confessions of a web generalist

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Status Report:

Day 21 - 2008/12/21

Revenue: $0.03

No real progress on the monetary side and I really shouldn’t have expected anything else.

Though the main point of this experiment was to test out some different theories, I didn’t go into it with any sort of plan  beyond the very vague “update and promote”. Not the most detailed attack plan and so far that kind of planning has generated the kind of results one would expect: None.

Now that is not to say that I haven’t been learning.  First, I learned I need to have an actionable plan to follow and execute.  If my goal was to learn what works and what doesn’t I would need to do it from a scientific method perspective (Variant A against Control B) and measure the results.

But I approached it from more of a spaghetti method- throw it against the wall and see what sticks. This will tell you when the spaghetti is done, but won’t do you any good in the future unless if you also paid attention to other things that got it there (how long the water was boiling, the temperature, how much water how much pasta etc.)

“So what have you been doing?”

Well, most of my time lately has been spent participating in the Sitepoint forums (and if you came here from there and are thinking I was only there for the sig file link, please look past the number of posts take a look at how long I’ve been a member.) I ended up back there looking for some promotional ideas and decided to hang around - forgot how much I liked participating in the community and since they have forums dedicated to all sorts of different aspects of what I do, so it is a great resource to not only find answers but also to help others.

Yet, the month isn’t over and there may still be some hope, it’s only $30 bucks after all. Or actually $29.97.