I’ve been quiet lately because I’ve been up to my usual mischief; I have been working with both my usual clients plus a couple of new ones while putting the final touches on my sustainable self employment plan.
Some more of my fledgling blogs are ready to leave the nest; Darlene Greene is taking the helm over at Simply The Best Loans and has already started posting up a storm; rumor has it that some in-depth details on how independent/creative professionals can smoothly navigate the mortgage waters are forthcoming, along with more of Darlene’s no nonsense advice on financial management.
Michol Little is taking the reins over at A Better Custom Home, where she’s going to demystify the construction and renovation process for residential and commercial construction. As someone who has done more than my fair share of both, I’m delighted to help her share her wealth of knowledge with others.
Maria has really caught the blog bug; she’s launched Not That You Asked, But… as a news and commentary blog with her own unique blend of caustic wit. DDOQ is also starting to see steady improvement in traffic numbers; the site is now averaging 150+ new visitors a day and already has over 4000 page views for May. We’re going to start adding in some select advertisers in addition to Amazon - both she and Jen are getting the click throughs but not sales.
Jen has also seen consistent traffic growth; she is up over 200 uniques a day and her latest blog, Practical Plastic Surgery has gotten off to a really strong start.
Wil’s site is getting ready to go under the knife; his traffic remains simply insane and we’re adding an ecommerce element and a whole new UI, complete with thumbnails and a whole slew of new WP plugins to monetize the site. He’ll essentially have the equivalent of a full content management site, which will help tremendously when he hits the road on the Everyday Queer book tour - he’ll be able to post from anywhere, and from what I’ve seen of the itinerary, that’s going to be pretty important.
Bruce and Kim got a wonderful write up in the Metro Business section of the Times Dispatch a couple of weeks ago. Bruce did a great job with his first Site Build It site; it ranks well in the search engines and is chock full of really useful information. The interest in LED light therapy is only going to continue to grow, especially in light of growing concerns over long term use of celebrex, vioxx and other pain medications - the funny thing is that they’re selling way more human than horse units; clearly, here is a collision between intended and unintended markets.
See? Told you I’ve been busy - it must be all that spring energy.
I will be posting more regularly now - I wanted to bring everyone up to speed, first. I think we’re just about there, so I’ve allocated daily writing time into my new schedule. I’m also going to add a buying/selling page to this site, since I want to extend my freelance network and I haven’t gotten around to revamping Networking Domain for it.
Toots for now.
