The kind people at WordPress.com have just sent me a link to my ‘Year of Blogging 2011‘. An opportunity to review my activities on my blog, Woman on the Edge of Reality. When I read through them I must admit to be a little disappointed in myself and then I realised that I could easily do better. I haven’t been as active on my blog as I could have been and I have regularly posted about ‘doing better’ or ‘writing more’ and have yet to achieve both of these aims. So why promise something if I’m unable to deliver? (more…)
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The Final Day of the 30 Day Challenge
23 DecWell what a 30 days it’s been. To say that I have been seriously challenged myself would be an understatement and I have learnt an amazing amount about a great many different things, some of them are personal and some of them are business and marketing focused. I have however, not managed to reach my target of £400,000 in 30 days, in fact I’m just a shade short of it …. by just about £399,660 
The final figures on Day 30 of the challenge are:
- Number of books sold – 187 (just under 6 books per day)
- Money Raised for charity – £374
- Amount paid to affiliates – £83
- Costs of processing the sales – £99.36
- Total amount to go to The Hysterectomy Association – £459.77
These bald figures though, don’t reflect the other ‘successes’ that the challenge has had which include meeting my objective of ‘proving’ that social networking works for all businesses regardless of their starting point. The social networks proved to be the greatest source of activity on the website and consequently sales and it would be fair to say that almost everyone that actually visited the LinkedIn Made Easy sales page on this site bought the book – according to Google Analytics there were 94 unique visitors to the page and 82 books were sold through it – this is an amazing return on investment.
I also have so many people to thank and will do so over the course of the next few weeks by writing about them on the blog. Once again, it was links from the social networks, blog posts and twitter that were responsible for most of the visits to that book page.
As a result I’m going to keep the challenge going – I want to raise £400,000 for charity but now I’m not putting a time limit on it. I will continue to write on this blog, I’ll continue to keep people posted and I will continue to donate £2 from every book sold to either Kiva or the BCCT. In the coming weeks I’ll be reporting on where the money has gone to and how it is going to be used as well. The reason I’m focusing on these two charities is because the other two that I would have liked to support didn’t bother to come back to me at all.
Social Networking Courses Now Available
28 OctI often trawl around the web trying to find out how to use the many tools that I come across in a way that is relevant for both of my businesses. However, like many, I am often frustrated by the time it takes to figure things out and then apply them – only to find that there might have been a better way to do things after all. (more…)
Google adds Caffeine to it’s offering
1 OctFor those of us interested in the way that SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) works with the various search engines, the introduction of a new project by Google, dubbed Caffeine, could have serious implications for those sites who have been sitting back on their laurels for the last few years secure in the knowledge that they had a good link strategy and longevity on their side. (more…)
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