Aminology

It’s been a hell of a long time since I last posted here, so I’m suprised and honoured to see my feeds have grown despite the lack of attention I have given this blog. So what have I been up to? And why ‘losing focus’ as the title for this post? Well the answer is simple, ever since I started college I’ve lost focus on my business. Instead of constantly strategising, investing, expanding and trying out new ideas, I’ve taken a step back to merely managing what I already have. Instead of spending whole days and nights behind the computer working on projects like I usually do, I find myself with only a few hours a day at best to spend on my work.

While I definitely value the time I’ve spent here, it’s more than apparent that college isn’t for someone who already has entered an industry and field of work which relies on real world values of practice, experience and trial and error, rather than academics. What do you think?

It’s been almost a month since I last posted, so I thought I would keep the small readership that I already have updated with what I’ve been up to since:

1) My last profitable campaign got killed by the Facebook mods after they decided (after two weeks) that it did not meet their ‘advertising guidelines’. As a result, a daily $600-$1000 stream of income disappeared overnight. I haven’t had much success getting another profitable campaign up and running, and after the amounts of ads I’ve had rejected, I don’t think I will be making any further attempts any time soon. Lesson learned: Screw Facebook (for now).

2) Finally launched my latest product, which should have been released earlier this year. It took me MONTHS to finally get my designer to deliver me the final goods, when it should have quite literally taken less than a week to do. Their incompetence made me complacent, as a result the project was delayed by months, which equates to months of LOST REVENUE. Lesson learned: Keep to deadlines and don’t delay an entire project because of incompetent freelancers.

3) Contacted by an established company within one of my niches, requesting regional selling rights to one of my products. Downside: The deal would mean I wouldn’t be allowed to sell my own product in the country they would like to have complete selling rights in. Upside: The sales I already make in that country are negligable. In addition, they are extremely well placed in the market, and would potentially generate me an extra $80k profit in sales this year alone. Lesson learned: Hurry up and secure the deal.

4) Ah yes, I almost forgot. I got my hands on a copy of Xrumer , a software application that automatically posts your messages to forums, guestbooks and bulletin boards (yeah, it’s a link spammer). The purpose of this tool is to increase your position in the SERPs, and while I haven’t experienced any significant changes in my rankings, it has boosted the positions of the few sites I have been experimenting it with. At $450 it’s not exactly cheap, but it does its job suprisingly well, and is quite easy to use. Definitely something to look into (unless of course you shy away from Black Hat tactics).

… is when you least want to. It makes you a much stronger writer.

Or you can simply outsource.

I’ve been dripping with infinite wisdom lately.