I will start 52 businesses this year

Thank you for stopping by! As you can see, this is an exciting page. My goal is to start 52 businesses in the next year! Yes, these will be generally simplistic self-maintaining and hopefully self-evolving websites; but that's just the point! As with most businesses, some will "fail" and most will only make a bit, but some will hit; and that gamble is what wakes some of us up in the morning.

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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?

I keep trying to migrate some models from Wordpress to Joomla or the like, but WordPress is so nice…  I really have to get the unmanned shopping cart thing down…  Okay, so this is my idea: I will start a news site and get it onto Google News.  From there I’ll have a powerful soapbox to promote my other businesses, and a relatively secure promise that my posts will be transmitted globally within 24 hours of being written.  The way I’ll do this is to write a post a day on a topic which is super-popular that day.  I will find the list of potential topics on Google Trends.  And I’ve got a powerful template (it won’t look like it at first) to drive it all.  Okay, so find the words, choose the one remaining permutation of newspaper sounding names, build the site, and voilà: The Union Statesman, temporarily subtitled, “A ping from the zeitgeist since 1941.” 

O sibili siemgo. Fortibus es in aro. O nobili demis trux. Watis inem? Causand dux.”

That’s not Latin.  It’s Dog Latin, a Macaronic Verse, meaning it’s English that’s written to sound like Latin, and a standard quote used by Latin Teachers to mess with their students.  And I, Colin, am a living breathing Latin teacher.  Yes, we still exist, and I can’t fathom why Latin isn’t required in every school in the nation.  In any case, I am, as of right now, a Latin Tutor.  Again, wordpress + adsense, but this time with Skype’s consulting service–where people can’t chat with you without plugging in their visa #.  And thus fortibuses.com!  I started this site today because I got an IM this morning from someone looking to pay me to Skype them Latin tutoring.  I’m excited about this one…  Up next, comprehending the new math.  j/k