Archive for July 10th, 2010
Frustrating Times – I Feel Like Quitting!
These last few weeks business wise has been more frustrating than right after Barry died. I’m learning more things such as Squidoo and I’ve been listening to some webinars. Maybe I’m trying to do too many “new” things at the same time because I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed today. I’m also feeling the pressure to bring in more money to help cover some expenses.
I think this push to make more money is affecting my relationship with my subscribers, which is never good. This week I needed to stop another one of the memberships that Barry had started because of declining membership and with the domain coming up for renewal, I couldn’t see the point in renewing it again with only a few members.
I feel like I’m slowly ruining the business Barry worked very hard to build up and I can only blame him for not showing me what I need to know only so long. It has been over a year since he left me suddenly and now it is up to me to keep this business going and find a way to make it thrive again. I’m sure part of it is that I’m not really passionate about IM’ing and if I could find some niche that I’m interested in that would help a great deal. But right now I just don’t know what to try or look into.
I know it really hasn’t been long since I’ve had to take over but in some ways it has been and I don’t think I’m doing any better than I did right after he died. I can feel a depression coming on which isn’t good because then I don’t usually want to do anything. Maybe I just need to take a couple of days away from this to relax and maybe think of something else I can do online to bring in some money. Any suggestions would be great if any of my readers have any.
Death seems to be what I know a lot about right now but I don’t want that to be my niche, even though I did make my first Lens about death and I’m still adding to it as things come to me about how things were right after Barry died. I like sports, music and reading crime/mystery books but is that something that can bring in some income? I don’t know since I haven’t looked into it. It would be great if those things could and I guess I should look into those topics to see what is out there.
I did an Adswap the other day and I think it did ok. I couple of days later I sent my new subscribers a “thanks for joining” email and gave them another freebie and 1.56 of them complained! I just don’t understand that since I wasn’t selling them anything but just welcoming them again and thanking them for signing up to be on my list.
It has been months since I’ve had a cigarette but every once in awhile I think about having one, not that I would but I’m sure that craving will come up from time to time, especially when I’m stressing.
