Client Work vs. Blog Posting
As usual, I commit to posting regularly to this blog then I let things slide. It’s in my nature to start a new project then drop that project for something more interesting. Currently it has been some stupid tower defense Shoemoney posted about (stupid because it’s been wasting my time like crazy), Starcraft (the OG of games), and a client website.
I was reading a post Michael Gray wrote about client work and blogging. It’s true, clients don’t want to see you posting new posts to your blog when their deadline is up. That post reminded me about making money online.
There are two distinct methods to making money online. Work for yourself or work for others. Currently I do both. Currently I do a LOT of work for myself and a little work for others. Most of my work for others is website design for my company AfterHim Media.
However, as I said I tend to get distracted from a project very quickly. With that fact in mind, I’m going to try something new this month. I’m going to stay focused on ONE project for the entire month.
I don’t know if it is possible for me to stay that mentally focused and not sway, but we’ll give it a go. My monthly goal is going to be $5k a month. That could come from someone wanting to hire me full time for one month (I do social media marketing, design, and other SEO/SEM related marketing) or whether that is me writing for this blog or one of my many niche sites.
I am still in the process of deciding on what project I will take on for next month but it will be a personal project because I don’t have any business projects lined up right now. Currently I’m thinking about trying to linkbait my business cards website or try to get this blog to make some cash.
This blog is pretty easy to monetize because of the traffic that it gets. The business card website is more difficult because linkbaiting for “business cards” isn’t easy. Here you can see my first attempt. I realize that I’m late with the HD-DVD jokes, but sometimes I’m a little slow on the funny bandwagon. Look for a Paris Hilton business card soon. That will be just in time for her taking over Martha Stewart’s jail cell.
So what do you think, should I work on this blog or my business card site in June? Or do you want to hire me instead?
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paulette said
March 21 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Its hard to commit with different client at a time especially if you are the only person working and dont have an assistant like me. Good luck to you on your goal.
PS3 said
May 4 2008 @ 4:31 pm
You play Starcraft! Wasn’t sure anyone still did, nice one!
TonyB said
April 1 2009 @ 3:59 pm
Hi Everyone,
I have a carpet cleaning business in Houston,TX that was doing pretty good until the economy went bad, and with it my clientele. I have a website for the business but I dont
know what I have to do the get it to show up in a search. Right now it’s somewhere in the yahoo/google netherworld (LOL).
Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front
page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me.
I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you.
thanks,
Jonathan@Friends&Money said
April 29 2009 @ 10:15 am
It’s very hard staying focussed, I think that’s because any blog worth it’s salt takes time to build up and therefore you need a stream of client work to keep the money flowing, but striking th balance between that and blogging is very difficult. Glad i’m not the only one who can struggle with it
ronyUncorie said
October 28 2009 @ 1:07 pm
How many Twitter followers is needed to get lots of traffic and business to your site?