Thanks for checking back in! As promised, here’s a summary of my blogging experiences last month! If you want to see where the magic first happened the first two months, click here. Otherwise, please enjoy Blog Journal January 2015!
I also finished my Ed2Go Course, How to Write Effective Web Content. It was a really great course. I feel more confident in my writing already! I’m writing in a more active voice and with less rambling! That’s a win for you as much as it is for me! If you’d like to learn more about this great course, click here or on the pic below:
January Income / Expenses / Viewer Summary
Income: $8.13 – from Amazon links! Okay, this is hilarious though – I didn’t actually get paid yet. Amazon has a $10 minimum payout so they’re holding my $8 bucks hostage until I make $2 more! On the plus side, at least I learned how to read my Amazon affiliate fine print this month!
Expenses: $0
Views: 185 – aww yeah! that’s like 6 a day! 🙂
January Task List
- Signed up for multiple different affiliate accounts. I promised myself when I wrote the FPM mission though that I would only promote products I personally use and believe in. Here are the companies I’ve established links with this month:
- Commission Junction. It’s a clearinghouse for many different companies’ affiliate links programs. I found them via Vega. Read next.
- I love VEGA products and personally believe in them. It’s the only “supplement” I use and recommend. It’s all natural, vegan, sourced sustainably, and they have a great corporate culture as well.
- Power Systems, a fitness equipment company. Also via Commission Junction. I use their products every day at the gym and have several in my home collection as well.
- Bluehost, a website hosting company. I have had a great experience with them so far, and like Bjork and Lindsay at Pinchofyum.com, wanted to add this to my website as a resource for fellow bloggers.
- To keep these different affiliates and social media accounts organized, I started a separate notebook just to track and store all of my website and business usernames and passwords.
- Organized and updated my Google + page.
- Started a new Facebook “business” page – Lauren Milner Fitness. So that I can have a place to start building FB presence while keeping my personal life and business profile separate.
- Posted 4 articles. 1 was a recipe. 2 were on military books. 1 was the Dec blog journal. I realized (duh) that I better start posting more articles on FITNESS, not just what I “feel like writing about today.” Goal setting is a must!
- Resolved to write 2 posts per week going forward. One has to be a fitness article and the other can be a recipe or random musing. But the fitness has to be the anchor.
- Ongoing – Pinterest. When I’ve got a little spare time (LOL) at night after kids’ bedtime or on the weekends, I like to browse and enjoy Pinterest. With a purpose of course 😉 I have been trying to add as many relevant pins as possible to my fitness, healthy recipe, and mental toughness boards. Just casting that net. They say the blogging business is a numbers game. My husband would say I’m just trying to rationalize a way to say I’m being productive when I’m wasting time pinning. It’s all in your perspective I s’pose!
- Inspirational Books of the Month:
- Mere Christianity – is CS Lewis not brilliant?
- Athletic Body in Balance
- The Bible
- Yogafit
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake and Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam. Inspiring because they were read to me by my five year old son, who’s learning to read!
