La Bene Vita

Wednesday

Keith's brother is in the hospital again. He has blood clots in his lungs, which is interfering with his ability to breathe.

Random temporary goal: PAY TAXES BY 4/15!
{e:FAIL} I *forgot* to go to the post office after Potbelly, damn it. Okay, I put a calendar reminder in my phone for today.

Post at Advice for Business Managers   once per weekday.
Goal met.

Post at MichelleTuesday.com   at least once per week.
Goal met.

Write one Textbroker article per weekday.
Goal met, and holy crap there are a lot of OpenOrders.

Meet other writing goals.
MochaNotes.com   list: I set up Google Adwords and activated a "free" GoDaddy advertising credit worth $75. Google made me pay a $5 activation fee that didn't come out of the $75 credit, plus they have a minimum charge of $10 on my credit card, so I paid $10 out of pocket for $80 worth of advertising. I created one ad and set up the keywords to trigger the ad. You pay per click, so the money just hangs out in your account until people click on your ad, and then Google deducts the payment for the click.

...and so far, I've had 350 "impressions" (page loads with my ad embedded on the page) and zero clicks. Apparently, those are bad stats, because a typical CTR ("click-through rate" - percentage of impressions that result in a click) is 2%. So, apparently, I suck at advertising.

Good to know.

Launch one new performance repertoire song per week.
Pending.

Write one new original song per month.
Goal met: Hey, Baby  

Brand the biz(es.)
Goal met. I made up for yesterday by:
replenishing my supply of music business cards
printing letter-sized copies of my promo poster to insert in the covers of my repertoire folder
fixing the treble clef in my Music School logo
writing website copy for my first section of links (not uploaded yet because I'm researching web design stuff)
setting up Adwords for my blog, for whatever good it's doing

15 minutes of small biz research per day.
Still reading JavaScript, CSS, and DHTML.

Perform one household chore per day.
One load of laundry, dishes, fed the kids while Keith was at the hospital.

Achieve a weight of 145.0 by 6/1/10.


Meals:
6:00am Coffee (1)
7:30am Coffee (1)
8:30am Leftover steak (6?), shrimp (2), and veggies (1)

TOTAL POINTS: 11