I’m Getting There

Last night I did as I promised. I started moving things forward.

Firstly, I signed up to Technorati and Del.icio.us which will improve traffic to my site.  I have to say it made a difference pretty quickly after checking before and after stats.

Secondly my husband let me use him as a sounding board to start action planning.  "I’ll only take about half an hour of your time" I said, as nearly two hours later we agreed it was time to pack up and get some sleep.

My husband did smile at me (or was that a gentle laugh) as I pulled out felt tip pens and started writing up my action plan with colour coded titles.  I adore stationery and it seemed reasonable enough to me to make it pretty!

I came up with the first 6 titles for the ‘regular features’.  For each of these areas I discussed with my husband the frequency for changing the articles on the website, how many articles I needed to launch with ie how many I need in my back pocket to ensure I don’t run out. 

I then totalled up how many articles I had written for each area (or how many I hadn’t in some cases) and then where I will be sourcing material from. 

A lot will be coming from family and friends, but we discussed looking for ‘article writers’ which will be a job in itself to find writers who will cover the topics I want and write in a similar vein to the existing people.

We did discuss ‘new ideas’ which will bring in even more research work, but I have to say it was a really good exercise to just talk about it.  I needed this to motivate me again.  Plus I have some information to talk to my friends and family about and how they can help and contribute.

Tonight I shall continue the action planning and look more closely at the ‘in-depth’ items we discussed last night.  I will also start drip feeding some information via the blog to give little tasters of what the site will be about.

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