Connect Your Checkbook To Your Calendar.

The time of year determines much of what you do in your home life. If you have not made the same connections to your business life you're missing a chance to fill that checkbook by the seasons.

Your website is like a gathering basket for your garden. If you keep your basket close by the door when harvest time comes, you're always ready to hop out that door for fresh tomatoes, zucchini and bell peppers.

If you keep your stats checked on a regular basis you know just where you stand in the whole scheme of things and your ROI can show high or low depending on the seasonal changes of your audience.

I'm a flower picker in the spring when emerging bulbs bring brightness and wonderfully fresh smells to my home. I water and weed during the hot summer months and come late summer and fall, we all enjoy the harvest of our summer labors. Winter brings joyous holidays that we all share.

Although the seasons are filled with holidays, it's the work and play ethic that exists year round that brings ROI from a website. Of the prepare, plant, nurture and harvest cycles of the year, so goes your business preparations for income from any online endeavor.

1 - Prepare - research keywords, key phrases and complete market studies.
2 - Plant - Get your website up and running along with a blog for continuing input and updates.
3 - Nurture - Market your website and blog with social media and incoming linking strategies.
4 - Harvest - If you laid the ground out correctly, you have the traffic and income that connects the calendar to a growing checkbook balance!

As it takes several seasons to see your garden grow so goes the business cycle. Always plan on it taking double (or more in some cases) the time you expect it to and finding more weeds than tomatoes at some junctures.

Have a busy and fruitful year. Consider Buddy Web Design to be your garden helper when you are ready to plant a website and watch it grow your checkbook balance.