Well, it’s not quite the end of the month but I took a look at my January goals to see how I’d done.

Ummm… right.

Well, I did manage to make a sale on a product I’m selling exclusively.  Woot me!  I’d love to be able to sell more, but I’ve also managed to do next to no marketing for January for it either.  That’s a my bad, not the product bad.  So February is looking like the month I do a bit more marketing and see if I can start bringing in some $$.   I think the biggest obstacle I’ll have to overcome is that this is a very niche oriented product - not everyone has one, not everyone wants it either.  So I’ll have to be a bit more creative trying to market it.  I’ve tried Google’s PPC for the product - but again a lot of numbers roll by and not a single click.  Could have been the ad, could be the landing page… I’m not sure.  I think I’d like to test out the landing page idea though for the product and see where it takes me.

As far as other monetary goals I’ve had for January… well, I’ve not really come anywhere close.  My side projects have taken up a lot of my time, more than expected so what I was planning on focusing on after those projects were done, I’ve not had a chance.

I also cancelled my ZiggyHost account.  For the past while it’s been a bit of a nightmare for me.  On and off they’ve had major downtime.  Not impressed.  Then they changed their servers and I lost all my sites.  I couldn’t get a hold of anyone to tell them this… so they’re bye-bye.  Then I tried getting to them through their support pages, email - anything that they had on their site that I could try to get a hold of someone - I tried.  I never heard from them.  So I canceled my subscription.  I’m ticked.  But maybe that’s what I get for going the cheap route.   So for now I’m sticking to HostGator and maybe sometime in the future I’ll try a different hosting company.   So maddening!  But I’m glad that I’m rid of them too.

There were other goals I’d wanted to reach through my affiliate marketing, ad networks - that I didn’t reach, but it’s definitely set things in motion for February.  Maybe not so lofty in the goals - but still a lot to do.  Fingers crossed!

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