Random Things Going On…
A few nights ago we hosted dinner in our house for Chris’ family and after dinner we were about to play a game of UNO when I noticed that Chris’ 10 Year old niece was more interested in watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua, so I asked… “are you gonna play UNO or watch the movie” Emma retorted.. “haven’t you heard of Multitasking?” I shut up and dealt the cards! I wonder what they teach 10 year olds in school nowadays??
Over the last 2 months, I’ve been Working hard to relaunch one of my subscription websites so finally last month I sent out an email promotion about the new launch and had a 5.25% conversion rate. I was very pleased as it is above the market average of 2-3%. Together with my graphics designer we have improved the look of the website, so it now looks a little more professional, or at least we think it does! lol…
I was approached by someone to do a JV to launch another subscription website targeting UK users late last year, so this partnership finally materialised this year so I now run a another member’s only website with approximately 500+ subscribers. It remains to be seen how well this website will work out in the future as subscribers only stay on and become full paying members if they are happy with the services provided. So we may end up with only 300-400 paying subscribers….I am happy even if it is only 100!
At the start of this year I had decided that I was not going to sit on my butt and wait for things to happen, so I sought out a JV with another guy who owns this massive mailing list and created yet another membership site to market to this huge list. His list is so huge, you won’t believe me if I said it… 165,000 people subscribed to it!! So I’ve been keeping myself very busy working on this. Our initial marketing plan did not work well, so I had to go back to the drawing board and take the website to a whole new direction.
I am sitting here… doing quite a few things right now…
- I am deleting 1000 spam comments from one of my blogs..
- am chatting with my friend about our kids
- am helping Ethan with his homework
- am listening to Anoop…
- am selecting a blog theme for my new JV
with 100 thoughts running though my mind as I am writing this!
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Wow.. your thoughts are everywhere - so scatterbrained!
Wishin you all the best in your JVs - all of them. With you working so hard and putting so much effort into it, you’ll reap your rewards surely.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I’d like to think of my brain like a piece of art.. an organised mess!
This is why I am way better off working for myself. As long as I get to the end destination, who really cares how I got there right? no?