First Lead

Wow, it's almost like I know what I'm doing ;-)

AdWords has been running about 6 hours. I got my first click and it converted into a lead. 100% conversion to lead ratio so far...l sure hope we can keep that streak going.

This was a slightly refined version of the first ad I put up this morning. It's tought to not go in hog wild and create umpteenillion different ad variations right away. I'm gonna do my best to stand pat through tomorrow before I start throwing more stuff in there.

One conversion per day would be very good on the front end. We don't want to spread ourselves too thin to begin with.

And Awaaaaaaaaay we go!

We are up and running. Parted ways with the company today and made arrangements to liquidate the pension for startup cash if needed. Unfortunately I lost my health benefits effective today...I thought I'd get at least 30 days of those. It's all good...we already have the pieces in place to shift those things to the wife's employer.

First Adwords campaign is running as well. Pretty basic, pretty simple, just want to get the lay of the land over the next few days. Biggest frustration at the moment is conversion tracking with this site. There seems to be a conflict that we need to work out.

An interesting site about a previous employer of mine

http://www.cwa-union.org/idearc/action/idearc-action-change.html

I'm thinking I might have to attend the share holders' meeting this week. It should be interesting.

One step at a time

It looks like we'll be getting this new venture off the ground some time next week. It's gonna be very interesting if nothing else. I've been wanting to do my own thing for quite a while now so I'm kind of happy my hand has been forced.

I'm seriously contemplating keeping the blog updated with the day to day trials and tribulations of starting a new business from scratch. I doubt that it will be interesting to anyone else, but it will be a good way for me to look back this adventure no matter how it sorts out.

K