The Key is Organization

It has been nearly two weeks and I have been working extremely hard on all of this. I have finally reached a point where I can say that my website is set up the way I want it to be and I have written posts for each major page so that my first visitors have something to read and understand what the site is all about.
This is what I have accomplished:

• The site is up and running with blog posts, reviews of products and all the extras (about me, helpful links, contact form)
• I created a Facebook page and a Twitter page for my business and have posted all of my articles from my site on those pages
• I have finished creating my Google+ profile and shared my articles with it
• I joined StumbleUpon, Digg and Delicious and have added links to all of my articles from my website to them
• I have joined 4 affiliate programs and have featured them on my site - I have reviewed two products on my site that are linked to my affiliate account with amazon
• I have had two articles published on streetarticles and one article published on hubpages and have shared them on Facebook and Twitter
• I have reached out to colleagues to find contributors who can write articles for the site and have secured two already
• I have transferred and organized my current keyword research into a notebook for easy referencing
• I have started an extensive list of possible articles for my site and streetarticles and hubpages
• I am still working through the training - having completely finished Certification Courses Levels 1 and 2 and am currently about 65% through Level 3

Since all of this began, with the courses, the community and formulating my ideas about my site, my head has been reeling. I have been staying up long hours reading, learning, thinking, planning, writing, researching, contributing, answering, designing.....so to get to the point where I can say the site is ready is a big deal. Now I can just concentrate on adding quality content on a regular basis (and doing the requisite research). That is indeed a good feeling.
The way the training is set up in these courses is truly excellent. The action steps at the end of each chapter are invaluable because they make you accountable. THAT IS THE KEY. You MUST complete the action steps in each chapter before you move on to the next. They are meant to keep you focused and organized and when you are creating this business, that is the most important thing.
The last chapter of Level 2 is particularly great because it gives a sample daily task list so that you can organize your week and make sure you are constantly growing your site. So using that model, my tasks for next week are:

• Monday - write a new product review for one of my affiliate programs for my site, share it on my social pages and with the 3 social bookmarking sites
• Tuesday - Write an article for HubPages, finish one or two more chapters of Level 3 Certification training
• Wednesday - write a new product review for one of my affiliate programs for my site, share it on my social pages and with the 3 social bookmarking sites
• Thursday - Write an article for streetarticles, do keyword research and come up with five new article ideas
• Friday - Post an article on my site from one of my contributors, finish Level 3 Certification training, share any successfully published articles on my social networks

If anyone is interested, you can check out my site and perhaps you'll be inclined to read an article and leave me a comment! I was reading one of our WA colleagues' blog who made the same request (which I obliged). As we are all trying to achieve the same thing here - getting our sites as much traffic and recognition as possible - visiting each others sites and leaving comments is one way to help. I will do the same for you!
My site is www.musiclessonsresource.com.
I wish you all the greatest luck in your ventures! Write on, my friends!