I’m so happy to bring you all another stats report from Coleman Marketing Group LLC aka CMG. My goal of doing these are only for record keeping, and so you can see every website doesn’t start off by getting 100,000 visitors per month.
Yea I have website that get those numbers but for this site it’s all new to the game so its going to take time to get this ball rolling. Last months stats report of November wasn’t all that great but showed some growth in the site.
Todays stats report is for December, and what you will see below it wasn’t a good month at all for CMG. The traffic was down, and I mean down a lot but I will explain the reasons for that later. So lets take a moment and see what happen in December.
What Happened in December?
This past month of December 2013 was just a blur to me. It came and left a little too fast me due to all the excitement. December is really a hard month to get work done when you’re not as established as other top marketing websites.
You see I’m still growing my content, readers and networking partners so my stats for this month are not good as all when it comes to growth.
The holiday spirit is in the air from kids been out of school to planing holiday parties. Now you have to make time to get gifts for the love ones, and the next thing you know its January 1.
Just for this reason my growth wasn’t what it was and yes it showed. Just getting a measly 281 visitors this past month is not good.
But this goes back to what I was saying about this is a holiday not just for me but for the entire world who celebrates this month. So my numbers are going to drop during this time of the year due to people spending more time offline than online.
Plus those that are online are doing more of shopping versus wanted to learn how to market their business locally. Even small businesses are focus more on the holidays, and looking more to the new year to start seeking out help to market their business.
Even though this was a holiday month I decided it was a perfect month to start working on my ultimate local marketing guide. I’m still working on the other chapters as of 1/5/2013 so be patient because the rest of them are coming.
I’m putting this together for small businesses can follow the exact steps on dominating their local market on their own. The top 3 local marketing strategies are local profiles, video marketing and Facebook marketing.
I’m doing full detail blog post on each, and every subject to show you how to implement this into your business. These blog post are taking a lot of time to do which really taking me from doing two blog posts per week to only one.
So overall this guide will be used at my free workshops this year so can I cover these local marketing strategies with audience. My goal is to give this away to them so it will be a blueprint platform for them to follow on doing this on their own.
Plus this will be included in my 31 tips of how to market your business guide. Not only will people learn how to dominate their local market with my 31 tips they will also get those tips explained in detailed because I will be doing long in-dept post for each tip.
Now that’s call a how to market your business guide you just can’t live without. It tells you about the 31 tips to grow your business, and then will show you step by step on how to achieve it.
December Stats
Like I said above the month of December is a tough month if you don’t already have a big online presence. This website is only 8 months old so it doesn’t have that authority to gain unlimited traffic without me working to get it.
So due to this been a holiday month on top of not having a big online presence the site just couldn’t produce enough auto traffic. I was only able to generate 281 visit this month which is not a lot at all but believe me this year of 2014 will be the break year of getting good targeted traffic.
Overall Numbers
3394 total visits from day one to now seem like a low ball of a number. I don’t like it but I do understand for a new website online I’m going through the beginning stages of growth.
I been studying marketing, and blogging for a long time now, and one thing I realize is that time is everything. Many of the top websites took a couple of years of hard marketing to see any growth so my goal for this year is to be patient but consistent.
So even though my numbers are dead in the water as of now I know by this time next year I should easily be getting over a 1,000 visitors per month. But as of now I’m scrapping the bottom of the barrel to make this website into one of the top marketing websites in the world.
Links to My Site
Every link online is just another place for someone to navigate to your site. Getting your links on as many websites you can will help you be found by many.
There are two types of link that are good that you need to be getting as a website owner. One of those links is from social network sites such as digg, Facebook and Twitter just to name a few. From here your links can be shared to hundreds, thousands or even millions of people.
The next good links that can help your site is someone linking to you. People build authority websites so if someone finds a link from their website to yours, then this can mean targeted traffic for you.
Basically at this point these are the links I’m attracting these days in the early stages of CMG. So the 572 links you see below are mostly from social sites, and a number of people linking to me. Can’t wait to see how many links I have at this time next year so stay tune.
Search Queries
Can’t say whats going on when it comes to my rankings for my search queries. One day I’m ranking for top keywords online, and the next day I’m no where to be found.
Personally my search traffic started to drop back in August 2013 which I talked about in that months stats report. The traffic has been up and down, so I’m just going to be patient and see what Google has in store for me in 2014.
2 Blog Post Per Week
Didn’t get this feat done this month due to what I described above. I sat back and completed some other projects I was working on. Most of that time in December was spent doing research, and putting together my local marketing guide.
Find the already done chapters below..
Ultimate Local Marketing Domination Guide by Antonio Coleman
How to Search for Local Keywords and Dominate the Market
December Taught Me
This past month just taught me to be more prepared next year. There are a number of things I can do to get more engagement on the site during this month. Since people spend more time online looking for items to buy I think it will be smart of me to implement things I can sell.
Now at this moment I have no clue if I will sell anything, but as of now I know given my potential readers some sort of holiday incentive will encourage more engagement and traffic.
Goals for January and 2014
For this month I’m really still looking to do more research, and setup of my very first podcast for CMG. I said it would be setup in December but after looking at a number of podcast shows that’s related to my niche I found something very interesting.
Instead of me just jumping into the fire of producing podcast I realize I need to come out the gate with at least 10 episodes already done. Plus I see something other shows are doing that I could do better. So i’m not in a rush to get it up and ruining until I have a complete game plan, but it will be up and running before my next monthly stats report.
Plus I’m hoping to continue the research for my first book on “Dominating Your Local Market” Once I complete my research from setting up my table of content and know exactly what I want every chapter to contain than I will then start the process of writing. My writing will consist of writing about 1,000 words per day until I complete this project.
Goals for the year are very simple and plan.
1. Network with 1,000 marketers
2. Get 10,000 visitors
3. Create 50 podcast shows
4. Do 15 free workshops
5. Get featured in 50 newspapers
6. Get on the radio
7. Gain 24 paying clients
8. Staying Consistent
