Accomplished Last Week:
- Started a FIZZLE progress log in their forums for feedback.
- Refinanced personal loans.
I went through all the personal loans has (car, student, & mortgage) and planned out how long it will take to pay them off & how much each loan is costing us in interest per month. It is a good motivator to make better decisions in spending. - Organized my lists.
I assembled all the email subscribers I have so I can make a better decision on what to work on and where to put my time.
Subscriber Numbers:
- 555 Subscribers on Jason Loves Life
- 393 Subscribers for the Autism A La Mode
- 110 Subscribers for Mafia Documentary Screening
- 168 Subscribers for Local Science Events
I need to make this better looking.
SUBSCRIBER NUMBERS NOTES:
Jason Loves Life: The problem with this one is they are from different things I’ve worked on over the past ten years. About half purchased my animation course, 40 or so signed up for a site I had called Niche Site Journal and other places random website experiments I tried.
I do have them all tagged and organized, but I am going to need to go through all the forms I have on these sites to keep the system working. I’m not sure it is worth it because I only get a subscriber or two now and then.
Autism A La Mode: Vast majority of these come from a “when to get your child evaluated book” opt-in. The book isn’t created yet, but the opt-in offer to email it to the person when it is completed. This one is more popular; I get about one signup a day.
Mafia Documentary Screening: I was hired last year to create a documentary on the mafia in Milwaukee (I posted on this in the past). There was a substantial local interest (we had 1.5k people say they were interested on Facebook). From that group, 110 sign-up for the mailing list. I’m not sure exactly what I want to do with this list, but my wife and I are thinking of doing a YouTube channel and/or podcast on true crime (or a related topic) as a fun project.
Local Science Events: I use to work for the University of Wisconsin Extension. Because of budget cuts and the loss of local grants I was let go four years ago, but they occasionally hire me on as a contractor. I’ve been doing some STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) programming for local youth. I started a mailing list for them currently at 168 families.
I could include them with my videos related to science experiments at home. I’m not sure if the label autism will scare them away or not, so might just do something under Jason Loves Life as well… Not sure yet.
This Week’s Goals:
-Fix/set-up opt-in pages & boxes
-Send an email to Autism Mailing List
I’ve been neglecting this list for a year, so I need to do it in a way that doesn’t get me flagged as spam.
-Create financial projections for the next 2 years
Plan to use income report from another bloggers website.
Let me know in the comments if you would be interested in checking those out.
Long Term to Do:
-Calculate if it is worth my time to update my marketing materials with Agencies
I make most of my income from performing as a magician and balloon twister. I get consistent gigs but could get more (& ones for a higher price) if I updated all my promotional material.
-Start emailing people on my autism Mailing list
I’ve been neglecting this list for a year, so I need to do it in a way that doesn’t get me flagged as spam.
Struggles:
To be honest, I feel like I am stuck in a rut & need to pull myself out. I can’t say what the issue is, but it feels like I am helping out too many people without asking for anything in return. I need to think about this more.
Maybe creating a plan to stick to for the rest of 2018 would help… I don’t know. But the financial projection is a start to that.
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