My First 30 Days Online!

I've been online for just 30 days now and I've accomplished quite a lot by many people’s standards, but me being me, I only see the things I didn't get accomplished. I didn't set out a major outline for myself because I didn't know what to expect. And after analyzing it all, I think I did pretty well since starting on November 24, 2003.

First, some history:

In November I joined a group that issued a challenge to every member to make $1 million between January 1, 2004 and midnight December 31, 2004. I took that challenge because in October I had just renewed two top-level domains I've owned for several years, in the hope of developing them myself someday:

· NowOnTheNet.com, which I have owned since 1998 and never done anything with;
· RentMoviesOnTheNet.com, which I have owned since 2000 and barely did a six-month trial with in 2000 (it was called RentVideosOnTheNet.com back then and I lost steam after the second month).

I had also registered a new domain name, ComputerRepairCentral.com, which is to be the international online version of what I do for a living now. I own a small computer repair company in sunny Jamaica, West Indies, called Computer Repair Center. I think it is a good model to replicate internationally, and after doing it myself for a year I think it's ready to go to at least North America -- where I lived for 15 years before coming back home to Jamaica 2 years ago. So I have a pretty good overview on the market over there.

I must also mention here that I'm starting with only these three domains, for which I paid USD$25.85, and a really good FREE host for all my sites. I must also mention that I do website design (since 1996) but have no graphic or major programming skills, just pure HTML.

My Aim for the First Month:

I wanted to simply get a website up for each of my three top-level domains, with at least three features working on each. I also wanted to submit them to all the major search engines to get a good start on the six to twelve weeks it can take to be listed in search engines.

No sooner had I launched that project than I realized a need for a fourth website, for the purpose of recruiting and informing the resellers I needed for the three main sites.

As soon as I did that, I realized I could incorporate a dream I had had since 1999, and that was to document my first year online so that others could learn from it while I'm doing it; so I then came up with fifth web site "theQuest", which is my daily Journal of the steps I take and the progress I make every day. When it's all done I hope to make it into a book.

After theQuest, I realized I needed major traffic, and searched around for some. The closest I came was "WorldWidePromoter" and "TrafficSwarm", and I found many aspects of the latter lacking, so I came up with my sixth web site, which I think is the ultimate traffic generator -- "MyStartPage" about a week ago.

What I Have Done So Far:

1. I have carried three web sites to about 90% of where I can carry them without help; I think I'm ready for that help now to take them to the next level.

a. With "theQuest", I brought it up to a full site with FAQ, About Us, etc., from conception. I've submitted it to all the major search engines and should be getting some results soon.
b. I conceived and brought "MyStartPage" to a similar level in less than a week -- so I'm learning pretty fast.
c. "EarnMoney" has its forms up and it too has been submitted to search engines; I just need the FAQ and Contact Us sections up and I'll be done with it also -- (that's about 2 hours work).
d. I have shells up for "NowOnTheNet.com" and "RentMoviesOnTheNet.com," though I haven't submitted them to search engines yet or made any of their features work. I think that since these are the main sites, I should wait until January 1st 2004 before I do any major action on them, in order to be fair to the one-year million-dollar challenge that I've taken on.
e. "ComputerRepairCentral.com" just needs some tweaking once I’ve had it turned on. (I've had a site up pertaining to Jamaica since about June 2003, but took it down in August 2003 because of some technical difficulty; I can have it up as soon as I ask the hosting company to do so. I'll ask them to put it up on January 2, 2004, and then it'll need a good two weeks’ work to bring it up to the international standard I desire.)

2. I've found about five safe lists, link trade sites and e-zine directories. I've gotten the e-mails of about 50 e-zines with which I'd like to form synergies of some kind, but have done nothing with any of them. This is where I feel I could have done more.

3. I've started to put in place a massive marketing machine, as I downloaded three great FREE trial programs that will help me to both optimize and automate most of my marketing efforts.

What I Didn’t Do:

1. As I mentioned above, I haven't submitted my three main websites to search engines or made any features on them work as yet, mainly because the one-year challenge doesn't really start until January.

2. I didn't send out more than three letters to request link trades and synergies because I felt something was missing. I think the three programs I downloaded last night were what was missing -- an e-zine assistant, an SEO (Search Engine Optimizer), and a Link Trade Manager. Now I can proceed with a lot more confidence and direction.

3. I haven't used up any of my surf for traffic or pop up trade credits yet, as I'm waiting until I earn up to 1,000 credits for "MyStartPage" to get it off to a decent start.

I don't know, should I or should I not try to work in partnership with a more established company as far as MyStartPage goes... It would be able to do more, reach more people faster, etc. I think I should try to form a synergy with a person or organization that can either do or afford the programming and reach that it deserves -- I pretty much have carried it to about 90% of where I can carry it without it being a struggle for the other 10%. I'll ponder this a little more, but right now I'm leaning more toward forming synergies. Maybe I'll simply request 10% of revenues it generates and placement of one changeable ad in the system for 1,000,000 clicks each month, for life. I can definitely live with that.

What I Would Like To Do Next:

Well, I would like to work with a graphic designer and a PHP programmer to really bring my sites to life. I do a lot of surfing and I make notes of sites and features I like so far, so that when I find such people, I will be able to move fast.

I would like to find one or several Chief Operations Managers for all my sites, to handle the day-to-day operations while I focus on what I like, which is the creative end.

I would also like to automate everything as much as possible. The host that I have all my sites with has great features that will allow a lot of the automation I have in mind, but I'm on the lookout for services I like that I could also use.

In Conclusion:

Apart from that, I think I pretty much did all I could in 30 days. I only hope the next 30 days are as fruitful. These past 30 days I slept for just three to six hours each night and only took a nap during the day about three times. I have experienced this feeling before. Back in 1996 when I went without sleep for three days in order to complete my first website -- the desire just keeps you motivated. I love this feeling, but I know it won't last forever so I just try to ride the wave and not criticize too much -- but wow, what a month I've had!


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S. A. Williams is an aspiring Millionaire and is currently taking an interesting 12 month Millionaire Mastery Challenge to reach her goal of $3 Million Dollars by Midnight December 31 2004. You can follow her on this journey as she writes about her experiences each day in her Million Dollar quest Journal. For details goto http://theQuest.NowOnTheNet.com/?LinkSnoop
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