I began the Journey in April 2008, so it’s technically only been 1 1/2 months for me shooting for the million dollars. But, it’s been 7 months since my business turned on its ear. So, what’s happened since then.
(1) I returned to doing tax strategies. This is earned income, but it’s highly leveraged because not only do I get paid for my work, I also get great ideas for strategies for products and ideas for blogs and forum subjects.
(2) I began a CPA affilliate program. That took a bit to get running. I had to find CPA firms that “got” what I was doing, schedule training and set up an infrastructure to ensure great customer service. We started with 10 CPA firms and are down to 4, which is the nature of the beast, I think. My husband Richard runs this program - doing the sales, qualifying and handling customer service.
(3) About to launch a CPA firm, partnering with Bill Bourbonnais. (And I haven’t even told the TaxLoopholes community yet!)
(4) Started the charity weekend events. This one feeds my soul and face it, creates goodwill in the TL community plus the community in general.
(5) Began referral program for needed ancillary programs. For example, the Trust Sandwich(tm) program just fell into my lap, thanks to Freddie Mac. We moved fast and got a lot of press.
(6) LessTaxForDocs.com. This landing page is building solely from SEO and a blog at a physician financial website. It’s not the blockbuster hit that TrustSandwich.com was, but I still think that this site will be the most lucrative. The people who come here are brand new to my database and are a perfect fit for me CPA firm.
(7) Something new that I’m announcing next week at TL.
How much am I up? I’m embarrassed to say, I don’t know. There are so many balls up in the air that I haven’t yet developed a one page control panel for all of the businesses. The one thing I watch is cash, though. And I was shocked (and happy) that after paying all of the month end bills (my heaviest bill paying cycle), my cash balances in total were up $25K, not down as I would have expected. (This is in comparison to the week prior) So something is working!
June 1st, 2008 at 6:03 am
Congrats on the new site.
Here’s a question, I’ve pondered myself.
One now has what is functionally template (the new site page).
What about re-using that page on other sites with different keyword domain names– Example: changing from “docs” to SiteNamePhysicians.com or SiteNameMedicalProfessionals.com ?
The argument for this would be that the more pieces of real estate one has out there on the web, the more chance you have of meeting up with the customers.
The argument against it would be that it’s “duplicate content” and Google will punish you. There’s alot of debate about what is or isn’t duplicate content. Armand Morin says it’s only duplicate content if it’s twice on ones own *same specific site*.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hi! Well, actually that’s a good idea!
Google will punish you if you keep the same copy, but you could keep the same template and change the copy…
Some food for thought here. Thanks!
June 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
How much change? If you change 10% are you okay, 20%? What if you did a couple of search and replaces for similar words?
June 1st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Or, wait another idea - what if you just put them in different order? Instead Blog Day #1, Day #2, Day #3, Day #4, you change it on the second one so it’s Blog #1 is on #4, etc..
June 4th, 2008 at 10:03 am
It’s been a little over 2 months since the tax seminar. Definitely turned our world around. I went there thinking I’d learn more about real estate. I came away with a decision to build passive income on the internet. It has been a whirlwind. We did get the site up. http://www.financialhat.com (thanks to Jorge) Learning about writing and marketing everyday. Next step is to work on passive income.
My son and I also went into business together. Another learning curve for both of us. The best part is that my son is so passionate about the business. It has been fun to watch him grow.