DAY 47, the last day of March!

UPDATE: Wednesday, 30-Mar-2005 11:11 PM

Still Wednesday, but I haven't been able to get anything done... So, while I am sitting around and not being productive, I'll do what I often do: Dream away by using numbers. Sometime the dreams are not good, but here I go.

I ran into a site that talked about Google Ad Sense, the publishing system that pays webmasters to display ads as I am doing. The site talked about earning an average of $0.20 (twenty cents) per click thru. I think that's high. That can add up to a lot, but I doubt I'd get twenty cents per click thru. So, let me adjust that to just FIVE CENTS. Now lets make an assumption that one in twenty visitors will click out of the site thru such an ad.

When I get 100 visitors to the site, 5 of them will exit the site using a Google Ad Sense ad displayed mostly on the right of the text. OK, having said that, then per 100 visitors the site would earn 5 X 0.05 cents or just $0.25 cents per 100 visitors.

The table would look like this then:

100 = 5 = $0.25
1,000 = 50 = 2.50
10,000 = 500 = $25.00

Ok, doing a conservative income calculation I can expect the above and not much more than that.

I don't think that's too bad because my objective with Google Ad Sense was to occupy the bottom end of the income generation picture. Not the high end. Other sites may be able to do that, but I am not counting on it here.

Then the summary is that it will take a good combination of several actions to get to a reasonable level of revenue.

Note left over from last night ended here......

At this time ( Thursday, 31-Mar-2005 12:18 PM )

Just like that it's the end of the month. Already one fourth of the year is gone! But, did I get a lot done!

The forum is done. The site has a new look. Tons of pages were added. Google Ad Sense was added. A banner management system was added. I got the press releases started. I got a lot of reviews done. All in all, it was a VERY productive month. Traffic took a huge boost. The site registrations done months ago seem to be working. BOTs from a lot of search engines are visiting. The Google BOT is visiting regularly.

Yes! A sigh and stretch of the neck and lets look at April 05!

April leaves me with these tasks to finish and implement:

1. Finish site optimization with KEY WORDS.

2. Finish site registration with lots of search engines.

3. Finish the press releases and get them out to the media.

4. Finish more reviews.

5. Keep going!

I think that about does it. Great! I still have a lot more but it's not a "march" type march. It's more like a cruise along and get the stuff done. In March I rushed!

Next week I am going to seriously consider ONE MORE ITEM: A budget. Since I have a BUSINESS PLAN and FOCUS on the clear objectives, I am going to strongly consider an infusion of capital to energize the traffic coming to the site.

Anyway, that is a consideration, but again, I'll have to see what I can get done with just the idea as oppose to sticking money into it. As of now I have not paid anything to do what I am doing, other than my time.

Ok, that does it. Perhaps, more later.

Well a bit later...Thursday, 31-Mar-2005 9:08 PM

Just wanted to report that I don't have a real good April Fools Day joke or prank to pull off.

I suppose I didn't have much time to think about it. Tomorrow I am off to a "remote location" from where I will be directing thoughts and actions for a few days.

Anyway, the site was very busy this month. Traffic was up 10 fold and site connectivity from my own actions were up 100 times.

However, the one visitor that impressed me the most was Google BOT and Inktomi --both bots traveled the site on the average twice a day!

I have a lot to look forward to in April -another overseas trip for my 'other' project and another in May. However, I will make certain of my commitment to keep up with the blog and site needs.

I certainly proved that in March. I don't see any reason to get several of the steps done either.

I was about to say that's about it, but I didn't mention anything about the stocks.

The stock options on Occidental Petroleum calls are doing 'ok' --nothing really hasn't not happened there. However, the LNG options (can't even spell the company name) are doing great. Up over 200% already and I plan to hold them 'til the end of April or a bit more. I know they will really do well, as LNG has been falling for a while.

There is a lot more discussion about the OPTIONS and what will happen, but I'll leave that for a few other days.

OK, then OUT! Hope you had a great month of March. SPRING is finally here! Flowers are out, and I can feel the sun. Finally! I really look forward to April. Tax month, but hope you too have a great return coming. If that was the case, you should have filed to get the average $2200.00 dollars back.

Speaking about funds, that sounds like a great amount to get your own financial success plan going.

Good luck with that. I'll report on all the items that will get done in April. Out then. Sam.

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