I knew this was going too well

July 16th, 2007

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I set myself a target a few weeks ago of achieving a four figure a month turnover within three months. Half way through the first month and I’m half way to reaching that goal already. All was going well. Too well.

Last few days business has been dead. Jurassic Dead. OK, slight exaggeration, there has been some money coming in but the daily average is dropping and hitting that goal looks a bit less likely.

I’m hoping that it’s just to do with the time of year. Schools are winding down for the summer and so parents and families are off on holiday instead of sitting around buying stuff online like good little consumers.

Hand on heart though I know I could be doing more. It’s proving trickier to discipline myself to sit down and do affiliate work each evening after the day job and especially at weekends. I’m kicking myself for going to the pub on Saturday night and writing off pretty much the whole of Sunday with a hangover. I’m planning to take a few days off from the day job (soon, need to give two weeks notice though, grr!) and try to throw myself into some serious affiliate work.

And I really must chase HSBC to see what they’ve done with my business bank account application too. Not a good start to our banking relationship.

UPDATE: Half an hour after posting this I checked my referrals and my below average day has turned into a nicely above average day! Mental note: must write negative blog posts more often

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