Friday roundup

This week I’m trying new things:

·      A coupon campaign

I’ve set up a 10% off coupon for all my books, to see if that is the magic formula for selling books in my online bookshop. I’ll review this next week to report back on how it went.

·      Popup

Although not personally a fan of popups, they do seem to be used by a lot of successful businesses, so what do I know? Well apparently I know just enough to set up a popup, but as yet it has failed to popup, so by definition it seems to have failed.

·      Concentrating on one thing

I have spent a lot of time on my website this week, to the exclusion of other things, but today I have set myself a time limit of half an hour to check in with my website, add a blog post and then run away to do other things. I’m already at half an hour, so will have to run away imminently...

PS I think I've cracked it - the popup is an opt in button on the home page, OK so my half hour has stretched to an hour, but the sense of achievement is worth it.