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As expected, participating in the latest Blast Challenge just about guaranteed that I’d have a productive week. I’d almost make the challenge a permanent sort o’ thing, but keeping up that pace can be a little stressful. And, quite honestly, I just don’t want to work that damn hard — I’m shooting for something a little more passive! ;) But at a third of that pace? Hmmm, that probably is quite doable!

Anyway, this week’s progress:

  1. Seven eBay mini sites, taken from idea to full blast. In that vein, grabbed a month-to-month subscription to Terapeak and found several niches that I would have never thought of. Definitely a service to at least try for a month or two if you’re doing product research, even if you don’t do the eBay thing.
  2. Seven direct-to-merchant test balloons released. Very wide range of niches here, don’t believe any of them relate to another unless you really stretch the ol’ noggin! ;)
  3. Six custom landing pages created for yet another batch of merchants. This one is more of a loose cluster of seasonal products.
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And that looks like 20 blasts to me. Just have to accomplish as much over the next four weeks, and I’ll meet my blast challenge! :eek:

Yeah, maybe a third is more my speed… ;)

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Like I said last week, I wasn’t sure how much would get accomplished this week as we wound up a particularly busy portion of the ol’ day job. And it was a slower week on my goal front for sure.

  1. Killed off a few campaigns that were holiday-centric, and that have finally would down to the point that they were only barely borderline profitable. I could probably keep them going a few weeks more with some more intense attention, but the cost/benefit ratio of doing so with these particular campaigns would be exceedingly low. We’ll just let ‘em idle until the next time around!
  2. Continued my nanoblogging tasks, with some fairly major tweaking on one of them.

And that’s about it. The ol’ brain just wasn’t up to focusing, and so it didn’t.

That said, Blast Challenge XI went live today, and I intend to get as many of my 100 done as possible over the next few weeks. Next week should be a little more lively on the goal front… :)

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Weekly Kick in the Ass, Week 6

The Winter Olympics were quite the Siren call for me this week, but resisted just enough to manage to get at least few things done:

Seven new niche minisites blasted. What can I say? I tend to stick with what has been working! The last week has shown a nice jump up in my profit per [...]

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Weekly Kick in the Ass, Week 5

Oops, another bout of this winter’s crazy weather has me trapped at home, and my days all messed up. And I let this out initially unadulterated. Despite what it might have said a few hours ago, as a matter of fact, I did accomplish a thing or two towards my goal this week!

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Weekly Kick in the Ass, Week 4

Week four already? Really? Wow, time really does fly…
So, what got done this week:

Got all my corporation tax info gathered up, and made sure everything was closed out for 2009. Pretty sure all my 1099s are now in hand, so I’ll just have to spit out a few reports in Quickbooks and actually [...]

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Weekly Kick in the Ass, Week 3

Another week, another what-have-I-done-lately status report.
The day job was leaving me a little fried at the end of the day all week. And with tax season about to ramp up, likely even more so ahead. But I was left home alone this weekend as my wife & son went north with the in-laws to [...]

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