Monday, August 23, 2010

Forums are back up.

Come on back, everyone, let's exchange tips and info.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Update 20.8.2010 and Skype

Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the note and update about your computer and timing.

The kids are in back to school mode, so my work on the site is slow.

Summary of Actions:
1.  I updated all the buy links on all the pages, since I'd been waiting to hear about the server move before doing that. Since your note last week indicated we won't be moving server, I did get them taken care of. I noticed today that there are a number of programs that did not approve my application at cj.
2. In the process of adding another 10 WEb2.0 sites with the fellow I work with on fiverr.com. By building out only 10-20 a week, I think it's more natural. By paying him, I will save 50% over Knowem.com. Sorry that means in order to  check out the profiles you'd need to search for **** on the sites.

3. I only made one more forum post, nothing spectacular.

4.I did read an interesting article from SiteProNews, something I've been a subscriber to for over 10 years: http://www.sitepronews.com/2010/08/15/social-media-marketing-doesnt-replace-seo/ .

Questions:

1. Thoughts on contacting the CJ advertisers who rejected the application?
2. Forums????
3. I looked through my emails and either I'm going senile or I wasn't aware you'd be out of communicado again. Having the forum up might help with communication, as you could just make one post for everyone to see. Your thoughts?

Timing for Skype:

Looking at my schedule, thinking that Wednesday evening my time might work best. Say 17:00 GMT+2 = 8 am your time. Too early? Otherwise I could do 20:00, which would be 11  am your time.

best,
me

Friday, August 13, 2010

Weekly Update 13.8.2010 and Skype?

HI Jeremy,

Sorry I wasn't able to get to Skype on Thursday. I've got some family issues going on with one of my teens. It was a slow week in terms of our site, sorry.

Summary of Actions:

1-  I didn't use Knowem.com's service. I use their site to get info on the various Web 2.0 services, since they present right on the site the Alexa rank, Yahoo links, and Compete.com data. I decided to see if I could get some help cheaper at fiverr.com, which was recommended by one of the partners in the forums. I posted a suggestion for a gig and got two replies and one person has worked out just fine. I basically try to do 10-20 a week, but didn't get any more done this week. The list from last week is the majority, and I am always ****  for the username.

2 - I made three more community postings, including changing my sig on that one site that didn't like the website in the URL. See what you thnk:
http://forum.***.com/6563372-post450.html
http://forum.***.com/what-notebook-should-i-buy/507163-need-netbook-constant-travel-web-browsing-office-apps-form-included.html#post6563420
http://www.***.com/forum/general/3228-netbook-powerpower.html

3- I published another ezine article:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-7-Bestselling-Netbook-Computer-Brands&id=4819246

all the best,
me

Friday, August 6, 2010

Update 6 August, 2010

Hello Jeremy,

As per your email last week, here is my update email for the week:

Summary of Actions:

1- Continued creating social media profiles for my site. :
http://www.tweako.com/
http://wakoopa.com/
http://www.bizsugar.com/
http://www.epinions.com/
http://www.thisnext.com/
http://www.ecademy.com/
http://www.kaboodle.com/
http://www.kiva.org/
http://amplify.com/
http://www.mister-wong.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.diigo.com/
http://www.gravee.com/
http://www.mixx.com/
http://www.plime.com/
http://www.squidoo.com/
http://www.cocomment.com/
http://faves.com/
http://jeteye.com/
http://www.searchles.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.connotea.org/
http://www.folkd.com/
http://www.kirtsy.com/
http://www.mylinkvault.com/
http://www.backtype.com/
http://www.glogster.com/
http://issuu.com/

2 - I've begun participating in some forum discussions. Here are some posts I made in topics related to my site:
http://www.netbookchoice.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=251&p=781#p781
http://www.netbookreviews.com/forum/introductions/3177-netbook-fun.html#post10086
http://www.testfreaks.com/netbooks/qa/19528-difference-between-intel-atom-and-intel-core-duo/?new_answer=12296

Questions:
1- Are the sites going to move server or not? If so, target date?
2 - Did you send out an email or make an announcement in the Partner Portal about your plans to be offline in July?  I totally missed it, if so.
3- Can you share general stats with us about where everyone is holding in the Partnership? It might be encouraging.


thanks,
me