I have followed blogs similar to this one before, and I have always been disappointed when the author stops posting after a few days. I'm glad to say I'm not one of those people, but for anyone who is following long - there are a couple of reasons why I haven't been updating in the last 3 days.
There's not much to say about Friday - a pretty poor amount of work was done. A couple of SEO tasks(Directory/Press Release submissions etc) were done, and a few article submissions but not much more than that. I hold my hands up and say that like most days of this challenge so far, I just didn't do enough.
Saturday came, and as I usually treat it as an IM day off, I thought I would spend a little while fixing an increasingly bad overheating problem my Laptop was having. I've had it a few months now, some dust has accumulated. I had a look around online to see what I needed to do. There were 2 main options initially, blow the dust out with some compressed air or suck it out with a vacuum cleaner.
I went for the latter, and what a mistake that was! I put the pipe of my vacuum cleaner close to the vent where the fan is, a little dust came out so I put it right up against it. In doing this, I must have sucked a chunk of dust into one part of the fan because it stopped spinning completely. To cut a long story short, I then tried to take the Laptop apart(voiding the warranty in the process) in order to fix the problem, but realised it was a lot harder than opening a desktop upon watching a step by step video on Youtube.
I'm lucky in that although I don't excel at DIY/electronic based tasks, I have a wife that does. This particular task was a lot down to bravery though - I just lacked enough to take the entire Laptop apart myself! So after a few hours, she removed the dust and all was well again. There's now a small issue with the keyboard, but she is going to fix that later today(hopefully). If you are reading this and have a similar problem - blow out the dust from the air vents, don't suck it!
As a result of this(I do 95% of my work on this Laptop), Saturday and Sunday were days off. I can't really afford to have them if I am going to successfully reach my goal, but there you go.
There have been some interesting developments with a couple of my sites. One has suddenly started receiving much more traffic(all of it organic), and as a result the CPA offer I'm promoting on it has been receiving more clicks. Before the weekend, on an average day this offer would maybe get 5 or 6 clicks on average. On Sunday, it got 21. This is fantastic, the only problem being it didn't convert from those 21 clicks. Pretty disappointing. On another day, I could have literally made 5 - 10 sales from those clicks, which would mean $200 - $400 made! It's a good offer, and the keyword the visitors are coming from describes exactly what the offer is. Hopefully it's going to start converting today. With that kind of click volume, I should be making at least 4 or 5 sales a week.
I did make a couple of sales of the WSO PLR article pack over the weekend - which gives me a little under $10 after Paypal fees when I split it with my JV partner. That means I made around $35 in week two. Very disappointing, especially compared to week one. Yes, I didn't do enough in week two, but if a couple of things I am promoting converted at just 10% I would have beaten my first week total of $100 comfortably. Oh well, onwards and upwards.
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