Another week of "work"

I have officially decided to drop the whole GDI thing. At first, I thought it was a good idea, but then I realized how limiting the site was. It is a good place for people just starting out with website building, not those like me, who have experience. But that's not why you are here, now are you? :)

I spent a lot more time working on the MOIS project and feel like I sped up the momentum I lost when family was here. Now that I am back on track, I am hoping to see some income soon. I am looking at a good 6 months worth of work to make some substantial cash, but it all depends on me. I NOW see how others make money online. Before it was completely a blur, and I was lost. Thank God I purchased the "My Online Income System." Otherwise, I would still be running in circles.

I tried the Squidoo thing on my own, without realizing it's potential. Hect, I did not even know how to write a keyword targeted article! But I know now! The course also shows you how to check to see what keywords are being searched for, and how many. This is so that you can use them to drive traffic to you websites. Though I am not the best at this as of yet, there have been more visits to my Squidoo sites. In fact, one of the lenses recieves most of it traffic via Google searches. How cool is that?

This is just one of the many neat little things you learn when using MOIS, but it's late and I am tired. I'm hoping to redesign my blog instead of using Blogger's standard template. But that will have to wait.....ZZZZZ

Still no success, but...

I have not had much success at this whole affiliate marketing thing, but I can honestly say I put in a good 2 and a half decent weeks since I began this well over a month ago. I have had many distractions and other issues arise, so I have not been completely and entirely faithful to my work.

I still have, however, hope. The friend I have who does this said it took months, and from all the other people who are into this say the same thing. So I'm going to give it another solid month before looking for my first sale.

Using the techniques I have learned so far, I have noticed a major increase in visits to my websites. It's not a huge number, but it most certainly more than if I never had implemented these little secrets.

I'm back at it!

Family left, and I miss them, but now it's time to get back to work!

Sadly, I made no sales while I was doing the vacationing thing, but I definitely had a good start. So right back into it!

I'm hoping to lots tomorrow, granted our lovely ISP decides to make our internet work, and that the baby gives me a 2-hour nap at some point. And it would be nice for him to be content playing on his own a couple more.

So my new goal is at least one sale in the next 2 weeks and get at least 20 articles written, and at least 4 more lenses created. Sounds doable, but I need to start like.... RIGHT NOW!

Bummer! No sale.....

I spent the better part of the past few days in forums looking for advice and help. I am even more overwhelmed that I was when I first began the course. My advice is this: Stick to one topic at a time! I've been trying to read everything all at once, but there are far too many posts and subjects in the 4 or 5 forums I have just joined. I try and read one topic, and end up in another not even closely to related to what I want help with. Stick with one topic at a time! If you don't, you will miss some important info! Of which I am doing already...oops!

I even asked others what they thought of GDI, and now I am not so sure I should be using them. Maybe I'll stick it out until I learn more or find something better. I'll try and share the links here when I do.

I did not make any sales yet, but this is partially to my family. Hubby hurt his back, so I have been doing his share of the work this past week, and I think my son got bit by the cranky bug. When did this all start? Any advice to sooth a miserable 1-year old would be appreciated! In fact, I WELCOME babysitters!

The family lands at 3:30 tomorrow, and will be here a week, so I doubt I will be able to spend much time "working" and won't have anything to post here. I am bummed I did not meet my goal for the past couple of weeks, but I did accomplish lots more.

Oh yeah, before I forget....

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!

So much to do!

I've been working on a few projects on the side in addition to reading MOIS just to help break up the monotony. I can only read and write for so long! I have been working on my website through GDI, and I am glad I kept it.

GDI is pretty simple to work with, and anyone can use it. They have site templates, builders, name serving, hosting, parking, and much more. And if you know nothing about making websites, the website buidler is pretty simple. Anyone can do it!

After you go through the MOIS, you will learn that you will need a real website(or a few!) after you get things rolling with your business. Like I said before, it's $10 a month for you first domain for everything mentioned above. You can't beat it. And I find other services are just too darn confusing.

They pitch to you to become an affiliate, but you don't have to. All you do is sign up, as if you were to become one, and just use the products they give to you. In fact, at the bottom of the sign-up form, they ask you if you want to be one or not. Use this link here to check it out/sign up. There is a cheesy video that will automatically play, and you can watch it or click off of it to find out more.

Overall, I just happy I can get a domain name of my choosing since all the good .com ones are taken up.