this page more user friendly

I’ve also decided to do a daily progress report at the end of each day to keep me honest :), and to summarise what’s I’ve been doing, plus show you the results of my labour. But first up, I thought It be a good idea to share with you my goals for the first month of 2009:

1. Income -

Actually make some money :). . yes. . I’ve been going for a little over a month now, and no cash has rolled in yet, but that’s ok. . I plan to start making some by next week - to be exact here is my income target breakdowns:

Total Month of January US$2500.00
Week Ending 18th Jan $500.00
Week Ending 25th Jan $750.00
Week Ending 1st Feb $1250.00

 

2. Traffic Goals

Overall Traffic Goal in January is to get 1000 Unique visits a day

Week Ending 11th - 100/day
Week Ending 18th - 200/day
Week Ending 25th - 400/day
Week Ending 1st Feb - 1000/day

 

3. List Building

Create a Mailing List of 1000 Subscribers

Week Ending 11th - 0
week Ending 18th - 100
Week Ending 25th - 300
Week Ending 1st Feb - 600

Here’s a nice summary in a colourful table cause I like to look at information presented beautifully

So there’s my goals for this month. I think they are achievable, but I think I’ll definitely have to put a lot of hard work to get those numbers. .

Luckily this morning in the shower - a great place to get divine intervention :). . I was struck with a couple of GREAT IDEAS which will come into effect starting next week. . so stay tuned for what they might be.

Would love to hear your thoughts on my goals - do you think they are realistic and achievable? based on where I am now - current website content, visits about 30-50/day, zero income) - feel free to leave a comment below

Ok, thats all from me for the moment, gotta get a crackalackin’ . . and get ready for a TV commercial audition. .wish me luck!

Derrick

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