I’ve been so busy with my main projects that unfortunately I have very little time for this site.

As I have mentioned before I’ve narrowed my focus to concentrate exclusively on Awesomeology and The Coolest Gifts.

In the past few weeks I’ve moved Awesomeology back to a self-hosted site to increase revenue, I’ve seen a nice increase in traffic and income from The Coolest Gifts, and I’ve been working on my own online store (which will, of course, stock only the coolest gifts).

As much as I would like to post in-depth updates as to what I’m doing to generate revenue online here, I simply don’t have time for it.

So instead of writing the occasional long post on this site, I’ll be writing frequent pithy ones…on Twitter.

I’m sure you’ve heard of Twitter by now, and if you don’t yet have an account, I’d urge you to get one, at least to try it out. Once you have an account (if you care), follow me here.

You may have noticed that it’s been over a week since I’ve posted to this site.

Or maybe you haven’t noticed.

That’s okay either way, because I’ve made the decision to stop regular postings on 365 To Freedom.

That doesn’t mean I’ve given up with my goal to earn a full-time income online in one year. I’m more committed to that than ever.

The truth is that this site is holding me back. Anytime I run contests, write some helpful tips, link to great posts written by my visitors, and put together comprehensive lists on magazine style Wordpress themes, it all takes time. A lot of time. And to be quite honest with you, I don’t enjoy it.

I currently have 7 websites that I run. It’s too much, and because I believe in creating good content and not throwing up spammy PLR type sites, there’s no way that I can continue to do all of them well. I’ll end up with a bunch of mediocre sites and that’s not what I want.

I recently ran an audit of sorts where I took each of my 7 sites and gave it a numerical grade (from 1-5) in each of three categories. Those categories were Time Required, Income Potential, and Fun Factor. I gave equal weight to each category.

I also estimated the potential monthly income from each site and the amount of time required to do an excellent job, and arrived at an hourly “wage” for each site.

In the end, I decided to focus all of my energy on The Coolest Gifts. I’m having a custom theme designed for it, and when I say custom, I mean custom. It’s not even going to look like a WordPress blog. It’s going to kick ass.

That doesn’t mean that this site will go off-line. I don’t plan to actually take down any of my sites, but I won’t be updating them on any consistent basis any more, except for Awesomeology (which is just tons of fun for me) and Power Dropping (which now takes very little time to maintain and people really seem to find useful). My other sites, including this one, will just remain as they are unless I feel like posting something to them.

To be clear, this isn’t the last post. Just the end of regular postings.

I’ll probably put another post on this site when the all-new Coolest Gifts launches. If I, say, have a programmer make a new plugin to make my life easier over at Coolest Gifts, I’ll release it to the world on this site.

So if you haven’t subscribed to my RSS Feed, now’s a great time to do so, because there will be no more posts for the sake of putting up a post. From now on when I open my mouth on this site, I promise that something of substance will come out.

Two weeks ago, I held a small contest.

All you had to do to enter was subscribe to my RSS feed by email.

The prize was 1,500 Entrecard credits, with everyone sharing equally in 1,000 credits and one lucky winner getting an additional 500.

The contest generated 17 RSS by email subscribers, to whom I just sent 58 Entrecards each.

To decide the winner of the 500, I went to this site and asked it to give me 1 random number between 1 and 17. The result was “3″, so I picked the third email address on the list and sent that person an extra 500 Entrecards (for a total of 558).

Breakdown Of The Results

For 1,500 Entrecard credits I gained 17 new RSS subscribers. That’s a cost of 88 credits per subscriber. Considering the recent sale of 10,000 Entrecard credits for $61 on eBay, it works out to 54 cents per new subscriber. I’d call this contest a winner!

Want to run the same contest? Go over to PowerDropping.com and you’ll have 1,500 new Entrecard credits in just 5 days!

Thanks to everybody who participated. Try not to spend your credits all in one place