The days just keep flying by, don’t they? It seems like just yesterday I promised to post a progress report on how Silent Sound Waves has been doing. Which is of course why I am posting it today. To get straight to the point, SSW has been doing quite alright since we started posting regularly back in November.
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While I am hard at work laying down the groundwork which will hopefully serve as a foundation for the success of my new blog, Silent Sound Waves, which will hopefully launch for real within a few weeks, I thought I’d share some of the things I plan on doing over there.
It’s a music blog, so everything will obviously be centered around music, and more specifically the music that I for some reason feel like writing about. Hopefully I will be able to post on this blog daily (ambitious for me, I know), and I plan on having some specific columns that each will have a new entry once a week:
- Tributes : Articles about artists who have been influential, or just making good music that didn’t influence all that much, for a long time, or is no longer around. This will hopefully give some attention to the music of artists who might have been forgotten.
- “New Artists” : Not really sure what this will actually be called, but the purpose of it is to share new talent, unsigned or just not very recognized, with the readers. Column name suggestions are welcome!
That’s all I have set in stone for now actually! It will fill up two days of the week with posts, which leaves five more for the more traditional stuff, which is of course various news updates about bands and artists which are covered, album reviews and other features like for instance live events I attend (example) and similar.
Ideally I would like to have one more regular column, but at this point I’m not sure what it would be. I’ll keep thinking about it, and in the meantime you can always leave your suggestions and comments if you have any. What would you like to read about at a music blog? Let me know!
After spending some time on the fence without doing much online except the occasional tweet I went out and just started a new blog, which is called Silent Sound Waves. If the name didn’t reveal it for you, the blog is about music, and this is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while.
The domain was actually registered quite a few months back, but my original plans for it fell through the cracks and I decided to put it off for a while. As you can read more about in the first post, the initial plans for the site were much bigger, but this time around I decided to put the ambitions of world domination away and go for something as simple as a traditional blog.
Summer however is quite a busy time for me, as it is these months of no school I spend working and saving up money for the hard year as a student which is to come. As a result, the next month or so there will just be infrequent and unscheduled new posts at the blog in order to fill it up with content. This is because I believe it is preferable to give the potential readers some idea of what they can expect once I start to promote the blog in the middle of August.
If you are interested in music, mainly in the genres of rock / punk / pop and variations of these, feel free to check out my new blog and subscribe, as I would love some feedback on what I write about, even before I start to seriously promote it. Right now I am for instance working on a monster post of a report from a music festival I attended last weekend, and it will be a good example of what’s to come in the future from me over at Silent Sound Saves, along with news, reviews and a whole bunch of other opinionated posts.
See you there! Or here, if you’re not interested in a bigger dose of me than what you already get here at my personal blog 
Today is that day, the one that only comes around once every four years, so I thought it would be appropriate to mark the day with another update from my end for those of you out there who have been waiting for one.
Already in my previous post I mentioned some of my plans for this year. As of right now, there have been some small changes. The project I had originally planned to get started as soon as possible has been scratched, and I am now working on something completely different instead.
I have more or less worked out all the technical stuff, and all that remains is really just to fill it up with content, which is quite a daunting task actually. There’s not much motivation to be found in the fact that the content you are working on won’t be seen by anybody for quite a while.
I think I have found a solution though. This time, I am working on a topic I really have a passion for. My own personal preference is the single most important factor for this project, and what the content will revolve around. I have only tried it once before, and it turned out really well that time, so I decided to give it a go once more.
To be honest, this new project is less about trying to generate revenue online, and more about exploring and nurturing my own interests. Yet I still believe there is a large group of potential readers out there, and it will be interesting to see if I will be able to “tap into the market” at all.
Now I apologize if I have been a little too cryptic in this post, but I assume that by the next time I post here, I will be able to reveal a lot more about this new little venture of mine.
As some of you might have noticed, we just made the leap into a brand new year, and what better time could there be to grab a clean state and give yourself a fresh start? For me (especially after the long, undesired break) it seems like the perfect chance to reach out and try and grab some of the many opportunities the internet still holds.
Before we jump right in though, it is always a good idea to use some of that 20 – 20 hindsight we’ve been given, and analyze what’s been accomplished in the year gone by. See what you did that worked, and I’m not just talking about the things that made you money. What did you like doing? Did you gain valuable new connections, associates and perhaps even a friend or two?
For me when I look back at my online achievements in 2007, the most obvious thing that comes to mind is what I did with Bloggst. I managed to create a brand new website from scratch, and sell it for $3,000 in the span of three months. I’m quite happy with that, as I started with pretty much nothing (in online terms) last year, and ended with a nice chunk of change, and made some excellent new connections during that period as well.
But then there’s the negatives. What did I accomplish for the remaining three quarters of the year? Pretty much nothing. I made some sporadic attempts to create a bit of buzz around this blog, but all in all I was content sitting on my pedestal wasting the fruits of my labours. I made no attempt to ride the wave of success, and benefit from what I had already achieved. After all, success breeds success, or at least if you take effort to make sure it does.
With this in mind, my goals for 2008 appear to be pretty obvious. I want to create a stronger and more visible online presence through constant participation in various communities, including those that surround this very blog. It will be important to me to reach out to other like-minded people, because nothing serves better as motivation in the times when the going gets tough, to put it like that.
Apart from this, I also want to start at least two new specific projects. The goals with these will not be to raise them as high as possible in a short span of time in order to cash in, but rather they will serve as monuments of my committment to online opportunities. Hopefully, they can also help me further my name, and if I am able to make a profit, I won’t refuse that opportunity.
I have also decided that it might be beneficial to me to team up with someone, so at least one of the projects will be more of a group effort as opposed to the one man shows I have stuck to in the past. Of course, that depends on me being able to find someone I want to work with, and that person being interested in working with me as well as the ideas I already have in mind. Interested? Let me know.
Now you have some insight about what I am up to, and how I perceive the year gone by in terms of my own online efforts. Have you made any similar reflections yourself? Perhaps you have even more concrete goals for this year than I do? If so, feel free to share them with the rest of us by leaving a response!
PS: I know this post is filled with typos, but I cut my pointer finger and have it bandaged, which makes is a bit hard to type. I was also suffering from a serious case of writers block when I wrote this post, and it seemed more important to just get a post together than worry about the details. I’ll edit it as soon as possible, promise!