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I fell short of my goals for my blog in August. My biggest disappointment is that I didn’t hit my goal of 75 RSS subscribers. I am hovering around 55 subscribes with my peak number of subscribers being 59.

Most of the traffic I receive is from Nate. The problem, is that his readers are interested primarily on topics having to do with making money online. I don’t post about that topic often enough to retain as many of these readers as I would like.

So, what am I going to do?

It seems pretty obvious that I need to either try harder to network with self-development and finance blogs or re-focus my blog more on making money online. This way I will be able to use this experience to explain my tactics for seeking out and networking with bloggers in similar niches as myself.

I really try to post useful information on my blog. In order to do that I draw inspiration from my own experiences. Therefore, I am going to continue to network with more individuals who blog about the same topics I do.

In the mean time, I am exploring different ways to make money online using arbitrage, domain sales, paid posts, and involving myself in project management. After I have established some credibility in these areas and have useful information to share, I will post more often about them.

As for the rest of my goals

My second goal was to sell an advertising spot. I received several offers, none of which worked out for one reason or another. I am more concerned with the content and connections this blog brings me, not the revenue directly generated by it. Also, Google has not released the page rank, nor do I know for sure that they ever will.

I have decided to delay the launch of my finance site and series of free ebooks because of the release of John Chow’s new blog design that Nate did. Not to mention that in the same day Nate released Unique Blog Designs. A good marketer knows to not compete with his own brand! I would rather have our complete focus be on this project for now, and then later when my finance site and ebooks can have our full attention, I will release them.

There wasn’t all bad news for me and my goal’s. Matt and I did manage to finish the business plan. It was a lengthy project but worth the effort (more on this later).

I was also keep up on my reading. I will post about which books I read in a later post.

September Goals

1. Reach 75 readers.
2. Release 1 free financial ebook.
3. Development for outsourced project start.
4. Read 1 more internet marketing ebook.
5. Develop at least 1 new relationship with either a finance or personal development blog.

So here’s to a good month! How did you guys do?

For a busy Saturday, (yes I work weekends too) I decided to link up some of my favorite posts of the week. There is some really useful information contained in these posts, so make sure you read up!

Link up a competitor at Problogger - as always Darin gives us some of the best blogging info found on the ‘net

In it for the long haul? buy! at Pro Money Blog - if you enjoy my blog you will also enjoy his

Finance Friday at On Pulse IM - great blog started by a great guy, I do a guest post here every Friday. This one is called ‘Get Rich Guaranteed.’

Unique Blog Designs Congrats Nate! - Christine gives some appreciation for Nate

Does blog design really matter? - An awesome video post by the one and only Yaro Starak

What were some of your favorite posts of the week?

Thanks for the questions and interest last time. In this podcast I cover some of the basics and fundamentals of investing. I will get more specific next time. This one is for all of you who don’t even know where to get started.

I also include a clue as to what the big announcement is tomorrow!

Enjoy!

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