Digging Deeper Monday, September 14th Uncategorized

So I’m still finding it very hard to make any profit, as you might be able to see from the totals to the right – however I am still technically winning, so it’s not that bad!

I think what I’m finding hardest about this is finding the time to get everything I want done. I have loads of projects that I want to start, but I’m finding it hard to focus on just one alone. I have a brilliant long term idea, but I know that it isn’t going to make me any money in the short term, which I need in order to start it up; I have a couple of short term ideas that I keep switching between because I get bored by the fact that my work isn’t paying out. Add on top of this computer troubles, finding the time to work, being distracted by shiny things and having sinusitis (yep, it’s not brill), I don’t seem to be doing very well.

There is potentially one good thing that has come out of me being distracted though. As I stated in an earlier post I signed up for a marketing course called the keyword crash course. It cost me the total of $1 and has yielded some decent information – however in the first (and most informative) video, they outline a process that is rather lengthy and dull. It occurred to me that the process could probably be automated and the speed of which rapidly increased – so I set about writing a small java application for it. After testing the beta version of it for a while, I have sent it on to the guys who created the site to have a look at.

Now the immediate positive thing about the app is I now have a program which will speed this initial ‘researching’ process up for me, and automate practically all of it. Another positive, is if the guys like it, they may want to package it up and thereby offer me something for my efforts! However there is a slight risk that they don’t, or even worse hand it over to a ‘cheapo’ designer and get a knock off copy – yet at the end of the day I still have this tool I can use, so it can’t be all bad, right?

The only problem is their method of making money involves having some of it to start with…damn

Much love,

Dan