February Goal Check

So last month I had two goals, and as we all know, I didn't achieve both of them.  I'm still happy with how things turned out overall though, and March is off to a great start.  The client who had two outstanding invoices paid them on Monday, the Canadian currency issue was resolved today and I have a new invoice out for another $50.  When that one get's paid I'll be roughly 25% of the way to my goal for March, which is pretty excellent considering it's only the the second day of the month.

Here's my pass or fail recap on February's goals.

1. Earn $1000 in spendable cash, after fees.  Strike One!  For the first time since I started this blog back in September, I failed to reach my goal.  I did manage to make $617.40 though, which isn't terrible considering everything that happened last month.  In case you missed it, this is Why My February Gets Two Thumbs Down.
2. Launch my business site.  Check!  This was a pretty good success.  So far I have it up and running with most of the layout tweaking and content taken care of.  It's not 100% finished but it's close enough for me to consider this goal to be a success.  Had my month been calmer, it would have been completely finished up by now.  Here's what I've done so far:

• I got the domain name at the same time that I got this one back in January.  It cost $8.81 from NameCheap with a coupon.  The current coupon code is NCSPRING for anyone who is interested.
• Then I bit the bullet and purchased hosting after putting it off for a really long time.  I went with HostGator since they have a pretty cheap package that includes unlimited domains and email addresses to go with your domains as well.  The package I chose came to $47.76 for 6 months of hosting, but I can put several domains on it so it's well worth it.
• Setup WordPress on my business domain with the simple install that was available through HostGator, it took less than 5 minutes which was great.
• Installed a free template from online, and tweaked it a bit.  It took a while to find one that was well suited to my needs, but I think I found one that would be decent.  It had a lot of extra crud on it, so I just altered the coding to make it disappear.
• Setup the content that ready and worked on organization.

Like I said it's not done, but it's operational, and I have contact emails up on it which is important.  I'm not advertising it yet either, but I'm pleased with the progress and the relative simplicity.

While February wasn't everything that it could have been, I'm still happy with it all now that I've had time to step back and think about everything that was going on.  I think I'm ready for March now.  Are you?


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