Archives for July 2005

I’ve been really busy the past few weeks. Although not as busy with the kind of things I’d like to be busy with. I find I am doing a lot of development on projects that aren’t generating an immediate return. I guess it’s a good thing that I enjoy developing. And I know the key to success is building a residual income. I suppose I just need to keep on trucking, and developing… but only if I could catch some bigger fish, land bigger clients, pitch larger projects…

In other news, my sister is up visiting me, and helping me clean my house so that I can sell it. It’s a shame, really, that I need to sell my house, considering that I bought it almost a year ago. But I don’t like the drive to Duluth, and I don’t like the fact that I can’t find a roommate, and I don’t like paying $1000+ a month to “live” there when all I do is sleep there. I finally cancelled my 3meg cable internet that I had, 2 months after I moved all my computers to the office. Now I’m at the office from about 8-9am till after midnight most days. Which is both a good and bad thing.

My Goals for this next week: My goals for this next week are go finish tweaking the shopping cart and fully launch arcocoffee.com, re-do the design and launch gnublu.com, get a good start on 2 new sites for clients, and get another 100 members for journalplanet.com. Oh, and I want to find an accountant to help me keep track of my books.

Well this summer has had its ups and downs so far. In June business really started to pick up, and I did really well on sales. However in July its died down and I’ll be lucky if I get 2 new projects for July. That is kind of bumming me a little, but I’ll live.

I started working with the youth group at church, which is really great. I used to work with the youth group at Lakeview Covenant, and I really missed working with the youth while I was large group coordinator for IVCF. Now I’m back working with the youth and I’m enjoying it. I only wish our youth group were larger. It pains me to see that none of the high schoolers that are part of the church congregation want to come to youth group. Hopefully I can help things take a turn for the better.

Since there has been a downturn in projects recently, I’ve taken up a new personal project. Journal Planet. Journal planet is a site that provides free blog hosting. I’m hoping that this site will grow as fast as GetAForum did. I don’t have any plans to sell Journal Planet like I did with GetAForum, I’d like to see Journal Planet grow to be like LiveJournal, MySpace, or Xanga.

Speaking of projects, I’m excited because the ARCO project I’m working on for a local coffee company is coming to its culmination. I finally was able to get the domain registration into ARCO’s control from the company that managed it previously. Now I can update the name servers and set ARCO’s site live! Then it will be promote-promote-promote to build online sales. That will generate 1) a great revenue stream for ARCO, and 2) a great revenue stream for me.

Well, I really should post more often, and as I get into a more regular schedule at the office, I probably will.