Day 7 - A Mini Crisis, A Milestone and Optimism For The Week Ahead

In the early hours of Sunday morning, before I was about to go to sleep, something told me to have a look at my main niche site in Internet Explorer. I absolutely detest IE, so pretty much never use it at all. I think what made me want to look was because of the new opt in form we put on there a few weeks ago. When I opened it up, the sidebar(it's a Wordpress site) was messed up! The RSS feed button looked weird, and more importantly, the product banners were missing. I checked Opera, pretty much the same thing. The site looked perfect in Firefox though.

I was so stressed out that I woke my wife up and told her(it didn't go down well!), as she deals with design and coding of that site. I installed HTML Validator, an excellent Firefox plugin and looked at all the errors. There were 4 of them, and also lots of warnings. This morning she set to work on fixing it and first of all tried using another theme then switching back. When she switched it back, it looked fine. We have no idea why it was messed up on the other browsers, but thankfully all is well now. Depressingly though, this could mean we've missed out on lots of sales and opt ins in the past. We don't know how long it was like that. Probably best not to dwell on it.

My advice - regularly check how your sites look on different browsers. This is a great site for looking at sites on lots of different browsers and resolutions:-

browsershots.org

I had somewhat of a lazy day today, all I really did was a Social Bot submission of a new article I put on one my sites a couple of days ago. Again, not good enough, but I'm really ramping things up this week.

We made another sale of our WSO PLR article back, taking the total to 11. It was a $10 sale now, as the price has gone up due to the first 10 selling. As a result, I have hit what I consider an important milestone.

For the first time EVER, I have made money online 7 days in a row! To be completely honest, I'm pretty sure my best before this week was 2 days in a row, so this represents real progress.

As it's the end of week 1, I really should add up how much I've made from everything. If I take out the Paypal fees for each sale of the WSO, it adds up to around $105. If I don't take them out, it's pretty much right at $100. I'm really pleased with that - I expect to make the most money in this challenge during weeks 3 and 4, but in week 2(starting tomorrow) I'm hoping to at least double this weeks income. Wish me luck.