October was another less than stellar month for my self-employed aspirations. I started traveling for my company, which limited my time to work on my projects. I’ve also been super busy at work when I haven’t been traveling. For the past few months I was able to work on a few projects, but I haven been unable to do that this month. I will detail my “progress” below and outline my plans for November. I have regained some of my motivation and promise to do significantly better next month. Marketing a new sports drink onlineDuring October I accomplished nothing on this project. I originally wanted to write 10 ezine articles for article marketing, but I don’t want to do this until I know the email address to send orders to. I would find it highly embarrassing to have orders and not be able to fulfill them. I will put this project on hold until we acquire that email address. Once the email address is acquired I will begin my article marketing campaign. Additionally, I discovered a wordpress plugin that makes it easy to set up an internet store. I want to learn more about this free plugin and implement it if it will make managing my store easier. Here are my goals for this project for November:
Writing ebooks for academic subject testsMost of my progress in September was done while I was at work, and this month left no time to do anything at work besides work. Unfortunately I have accomplished nothing on this project. It is not the highest priority, but I expect to make a little progress on this project each month. I will do better next month. My current action plan:
Affiliate marketing campaignsThe lack of progress on this project is what bothers me the most. I’ve made the most money in 2009 with affiliate marketing, which is why I should be putting the most time into this project. I did not spend any time on this project in October. On a positive note, I did make another sale from a One Week Marketing campaign I set up previously. This passive income is the exact reason why I have to put more time into this project. My November goal (and I will accomplish it this time):
Ebook about taking ideas to productsMy Dad expressed some interest in starting up this project again. As far as I’m concerned I can’t do any further work until my Dad completes the outline. I will try to push him to accomplish that soon. So far I have already done some keyword research and decided on a website name for the sales page. I also developed an outline based on some minimal research, as well as a slogan for the product. Monetize Personal Finance Start-Up BlogSo far my current monetization efforts come from content ads from Microsoft, affiliate marketing (Lending Club, TradeKing, etc.) and text ads. For November I want to do some research and develop a plan to drive traffic to my site. I want to identify five keywords that I want to rank highly for. Ideally these keywords will have little competition and a high search volume, as well as have products that I can promote for profit. Create a fantasy sports membership siteNo Updates I have yet to do anymore on this site. I have a domain name reserved. I don’t know if I will be able to pursue this project much further until I have time to consistently blog about baseball and football. If I’m not consistently blogging with this site I will not be successful. I am targeting the beginning of fantasy baseball 2010 as my starting point. Until then I will be trying to develop the website so that all I have to do when 2010 baseball rolls around is write articles.
Income for October
October was a complete waste with regards to my self-employed projects. November will be better. My motivation has returned. I also have a ton of personal and vacation days left that will be used in either November or December since they don’t carry over into 2010. When I use them will depend on when our product launch occurs and the work pace slows down. |
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