Andrew Jones’ Blog

I haven’t yet made a penny online, but already (or should that be finally got around to…) I need to set up a spreadsheet to keep track of what I’m doing and thereby/also show what I need to keep doing. Well, it’s a first stab at it anyway!

It’s just a simple Excel spreadsheet with a few worksheets/tabs as follows:

Tab1/my blog apj
Date Entered | Posting Date | type | site | cat | Posting Title

Tab2/simplyInsomnia
Date Entered | Posting Date | type | site | cat | Posting Title

Tab3/articles
Date | cat | product | Site(s)/via SYA* | Article Title(s)
*SubmitYourArticle

Note 2 things -

1. you can set a posting date for a WordPress blog that’s different from the date of entering the post, either forward or back - so you can enter a post today, but postpone it’s ‘release’ until a few days later, so that you can enter several at one sitting, then have them appear spread over the coming week.
2. SubmitYourArticle.com has a new optional (and at no extra cost) submission facility to allow submission of more unique articles spread across the article directories they submit to: so if you choose to use it (for a particular article submission) you can enter several versions of the title, first paragraph, various sentences and the resource box - which SYA will mix together for the various submissions to give many unique ‘different’ articles based on the original. I tried using it because it seemed like a good idea, it did take longer for the submission though, maybe an extra 30+ minutes. Since it had already taken me several hours to set up my SYA account (including the logons for several article sites requiring separate IDs) and re-rewriting the article again (to get it down to under 800 words) it seemed worthwhile trying to get the most return on my time (and SYA subscription) investment!

Anyway, I’ve populated my spreadsheet with my actions so far - 41 actions (setting up this blog, lots of blog posts and 3 article submissions - 2 separate ones and the SYA submission, which supposedly goes out to many many article directories) The next step is to add future actions, so that I keep posting regular blog and forum posts, articles and create new products!

Cheers for now,

Andy