Reviewing My Reviews

Hello WA Friends!

Ad Campaign

Wow What a week, It is already Monday and I already feel completely wiped out. Why? well I will get there. First things first, my goal for the week, (actually for last week) is to start a digital marketing campaign to drive traffic to my review pages.

I am extremely nervous about this for obvious reasons. First off, it costs money, money I don't have lot of and I don't want to waste! I have made some ad images and texts, so what's the problem? It's my reviews. I only have about 5 reviews on my website and I am not sure if they look "professional" enough. I am not a wordpress wizard, and I think they look OK after much struggling to add the images and buttons and stuff. However, I don't know if OK is good enough to convert traffic into sales at a profitable conversion rate!

Falling Behind on Goals

So why am I so behind on work, frustrated and exhausted? My son turned 9 years old this week! Of course, I wanted him to have a great time. Due to family members and friends schedules we decided to do 2 parties, one on Tuesday, (his actual birthday), mainly with family members and one on Sunday after church at Chuck E' Cheese with his friends from church.

Even with my wife's help, running around after my 9 year old boy and 4 year old girl at 2 different parties, plus hosting several people and their kids, was exhausting. Not to mention getting my school work done too! The worst part is SOMEONE STOLE MY PHONE yesterday as I was taking party things back to the car at the Chuck E' Cheese! That is the last thing I needed as I had irreplaceable pictures of my kids on there. Not to mention business notes and phone numbers of business contacts too :( .

So losing my phone was just the icing on the cake after a bad week. I loved that my son had a great birthday week, however for me it was a week of falling further and further behind on my goals. Luckily I got my schoolwork done, but just barely! (I took my midterm at 9PM last night.)

Goals;

To comment on other peoples blogs here that commented on my last blog.- still not done.

Another goal is to post a blog on Saturday - just now doing it on Monday.

Post 30 comments a week - Only did 8 last week.

3 blog posts on website - Only published 2

Start ad campaigns - too uncertain of review pages to start.

Implement website recommendations from WA members - Implemented 1 of about 10 different suggestions.

Reviewing Reviews

When I started on my 3rd blog post last week for a certain group of products, I completed most of it and then realized there is enough products in that category to make 5 other review pages. However, as I mentioned I just don't feel like my review pages "look good" enough, so I was nervous about publishing more yet. I am not sure if I need a review plugin, or a different more proffesional theme, or they are perfectly fine and I am just paranoid!

I really hate asking for help when there are already mountains of advice and training here, but after an exhausting and demoralizing week I am asking for help. I need people, that know what they are doing affiliate wise, to check out my website "reviews" category, and let me know if you think they look good enough to start sending traffic to. Otherwise, I am just throwing money away on a useless ad campaign!

I don't like asking for anything without offering anything return of course. After I begin the ad campaign, I hope to help out the community here by posting all the details of the cost, ad creation, and the results here on my WA blogs. Even if it ends up being an embarrassing disaster and failure, hopefully at the very least someone can learn from it. And if it is a success (as I hope it will be), that should be even better for the community.

Thanks for reading my Blog post, as a reward, here is a picture my wife took of me at my son's birthday party. I was exhausted, behind on schoolwork and business work, and waiting to leave, and my kids still wanted to stay and play more games! My wife apparently found it hilarious enough though!
(None of the stuff I am holding, including the giant soda, is mine!)

Wishing you all the best,

Jeremy.