The Jared Holland

After 2 days playing around with Google Adwords we’ve decided to stop it for a while until I can do some more keyword research.  The first day I just advertised on the content network and we got like 12 clicks and 90,000 impressions. The second day was Google Search ads only and we had 22 clicks with 1,500 impressions.

Check out the screen shot below:

(I’m posting all the information because I don’t know if I should or should not show this to people. Deal with it Google.)

I’ll update my blog when I get some more interesting information about my trial runs. I’ve been reading Digital Point Forums trying to get a feel for problems before I waste money finding out myself.

Peace.

I had to put this on here. I know at least one person reading my blog will appreciate this. It took me a minute to get it, but it made me laugh even harder cause it was on a code snippet website.

If you don’t get it, click here and enjoy.

I was bored this morning and flipping through my Google Account info when I found a new feature, public profiles.  I filled out some stuff, that really they should know anyway and got verified.

http://www.google.com/profiles/thejaredholland

I guess when people search for my name in Google now it will show a picture of me instead of “Jared Holland football player stats”, etc.

Google is quick!  This is what it looks like. Finally, Jared Holland the football player will pay!

Last night I passed out hard watching South Park on my macbook.  It was the first time my computer was actually completely dead to the world.  It’s just now back up to 44% battery.  Oh well, shit happens and people pass out.

Visitors to our online stores are down big time, so I guess this week we’re going to launch some Google Adwords campaigns on it.  Selling stickers online is just so saturated that you have to pay $1.50 – $2.00 just to show up when people do searches.  I might have some targeted at people searching for certain words and then some just running across the web network.  We’re just going to do text ads at first, since I hate making little web banners.  It’s just so stressful.

Oh…  Jradville is back online using wordpress back-end.

Enjoy your Sunday. Fuck Monday.

Good day to you sir.

I’ve been planning to sit down and write a blog post, it just hasn’t happened yet.

Life seems to start with one problem and snow ball into multiples.

I have been working on our sticker store (99centsticker.com).

We now have a facebook page with almost 100 fans, only 5 of the people I actually know personally.  I added the facebook widget to our website today so people will hopefully see that and add themselves.  I’m also playing around with the ads on the site and trying to get our ‘bounce rate’ down.

It’s a work in progess, a slow progress, but we’re getting there.

I’m waiting to get the login info for the metro chamber so I can fix some html / css issues on there website before they have a membership drive.

To say that I’ve been busy is an understatement.

I’ve been staring at my computer for 10-12 hours a day easy.  I say that because my eyes hurt like a sum bitch.

What have I been working on you say?

http://www.10dollartshirts.com

This is just a random shirt that I want to make for myself.  I have some more ideas floating on my brain too.  The website is a work in progress.  I’ve been trying everyday to get us to the point we can advertise and be ready to ship shirts.  Today I scoured the internets looking at the top 100 or so websites selling ‘funny tshirts’.  Most of them have multiple websites all linked together so they will get you to make a purchase somehow.

Guess what?

We have multiple URLS bitches!  So, that idea got thrown into my madness today.  Right now, www.10dollartshirts.com is my main focus, but we will be rolling out some other domains we already own.

peace out.

I woke up this morning and forced myself to create something.

It’s blue. It’s simple. It’s Sunday.

Click here to look at it.

I’m working on a design for an area MMA group too, but it has me stumped currently.  It’s a work in progress..

I did some playing around in photoshop with it, but then just decided to start with the CSS and I’m just not happy with it.  Pleasing myself isn’t easy.  I know I suck and I try not to suck.  The design I made today is a ‘cookie cutter’ style site.  Nothing fancy…no words in fact.

$65!!!!!!!!

Yeah right.

American history , ingrained in us every year growing up that America is good…why would we ever question it?

Thats what today means for me.

My suggestion…

visit an indian casino today.

and be thankful we are all not Japanese.

Well, I made some where in the neighborhood of $600.00 from selling stuff online.  It was an intense few days.  It’ll take more studying from here on out to find another market.  The market is still alive, but just isn’t converting to sales like it had been.  I still make random sales from all the people I sent to the website that waited before they finally made the purchase.  One was even from the UK…and I didn’t have ads running in the UK.

I haven’t been pursuing any online freelance work, because you just never know who you are dealing with.  I’ve had some people that know what they want and how to tell me what they want, but then there’s the dumbasses.  They just really don’t know how to convey messages with written word…aka typing.  I did get a local job, or sometime shortly I hope to help someone with there website issues I should say.

OH!!!  I FORGOT!

I turned the big 21 on Sunday! It hasn’t been too crazy yet.  I’m a pretty mellow person anyhow.

I’ve been seeing this girl for a couple weeks now too.  She’s amazing.  I never thought I’d fall for a girl with dark hair (no offense).  I have always dated girls with blonde hair, or even fake blonde..that works too.  The new lady is dark haired, cute, funny, smart, and very cuddly. I think I love her.  Trying to not let my thoughts ruin a good thing.  Also trying not to go hog wild and drink because I really want to see her and be sober.  I guess you could say she’s my anti-drug.  The cutest anti-drug I’ve ever seen.  She’s Hannah…aka Hannah bobanna.

I’ll try to post more often.

This week has been absolutely, positively the craziest week of my life…online that is.

Here is my earning stats for the week:

INSANE!!!!!!!

So far I’ve only been selling 1 product, but very soon I’m going to jump into more and potentially double my daily earnings.  Hell, this week I made more online than my full time job.  I’m sooooo addicted to putting the puzzle pieces together and making money.

Oh yeah…I have $1.07 invested so far in this. No shit.

If you read this and want more information…..I’m thinking about writing it all out, once I figure out more to the system. Timing is key, that’s for sure.

I have a few recent projects that I will be adding to my design work page tomorrow.  I have been searching the web looking for design projects daily.  I have 2 on the current “maybe” list.  I need them to be in the portfolio.

I separated my contact form from the sidebar and put it on its own page – contact me.

Keep ‘em Separated!

I’m such a nerd.

goodnight all.