If you visited us in the past couple days, you may have noticed that our site took an unexpected holiday. You DID visit, right?

Thanks to my disorganization and my web host holding this blog hostage, Chick Magnate was down. Tip: don’t want a web site hosted anymore? You need to CANCEL, not just neglect to pay the annual hosting fee. Oops! This, coupled with some other site issues I’ve been having, sent me into an internet marketing tizzy.

What other issues? Well, I accidentally deleted the template for my most profitable web site and so need to redo the whole thing in order to upload new pages. While I won’t be starting from scratch exactly, it’s still a lot of work. Next, I’ve been giving away MUCH too much free time to potential web site clients, trying to get them to see the joy of having someone else do their dirty work. And I’ve been suffering from my worst work habit: not staying focused.

In a rash move yesterday, I logged into another web account I have and DELETED five sites. I only kept sites that fit my main site’s pet theme. Laptop cases, gone. Roomba vacuums, gone. And so on. I then contacted the ghostwriter I hired a few weeks ago and told him I no longer needed laptop case and roomba articles, so could he do some more pet niche ones, instead? Thankfully, the answer was yes.

So here’s the plan: for the time being, I’ll have fewer sites and really just one huge one that I’ll spend the majority of my updating and marketing efforts on. Except for this blog and promoting our search engine placement services site, the rest of my time will be spent working on my pet network. Thanks to my new found enthusiasm for my main site, I’ve already created a YouTube vid, built a screensaver I’ll upload to free shareware sites, and sent out an email promoting a dog treat offer.

Now I have to get back to fixing up that template.

AND, move this blog to a whole new IP. Chick Magnates don’t like being held hostage

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