This week was a good week, not so much for my $100.00 challenge, but because there was a holiday, and I got to have two of them!
No one recycled.. again... this week. I ran into a few of my neighbors personally and reminded them. They all said they totally would, as usual, but never did.
So far I have basically lost money in this little endeavor because I spent money to make all the flyers... and no one has paid me. Can I pay myself and be my only customer? I would basically have made $30 bucks by New Years then... Which would give me a profit of $10 bucks....
I think it was super interesting to learn about landing pages this week. We briefed on them last week, but got into optimizing them this week. I found that the key to a good landing page seems to be simplicity. You dont want to overwhelm your potential customer and possibly scare them away before they get a chance to even look around your website! I changed the landing page of my website from the home page, which is kind of busy, to the page where they sign up for the service. This is a very simple page, which might even be a bit too simple. I need to add a little more of an explanation to that page, but havent had time this weekend.
I wasnt really impressed with the SEO portion of my coursework, but that is mainly because I felt that some of the tips made it seem like I had to have a very generic site and kind of cheat the system on how to get noticed by search engines. I think it is not right to make bogus sites just so that your own site can be linked from somewhere else. I also think that having the title of your page closer to the generics of what you are doing rather than a fun catchy phrase is sooo not me. I would like to have the title of my 'contact me' page to be 'get in touch!' I kind of tried something weird. The title of my contacts page is actually "Get in Touch! Contact Me" See what I did there?? Sneaky Sneaky! So the words are in the title, but no one can really see them!! I have no idea if that would work, and I feel a little like I cheated.. but Im not really sure what else to do!!
No one recycled.. again... this week. I ran into a few of my neighbors personally and reminded them. They all said they totally would, as usual, but never did.
So far I have basically lost money in this little endeavor because I spent money to make all the flyers... and no one has paid me. Can I pay myself and be my only customer? I would basically have made $30 bucks by New Years then... Which would give me a profit of $10 bucks....
I think it was super interesting to learn about landing pages this week. We briefed on them last week, but got into optimizing them this week. I found that the key to a good landing page seems to be simplicity. You dont want to overwhelm your potential customer and possibly scare them away before they get a chance to even look around your website! I changed the landing page of my website from the home page, which is kind of busy, to the page where they sign up for the service. This is a very simple page, which might even be a bit too simple. I need to add a little more of an explanation to that page, but havent had time this weekend.
I wasnt really impressed with the SEO portion of my coursework, but that is mainly because I felt that some of the tips made it seem like I had to have a very generic site and kind of cheat the system on how to get noticed by search engines. I think it is not right to make bogus sites just so that your own site can be linked from somewhere else. I also think that having the title of your page closer to the generics of what you are doing rather than a fun catchy phrase is sooo not me. I would like to have the title of my 'contact me' page to be 'get in touch!' I kind of tried something weird. The title of my contacts page is actually "Get in Touch! Contact Me" See what I did there?? Sneaky Sneaky! So the words are in the title, but no one can really see them!! I have no idea if that would work, and I feel a little like I cheated.. but Im not really sure what else to do!!
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