Weekly update #9 - Weekly progress update

Hi all,

This week I decided to move on from the newsletter idea. I just found I wasn't really enjoying pursuing it so would just be too hard to force a business to happen.

Meanwhile for a few weeks I've been excited by the idea of writing blogs. I've previously found when I was trying to create my web development agency with my friend Geoff that I enjoyed writing blog posts and the excitement of seeing them start to rank as people found the answers they need from content you produce.

I've learned a lot about SEO since then and I've done a lot of work in my current job on getting out sites to rank well, which I've done a good job at too.

Big questions - can I make money blogging? and what am I going to write about? I'm confident I can make money blogging, with affiliate marketing being the likely initial source of revenue I would look to. And what would I blog about? I've been thinking about the posts that did well when we were doing the agency, and these were when I encountered a problem in my workflow and decided to write a how-to post on it. If I've had the issue, others likely have as well. Nothing better than a first hand guide to answer a searcher's question. Recently I've been using canva for creating logos and imagery for the bike shop website. It is an awesome tool that is changing the game for graphic design, letting everyone create assets for social media, for marketing, and so many other use cases, easily.

So my plan is to build a blog around canva how to guides - "how to crop out a background in canva" type of articles, complete with screenshots. I intend for the site to cover other online design tools and web building tools as well as it grows, but I'll focus on the canva niche first. This will take a lot of work and won't have any financial reward for quite a while (I expect I won't hit my first goal of $10/mth by mid year). I likely won't see the site rank in google even for quite a few weeks.

But I'm confident I can succeed in this area and enjoy it, so I'll give it a shot.

For goals this week, I'm going to continue researching into the blog and hopefully get an initial version of the blog live.

Past week's goals

Goal		Comments
Send email out to many more bike shops	❌	Decided to leave this idea for now.
Think more about whether this is the right business and makes sense	✅	As above, decided to look into other areas.

Life habits

Note: finished intermittent fasting for Feb, will start again in April.

	M	T	W	T	F	S	S
2🥛💧 in 🌅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
💪 20⏱	🏋️‍♂️	❌	🏃‍♂️	❌	🏃‍♂️	❌	❌
0🍻	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
🛌 by 🕚	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
❌ 🍔 🕘-🕐	✅	✅	✅	-	-	-	-

This week's goals

Goal		Comments
Look more into blogging idea, work towards getting first version live.	-	-