September was a decent soft start for this site and my side business. I restarted this WordPress account, had two clients and started upgrading my home studio. October is going to be so much more.
Main Goals for October
- Complete this site. I need to make the best of the 2014 theme and find the right plugins to make the most of it. This should be done by October 15th.
- Complete all work for hire profiles. Upwork has been a success for me and I will have all other services filled up by October 7th.
- Inventory my home studio. I have a ton of new software and equipment that needs to be posted on the site. I also need to budget for more improvements that make sense. I should have this done October 2nd.
- LinkedIn Learning. I have been taking classes on LinkedIn to help fill gaps in my expertise. I am mostly self-taught and this is the first step of a bigger project to add legitimacy to my work experience. This is an ongoing project. I have finished Blogging for Your Business & Insights from a Content Marketer.
- Book more work! I had a strong start, but I slowed down while waiting for repeat work. Never stop promoting and creating proposals. Everyday.
I will be doing a mid-October check in to see if have I been keeping pace.
Side Projects
- Hosting audio? I don’t want to depend on using YouTube with a static image to share my audio work. I need to sit down and pick a service for this. Voice123’s player don’t post on WordPress so that is a dead end.
- Andy Arkham! A friend of mine is putting together a 1920’s style live event and I have volunteered to produce content for it. I plan on outlining my work and ideas on this site.
- Make a video. I haven’t produced an edited video in my free time in over a year. I have better tools and I need to use them.
- Camera? I had a nice video camera that was destroyed when my house flooded. Do I want to look into seeing how far down that path I want to go? I should at least do some reading.
Pat Mendonca 