Category — #04 FØØ Music

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Okay, I just posted business #12, and it dawned on me that I am therefore 23% of the way through my Business A Week year!  Yes, I may do it more than 52 weeks, but don’t tell my wife that.  In the meantime, let me update you on where each business is at…

1. Business a Week - 304 visitors making 841 visits, roughly 100% growth this month, 16 site pages on google, 99 total mentions on google, top keyword: enfp.  It’s been a blast, and there are sufficient ads along the side to monetize on its own.
2. RAMPrint.com - I don’t have access to these stats, but I know we have 59 site pages on google, 159 total mentions on google.  People mention it.
3. OfficeSpares - 38 visitors making 39 visits, roughly 100% growth this month, 2 site pages on google, 337 total mentions on google, top keyword: spares.  No mention from anyone, we’ll see how this goes.  I got one email of someone suggesting a place that might have a spare phone system, but they didn’t. 
4. F00Music.com - 113 visitors making 460 visits, roughly 200% growth this month, 4 site pages on google, 28 total mentions on google, top keyword: foomusic.  Starting to get traffic, need to organize the monetization.
5. ENFP Consulting - 39 visitors making 40 visits, roughly 500% growth this month, 1 site pages on google, 7 total mentions on google, top keyword: enfp.  Most of the hits are from mid-life crisis ENFPs, but I have billed about $1000 via ENFP Consulting.
6. The Invitations Expert - 196 visitors making 447 visits, roughly 350% growth this month, 14 site pages on google, 42 total mentions on google, top keyword: wedding.  One of my favorites, and so little traffic relative to its potential.  I guess I need to make the salespitch a bit more overt, and I need to post more.  It is amazing that the highest traffic demographics come from LDS people…
7. ScriptureForum.net - 259 visitors making 372 visits, roughly 150% growth this month, 141 site pages on google, 136 total mentions on google, top keyword: site.  This will take off as soon as I get a few people.  Just a few to volunteer some labor building out the scripture sections, then it’ll go crazy.   It’s too obvious not to.  Anyone, of any religion, looking for a church oriented way to volunteer and build the kingdom from your living room?
8. QD Web Design - 17 visitors making 20 visits, roughly 100% growth per month, 4 site pages on google, 3 total mentions on google.  I’m not sure which of my requests have directly come from this site–probably none, but we’ll see.
9. FilmClean - 41 visitors making 45 visits, roughly 300% growth per month, 2 site pages on google, 4 total mentions on google.  Easy, duplicable, we’ll see.
10. Karate Consulting - 20 visitors making 32 visits, 1 site pages on google, 2 total mentions on google, top keyword: karate.  Again, good energy but too new.
11. Fortibus Es - 44 visitors making 87 visits, 10 site pages on google, 14 total mentions on google, top keyword: es.  One IM, we’ll see if it goes through.
12. The Union Statesman - new as of today! 

I still need to

• create a skeleton… this is all too much based on my ideas, and not a duplicable and perhaps eventually automatable formula
• create forms for said skeleton
• create channels in google adsense
• fill out some of these sites–scriptureforum needs a lot before it’s truly professional
• just put more time into them.  These have been wonderfully successful for having not spent more than 6 hours on any of these businesses, but I’d really like to expedite the enlargement of my efforts…
• find partners
• find volunteers
• find sponsors / donors / investors

Ideas anyone?

Anyone still looking for a Christmas gift?  A free Christmas gift?  Well, here’s an easy one: go onto that person’s computer, into Windows Media Player or iTunes or whatever program they use to listen to music, and then sort by Play Count.  That will sort all the music by how many times they’ve listened to each song.  From there you can hit “burn” and it will burn the top 80 minutes on that list onto a CD; and voila!, in 10 minutes you have created their new favorite CD.

In the summer of 2000 I discovered the Play Count column.  I was in college, heading home for the Christmas break and was excited to show my sisters and parents all the neat music I had discovered since I had seen them last.  I needed music for myself and music to show them, and that turned out to be 20 CDs I was bringing home.  I didn’t want to take up suitcase space for that, so I went into Windows Media Player, sorted by playcount, and burned a CD of my most heard music that year.  Because it was the Fall of 2000, I scribbled “FØØ” with a black sharpie on the disc.  This quickly became my favorite mix-CD.  My friends wanted copies, and their friends wanted copies.  Eventually there became a ring of people who referred to the CD, and eventually the process, as “foo.”  And so we are here, on the weekend I am burning “foo seven,” spelled FØØ7.  In honor of this is my business of the week, which currently resides at http://www.foomusic.com/.  I will list my 6 F00 Cds, and each will have links to buy the corresponding song.  The F00 website will add value to the market foremost by being a fascinating concept people will no doubt imitate, and by facilitating their purchase of some good music on the net.