Progress: Recognizing I am the Tortoise, not the Hare

On one hand, I feel like this was a slow week in terms of the blog and all that making it happen stuff. Yet on the other hand, considering this is all  new to me, perhaps I should just take the wins where they are.

Blogging Week One

Accomplished List:

• Created accounts on several social media channels
• Get a Google Analytics account setup and working
• Write a few more posts
• Create a graphic for a post that is ridiculously wonky
• Add to every growing list of post ideas
• Research how other bloggers monetize their blogs
• Determine if/how/when to monetize blog
• Setup, or attempt to set up, two affiliates accounts for my favorite retailers to see what is all involved
• During this first week, I was inundated with phone calls, text messages and emails soliciting design/website/SEO services during the first four or so day.
• After some Googling, it was clear that one:  I did not set the privacy settings to match my preference and two, that the privacy add-on I purchased during setup, was a not actually setup and functioning for my site/domain.
• Used Blue Host support to get the privacy add-on functioning. It was an e-chat service that was a bit slow back in forth for timing, but they were able to help me and get this resolved within an hour.
• Draft a disclosure/privacy page
• Review every growing list of post ideas and realize that I have not even written one out in several days
• Peek at Google Analytics and realize that you literally are the only viewer because you have not promoted or shared your blog with anyone, anywhere.
• Writing down ideas for future writing is fun, but perhaps it is time I got down to the actual writing part. Is that too many “writings” in one sentence? YESSS!
• Ask and answer questions written to yourself about writing
• Call it a day because, clearly, exhaustion has won