Action Takers - What Are You Up To?

[BeingChewsie]

check, check, and check.

So. . . now . . .

some internet marketing for motel
some videos for future promotions
start knitting a sweater (my first one!!)
revise one chapter of self storage book

2 more weeks to get it done . . . can I do it?

Of course you can!

I did my taxes, got my apps in for the grad program that starts March 2nd, and have lost 6lbs so far this month.

Robert picked up a new teaching gig on top of his regular one and so we are out of the fire for now.
His immediate goal is to pick up another one.

18 months I can start teaching on the university level from home like he does....that is my next big goal, get through the program, so I can teach from home.

Goal the next two weeks:
Spend only an additional $20 dollars out of pocket for Groceries for the month and see if I can top $155 in food for that price.
So far I have spent $19.12 for $153.55 worth of groceries so it is doable.
Takes lots of pics of what I get and blog at least 3 times a week about it.(That is the hard part for me,)
Lose at least 8 more pounds...I'm on a very strict low calorie/low carb plan so that should be doable too.

Sue

 

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[AroundTheWorld]

Wow BeingChewsie!

Sounds like you are making some big steps. Congrats on the forward momentum.

 

[Bilgefisher]

Of course you can!

I did my taxes, got my apps in for the grad program that starts March 2nd, and have lost 6lbs so far this month.

Robert picked up a new teaching gig on top of his regular one and so we are out of the fire for now.
His immediate goal is to pick up another one.

18 months I can start teaching on the university level from home like he does....that is my next big goal, get through the program, so I can teach from home.

Goal the next two weeks:
Spend only an additional $20 dollars out of pocket for Groceries for the month and see if I can top $155 in food for that price.
So far I have spent $19.12 for $153.55 worth of groceries so it is doable.
Takes lots of pics of what I get and blog at least 3 times a week about it.(That is the hard part for me,)
Lose at least 8 more pounds...I'm on a very strict low calorie/low carb plan so that should be doable too.

Sue

This is very good news. I very glad to see your getting things sorted out through the tough times. ++ On progress.

 

[Russ H]

Great stuff, BeingChewsie.

Fantastic to hear about your progress.

-Russ H.

 

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[TC2]

Well. I have been awfully quiet for the past few months. Now I am back in the business.

There were a lot of good and bad things happened to me in the past few months, but nothing can really be the excuses to stop me doing what I was planning to do.

What have been done in the past few months
1. Finish major core programming for the site. Integrated with Google Map.
2. Finalized the domain and registered
3. Got new logo from 99Designes
4. Setup new Twitter account for internet marketing purposes
5. Setup new web hosting for the site

Here are the goals for the rest of February.
1. Get business card printed with the new logo
2. Lunch beta test site
3. Get 10+ business to sign up beta account and train them to use the system
4. Ask friends to provide feedbacks
5. Submit sitemap to major search engine for indexing

 

[AroundTheWorld]

Okay . . . March 1st flew by us!

How did you do in February?
What will you get done in March?

For those of you at BP. . . the energy should carry us through the month! I hope to see this be a very active thread in March!! Let's here it. What action are you taking this month?

 

[TC2]

Here are the goals for the rest of February.
1. Get business card printed with the new logo - CHECKED
2. Lunch beta test site - CHECKED
3. Get 10+ business to sign up beta account and train them to use the system - CHECKED
4. Ask friends to provide feedbacks - CHECKED
5. Submit sitemap to major search engines for indexing - CHECKED

For March:

1. Finish payment module with either PayPal or Amazon FPS
2. Create landing page for agents
3. Continue beta test and get 50+ business to signups free account
4. Create first draft of local newspaper ad.
5. Clean up spelling and grammar
6. Modify the code to allow broader search result.

 

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[hatterasguy]

Still trying to get the house under contract, it takes awhile in this market. But I have a meeting tomarrow and we are only a very little bit apart on the terms. Hopefully after tomarrows meeting I can get the attorney to draft the final version for signing and get a check for escrow.

Contract signed!:banana: Now I'm starting to pull permits, the closing date is july 1st, and were starting construction in early April. I'm hoping to close much sooner. Now I have to find another lot so I can do a double close and roll the money right into something else.

I'm going to start building on the other house in May, since this one is sold.

 

[phlgirl]

• Sell one house - Under Contract
• Buy one house - Under Contract - to close Friday
• Complete tax preparation for 5 joint ventures - Completed 3 of 5
• Negotiate top 3 housing options in PHL and finalize move date - finalized move date - April 1.
• Talk to at least 5 small PHL based banks - talked to 1
• Find 2 new Hard Money Lenders (negotiate better rates/terms) - Check
• Transition the rest of FL properties to Property Management - Check
• Take my husband away for his birthday (I tried to talk him into the B&P but it didn't go so well.....maybe next year!) - Check
• Start training for Broad Street Run - increase speed - posted my schedule on the wall in my office....not any faster yet!

March:

• Pack & MOVE
• Buy one house
• Sell one house
• Complete JV Taxes and Biz tax prep
• Call PA banks
• Call PA REO agents
• Run according to schedule

 

[CactusWren]

March goals:

- Do 30 day challenge (into April)
- Find mastermind group
- Think positive whenever a negative thought comes through

 

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[gofalls]

March -
2 books to read
3 business Ideas to test. (Online service, product prototype, and try to improve SEO on my current business)
Boarding in Flagstaff
Trip to Red Rocks Nevada
Post more on this site.

 

[Icy]

March Goals:
1. Continue learning PHP\MySQL
2. Get a template up for a help service to college students (not discussing yet )
3. Begin looking for feedback on the website
4.(Maybe) Buy mac mini to begin porting a game to the Iphone\Touch
Bonus: Win the lottery :smxB:

 

[Bilgefisher]

February Goals

-Start and finish B&P presentation Check

-2nd closing on final property and come up with the extra 8k needed for down payment Still delayed, slightly frustrated

-stick with my planner. First time I've had a formal planner other then my handy notebook. made it three weeks, try again this month

-Get my blog idea off the ground. nope, backed off for now

-put together plan for fixing and flipping one property. Mostly where to come up with the money.I have the beginnings of a plan

-Teach Wendell to stay and lie down. Lie down, stay is tough

Most Important: Learn from and enjoy the B&P.Hell yes

March

-flipping business plan
-look for lines of credit for flipping
-continue to teach Wendell to stay, begin rollover
-Final closing on last property
-Figure out whether I'm coming or going. I feel lost atm.

 

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[Russ H]

continue to teach Wendell to stay, begin rollover

Wendell your pet hamster? Goldfish?

Long lost relative of some sort?

Just curious.

-Russ H.

 

[Bilgefisher]

Wendell your pet hamster? Goldfish?

Long lost relative of some sort?

Just curious.

-Russ H.

My new dog.

http://www.thefastlanetomillions.com/mindset-motivation/18351-my-reward-doggy-thread.html

Although, it sure would be fun to get a get a pet hamster to do that.

 

[kimberland]

Goals For March

- Finish my short (13 pages of the 20 already written)
- Discourage another contract extension (I'm working til the end of April)
- Draft a new game plan for the novel writing
- The usual stock investing stuff
- Tax season

 

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[365]

March:

- Finish the ebook. Lot more work than I thought.
- Finish copy, put up the landing pages
- Connect all the pieces that are already in place
- Establish tracking and PPC
- Press "start"

 

[dkt91]

March

Get permission from the court to start my business (is needed if you're a minor in Germany...)
Enjoy my trip to Texas


April

Establish company
Serve the clients who I have come to an agreement with already
Collecting testimonials in general

 

[Ron Solo]

this week:
-change accountants (current one is charging unreasonable amounts)
-close a bank loan
-learn more about VC funding for web-based start-ups

 

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[andviv]

-learn more about VC funding for web-based start-ups

Oh, you would have enjoyed Howard Lindzon's presentation during the Beer-and-Pancakes-2009 meetup ten days ago. That was precisely what he talked about...

alas, can't tell you what he said in detail... what happened at the B&P09 stays there (unless you buy the videos that will be on sale soon)

--how's that for a teaser and not-so-soft-selling????? :smxA:

 

[bflbob]

I've been busy meeting the goals set up in our Mastermind Group.

Thanks for teaching us that, Sonya!

 

[AroundTheWorld]

April first! what are you up to?

 

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[mtnman]

Fulfilling client projects

Rolling out directories

Contemplating an info product on my strategies and theories

Site gen for leased sites and promotions

Local lead gen model on the back burner...swamped!

 

[Runum]

BUSY:
Most of it has to do with my events webpage
Announce first "Teacher of the Week"
Write article about new restaurant
Do promo for local school
Sign up for two spring festivals
Sign up for business expo
Order swag to give away
Coordinate other businesses for poker run in mid May
Get ink on paper for advertising deals
Get paid for advertising deals
Get classifieds working correctly
Get RSS feed working correctly
Expect traffic up 50% from March to May

 

[yveskleinsky]

For April, my goals are:

- Figure out banner mgmt and get something implemented
- Sell a min of 10 ads to local businesses
- Research and implement syndication--at a minimum thru Twitter
- Get a minimum of 200 additional listings
- Refine landing page for owners
- Get checking acct set up
- Get business cards reprinted (long story...Staples:12, Dana:0)
- Get vacation homes rented
- Lose 5 pounds
- Set up email/marketing campaign for owners and contact minimum of 200
- Refi all homes
- Research and implement 3 traffic-driving strategies that target guests.

Thanks for keepin' me on my toes Sonya!

 

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[patientPrince$$]

For April

I dont know if too feel ashamed or proud of my crazy ideas changing like the weather. But I bought a heat press, dye sublimation set and I'm now doing custom t-shirt, rhinestone designs and screen transfers, bookmarks, dog tags. I also have a line that I'm trying to launch for summer 2009. I'm working on my logo(its a tantric concept),, Resale#, Tax ID#. For april I plan to order foil transfers and plastisol transfer to test out the line on dark clothing/jeans. Thats all for now, I need to work on copyright pro for Rude Vibez. Its a sorta hippy gen y skull type, party animals clothing line. Thats all folk. TTYL

 

[hatterasguy]

I'll be starting construction on the first house next week. Everything is in order and the permit should be coming through this week.

I'm getting itchy, I spoted another possible building lot on my way home from work today. Very itchy I think I might try to get something under contract soon that I can close in July when we sell this house. That way I can roll the profits from this one right into a new lot, wash and repeat as they say.

House two I'm trying to sell before we build it, either way were planning on starting that one in June.

I have no goals for how many houses I want to do this year. Just as many as I can sell, within the constrants of my currant capital. But right now the capital isn't holding me back, the slow market is. I'll do at least 2 but I'm shooting for 4.

I'll probably take $5k out of the first deal to put towards buying a new truck, I really like the 2009 F150's. Thats the only money I plan on taking out of the business this year.

 

[365]

April:

- Finish my Bachelor's thesis
- Connect landing pages, e-mail list, tracking and PPC
- Press "start"
- Tweak; get testimonials
- Prepare my visit to NY and Omaha (departure Apr 23rd)
- Catch up with accounting and tax stuff that hast piled up

March:

- Finish the ebook. Lot more work than I thought. DONE - took more time, but DONE.
- Finish copy, put up the landing pages. Copy is DONE, landing page is still under defelopment
- Connect all the pieces that are already in place. Not done, changed some stuff
- Establish tracking and PPC. Not done
- Press "start"

 

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[Bilgefisher]

March

-flipping business plan In progress
-look for lines of credit for flipping In progress
-continue to teach Wendell to stay, begin rollover Stay, rollover nextmonth
-Final closing on last property still friggin delayed
-Figure out whether I'm coming or going. I feel lost atm.Still lost, but I see the light

March was a rough month, but I learned alot

April
-Checklists for accomplishing anything with a rental so I am less scatterbrained. (Evictions, move-ins, inspections etc etc)
-Look for pm for my property across town (1 hr drive 1 way during light traffic)
-Teach Wendell to stay
-Finalize business plan
-Refi on house and start obtaining credit lines
-begin prep work for selling my own house

 

[phlgirl]

March:

• Pack & MOVE - DONE - phlgirl is officially in PHILLY!!! (part time anyway)
• Buy one house - bought two
• Sell one house - sold one
• Complete JV Taxes and Biz tax prep - complete
• Call PA banks - still need to do this....will be easier, now that I am here
• Call PA REO agents - met with one, scheduled meeting with another
• Assist in hosting Jacksonville Real Estate Wealth's first live seminar, at Sawgrass
• Run according to schedule - haven't met the schedule exactly; however, did achieve a personal best in a recent 5k on the beach, which means I am getting a little faster!

• Sell two houses
• Buy one house
• Work with CPA to complete personal taxes
• Meet with bankers
• Research Philly REOs
• Hire resource to scan in 6 file cabinets worth of documents
• Run/Yoga