Heather Gowrie http://heathergowrie.info What I do - everything I do - and how I keep it all together. Sun, 20 May 2012 07:38:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Subscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotation Hello Again http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeatherGowrie/~3/zzrYGSlgxmY/ http://heathergowrie.info/2012/05/hello-again/#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 16:55:07 +0000 Heather http://heathergowrie.info/?p=362 It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 2 months since I wrote anything here.  I’ve been busy updating the look for all my sites and writing content on other sites.  The truth be told, I haven’t had anything to say lately but that is alright.  I’m still here, building my business and helping others build theirs.

Feel free to email me or leave a comment if you have something to say.

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I outsourced my daily functions and repetitive tasks to a virtual assistant about a month ago and in that time my business has doubled. Before I started to outsource, I really thought I was doing a lot of work every day but what I was doing was standard work that kept my business at its current level. I was advertising and monitoring more than anything. I wasn’t bringing in new projects or moving forward on my long term plans.

Now my assistant handles all the daily work tasks. She places my ads. She monitors my current websites. She keeps my current business running while I concentrate on creating new projects and new content. In the last month alone, I’ve finished a new training website and am starting two entirely new sites.
It did take me a week to interview and hire someone. I do all my work online and my assistant actually lives in another country. We communicate through Skype in the middle of the night. And training has been an ongoing project for the person I hired. I give my assistant a list of tasks and training requests for the week, she is expected to do the work and report back to me. I test her learning and knowledge by having her complete practice tasks on a blog or writing an article for me.

I love being able to give someone a list of daily tasks that need competing and then focusing on new projects. It takes trust and the ability to delegate work but those are skills that anyone can learn.
From now on, when a business building client tells me that they work all day and don’t seem to have time for new work – I’m going to tell them to hire an assistant. Outsource your daily tasks, it really is worth the time to get someone hired and trained.

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These are bags that I have or bags that I want.  This one is available at Just Fab.

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Another Squidoo Lense created by me.  You’ll learn how to take your ideas and build a profitable business.

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Yes, it is possible to make money with your blog and website. But how do you turn your site from a general blog into a profitable business?

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Lesson learned – if your running an internet business make sure your internet connection works.

I’ve tethered my computer to my iphone until new cable internet is installed in the house.  I only hope to not hit my 2gb download limit.

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Technorati is the one I love.

Seriously, this is just to claim my blog.

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Google Adsense will NOT make you rich overnight  Sure, if you play the marketing game correctly, you can earn some money but don’t fall for the get rich schemes flooding the internet.  It’s taken me 2 years to earn $5.00 with Adsense but my Adsense ads are few and far between right now.  And all my Adsense ads are on websites I’m currently not promoting or working on.

Making money with Adsense can be a fine art; web consumers are very savvy and understand the Adsense model.  If you place too many ads on your site, your visitors are going to see your blog as nothing more than a billboard and they are gone.  Then again, if you hide the advertisements – no one will see them.  If your visitors don’t click on the ads, you’re not making any money.

The secret is to integrate the ads and the content together but how do you do that?

 

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