One of the advantages of running a business that turns over a lot of money is that you get very good service and support. Now I have closed that account and opened a new one I am back to standard support.
This whole morning has been wasted trying to find someone at my bank who knows what a letter of credit is.
I have found a sweet product in China so I'm going to import it to sell on ebay to get a bit of cash in hand but as always lots of obstacles in my way. Fingers crossed I get it all sorted out today.
Friday 30 October 2009
Wednesday 21 October 2009
A bit quiet eh?
I have been quiet on my blog as you may/may not have noticed. This is because I am putting together a proper business plan.
I found that by jumping in feet first I ended up doing a juggling act and certain areas got over looked. So I have taken a pause to write everything I am going to do in detail and create step by step instructions for everything before hand.
This will hopefully allow me to address any issues before I run into them and allow me to give step by step hand outs to any outsourcers I use.
I am about 20 pages into it so far and it is really helping me. It is funny how there were things I thought I had worked out 100% but when it comes to writing it down there were still a few things to iron out.
I can't recommend doing this highly enough. Before you understake a project, write down everything you will do in detail. Then from this create a schedule of what you need to be doing each day, and from that work out deadlines and milestones so you can keep on track and get the project finished.
I am also using the free version of http://www.project2manage.com/ aswell as Google docs for collaboration purposes and to track progress.
I found that by jumping in feet first I ended up doing a juggling act and certain areas got over looked. So I have taken a pause to write everything I am going to do in detail and create step by step instructions for everything before hand.
This will hopefully allow me to address any issues before I run into them and allow me to give step by step hand outs to any outsourcers I use.
I am about 20 pages into it so far and it is really helping me. It is funny how there were things I thought I had worked out 100% but when it comes to writing it down there were still a few things to iron out.
I can't recommend doing this highly enough. Before you understake a project, write down everything you will do in detail. Then from this create a schedule of what you need to be doing each day, and from that work out deadlines and milestones so you can keep on track and get the project finished.
I am also using the free version of http://www.project2manage.com/ aswell as Google docs for collaboration purposes and to track progress.
Sunday 4 October 2009
Quality Takes Time
One of my sites that I put together on the quick with outsourced articles has now got some rankings and targetted traffic so I have gone back over it to monetize it.
The first thing I did was properly read the outsourced articles. I know I should have done this first but I just wanted something up so I could get it to rank.
I had expected to just tweak it a bit, but after readining it the whole site will need an entire re-write.
Last couple of days I have been re-writing the site and adding some custom graphics. I have to say its turning into quite a nice site, in a few more days it should be almost complete and I will be very surprised if it doesn't start to make me money very soon.
Now I have got a few sites up there, I think I will write the onsite content myself and just use outsourcers for the SEO fodder articles. When some money starts coming back in I will higher a more expensive writer to handle onpage stuff but I don't feel comfortable doing that until I start to receive some affiliate pay-checks in the mail.
The first thing I did was properly read the outsourced articles. I know I should have done this first but I just wanted something up so I could get it to rank.
I had expected to just tweak it a bit, but after readining it the whole site will need an entire re-write.
Last couple of days I have been re-writing the site and adding some custom graphics. I have to say its turning into quite a nice site, in a few more days it should be almost complete and I will be very surprised if it doesn't start to make me money very soon.
Now I have got a few sites up there, I think I will write the onsite content myself and just use outsourcers for the SEO fodder articles. When some money starts coming back in I will higher a more expensive writer to handle onpage stuff but I don't feel comfortable doing that until I start to receive some affiliate pay-checks in the mail.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
