Day 67 Of My Latest Affiliate Website
Today is day 67 of when I first started my latest Affiliate Website. The sad part is though I still haven’t “officially” launched the site yet. So I wanted to give you an update where I’m at currently, as someone who is trying to balance creating a website from scratch, and continuing to live life.
Where am I Currently With The Website?
The good news is the website is live with a great design and concept I still like. So far I’ve added a few products to sell on the homepage and I have one blog post done. Yes, only one….
The biggest thing with me is to figure out the processes I need to do to complete each task. Luckily I have done everything from adding new products to creating the style/look I want for the blog posts. Now that I have these throughout, experimented with and complete. To move forward, I just need to create content and fit it to the standards I’ve created thus far.
What’s Distracted me?
While I’ve had 67 days to work on the new website, in reality, I’ve only had about 2 weekends. This is because I do other things in my life in addition to my affiliate website. For example, I write regular content for Wallet Squirrel (this website), as well as write guest posts for other bloggers in hopes to gain links back to this site, Wallet Squirrel. This is where most of my free time goes, either to Wallet Squirrel or the new Affiliate Website.
Other things that have distracted me so far…
- Workouts/Training – I’m signed up for a 10k race (called the BolderBoulder) in 3 months, a half marathon (Slacker Half) in 4 months and a 10-mile Tough Mudder in 6 months. So I’m daily working out and running. That takes up about 2 hours a day, every day.
- Girlfriend – I very much like my girlfriend and need to spend time with her so she knows I’m alive.
- Social Activities – I enjoy hanging out and visiting with friends and I still need to do these. However, I have limited myself to only going out on special occasions. Basically, if it’s some mundane excuse to go out to the bars, I pass. Yet if it’s going up to Breckenridge for snowboarding, I’m in. This has helped me not get into a rut of boring social activities and get some work done as well.
How The Other Guy is Doing
I started this Epic Niche Site Battle with Barnabas of SerialBoss. We continue to chat on LinkedIn to see how the other is doing. He’s in the same boat of feeling overwhelmed by two websites but we continue to make strides.
I expect to have my website completely launched and starting my marketing campaigns this weekend. Wish me luck!
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Greetings my friend,
I see your Alexa and SEO has greatly improved. See I told you! 🙂
You went from 80k+ down to 68+ now. My guess is you’ve been writing longer pages and posting like everyday or every other day. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it. 🙂
By the way, what’s your affiliate marketing, blogging, and side hustle financial goals this year?