Well, sorry for no update last week. It was one of those crazy weeks where you are busy the whole time, you are productive for the most part, but nothing really seems to get done.
Just to give you a few updates (check the past couple weeks to see the projects I have been working on):
1. I finished up the site for a local client and they are already ranking well. Time to keep it going and work on some more local stuff for them (Yelp, Facebook, etc.)
2. Been talking to a few more local companies about their websites. Even with all the attention being paid to local search by so many people there is still a great need for useful, simple, effective sites for so many companies. While looking at some potential clients I see so many sites that might look nice but their effectiveness is pretty horrible. They have spent thousands on these sites and they are missing so many essential elements of a good, usable, effective site.
3. Another client I have done some work for these past couple years asked me if I ever heard about Pinterest. So I had to educate her a bit about it, integrated some Pin It buttons into her site, and now we are putting the framework together for a Pinterest contest involving her site and some other local related vendors. Once this is done I will walk through how I put it all together and how effective it ended up being for these sites.
Speaking of Pinterest, there were a lot of sites I wanted to work with on this that have their images shown by Flash or something along those lines that make the images un-pinnable. Big time fail by the designers on that one.
4. An opportunity to help get an affiliate program set up for a guy came up. Still not sure all the particulars and what it will involve moving forward but I think at least I will be helping him get it all set up. I am a bit skeptical if it will be effective for him or not and still don’t exactly know what he will want me to do but I should know more in the coming week.
5. Why didn’t anyone warn me being a dad takes a lot of time? Just kidding. I knew it would take a lot of time. And I love going upstairs and hanging out with Clyde for a bit while my wife takes a nap. He is starting to smile a lot more and he seems to be so happy for long periods in the day which is awesome.
So that is pretty much what the last week was comprised of. Did you notice there was very little related to my own affiliate sites? Yeah, I noticed that too.
This week here are the things I want to accomplish:
1. Continue putting together the Pinterest contest. Still gotta line up a few more vendors and get it all up and running. If nothing else it is fun trying stuff like this.
2. Build a new site. I haven’t put up a site in a few weeks and want to get at least one up and running. It doesn’t need to be anything amazing either. I just need to pick one of my empty domains and do something with it.
3. More writing. I am well over half way done with my writing project and hopefully can get it wrapped up before the end of the month. Then I need to build the 5 supporting sites. No idea how long that will take. Writing is tough. Writing about something you don’t know about is very tough. Writing about something you don’t know about or care about is excruciatingly tough.
4. Write 10 posts for some various sites. This should be the easiest task.
So that is it for the week. Not a ton to do but it should still be a very productive week. What is on your To-Do list this week?
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