Lately, I have been thinking where I will be going in 5 years? I have not updated my blog for almost two months. It’s not because I am lazy, but I am very busy. That is really not what I want as life-style entrepreneur. Wanting to be an Internet entrepreneur so badly, I constantly remind myself to take time off and use my time wisely and efficiently. If I can’t reserve time to enjoy life, what’s to point to be a life-style entrepreneur?
So I decided to start playing golf. Recently, my wife and I signup golf class. We should have done this a long time ago.
Where am I now?
To be honest, I am far from success! My two online stores recently got hacked twice in two weeks. Nothing is outrage at the moment, but the admin password were changed and locked me out. It also doesn’t generate the expect income. So I should either shut them down once for all. My newest project to help local business is getting stronger. Although it’s hard to get local business to pay me, I do get more potential customers interested in using my services to gain the search engine ranking and long term exposures on social network.
Where am I going?
Last month, I discovered the power and the gold mind of using Facebook social search. After implementing the strategy to my website, I can see the referral traffic from Facebook has jumped 970% comparing last month. This is a significant change to the search engine landscape. With the proper implementation, a local business can get FREE traffic from Facebook to their website with just one click.
At the moment of this writing, many customers took my suggestion and recommendations and start seeing the traffic boost from Facebook. It is still too early to tell how Facebook want to use the massive information for their own good.
So my plan is to continue dig into Facebook Graph API and implement custom app to help local business getting massive exposures from Facebook and increase click through rate and conversion rate.
Lately, I also dig into creating custom fan page and landing page to see how people interact with it. That’s the silver mine from my perspective. Many local company start charging for customize fan page and newsletter. It’s an inevitable trend. Gonna catch up with that too.
I encourage my readers to follow me on my personal Fan page.
Hey Terence,
You are not the only one that has these contemplations. Lately I have been thinking of the same things. I have several websites that just don’t perform the way I would like, so is it better to just forget them and concentrate on the ones that do?
I find my biggest problem is that I have so many diverse things that I do and it is hard to put them all in one place. Also a big problem for me is do I use my personal blog (well neglected for sometime) to market myself or do I use a company website? Do I use my personal blog or do I use a company blog?
All of these things are a headache to me sometimes.
Same thing with Facebook, I use it mostly for friends and family but I contemplated setting up a fan page but then I thought it is just duplicating many things…
I am going to keep following your blog and your Facebook…
Twitter: TerenceChang
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Hi Phil:
Thank you for stopping by my blog. I tend to use social media to build relationship and branding.
I do believe you have to build a great presence for your personal profile and company both. People will want to know who is behind the wonderful company or idea.
It’s not easy, but it’s necessary steps to grow before it’s too late.