http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:48:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...but I'm learning how to network like a pro. It's been awhile since I've posted anything here. I'd apologize for that, but I'm not really sorry. I've been rethinking my whole business strategy and had pretty much decided to shut down completely because there's one thing I've learned over the ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/resources/i-suck-at-networking It's Day One of my project to get traffic to the PLR blog. As I mentioned in my last post, one of the things I did wrong with the giveaway was that I didn't put enough focus on driving traffic to the site. My goal now is to take the ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/traffic/driving-traffic-to-the-plr-blog-day-1 It's only a failure if you don't learn from it, to paraphrase Malcolm S. Forbes. And that's a good way to sum up how I feel about my birthday PLR giveaway now that it's over. It was a success on some levels because I learned a lot, but it wasn't ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/blogging/learning-from-my-mistakes I've always been leery of playing in the list building giveaways for a few reasons. First, because I've heard horror stories about the hoops some organizers make you jump through. And then there's my own introverted personality that has usually sees me preferring to say in the background. Finally, there's ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/list-building/participating-in-this-giveaway-is-a-good-thing I was working on my plan for the rest of the year, and thought it might be a good idea before I dive into something totally new, to write an update on how my two goals for August are going. Goal #1 - To Complete the 30 Day Challenge successfully. Well, ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/main/a-mid-month-goals-update I probably should've posted this yesterday, and don't really have a good excuse for why I didn't. I'm reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and blogging about it over on HelenaRitchie.com. I'm only on Chapter 2 so far, and am really finding it mindblowing. It's the first time ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/planning/setting-up-august-goals It's been so long since I've written a blog post, it really feels like I'm starting out from scratch here. There's a couple of reasons why I decided to have a "do-over" of my internet marketing career. The first reason is simple... it's in my blood. I tried to walk ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/main/my-internet-marketing-do-over Well, new to me anyways :) As a reward for completing Day 3 of Dr. Mani's CHD Awareness Squidoo Challenge (yes, I'm way behind), I've allowed myself to spend a half hour catching up on reading twitter posts and I'm finding some really cool stuff here. First up, Merlene made my life ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/resources/cool-new-add-ons-for-firefox It's been one of those weekends where nothing went according to plan. I've been trying to get this post up since Saturday afternoon! I'm starting on the traffic-getting portion of my new project on Monday. In the last two weeks I have set up a store using the BANS software, and ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/traffic/the-new-traffic-plan It's been awhile since I posted anything here, or anywhere else for that matter, and I must apologize for that. Once again it seems I bit off more than I bargained for with various challenges and projects in the months leading up to Christmas. I even spent a week planning ... http://www.ritchiemedia.com/blog/main/happy-new-year-sixteen-days-on