Progress Report Jan 2009

I’ve read a few posts from Tyler and Smemon reporting on their progress with their blogs and earnings in general and thought it might be worthwhile doing the same myself.

Except for the fact that I’m not earning much money or increasing my subscribers. Things are a bit grim chez scoby.

Record What I’m Doing now

Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to tell you how I’m doing.

Later on I’ll tell you whether it’s improved or not.

If I haven’t improved / earned more money, I want you to beat the virtual crap out of me.

Statistics

Probably nothing as scientific as statistics but numbers at least.

Earnings for January 2009 : $132

And that’s it. I try to earn money on the internet and I can’t even afford a ferrari yet. What a Loser.

I’m certainly disappointed with this figure, I don’t know what you were expecting.

But enough doom and gloom, lets try and focus on the positive.

• That $132 was generated by a single web page.
• It took me ~30mins to write the content for the page
• That page has earned over $1400 since it was written.

Plans for next month

By this time next month I’m planning to write some articles and squidoo lenses and point them to some of my existing articles. I have google analytics installed on my sites so I’ll be able to see if this works as a source of traffic.

I am also starting a new site and I am going to have to add content for the site itself and the aweber email course that will accompany it. A fellow internet marketer and friend is going to help me with an adwords campaign for the new site so we get to attack it on 2 fronts and see which is most profitable.

There’s lots more that I want to do but those 2 items are probably realistic so I’ll leave it there for the moment.

I’ll also get some other nice people to do some work for me.

Outsourcing

I’ve been sitting on a great idea for months now and I’ve finally accepted that I have neither the time nor the skill to realise it. So someone else is going to do it for me.

I’m writing a detailed description of a site and sending that to a group of programmers that I’ve worked with before.

Within a few weeks I hope to have completed code and design. I’m going to use the code for lots of different sites, I think the features will be useful to people in a wide range of niches.

It may even be possbile to sell the code as a product in itself, along with some training videos ( I can record with camtasia or jing )

Looking forward to measuring my progress, I’ll make these updates a monthly regular post.