Ok so if you haven’t noticed I have not updated since the 19th! There are a few reasons for this. One I’ve been extremely busy with ThinkComputers, it’s the busy season for product reviews and they are kicking my ass! Two I’m on a horrible sleeping schedule! As I am writing this I have not gone to bed yet, hopefully I can stay up the rest of the day to get back on my normal schedule! Three I am helping a friend out with a new site. So all of those things combined are taking every last minute of my time!
For some reason today my RSS feed finally hit 150! I have been trying to get to 150 for a while now. It’s quite funny that I don’t post in 4 days and my RSS increases. Maybe I should take breaks more often. Anyways expect some useful posts later in the week, oh yeah I’m going to the Pens game in Thursday!
If there are 2 types of food I really like they are steak and seafood! So when I go out to eat its either to a steak or seafood place. The other day Ashley and I went to Joe’s Crab Shack. Surprisingly there are only 2 in Pittsburgh! The next closest one is in Columbus Ohio! And both of the Joes Crab Shack’s that are here are relatively new. As the name says Joe’s specializes in crab! We went for lunch, because Joe’s gets crazy a night, the last time we were there we had to wait for over an hour!
So after looking at the menu we both decided on the Crab Daddy Feast, which is has Snow, Dungeness, and King crab, along with potatoes, and corn on the cob. They bring it all to you in a big bucket, it is really cool and gives you the feel like you are at the beach. This is cool because as I said the weather around here has not been the best.
Also on the table is another bucket for you to put all of your shells on. On each of the tables there is a hole in the center where the bucket goes, but we sat at a booth so the bucket was at the end of the table. Overall I thought the food was very good. It was nice to get 3 different types of crab. A lot of places you go don’t have meals that have mixed crab, its either snow or king crab. Also surprisingly the Dungeness crab had a great taste to it. Each of the Crab Daddy Feast’s was $21.99, not a bad price. Going to Joe’s really got my mind off the crappy weather!
Monday seemed like a normal day for me. I had posted the review of the Antec P190 Case and was expecting it to go over quite well. For one Monday’s are usually the busiest days for ThinkComputers, traffic is a lot higher than the rest of the week. Also Antec products always go over well, so I was expecting to make a little more than what I was normally making per day on ThinkComputers. So after doing my morning routine I checked how things were going, I was surprised to see that I made a lot more than expected. Taking a closer look I saw that I had an abnormal amount of impressions. Going into my site stats I notice I received over 2,000 unique visitors from SlickDeals. Looking through their site I saw they had linked my review of the Altec Lansing iM616 Earbuds. Buy.com had a deal on them and SlickDeals listed it with my review if people wanted to check them out. So with all the extra traffic I got a nice boost of traffic and revenue.
Monday
Google: $63.57
TTZ Media: $59.10
Tribal Fusion: $21.90
Total: $144.57
Tuesday
Google: $48.52
TTZ Media: $47.40
Tribal Fusion: $9.79
Total: $105.71
Average
Google: $20
TTZ Media: $25.50
Tribal Fusion: $5
Total: $50.50
As you can see it was a nice increase over what my average per day has been. Also I was surprised that the traffic kept on coming through yesterday. Now that the deal has expired I’m really not getting a lot of traffic from SlickDeals. If you look at the iM616 review you will notice that the review is using the old TTZ banners. If I had gone back and changed it to the new style banners I probably could have make even more money! I also do not have the stats for my contextual ads. I am working with a new company and I get stats e-mailed to me at the end of each month. So I made even more than what is listed!
Although it was not a Digg, it was an extra $150, which is a nice boost. Also the traffic helps and new people who have not been to ThinkComputers got to check it out and might come back. A good way to start the week 
A lot of people have sent me e-mails and have left comments asking me what my schedule is and how I manage to get things done. A lot of the time I don’t get what I want to done, but I do have a system. This system is not really that complex at all and anyone can’t implement it. All I try to do is cut my work day into sections. So here is what my current system looks like…
Wake Up
Post News on ThinkComputers
Find and Post news on ThinkGaming and ThinkCE
Check and send important e-mails
– Lunch Break –
Write a blog post
Write a review for ThinkComputers
Write an article for ThinkGaming or ThinkCE
Post a blog post
Test hardware I am reviewing
Take product photos
Edit product photos for an upcoming review
– Dinner Break –
Post a review on ThinkComputers
Post an article on ThinkGaming or ThinkCE
Start a new review or blog post
– Sleep –
As you can see there is a lot here, but the things that are italicized means that I maybe do 1 or 2 of those in any given day. It all depends on the day of the week which ones I do. Also you can see there are no times anywhere on this schedule. I don’t like having to wake up at a certain time or get things done within a certain amount of time. This isn’t the best schedule, but it is a good mix of work and down time.
Once again another busy week for me! The crappy weather did not help that much at all. Times like this I wished I lived in a place where it was sunny and warm almost all year around. I have been trying to get a lot of work done this week, but I really did not get as much done as I wanted. I guess a new week and a new set of goals! So what was going on this week?
Forum Business Blog Launched
My buddy David Lithman has a new project and its Forum Business Blog. Forum Business Blog is a resource for current and prospective forum owners and administrators. From the looks of it he is off to a good start, there are a lot of posts already and he has a really great design. If you have a forum or are thinking of starting one head on over the Forum Business Blog and get some good advice from David.
World’s Largest Outdoor Swimming Pool
Now this is crazy! When I first saw this story I was like damn I need to go there, especially since the weather here has been horrible! This massive pool sits at the San Alfonso del Mar in Chile. It holds 250,000 cubic meters of water and features clear water artificial lagoons, which are transparent to a depth of 35 meters. Pretty impressive, this new clear lagoon technology is also being used in Dubai.
Spashtop Rapid-Start Platform
If you are a computer guy like me this is something you might be interested in. Splashtop or Express Gate as known on ASUS motherboards is a rapid-start platform that will allow you to surf the web, check e-mail, and make a skype call without your operating system loading. Pretty cool stuff, I’ll let the video explain the rest to you.
Well that is all for this week. Sort of a slow week. If you are launching a new site or have a really cool story from the week, please e-mail me the info and I will be sure to include it in one of these posts.
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