It’s over! This was the last day of the Getting Started Blogging 30-Day Challenge. I must admit I’m relieved. It got stressful from week 2 on because it was more like a goal which started to appear less and less reachable, so I started concentrating on marketing to bring more and more traffic, but that [...]

I don’t know if it’s Entrecard that is starting to kick in or if it’s just because the weekend is over, but traffic was better today. I still didn’t get to design a 125×125 square ad so I’m just collecting views on Spottt. I’ll keep collecting those until I start a new challenge for the month [...]

We’re really getting close to the end of this challenge. I realized a mistake I made from the beginning: I didn’t take on the right challenge. Actually it wasn’t a challenge at all, more like a goal. A challenge would have been something like: “write one article every other day for 30 days”, and of [...]

Today was a pretty slow day. I’m getting used to it during the weekend. I haven’t posted any interesting article in some time now, except for the daily updates. I’m so busy and tired from my other projects that I can’t find the motivation to write an in-depth article on any deep topic. I really need [...]

So I’m still playing a bit with Entrecard getting a feel of how things work in this community-like advertising network. My ad queue is full because so many people “dropped their card” because the cost to advertise on my blog was only 1 credit per day. It is now updated and it now costs 12 [...]

Someone recommended I try Entrecard over Spottt. So I checked it out today and I signed up. The setup was really easy. Not much more work than Spottt except for the creation of a 125×125 pixels ad on their site (only because I don’t have my own ad designed yet). It wasn’t long before people [...]

Ok so today is Day 7 and I’m still doing ok. Tonight I’ll probably not respect my schedule and tomorrow I’ll certainly wake up later because my girlfriend planned a little getaway for Valentine’s Day. Now let’s just hope it won’t be too hard to get back on track after that! Also, from now on I [...]

Typing the title just made me realize this challenge is getting near the end. Even though I sort of changed direction during the challenge, I’m still very excited about this whole blogging thing. I’m learning so much it’s incredible, I love it! The guys at Spottt, the free link exchange network, are really cool. Yesterday was [...]

Yesterday I felt some fatigue mid-day. I don’t know if this is due to my sleeping only 6 or 6 1/2 hours per night or if it is due to too much work because of the extra time I have everyday. I’ll try and do less physically and mentally-demanding work during the extra time I [...]

You might have noticed the new 125×125 square ad in the right sidebar. It’s a new link exchange program called Spottt that I heard about today. Spottt is a free link exchange program. Basically you put a script on your website that will display ads. Everytime an ad is displayed, you get 1 point. You [...]