Website Building Update – Week 19
I got a little cash for the holidays and I’m looking to put it to work for me by trying to outsource some work for a new website. I’m admittedly a little nervous about this since I’ve never done this before. Also, I’ve been so involved in the process of doing all the work that I am both anxious about giving it to someone else and worried that somehow there will be a miscommunication somewhere.
If nothing else, this is a great chance for me to do one of Tim Ferriss’ exercises from the 4 Hour Work Week and practice outsourcing and delegating things to other people. If this outsourcing stuff pays off, building these websites will get immensely easier. As dorky as it sounds, I fantasize about what it would be like to never spin another article again.
I took advantage of Sean Morrissy’s New Year’s offer to evaluate my business plan. He said it was pretty good, but I need to do more SEO. So I’m going to spend more time promoting my existing sites and try out some social bookmarking. I signed up for Onlywire, which I can use for free by putting their bookmarking button at the bottom of my blog posts here. I tried SocialMarker, but I found it to be time-consuming at best and non-operational at worst.
Also, I’m not really sure why, but it seems to be nearly impossible to open an account with Propeller. Has anyone else experienced this or found a work-around?
This year, I’m trying to reach out and meet other people in “the game,” hence contacting Sean. I also joined a local Meetup group here in Seattle for internet marketing. They are meeting next weekend. I’m excited to start meeting other people out there and hopefully learn a thing or two from them.
Anyway, this week was a pretty quiet week. Only one new sale since I last posted, which is strange since my hop clicks have gone up through the roof this past week. I’m beginning to think that my recent surge was a result of the holidays. Well, my sales still have a slow pulse, so I’m grateful, but I’d really like to get back to making sales nearly every day. I guess that’s a bit of a taste of things to come.
Till next week.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:43 am
Thanks for sharing Clayton. I’m starting my outsourcing next week too and yes I’m a bit nervous. I’m using Offshoreally.com and am hiring a part-time link builder because I just wasn’t getting all my link building done.
I’d also rather spend more time adding and improving website content rather than link building.
Got my revised edition of 4 Hour Workweek this morning. It’s a hardback which surprised me and it is indeed a beautiful book.
Keith
January 11th, 2010 at 4:45 am
P.S I use http://www.humanrewriter.com to spin articles and with great success. It’s perfect for AMA too.
Check it out.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:34 am
@ Keith, good luck with your outsourcing. I took a quick flip through the new 4HWW, and I’m happy to see a mention of clickbank in the new edition. I haven’t had time to really dig in yet to the rest of the book.
Thanks for the heads up on humanrewriter.com. I’ll take a look at that.