First Taste of Outsourcing

I had my first taste of outsourcing this week. Overall it was a brilliant experience. I needed some articles rewriting so I advertised the job on Digital point, and within minutes I had about a million PM's in my inbox, (ok that was an exaggeration, but it was a lot lol).

Some people were claiming to do the job for really cheap and saying they were able to have it done in a few hours, some people said they would take longer than a week and wanted an extortionate amount for the job (pfttt). In the end I went with a lady that was charging a reasonable amount, not too cheap and not too expensive and said she would have them with me within 24-48 hours.

I couldn't of picked a better choice. The quality was awesome and I had the articles back right on time. So my overall first experience of outsourcing has been a good one:).

The thing I have found so far with digital point marketplace is that there are way more people there looking to make money than spend money.

Anyway on to some other news :).

So far this month has been a busy one (hence my need for outsourcing). I have managed to get my games website up and running, although it still needs a lot of work doing to it.

If you want to check it out here it is:

http://www.battlestargames.com

I have not started promoting it yet, I want it perfect before I do.

I have been making and selling a few websites, and all has been going well there :).

I have made a start promoting one site that I have made, I want to see if I can get it earning. This one is a bit of a slow process, but I will get there.

Anyway there are still 9 days left till the end of the month and still plenty of time for me to get lots more work done.

My Plans For August 2008

I have a lot of plans for August, my only worry is that I have too many plans :). There are always new ideas whirring around in my head and sometimes I can't keep up with them. So here are my plans in no particular order.

Plan number 1- Site Flipping

I will continue to build a few websites to sell, as this keeps my income topped up for the time being. In fact I am working on a site right now, I bought a domain name last month and have not done anything with it so that's going to be made into a website and sold.

Plan number 2 - Sprucing Up this blog

I really need to buy a domain name for this blog and move it over to a self hosted wordpress blog. I love wordpress they have so much more to offer than blogger.

Plan number 3- Building a site to keep

Well I say building a site to keep, but in fact it's already near enough built. I just need to add a few more articles to it. I will be keeping this site, and seeing if I can get it to the top of the search engines using some simple SEO. This site is an affiliate site, and I really want to see if I can get it earning. I am even considering showing you my site on this blog and kind of doing a case study to see how long it takes me to get decent traffic and making me money. I could show you what I am doing step by step.

Plan number 4 - Writing an Ebook

I plan on starting writing my own ebook this month. I doesn't have to be finished by the end of the month, but I want to at least start it. This ebook will be aimed at complete beginners to buying and selling websites. It won't be another ebook about how I made $xxx.xxx selling sites, but it will be more focused on the practical issues of site flipping. Some of the things I plan on including are, how to set up a site, registering a domain name, and transferring the site etc..

Plan number 5 - Building a games arcade site

This is something I am really excited about. Actually I am so excited about this it deserves it's own blog post.

I know I know this is quite a largish list for just one month, but as long as I can get started on some of them I will be happy. As you can see this month is not about how much money I can make in one month, it's more about starting some of my long term goals.