July 5, 2010: Online Work Bee
From SolSeed
Contents |
Agenda
- Review WWWs
- Outreach
- 1-Page Plan
- Suggestion from Lion (short)
- Google Funnels thing
- SpaceWiki
WWWs from last time
- Brandon ... ping Ryan back ... done
- Brandon ... ping David ... done
- Brandon ... ping Gus about breakfast or lunch ... done
- Shelley ... send email to triad participants ... done during call
- Ben ... put the SpaceWiki logo and the 7 CEOs on the caricaturist's page with red links to cartoon images ... done
- Ben ... research Google Analytics funnels ... done (mostly)
Outreach
- Shelley talked to MC
- Expert in "Theology via Web 2.0"
- Gave us 3 new contacts who work on nonprofits and websites
- One of them could help us register a nonprofit
- MC would be honored to be on our advisory board
- Interesting ideas:
- Start a theology-related blog
- Redesign website (or at least put a pretty static frontpage up?)
- Put video excerpts from our services online
OnePagePlan
We're somewhat overextended
Goals (1 Year)
- Income run rate of $100,000/year (~$9000/month) -- Brandon
- Place: Ownership of a site by Winter Solstice 2010 -- not Mark anymore
- Note: We could say we've already met this goal if Brandon and Shelley's house is the initial site
- Media: Publish 2 SolSeed books, a 15 minute video, and a great website -- Ben
- 2nd book hasn't moved in months
- Website: front page looks cooler, but need to work on it more
- Spiritual Community: Regular, impactful ceremonies led by multiple people -- Shelley
- Going very well
3rd Quarter Goals
- Take actions that will hopefully improve count of visits to our website
- Blog posts that either are on the website or link to it
- Google AdWords
- Improve website to get more page views per visitor
- Improve Earthseed article on Wikipedia to get more people interested in clicking our link there
- Big book writing goal ... 500 words/week
- EcoVillage ... the backyard cottage is more inspiring than a basement ... design w/ Ben in mind?
- Complete some plans, or find an architect
- Finish next time!
Suggestion from Lion
- Jair may know about things in Portland similar to House of Clay
Google Funnels thing
- We want to try out AdWords
SpaceWiki
- Start creating the skin
WWWs
- Brandon ... suggest a lunch or breakfast with Jair via email ... by Monday
- Brandon ... create a $40 adwords campaign ... just for practice ... by Monday
- Brandon ... replace background with SpaceWiki skin v0.01 from Ben and clear out logo ... by Monday
- Brandon ... let Ryan know we'd really like to have the logo cartoon ... by Tuesday
- Ben ... read the help for adwords ... by next call
- Ben ... compile cartoons into the SpaceWiki skin v0.1 (top edge image) ... by Saturday
- Shelley ... buy groceries and clean the house for the person doing the adwords :-)
