I was wondering, how do you guys keep track of everything? Things I mean are like: - link purchases (when they expire, who bought them/who you bought from) - link exchanges (who have you exchanged with, is your link still on their site) - random purchases (scripts, templates, coding) - things you have to do (pay something, do something) plus general day-to-day activities you have planned?
I've got an excel sheet for what people owe me, including details about them and the purchase. link building I have a excel monthly sheet for each site which details a variety of keywords i want to get links for, and types of links i need each month ncluding directories, sitewides, blogs etc. every week i write up a report tracking changes on about 100 keywords (shared by 4 of my sites). I track all the info in seo for firefox and add in G links to that. I also track monthly/weekly organic traffic from G, Y, and MSN. Now that i've been doing that for a few months I've got some great data to work with to see where i'm going.
All I have is excel too. The neatest program in the world I'd say..seriously, even though people wll always try to sell you business management blah blah programs, excel can do everything..
My palm treo does it for me...I just sync with it everynight...I wrote a program with a classmate of mine to do all this for us...he used it as his senior project for his undergrad in comp sci...
I just write it all in a notepad I dont have much to write except for all the posting jobs Ive got going.