I am exhausted

Getting up at 6 am is killing me. I am a nightowl, so getting to bed early is difficult. Getting enough sleep seems virtually impossible at the moment. The job seems cool and fairly easy thankfully. Anyway, as soon as I can stop taking a nap when I walk in the door, I promise I'll get some work done and blog it :)

Tara :)

I GOT A JOB!!!

Woooooooooooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooooo!

Customer service, decent salary and best of all, it's downtown and starts Monday! Outsourcing, here I come. Just gotta figure out how often I get paid and I'm on my way! Sounds like a great place to work too, more on that in the coming weeks :)

So now, I think the first order of business is figuring out which sites I'm going to outsource for. I think I'll start with a new one and get all the basic content out of the way (product pages, basic articles) to get it up and running. Then do the same for a bunch more.. lol At this rate, it shouldn't be a problem to have my 10 sites live by December 31st. Heck, maybe more! lol

And yes, I'm STILL working on getting the 2 new related sites live. I'm getting closer, but I have been busy with other obvious matters and with Eric alone at work, he just doesn't have the time to help right now. I know that a job is going to spur me into motion though, it already has a little. I cleaned up all my link exchange requests and emails as well as looked into a few promos that I was contacted about through eComXpo. A friend also gave me some articles she wrote (with permission to rewrite) and I've been going through those a little, deciding what I'm going to do with them. That will help bulk up one of my sites quite a bit.

So tonight off to my favorite restaurant for dinner with the hubby and rents (it's very close to where the rents live) to celebrate. Tomorrow mama's gonna buy a new pair of shoes too - partly out of necessity and partly out of just plain wanting to! lol Have a great weekend all!

Tara :)

I'm back

Back from camping (trailer's closed up, just have to go back to get big things next weekend), back from eComXpo, back to looking for a job. Kind of a let down.

First and foremost, I have to say, WOW about eComXpo. Honestly, if you can get a free pass for the next one great, but if not, pay. Simply put, if you're really serious about your business and can't afford $50 (that's the early bird price, I'm not sure if the next one will be the same) start saving NOW. The next one is the beginning of April.

There were tons of great presentations, some fantastically awful ones (i.e. buy my stuff NOW) but the great ones taught me a LOT. Especially about PPC and possibly opening my own webstore. But I think the best part about the conference were the tons of emails, chats and vcards that led to some fantastic new affiliate marketing friends. I guess I should also mention that through all these communications I also found some new affiliate networks, ppc networks and even started promoting a few new products.

Honestly, though I was so exhausted by the end of it (didn't get enough sleep 2 days in a row) I slept about 10 hours, I wouldn't trade that time for the world! And I SOOOOOO can't wait to get to an offline conference! So make sure that you go to either the next eComXpo or Affiliate Summit or CJU, I really do get what everyone says now about them!

Ok, well, on to financials. Happily this month is doing MUCH better than last. Today is my best day in a month and a half, easily, just in Adsense. I also have a few sales. I don't know if I'll finish the month as high as August since I had a rocky start, but if only I could get this month's earnings this month, I wouldn't have to be out looking for a job. Well, at least not for the bills anyway. I know I need a job to outsource though, so a job it will be!

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Mostly slacking

I've done some work on the 2 new sites, mainly template tweaks, but I got 2 of the 10 articles done. I'm trying to get Eric to help, but he's so busy at work this week it's unlikely to happen. Now with eComXpo starting in the morning and lasting until Saturday afternoon and Thanksgiving weekend, there's no way that I'll get the sites live this week.

I had a good line on a job, but they haven't called me back - and it's supposed to start on Tuesday. Keep your fingers crossed because this is a pretty good job! Other than that, not much new. I have a few sales in the last few days, one for (feel free to laugh) 32 cents. Better than nothing I guess, right? lol

I just realized that it's October 6th and I haven't given you last month's incredibly disappointing numbers. Traffic and income were both down, about half. Adsense was $176.54 and everything else was just over $50. Bloody depressing I tell you. So far this month isn't bad, but it's mostly blog sales keeping me afloat - Adsense's daily average is lower than September. This is not helping to convince everyone that this is a viable business. It's gotta get better soon, right?

Those of you at eComXpo - enjoy, maybe we'll even see each other!

Tara :)

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