tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77976243936367780572008-06-13T01:27:46.208+03:00Our Dream PlanShan Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311597745764116252noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-52555066349890069932008-06-13T01:26:00.000+03:002008-06-13T01:27:46.399+03:00Mobile lifestyleMOBILE LIFESTYLE
Lately I have been doing some business and personal traveling. It takes time to get from A to B, but when you calculate all the preparations you need to do for setting travel plans... well it takes time. Looks like mobile lifestyle is a huge sink for resources, if you do it extensively - yesterday NYC, today London and Moscow tomorrow. Obviously it doesn't work like that, one hasJarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-77861506043834075522008-05-29T00:56:00.001+03:002008-05-29T01:02:48.481+03:00CommitmentCOMMITMENT FABLES
Remember the race, the one with a hare and a turtle? What about the story of a tiny tree lifting up its roots and changing its place all the time to get every possible benefit, while other trees stood tall and grew on?
Commitment is the keyword here - commitment to continue while keeping eyes in the goal. What happens if you have plenty of commitment but very little time? Yes,Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-29752138274930506072008-05-20T22:34:00.003+03:002008-05-20T23:13:28.820+03:00CommentsThank you for all the comments you leave on this blog, every single one of them. It always takes some nerves to post ones thoughts for everybody (I just wish my thoughts would reach everybody) to see. I think here is the cause for so many "Hello, world" or "Great post!" comments. We are afraid of controversy and therefore keep our communication within comfort zone.
I don't want to be that personJarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-28355502147758567712008-05-19T21:54:00.011+03:002008-05-19T23:14:33.757+03:00Do you use your Website as a communication channel or display window?Do you use your Website as a communication channel or display window?
I think, the majority of you who come by here will say: communication channel. As it is almost self-evident, everybody knows that Web is interactive and full of potential, it cannot just be a display window.
However, are you sure that you really use Web as a communication channel? Sometimes I think Web is too easy, too Shan Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311597745764116252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-22301420991692452252008-05-18T22:38:00.007+03:002008-05-18T23:36:32.586+03:00My practice of Focus and Make it a numberI just read Jarkko's two articles: "Focus" and "Make it a number".
Here I am going to share with you my own experience from the opposite angle of points above. Because I am exactly the opposite kind of person from Jarkko, maybe that's what made us a couple?:)
While he is so clear about FOCUS and MAKE IT A NUMBER, for me it's always too hard to focus with my overly curious mind, and too difficultShan Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311597745764116252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-51893912249323156882008-05-18T18:48:00.003+03:002008-05-21T18:58:30.027+03:00Make it a numberINTRO
This post is a direct offspring of my post titled "focus". In the focus-post I noticed that just preparing on something doesn't bring results. What preparation brings in reality is readiness for action, but if action never comes all we have is an ongoing preparation cycle. Wanna prepare to live your life or just live your life? Ain't much of a brainer, eh?
BREATH, PUSH, PUSH, PUSH...
So Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-24702003295875281672008-05-03T00:06:00.004+03:002008-05-03T01:41:07.276+03:00Mobile lifestyle TO NAME OR NOT TO NAME
I wanted to name this article as "take-away life" at first but after some thought... it made me feel like I was endorsing serial murdering lifestyle. Wouldn't it be difficult to build long-term success with such a concept? Yes, I think so too, therefore back to the drawing board, and BEHOLD! I jotted down two words - MOBILE and LIFESTYLE. MOBILE as in mobile Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-17296559737025653372008-05-02T23:34:00.003+03:002008-05-03T11:03:47.071+03:00FriendsThis is our link page. In order to be included here you have to be our internet friend or you must have done something so wonderful that we totally adore you.
Experience Designer - Dave Cohen.
Dave made this list first by commenting first on this blog. But he is much more than our first comment, although first contacts have always shaken societies. Dave is making this world a better place, one Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-27939161729130418022008-05-02T23:31:00.002+03:002008-05-02T23:34:32.683+03:00YouMost websites are all about themselves. So is this, but with a little twist, we have turned standard About-page into a You-page. Like We-page, for now this is up to get our link structure working correctly. More elaborate description of benefits will follow.Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-31459148143946504022008-05-02T23:29:00.002+03:002008-05-02T23:31:37.870+03:00WeThis is the page about us. Me, fun to the bone and she can tell more about herself. We will have pictures coming up shortly, but for now this is here mostly to get that link working right... up there on the right, but you probably already clicked it.Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-64949899502456236652008-04-30T23:55:00.005+03:002008-05-01T00:14:14.769+03:00Weak dollar and bloggingTaking time to create a blog is a good, although time consuming way to create some reader capital. Readers can be traded into money by unleashing hordes of advertisers upon them. Poor readers can be sold cheap by introducing sleuth of digital content products for them. And no, it doesn't stop there, personal career will take off as employer notices talent of attracting fervent followers. All thatJarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-33922836724723476302008-04-30T01:44:00.004+03:002008-05-08T22:02:25.771+03:00FOCUSUNPRODUCTIVE MULTITASKING
I have not been focused on developing this site. I told myself that I am working hard on it - BUT - it wasn't productive when I pushed on in the jungle of dofollow blogs, never leaving a comment. It wasn't productive when I shuffled through various forums, trying to find suitable ones to participate. It wasn't productive when I tracked down possible benchmark blogs and Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-88373931889050566642008-04-27T00:46:00.005+03:002008-05-04T16:22:50.116+03:00Is passion a key to a successful blog?What is the single most important element to create a successful blog?
If you search through the Net, you will find that most people come with a similar answer: PASSION.
You should blog on something you really LOVE, blog on something you really have PASSION about, because it is that LOVE and PASSION which will carry you through all the dull and dumb moments in your life when you do blogging.
Shan Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311597745764116252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-84299156615652627372008-04-27T00:11:00.000+03:002008-04-27T23:33:33.042+03:00GOOGLE CAUGHT ME!PROJECT SWARM
I started the swarm project with great enthusiasm. "This is how to build one supporting pillar for the business", I thought. So, I sought to grab much-searched terms in Finland. I used local and global search engine popular lists, Google Trends and Google AdWords. I kept on mining those popular keywords that would eventually bring me traffic. Since the project swarm will include oneJarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-50553718748029091072008-04-26T23:20:00.000+03:002008-04-27T23:36:04.842+03:00RECIPE MARKETINGIN THE BEGINNING
It always starts so that somebody does something bit different or differently from the current formula. You won't notice it at first, because it's either too weird or too obvious, and we all know that such things can never work. Until it becomes huge and hordes of people praise the new and it becomes the new formula. One innovates and benefits the rest use and get by.
FORMULA
ByJarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-91162435824182622322008-04-26T01:35:00.000+03:002008-04-27T23:38:58.317+03:00MINISITESMINISITES BABY!
Minisites project is slowly rolling out to conquer internet. Plan is to do one site a day, which is a pace I'm not likely able to maintain, but it will set a bar that creates pressure. For readers here it will be difficult to follow my progress on this, because I plan to do all those sites in Finnish, since it is the ultimate niche framework. Although I'm just starting
SWARM
I Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-85791750665622957602008-04-24T23:16:00.000+03:002008-04-27T23:43:59.228+03:00MinisitesEXCUSE ME - MINISITES?
These websites are miniscule and ultra focused. Conventional internet marketing theory says that small enough niche has limited competition and therefore even small site can climb up in the search engine visibility ladders. Narrow topic of a minisite also means that author is able to cover the topic completely. When the minisite is ready, author's input is not needed Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-75631957247179559982008-04-23T23:40:00.000+03:002008-04-27T23:46:36.431+03:00Measuring successTHE PLAN
We have a scheduled plan. We have set a roadmap for traffic and for different stages of site content. Key element of this plan is Google Analytics, it will let us know, how are we doing.
DIFFICULTIES
We have a modest target figure for this month's visitor count - one hundred. However it is very difficult for us to reach that, since we don't know our way around in website traffic world Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-40189819585975783652008-04-22T00:10:00.000+03:002008-04-27T23:48:14.388+03:00GO postCouple writers are GO
Classic approach to starting something is to tell about oneself. Tonight I have very little time to do that, because it is Monday, 21st of April, 23:38 and my wife is already sleeping, furthermore I have to get up for work at 06:00. I introduce myself another day, not that it matters much, because nobody's following this website, not yet.
Our motivation
My wife and I are Jarkkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917714883792375917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-52981368711700464562008-04-14T22:55:00.001+03:002008-04-14T22:55:49.575+03:00Our first test posttestShan Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311597745764116252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797624393636778057.post-69825306247917298932008-04-14T22:52:00.001+03:002008-04-14T22:52:54.863+03:00testtestShan Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311597745764116252noreply@blogger.com