Ask Me Why… Work From Home

Entrecard, another one of those programs I heard about at least two weeks before I got around to looking at it.

I got my first icon up for Shari’s Gone Country on Dec 20, a mere 10 days ago. So far, my I can see from cPanel that I am getting about 20% more visitors. What’s really nice is the time on my site… 24% spend more than 30 seconds and the average is 370 seconds… over 6 minutes.

My second icon went up for my BookWise blog… Success Notes on Dec 21. This is a very new site (old domain name… gathered up my “lost traffic”). The response is even greater here, as Entrecard is the “primary” traffic driver. Average daily visits have doubled, from 25 to 50 and the average time on the site is 313 seconds… over 5 minutes.

The Entrecard for this blog went up on Christmas Eve. Again my average traffic doubled from 30 t0 60 average unique visitors per day. One visitor liked the article on “Chat Netiquette” so well, he “Stumbled” it… and that resulted in a spike of another 175 visitors. Even with that, I have better than 20% who spend more than one minute and the average is 248 seconds, or just over 4 minutes on the site.

My latest blog… a fun one just went up on Dec 28. It’s a blog I’ve maintained “off and on” for the past two years. This is where I report my PGA Tour Fantasy Golf results. I love the statistics of golf, and really enjoy the challenge of playing fantasy golf. Since it’s on a “blogger” platform, the stats will record differently. At this point, it’s too early to report any meaningful statistics.

So, what can I do with all this increased traffic?

It’s my responsibility to provide my readers/visitors with quality original content. Each blog is specific.

Shari’s Gone Country journals my life here with three other “boomer” women as we labor to build our little homestead in the desert. I’m using it at the basis for a book I’m writing… blog-style, called “Four Country Gals“. I know… it doesn’t have an Entrecard icon and I’m not sure it ever will… if you want to read it, be sure to bookmark the link, and then grab the feed.

Success Notes is where I can elaborate on my BookWise business and experience. It’s where you can get a more in-depth look at the business, as well as where you can pose questions for me. I want it to be interactive… BookWise is as much an experience, as a business.

Of course this blog, Ask Me Why… Work From Home is my commitment to you. I didn’t come out of retirement on a whim. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life… it’s what Zig Ziglar says… “If you help enough other people get what they want in life, you’ll have more than you could ever want in your life.”

That is why I am committed to sharing whatever I find with you. From time-to-time I’ll share an affiliate link (and please… honor it if I do). Often I’ll simply post a root link, as I’m not here to “make money off you”, rather, to “make money with you”.

Ask Shari About PGA Tour Fantasy Golf is just plain fun! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Yes, I have “monetized” it using Google AdSense, but that’s more to make the template “balanced” than anything else.

Now… one last thing… when you run across the little “Buy Me A Beer” icons, if you like what you’re read, learned and enjoyed, please… take the time to buy me a beer. I promise not to drink and drive.