‘business’ Archive

Month 1 Recap April 2, 2010 No Comments

It’s been a busy past two weeks at work, home, and at Better Parenting.  As a result, I’ve been less active here, but I’ve got a pretty thorough recap of what’s happened lately to follow.  I just finished up the first month of BetterParenting.com, and on the whole it went quite well.

Surpassed goal of 10,000 [...]

Launching a New Website – Week 1 Recap March 8, 2010 No Comments

So the first week for Better Parenting is officially in the books.  To start out, here’s what went well and what didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped:
Week 1 Wins

Published at least 1 article every day (22 articles now published)
Over 1,000 visitors for the week
Over 3,500 pageviews for the week
More than 3 pageviews [...]

Where to Hire Blog Writers March 1, 2010 No Comments

This is just a quick update to note how impressed I am with the response I received from the ProBlogger job board.  My job posting went live shortly after 9 AM today, and 14 hours later, I’ve received over 50 good applications for the position.  Sifting through all of these submissions is going to be [...]

Follow Along as I Launch BetterParenting.com February 26, 2010 No Comments

This past month, I got lucky.  I picked up a pretty great domain name (BetterParenting.com) at a very reasonable price.  It’s not a category killer, but I think it’s a great name to develop on because:

It’s a decent exact-match keyword name
“Better Parenting” isn’t a huge volume term, but it gets a fair amount of search [...]