Day Fifteen - So This is What it Feels Like to be a Full Time Blogger

This was a better day again, strangely, thanks to some atrocious weather. We were woken by torrential rain at 7AM, and there were all kinds of weather warnings suggesting that we shouldn’t go out unless absolutely necessary, so we didn’t!

We basically spent the day, warm and dry and working on our PC’s. We have already launched a real niche blog, which is starting to get some traffic and seems to be much better than this one at getting subscribers, and my wife spent the day setting up another niche blog, which will be her baby. But even better she came up with the idea for another excellent blog for her and one for me, which ties in beautifully with a hobby of mine. I’ve already researched mine, and I can tell you that not only is there hardly any competition, but also that there are huge opportunities to well product on my new site, so I’m very excited about it.

We do have to be careful though and not to end up doing too much and not very well. At this moment we have this blog and one other live, but we’re now talking about two more, so the plan is to spend time with them offline for now and launch them when we, and the sites are ready. I’ve been researching to get good ideas about launching a new blog properly and got some great advice from Problogger's How to launch a second blog

I spent a good deal of time on Twitter during the day, and I think I have mastered that at last – I’m getting a decent number of followers and having some really interesting interaction with people. I must confess to having been surprised by the number of celebrities that use Twitter, and I have conversed with John Cleese, Will Carling, Stephen Fry and John Chow. I’ve never been into the whole celebrity thing, but I have to say this might get me into it!

On the debt / people chasing for money front, it was a quiet day thank God. We were pretty much left alone.

I’m so grateful that my wife is as focused as I am on creating an online business with a residual income. I don’t think that I could do this without not only her support, but also her input and ideas. I always knew she was both a strong and talented person, but she has impressed me once again at how she is tackling this new phase in our lives.
We had 42 visitors on the day and 263 page views, so on a par with what we have been getting over the last few days. Income from the site was once again less than a dollar, but we did earn some money! I have been posting the updates on Twitter, as well as contributing other stuff to Twitter, and I can see a correlation between doing that and getting traffic. I am disappointed that so few people are signing up to the site though and need to work on that. Will you please sign up? Go on, please? You can do so RIGHT HERE

It also dawned on me that as I was using the standard Drupal RSS feed, I had no idea how many people had signed up to RSS, so I put a feedburner feed onto the site in a prominent position, so in future I’ll be able to track what’s going on there.

So that was Day Fifteen, which was the 30th December 2008, only one more day to go of what has been a truly horrible year!