Hi everyone. Do you miss me? I'm having HostGator Host my blog from now on instead of wordpress. So........... until the name servers and all that good stuff gets caught up I've redirected my blog to here.
Why am I dropping wordpress? Because they told me I couldn't have any affiliate links at all on my blog & I think that's stupid. I'm sure they don't care if I dropped them as a host. And to be honest, I kinda like blogger better then wordpess... BUT all the cool kids use wordpress, so after all the dust settles I'll get back to my wordpress blog, minus it hosted by them.
Love you all!
Becky
Friday, January 8, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Congratulations To Me!
I just got back from vacation and it was the first vacation I wasn’t worried about money. Last year when I went away I unknowingly over drafted in both my checking accounts (business, and personal). I remember last year sitting in the woods and getting cell phone service for a 1/2 a minute. It was just enough time for my blackberry to connect with my bank account alerts. In came lots of alerts reading “Your bank account balance is under $5.00” ; “Your bank account balance is under $2.00” ; “Your bank account balance is under $0.00”. What a horrible feeling to be sitting in the woods, knowing you can do nothing, imagining the over draft fees piling up. Need less to say it wasn't;t exactly relaxing.
Fast forward to this year and money was not on my mind while I relaxed in an inter-tube, on a beautiful Adirondack Lake, while reading Us Weekly, drinking a beer (vacation pics. to come) . The bills were covered, and I had money left over to have fun with. Ahhh, what a great feeling. Knock on wood, but the last 2 months (as I indicated in my last blog) have been good online. I am seeing the highest numbers thus far, and I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. : ) My only on going problem is financing my marketing, which I believe I have a solution to. At the end of September / Mid- October I should have high enough affiliate checks coming in to pay OFF my business American Express card, which I can then use for my marketing. The only bad part is that I have to wait a month. Think of all the money I am loosing during those days!
Here are my numbers lately (I left out the most of the days where I ran out of money… ):
| DATE | MADE | SPENT | PROFIT | NOTES |
| 8/2/2009 | $ 298.76 | $ 233.81 | $ 64.95 | N/A |
| 8/3/2009 | $ 349.19 | $ 247.03 | $ 102.16 | N/A |
| 8/4/2009 | $ 363.89 | $ 243.18 | $ 120.71 | N/A |
| 8/5/2009 | $ 247.99 | $ 142.11 | $ 105.88 | N/A |
| 8/6/2009 | $ 267.51 | $ 161.59 | $ 105.92 | N/A |
| 8/7/2009 | $ 247.95 | $ 132.37 | $ 115.58 | N/A |
| 8/8/2009 | $ 295.71 | $ 149.47 | $ 146.24 | N/A |
| 8/9/2009 | $ 233.55 | $ 123.64 | $ 109.91 | N/A |
| 8/10/2009 | $ 177.74 | $ 108.93 | $ 68.81 | N/A |
| 8/11/2009 | $ 18.22 | $ - | $ 18.22 | Ran Out Of $ |
| 8/25/2009 | $ 290.62 | $ 176.90 | $ 113.72 | N/A |
| 8/26/2009 | $ 317.14 | $ 169.00 | $ 148.14 | N/A |
| 8/27/2009 | $ 182.67 | $ 120.89 | $ 61.78 | Ran out of $ before Day was over : ( |
| 8/28/2009 | $ 4.56 | $ - | $ 4.56 | Ran Out Of $ |
| 8/29/2009 | $ 7.84 | $ - | $ 7.84 | Ran Out Of $ |
| 8/30/2009 | $ 4.46 | $ - | $ 4.46 | Ran Out Of $ |
| 8/31/2009 | $ 8.12 | $ - | $ 8.12 | Ran Out Of $ |
| 9/2/2009 | $ 362.37 | $ 197.62 | $ 164.75 | |
| 9/3/2009 | $ 229.60 | $ 142.08 | $ 87.52 | Ran out of $ before Day was over : ( |
The Dilemma – Advice Needed…..
As you can see things are going great as long as there is a cash flow going in to my campaigns. Also, besides crunching numbers day to day and 10 minute basic daily maintenance I'm not doing much with these this campaign, or on new ones. This is all because of time restraints. Remember, I have a stupid , god awful, torturous office part – time office job? It only pays $11 dollars an hour, my paycheck for this week for doing 20 hours of work was just under $200.00 (I practically made that on 9/2 doing 10 minutes of work!) So, basically the job pulls in about an “extra” $800 a month, but SUCKS up 80 hours of my time! The boss is an jerk. The job makes me want to stab my toes with a butter knife… So, the job is guaranteed cash. Affiliate Marketing isn’t. On the flip side, if I invested that 80 hours a month into my marketing endeavors I feel like I’d be doing even better then I am now. Another thing is my debt… I’d like to pay it off! I have $6000 in credit card debt….
So, what do you think? Keep to stupid job that allows me virtually no time to invest in online stuff but is a guaranteed source of money? Quit the job?
An Aside : Let’s also remember I have the cash source to my other business doing Animal behavioral Consults. This business is doing fine finically. In the future I would like to do this business casually, and marketing mainly.
Becky
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