Need to Focus

So I've decided that prior to getting in front of the computer to work on my business I have to have a concrete plan in mind otherwise I don't think I'm accomplishing as much as I could otherwise. I feel like I spend half of the time needlessly trying to figure out what I want to do when I could already have that thought up and save so much time.

I have a few things on my immediate to-do list.
1. Create Unique descriptions for all of my items in my store. The ones I'm using right now are from my supplier and Google is strongly apposed to
duplicate content. I need to tweak those.
2. Link Exchanging: I need to get more places to link to me to get my visibility increased on Google.
3. I need to add items to my store.

There are many other things on my list of things-to-do:

• market via posting to dog forums
• getting a 1-800 number
• getting signs from vistaprint for my car and maybe some other merchandise from them (I'll have to browse when I order the car sign)
• making cosmetic changes to my site
• go back to Cricket's Marketing and SEO class to review for things I've forgotten about or overlooked the first time.
  

I started a Twitter account today. It feels kind of like Facebook in terms of making small updates rather than a large blog like on here. Seems fun so far. We'll see if I get any hits from it.
Everyone seems to be opening an account with them so I thought I'd better jump on that band wagon to see if I can gain some hits from that venue. I'll keep everyone posted.

I think I'll work on those unique descriptions tonight. It's been a long weekend so I should really turn in early. I'm starting early so I'm hopeful.

1st update 2009

It's been quiet the last few days. I'm trying to think of content/articles to add to by website. I have topics in a list but the Website Marketing Class. I'm taking recommends the content be about 1,000 words. That's a lot of words I'm finding after doing one article on sleeping incontinence in dogs. That was my first article. I was actually able to tie in a few products to the solutions I have for that problem. I've been adding more products, reviewing my SEO class content and trying to revise descriptions to increase visibility on Google and decrease my bounce rate in Google Analytics.

I'm adding a link in my links section for a Website Credibility article that was provided in my Website Marketing Class. I just reviewed the site again and thought it would be helpful for anyone building their own website. It goes through steps to make your site increase credibility amoung it's viewers.

I have some photos to add to my site as well. I want to take off the formatted name I have on the photo and rather add it to the side of the photo. That will make it easier and quicker to add future photos.

I go back to work tomorrow after being off for the holidays for two weeks. I'm very sad about this. I've enjoyed the extra time with the kids these two weeks and I really don't want to go back. I really hope this dogdishstore.com site takes off.