Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

Also - tweet "top tips from the coalface" .... hit a problem on the job - tweet the fix, with a link back to your blog that explains the fix in more detail.... not major detail, but keyword relevant detail that informs and gives people "tips". Then they'll start to see their problem solved on your page and think "You know what - I've no idea what I'm doing - these guys speak my language and I have confidence" and they pick up the phone.

It's business... it's a long game.

PasturesNew

Keep a tweet diary and selection of photos. They don't have to really be live/now ... collect ideas over time - and use them when appropriate. Build up a portfolio of stuff you could tweet that starts to link together. Maybe a photo set you take this week will see the light of day in December as "look at the bodge we uncovered today....."

It's all smoke and mirrors... it's marketing.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Not the site, I still don't know how to analyse all that stuff and it frustrates me, totally. Interest from twitter is real, get people saying they like stuff, asking questions and people arriving at FB saying they found on twitter. I'm only drawing on real people feedback because I don't know how to interpret the website stuff.

If I had something tangible to sell, I'd be turning over money, I think.

Get yourself Google Analytics - and put the code on your site. If it's Wordpress you're using then there's a plugin that'll just take your GA code easily.

You don't need to look at/understand any of the stats it produces, but the sooner you can get it gathering the data, the more data you'll actually have when you do get round to it (next year).

PasturesNew

Where I made my money was .... I built a site for something I wanted to put together - and when I saw my stats I saw people were coming for something I wasn't giving them. So, I gave it to them.... instantly the site took off, the money rolled in and life was sweet.



No idea these days what people are coming for at all - no time for stats... no income, life's not sweet.

Stats are everything. They show and tell you precisely what you should do.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Twitter is a bl00dy godsend for those who can use its medium... but most either can't or don't. They just tweet... garbage.

People tweet adverts... or dull !!!!.

I knew you knew! I'd follow you on twitter because you're interesting. I do what you said with before and after - I'd never post a before without finishing and I drip feed, mix with dull !!!!, brown nosing a little bit to see if I get RTed by bigger companies, RTing interesting news pieces from bonafide media accounts that are relevant, taking advantage of # that are interesting and the odd picture here and there of what we've done and trying to use use keywords although I do run short on inspiration sometimes, it's easier to think of 140 characters than it is a whole blog - except you've already put in the work to link to!

Twitter doesn't discriminate like google so if you're posting regularly through the day and not chucking out adverts, you can draw more people in to your own sites from keywords that way too, not just being on the front page.

...Speaking from not even understanding how google works, except that I need to put more words on the website.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Get yourself Google Analytics - and put the code on your site. If it's Wordpress you're using then there's a plugin that'll just take your GA code easily.

You don't need to look at/understand any of the stats it produces, but the sooner you can get it gathering the data, the more data you'll actually have when you do get round to it (next year).

I'm going to do that, if I didn't do it last week. Must check, can't remember. In trouble now for not sleeping Night! But you are so blinking clever

PasturesNew

You might get keyword inspiration here then: http://www.visuwords.com
You're more of a visual type

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

But you are so blinking clever

I know

Good night.

Spirit_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

We've all known all along that the incomes of the NP are spread over a very wide range. We have managed nearly 35,000 posts spread over 5 NP threads without pigeonholing each other about income, or looking down on each other for earning/receiving more or less than ourselves. Which is no mean achievement on a site where money is the main focus.

Well done us - so far. Please let's keep it up.

I agree with this as it is not just what you earn but what you do with it (and without it) and how you come by it that makes NP.

My beginnings were quite humble. I earn a lot (in my opinion) and have until very recently been a work-a-holic.

I owe my life to Clinical Colleagues and over the last 8 years mostly my motivation has been that I "owe" them. A side effect is that the harder I have worked, the luckier I have got.

Staying well is getting harder , i have recently discovered my life outside of work, reduced my excessive workload, organised to work at home one day a week and am seriously considering moving to part-time working (thinking 3 days) as a step to retiring in my late 50's. A part-time share of a lot will still be considerable.

My dilemma is that although we are solvent we have always financially supported other family members who are not. This has lessened now but I look at my DD and think how on earth will she get started when job prospects are reduced and rents and house prices sky high? As we have supported others historically I want to support her now...and know that if I carry on full time this is well within our means. The other side is that if she like many of her generation lives at home for longer we really do need to extend this house to give her more privacy....so would need a mortgage to pay for it.

In danger of making this post about house prices and the economy.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

We agree more than I may have given the impression of. My concern was not to excuse lack of initiative in those dealt a poor hand - I would never want to do that - but to warn against unwarranted smugness amongst those who've been dealt lots of aces and kings.

This, its so important.


I was a far biggger earner than dh is before my brain broke and look at me now! It could be life ending if money was a sole or main motivation.

I like that we have financial choices, i am not going to pretend i do not. I often remind people its as easy to love a rich man as a poor one. But if money is the main thing.....your ability to earn, that can vanish overnight and cruelly, and you get the ability to earn it primarily through luck and OTHER people's input when you are far to young to make decisions. Evrything your parents say or do, the motivational teachers you have or don't have, having a sping board to leap from or something to rail against.....all of these are things we react to or capitalise on, not things we create. I didn't gety me working early, and nor diod i foster any talents, quite the opposite really....i had so
Me skills which my parents maximised and then i was in right places and right times when the wind blew the right way.

Then ...i wasn't!