Summer Sessions

This summer, I enrolled in a couple of summer classes, just to make my upcoming semesters a little lighter.  The first class began in June and lasted four weeks. Looking back, I was terrified of the thought of an entire semester all rolled into four weeks, but in all honesty, it was not all that bad.  Don't get me wrong, it was pretty intense with a pretty heavy work load, but it was manageable. 

I have heard horror stories and read them online, but I have come to realize over the years that it is usually the students who don't do well in classes that rant on and on on the teacher rating sites. 

Below, I will list some of the things that I have learned throughout the past four weeks in ACC 255.

1. Time Management
• This is most likely the most important factor I have taken from this course. Students are often tempted by sunny summer days, where homework is the last thing on their mind. In the past four weeks, I was able to train myself, you could say, and make a weekly schedule in order to accomplish tasks for each project.
2. How to create an ebusiness from scratch
3. Blogging
4. How to create a website
5. How to gain traffic to sites
6. I learned that bloggers can become affiliates in order to produce revenue
• I have always wondered how bloggers created a living this way.
7. The concept of affiliate marketing
• I was disappointed to find out that I wasn't able to become an affiliate for amazon because of Illinois tax laws.
8. How to use html codes for customizing websites and blog posts
9. Implementing advertisements through html codes
10. How to find key words that will help others find your site/blog
11. How to link to sites within a webpage or blog
12. How to create an ebook
13. Discovering my niche
• I learned that this niche site and blog might be something that I continue to do.
14. How to help others through my past experiences