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Quick reminder: the goal is to reach $1,000 a month of web income by January, 2010

Currently I run three websites, this one, Silver Clipboard and Miscellanea. Given my time constraints, it’s hard to see how I could start anymore, so if I want to go from a net loss of $144 to a profit of $1,000 per month, I need to expand what I already have.

The clearest problem is that I haven’t been consistently updating these sites. I’ve been rather sporadic with posting. I need to aim for at least once-weekly update on each. In order to find the time to start for creating new content I’ve started the great wake-up challenge on silver clipboard.

Miscellanea gets between about 2,000-4,000 readers a day (according to Google analytics) but it earns hardly any income. Adsense used to bring about $20 a week, but has recently dropped to less than $5. I need to find an alternative advertiser and am considering AdBrite.

Lastly, the most profitable, enjoyable, but most difficult to accomplish, is to to increase the number of productivity coaching clients I have. This is really why I started the Silver Clipboard blog in the first place — I love helping people get organized and productive. I’ve done sporadic work with this but, again, I’ve never really had a focused game plan. I contacted Mark Forester (author of Do It Tomorrow) and he suggested the book Get Clients Now, which I’ve ordered from my library.

In summary, the current expansion plans are:

  • Post articles on a weekly basis
  • Find more clients to coach
  • Try different advertising methods for Miscellanea

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Header photograph by Alvi on the road