B250_L13

I can't believe it's finally here-the end of the semester!! This class was my favorite of all the ones I took this semester and I feel that I learned the most from it because I enjoyed it. There were definitely a lot more steps to making an online business that I had originally thought and I'm excited to use what we have learned to expand my photography business. Thanks for your time in explaining every lesson and for answering emails-not just mine because some students posted your reply in the discussion groups and it helped explain things a lot better. Have a Merry Christmas!!

B250_L12

This week was a lot of fun for me. The ideas presented about social media and social networking are something that I will use on my photography pages. This week was also a lot less stressful because I was at home all week instead of traveling for holidays. I am getting excited for the end of the semester and can't believe that it is almost here! This class has been my favorite and is the only one I have been able to use immediately to help my photography business. Thanks for a great semesters!

B250_L11

This has been a crazy week! We went to grandma's in Utah for Thanksgiving and I thought that I had done a lot to prepare to be gone, but I didn't get this class done. Thank heavens for WiFi!!! This week explained a lot about web optimization and SEO's. It kind of went over my head a little and I'm finding that I can't seem to remember everything that I've read from the readings. As for getting ready for the next project, my website shows that I've been getting visitors and I have clickthroughs showing in my Adwords account, but the link I embedded in the landing pages isn't showing anything, so I don't know if I did it right. Hopefully I'll have enough data off of the other stuff to be able to get the project wrapped up ok! Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

B250_L10

This week was pretty good. I'm starting to understand Adwords a little better-I am still unsure on what to use for good keywords to help optimize my ad. I started another ad for the Christmas photo rush. I think the ads have been performing well. I've booked a few sessions and had quite a bit of activity on my website. I'm finding that as the school year is winding down, it's getting harder to find time for homework amongst all the other craziness that is going on right now. I'm a little stressed out about next week because we are taking off Wednesday for Utah, so I need to have a lot of my homework done before Wednesday. My poor kids are feeling the stress and are probably tired of hearing me say that I've got to do my homework. Hopefully after Thanksgiving, the last few weeks will go smoothly.

B250_L09

Another week is done and we are that much closer to the end of the semester. I feel like I did at the beginning of the semester: drowning! I can't seem to keep my head above water in my classes lately. I'm not understanding a lot of the content. I watch help videos when I can, but my personal life has been a little on the crazy side. This class has been pretty good. Google Analysis and Adwords are awesome tools that help with your online business stats and advertising. My ad isn't giving me much data, other than clicks and impressions. The Quality Score still hasn't shown up on anything, so I don't know what to do there. I increased my budget to $1.75/day, but it still shows my max CPC as $1.00. The analytics that I put on my website showed that it was working when I installed it, but it has shown no data either. I'm beyond frustrated and am giving it a break today before I lose my head!!!

B250_L08

It's nice to have an easier week occasionally! Hopefully next week won't be too hard to get back into the routine of things! :) Without realizing it, my Google ad went through and I actually got contacted by someone to shoot a wedding for them. It's crazy how fast things like that can help your business grow. I'm not sure that I will do the wedding, but it was nice to see that advertising works. This class has been really helpful in learning the ins and outs of online businesses. It is also great to learn the basics of website building. Things that were foreign to me three months ago, now make sense. It's great!

B250_L07

It is crazy how fast the weeks are flying by! I feel this week went pretty good for this class. Understanding Google Adwords is crucial to helping you create successful ads to promote your business. The tricky part for me is coming up with the correct keywords to help drive people to my site. Photography has a lot of broad keywords and figuring out what people would type in to look for a family photographer or school portraits is hard. But the discussion board posts and the reading assignments were really good to explain things in a way that I can kind of understand. There is definitely a lot more to running an online business than I ever thought before and I am enjoying learning about everything.