5-Star Ebook Diary

First things first…my apologies for not updating as often as I said I was going to. It’s not that I haven’t been doing anything to move forward with the launch of 5 Star Ebooks, it’s that the things I have been doing recently haven’t warranted an update. Or at least, those are my thoughts.

One of the persons that I keep in fairly regular contact with has told me to ‘just post something, don’t be such a perfectionist’. Well, here you are.

The countdown is officially on. I am giving myself until Wednesday to have things done and at least ‘presentable’ for the launch. Not that I have a lot of things to do, but at least it gives me a goal and once again leads to me being accountable.

I have been editing pages (many thanks to Paula Brett for setting up the EW Portal for the payment processing on the site) to get them to my liking. I have also been tossing around the idea of either having a sort of squeeze page for the home page to entice opt-ins for the newsletter that I am planning. I have an 8 part email series already written and ready to load into aweber, but I am vascillating between the squeeze page or just having a signup form hover in or fade in. Feedback so far is leading towards having the opt-in form fade in.

Although I am probably late with this, but oh, well. Have you made any New Year’s resolutions yet? Have you broken any of them? HA! I know that one of the few that I made has already been broken: to focus more time on the ‘business’ than reading other peoples’ material. Of course, being a newbie, this is very difficult to do, but I came across a site that will help out with this: