Wow, What DID I Do For My Internet Business...?

Wow, what have I been doing these last ten days or so?

Must've been doing something right because I hit my year end target more than three weeks ahead of schedule when my Alexa ranking broke through into the 400,000s (498,768).

I guess that was the work of the directory submission people, though, to be honest, but I have yet to receive their submission report and so I'm not sure...

Another good development is the ArticleTrickle system that Submit Your Article recently introduced. Instead of posting your article to all their outlets as soon as you submit it, SYA now "trickles" it out over a period of several days (you can choose how long you want the process to take). That makes your article distribution process seem more natural and also means that even if you don't do much to promote your website for a couple of days, things will be happening behind the scenes, which is great to know!

Some time last week I bought and uploaded the Articlefriendly.com article directory. I have yet to customize it fully to suit my needs, but at least I have finally got around to buying it and getting it on my site.

The other day I ordered the Dragon speech recognition software package to speed up my article writing and other writing tasks. When the package arrived in Hiroshima a few days later I discovered that I couldn't plug the microphone jack into my Mac... Mac 10.5.5, I hasten to add, with Windows on a separate hard drive in the same computer.

On Monday I had a few minutes to spare as I was passing Deodeo so I popped in and bought a headset for Mac. It works a treat! Best of all, I can use it for a transcription job I'm working through and simply dictate what I hear, and watch in wonder as it appears more or less accurately in the Notepad file... :-)

I plan to use it to churn out blogs and articles as well as write email at much greater speed, although I have to admit that right now I am typing this on the Mac keyboard!

I won 100,000 visitors for my website from the Evancarmichael.com forum competition in November. Only problem is that I need a 200x200 banner and don't have one. I also don't have time or inclination to make one so I've been looking for a good banner designer. Thought I'd found one, but never heard back from them... This is proving more difficult than I'd expected!

Jeff Casmer reviewed my website for me and gave me a few good hints about how to improve the look of the front page. That is one of the free bonuses you get as a member of the Pips Power Group.

Since last Friday I've been listening to a couple of Success University downloads on my iPod:

1. Jim Cathcart - All Leadership Begins With Self Leadership.

2. Marcus DeMaria - Eight Steps To Creating Wealth.

I also played a DVD on presentation skills by Karl George and Arti Halai to my two women's college "English Presentation" classes. Some of the girls even took notes!

So stuff has been going on, even if not so much hands on promotion as before. Sure, I've done some traffic exchange clicking and forum posting, some blog commenting and a couple of blog posts, but not as much as I should be doing.

This is my fourth blog article for tonight. Here are the other three:

1. http://article-marketing-research.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-inrease-website-traffic-by.html

2. http://legitimate-work-at-home-business.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-you-need-to-use-landing-pages-to.html

3. http://legitimate-work-at-home-business.blogspot.com/2008/12/follow-these-six-steps-that-experts.html

David Hurley
Grasp-The-Nettle.com