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.

B250_L06

This week has been crazy! I feel like my brain has been fried! This class was good. I got all my assignments done and turned in on time. I think that my website turned out pretty good. All the legal and tax stuff kind of went over my head a little bit, but reading through all the posts in the discussion group helped to make it a little less foggy. I struggle with finding any information on photography businesses as far as the taxes and paperwork needed to make it an official business. I asked one of my friends what she does to claim her photography as a business. She said all she does is the state income tax. I'm pretty sure she would be a sole proprietor as well, but I didn't know about any of this when I asked her. The other thing that I've wondered about is how much money do you need to make to claim it as a business instead of a hobby? Some years you make quite a bit and the next, you make nothing. But, I feel like this week was very productive and I'll count it as a success!!!

B250_L05

Another week has come and gone. It's crazy to think that the semester is almost half over!! This week was really good. The assignments are really helping me with the project we have coming up this next week. Incorporating credit card payment into the website is something I've wanted to learn for a while. It also helps that a few of my other classes are teaching me how to write a website through HTML and JavaScript, and my other class is teaching me how to make a good logo, so hopefully between all my classes, I will be able to get my website up and going. I really enjoy this class and the discussion boards are very helpful with the opinions and experiences of all the other students being shared. 

B250_L04

Wow! This week has been crazy! There was a lot of work involved with the weekly assignments and Project #1. I also had a lot of things due in other classes and quite a bit of personal stuff going on, that I'm hoping I have remembered to do everything. This class is one of my favorites. I am really beginning to enjoy the discussion group-they have some great comments and insights that help me to understand the assignments we have completed. I feel like I am beginning to get a grasp on websites and what is involved with one. It has helped a bunch in a couple of my other classes, and they have helped with this one as well. I still struggle to come up with good comments each week-I feel that everyone is way over my head that my comments do nothing for them. But, I really enjoy this class.