One of them at least. I had set two goals for my lenses for the Labor Day weekend - have 125 published lenses and be making $200 a month in affiliate sales. I’m up to 116 published now, with nine sitting in WIP. At least three of those are under assessment for deletion, so I’m in need a few more good ideas to get going. But I’m close on that goal. Close enough that I should be able to reach it by the end of this month. Which is good since August starts the 30 Day Challenge and I might not have time to focus on making new lenses.
The money thing is trickier. I added up what I have mentioned in my daily updates for July so far and I’m at about $25 for the month. So extrapolating out, that could mean $50 for the month. So I’m not sure that $200 just from affiliate sales is realistic by the end of August. But I should definitely be hitting $200 total coming from all Squidoo activities by then and that’s nothing to sneeze at.
On the blog front, The Life of Lewister is at ~340 readers per month, which isn’t awful considering I’ve never set any goals for it and have only recently done anything to promote it. But I’d love to get it to 340 readers a day. Is that a reasonable goal? Yes. By the end of the year? Certainly. (I also have some goals for my niche blog on baby quilt patterns, but I need to really think about it and what’s realistic. Part of that is going to be heavy promotion, completing the first set of articles/posts and maybe one more lens. Once I get those done, I can get serious about goal-setting.)
July 13th, 2008 at 10:05 am
This post showed up in a Google alert in less than an hour. Scary fast indexing!!
July 14th, 2008 at 6:17 am
It’s hard to get the money comning in isn’t it Susan.
Lovely to get the traffic, but the money is what we need really.
I would love to be able to stay at home and generate an income, but I’m barely making $100 a month - not enough to even survive on a diet of Ramen Noodles!
Good luck and keep it up
July 14th, 2008 at 7:57 am
It’s a challenge but I think that’s why it’s addicting! Sounds like great progress. I haven’t personally done it, but rather than deleting a lens I would consider selling it even if you can only get a few dollars from it.