Back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that I’m not a fool… (source)
The sabbatical is over!
Okay, not exactly, but today is my very first day being back at Dimagi part time in my new role.
Which feels like a big deal.
I’m not totally sure whether this is going to end up feeling like a huge change in my life or just a slight tweak
on the rhythm I’ve established in the last 7 months.
Hoping it’s the latter, but time will tell.
Either way, it should be an interesting week.
Place Card Stats
Another record week with 16 sales and just under $22 in revenue.
This week I experimented by making the two free designs now cost $1 and ~doubling the prices of all the other
designs (to $1.95).
Thus far I would call the experiment a success, as sales actually went up!
Planning on leaving prices here for a bit to try and establish a new norm before tweaking (aka raising) again.
Goal Report Card
I think this might be my very first set of straight A’s since college.
| # |
Project / Area |
Goal |
Grade |
| 1 |
Place cards |
3 Designs, Double prices + ditch free templates |
A |
| 2 |
Writing |
Spend 4 hours on anything |
A |
| 3 |
Make/Ship Stuff |
Chat Stats |
A- |
| 4 |
Generate Revenue |
Continue pushing / working on freelancing engagements |
A |
Comments
- Added three more designs and made the pricing changes I mentioned above.
Also cleaned up some code and introduced a few bugs (that I quickly fixed) in the process.
- Wrote and published SEO for Developers,
and it’s gotten a decent amount of traction/shares! Also received a few thank yous which is always nice.
- I wanted to try and launch one last project before returning to Dimagi.
Unfortunately, I didn’t quite make it, but I think I got it close enough that I’ll be able to get it over the hump soon.
- All good.
Time
Definitely the most I’ve ever worked in a week in the last seven months (almost 60 hours of “work” stuff).
Week 30 time breakdown
A few contributing factors:
- I think I wanted to test that I’d be able to juggle my new workload without dropping sabbatical stuff before
my first week back.
- My wife is traveling which meant my social calendar was less busy this weekend.
- I had a lot of fun building chat stats.
Will be interesting to see what this looks like next week!
Life
Checked out a new museum in town—the building is quite stunning!
—Cory