Why a recession is good for business
Well, it's now time for me to start writing in my blog again. I've had project after project going on and it became a forgotten piece of real estate on the net.
I've been thinking why this recession is good for my online business and I've finally come up with a good answer.
For the past two months my sales have dropped by something like 60%. Pretty scary isn't it? I mean, I went from almost 6k per month down to $1900. I was literally sh*tting bricks. I had grown accustomed to my business growing at least 10% per month and suddenly my whole years growth has gone down the drain.
Needless to say this motivated me to work even harder. After all, if you're online venture can survive a recession you can pretty much make money anytime you want to. That's the mindset that I've taken recently.
I've been doing a lot of marketing for my various websites including: article marketing, social marketing, and ramping up my newsletter.
Interestingly enough, my newsletter subscribers per day has nearly tripled. The sales that used to be coming straight from the search engines are now coming from the newsletter. I've ramped it up so that they get an email every day for 14 days and then I start to space them out. It's been working great.
I think the recession is good for my business because it forces me to focus only on the actions which make me money and not waste my time on other stuff. That means coming out of this recession I'll probably take a vacation because sales will skyrocket again.
I can't wait for that to happen. I'll hopefully be posting in here more from now on as I'd really like to get my blog up and running. It's goal will be to provide people with great information and to just share my thoughts.
