My days are slowing down, which is good. It turns out the big stressor was getting my websites up. For the first go-round of websites, I wanted to do them myself so I could learn about the process. As I move forward, whenever I upgrade what I have, I will definitely outsource that work.
Anyway, on Saturday I got my main site up and running, so now I have 3 self-made sites and 3 purchased sites. There will certainly be tweaks to my main site as I go along, but it is good enough to have out there (as far as I can tell, links and autoresponder work properly). Now most of the effort on it will be to drive traffic, but there will be some content updates from time to time as well, but the heavy lifting is finished. Whew!
Feel free to check out the sites and let me know if you see anything that needs to be fixed
www.TAERealEstateInv.com (main site)
www.WholesaleDealsInPittsburgh.com
www.PittsburghREI.com
My other sites
www.SellYourProperty-Fast.com
www.EliminateYourRent.com
www.Vitrual-Bird-Dog-Deals.com
Anyway, now that I have gotten the websites up, I can now get really down and dirty with my real estate activities and work more on some internet marketing projects. I am taking my business from an old school model of working pretty much in an offline manner (posted ads, MLS listings from my agent, networking) to more of a virtual model, so some of my real estate activity has slacked a bit in the last couple of months...time to get it back up again.
I have gotten some good stuff put in place, now I can put them to use to make more money. Of course, they share this week with me getting my tax stuff together for my CPA since we will be on a cruise on tax day :) , my deadline is a little bit earlier than usual.
Do today, enjoy tomorrow.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Spread too thin?
So today I put in time to get started on an affiliate marketing campaign. Actually, I am getting prepared to do the first campaign. I came across a day-by-day plan that spells out all of the steps to do each day to get get a campaign from thought to in action. Being completely new to this sort of thing, it took a little bit longer to get my bearings that I expected.
Which brings me to my title question. Starting from the very bottom, needing to learn a bunch of stuff has me feeling a little bit overwhelmed as far as being able to do both of these things at the same time. To make it a little bit tougher, I have to cut my day at about 4pm so I can get to practice and I do not get back home until 7:30. So, my day feels about 1/2 as long as it needs to be.
I am taking on a bunch of new activities in my effort to be a "virtual" investor, so that is certainly the source of this feeling. Once I get the hang of some of these things and it is a matter of "doing" and not "thinking then doing", my days will feel a lot longer.
Right now I have a feeling like I am doing things, but they are busy work, not productive because I do not have anything in place that is making me money right now.
One day at a time, right?
Tomorrow is another day!
Which brings me to my title question. Starting from the very bottom, needing to learn a bunch of stuff has me feeling a little bit overwhelmed as far as being able to do both of these things at the same time. To make it a little bit tougher, I have to cut my day at about 4pm so I can get to practice and I do not get back home until 7:30. So, my day feels about 1/2 as long as it needs to be.
I am taking on a bunch of new activities in my effort to be a "virtual" investor, so that is certainly the source of this feeling. Once I get the hang of some of these things and it is a matter of "doing" and not "thinking then doing", my days will feel a lot longer.
Right now I have a feeling like I am doing things, but they are busy work, not productive because I do not have anything in place that is making me money right now.
One day at a time, right?
Tomorrow is another day!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Getting it going
I had bigger plans for today than I actually was able to achieve. It was supposed to be a split real estate/internet marketing day, but it ended up being mostly centered around my real estate business. Here is what I had on my To-Do list:
1. Gym (check)
2. Print out my Investor surveys to compile areas I have buyers (check)
3. Get updated list of areas to my real estate agent (make that for tomorrow)
4. Send ad copy to Mark to for review (nope, turns out he is out of town, send tomorrow)
5. Post ads for Investors, Sellers, Buyers and Bird Dogs (Super check, total of 8 posted, focus on investors for my list)
6. Send a message out to my list (check)
7. Get started working on an affiliate campaign (1/2 check...still going over the step-by-step materials I have)
8. Attend Mark's Reverse Real Estate System call (sort of a check, apparently there was no call or I missed it due to my computer issue, see below)
The affiliate campaign was originally planned to be my afternoon activity, but no.
I am a HS rowing coach and I had a few items that came up today related to that, so that killed a part of my day, but mostly I was slow getting going this AM to the gym, which had a domino effect on the rest of my day.
Oh, I also had terrific computer issue again today. My computer was moving about as fast as a glacier, so I had to re-boot...it took, no joke, 25 minutes to get everything closed (lots of "Not Responding"), shut down, re-started and running again. Don't get me started on how Outlook was "working". I was ready to throw this thing right out my window.
My priority tomorrow is to get my affiliate campaign started (I need some supplemental cash flow for now, but the goal is to get it built up to be a true income source). It is not all bad that I did not get to it today because the real estate stuff is very important, BUT, affiliate marketing is something that I need to get going on. My goal is to have some serious flow going by June 1.
Til next time!
1. Gym (check)
2. Print out my Investor surveys to compile areas I have buyers (check)
3. Get updated list of areas to my real estate agent (make that for tomorrow)
4. Send ad copy to Mark to for review (nope, turns out he is out of town, send tomorrow)
5. Post ads for Investors, Sellers, Buyers and Bird Dogs (Super check, total of 8 posted, focus on investors for my list)
6. Send a message out to my list (check)
7. Get started working on an affiliate campaign (1/2 check...still going over the step-by-step materials I have)
8. Attend Mark's Reverse Real Estate System call (sort of a check, apparently there was no call or I missed it due to my computer issue, see below)
The affiliate campaign was originally planned to be my afternoon activity, but no.
I am a HS rowing coach and I had a few items that came up today related to that, so that killed a part of my day, but mostly I was slow getting going this AM to the gym, which had a domino effect on the rest of my day.
Oh, I also had terrific computer issue again today. My computer was moving about as fast as a glacier, so I had to re-boot...it took, no joke, 25 minutes to get everything closed (lots of "Not Responding"), shut down, re-started and running again. Don't get me started on how Outlook was "working". I was ready to throw this thing right out my window.
My priority tomorrow is to get my affiliate campaign started (I need some supplemental cash flow for now, but the goal is to get it built up to be a true income source). It is not all bad that I did not get to it today because the real estate stuff is very important, BUT, affiliate marketing is something that I need to get going on. My goal is to have some serious flow going by June 1.
Til next time!
Monday, March 9, 2009
Wow!
Well, that took longer than expected. I pretty much had the sites ready to go, then I blew something up. Fortunately it only cost me about a day. But before I could get them "live", I had to go out of town. My wife and I went on a weekend real estate mastermind retreat of sorts in Atlanta. Lots of great info shared and ideas gotten, plus made some terrific new contacts.
The best part was the snow that canceled our flight Sunday night. Not only were we not getting out on Sunday, but we were not getting out on Monday either because the earliest flight we could get was late-morning on Tuesday! What!?!? Fortunately we met a couple from just north of Pittsburgh and they had driven down so they offered us a ride back Monday...a long ride, but it sure beat 2 more nights of a hotel plus another day of the rental car (at full price, not the Priceline deal I got).
Well, it turns out there is neither snow-removal equipment nor winter driving skill in existence in SC. What should have taken 3 hours to get to Charlotte took 6 hours thanks to 5 traffic jams due to accidents (not to mention the 100+ cars we saw abandoned on the side of the road...not even kidding).
After it was all said and done, we left Buford, GA at 6:30AM and got to our house at 10:30PM...good times.
Well, after all that, I got my site up Tuesday and fiddled with them some the rest of the week. Check them out...
www.WholesaleDealsInPittsburgh.com
and
www.PittsburghREI.com.
Soon to be live, www.TAERealEstateInvestments.com
and
www.alan-engel.com.
Oh, and I am now on Facebook.
The best part was the snow that canceled our flight Sunday night. Not only were we not getting out on Sunday, but we were not getting out on Monday either because the earliest flight we could get was late-morning on Tuesday! What!?!? Fortunately we met a couple from just north of Pittsburgh and they had driven down so they offered us a ride back Monday...a long ride, but it sure beat 2 more nights of a hotel plus another day of the rental car (at full price, not the Priceline deal I got).
Well, it turns out there is neither snow-removal equipment nor winter driving skill in existence in SC. What should have taken 3 hours to get to Charlotte took 6 hours thanks to 5 traffic jams due to accidents (not to mention the 100+ cars we saw abandoned on the side of the road...not even kidding).
After it was all said and done, we left Buford, GA at 6:30AM and got to our house at 10:30PM...good times.
Well, after all that, I got my site up Tuesday and fiddled with them some the rest of the week. Check them out...
www.WholesaleDealsInPittsburgh.com
and
www.PittsburghREI.com.
Soon to be live, www.TAERealEstateInvestments.com
and
www.alan-engel.com.
Oh, and I am now on Facebook.
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