I hope all is well with everyone.

The contest over at WinningTheWeb ended with a huge bang!

I was one of the lucky winners and happened to win 2 great prizes:

• $100 Cash courtesy of The Social Millionaire

• OIO Publisher account ($37 dollar value)

Earlier in the week, I happened to win money over at PerfectBlogging for being one of the top commenters. I put some effort into being a top commenter over at PerfectBlogging because they have a fair amount of RSS subscribers (450 +) and probably a fair amount of website traffic. I figured why not be a top commenter, get some extra exposure for my blog, and give myself a chance to win money?

• At PerfectBlogging.Com, I ended up winning $25 dollars.

Winning these prizes feels great: I’m glad that I participated and hope everyone that participated enjoyed the contests! It has been an awesome week for me :)

In case you all are wondering what I’ve been up to lately:

I have written a fairly large post that was scheduled to be posted for today, but I’ve decided to save it for the weekend. Also, due to the huge increase in success over at my other projects, I’ve decided to not stick to a specific posting frequency here. I will be blogging here when I feel it appropriately fits my schedule. I don’t want to leave my readers puzzled here not knowing my posting frequency: I will keep you all updated. I recommend that you all stay subscribed or subscribe to my feed if you haven’t already and make it easy for yourself to check for new posts!

There are an estimated $15,000 in total prizes including: cash-money, 1 iPod Touch, tons of advertising on popular blogs, internet marketing training, memberships, an affiliate summit east pass, web site subscriptions, blog themes and many more. The list is insanely long for me to recap.  Gyutae’s contest has increased the subscriber count over at WTW from under 400 to nearly 900 in less than 1 month!  This contest has been a lot of fun for me to participate in and I hope everyone else feels the same.

By the way, in case you didn’t already know, Gyutae has added a black H2 Hummer to the prize pool on the last day of the contest (April 1, 2008). The total prize value of the contest is really $71,435 dollars. Be sure to at least give yourself a chance to win that Hummer and sign up today.

Early in the week, I discussed How To Increase Your Blogging Speed. This article is a must -read for anyone looking to boost their productivity as a blogger. Being efficient with blogging is a huge timesaver and frees up more time to focus on other areas of life. In this article, I highlight several tips that everyone should try!

Next, I discuss How I Get The Job Done & What Works Best For Me. This post was inspired by Dale’s comment stating that he would enjoy me to elaborate on what works best for me. I discuss why I currently blog late at night and why I’d like to change my blogging routine to “early morning.” Check out this article and see if some of the same things work for you!

Later in the week I asked the question: “If You Won The Lottery Would You Still Blog?” With this article I let my readers know what I would do with my blogging career if I happened to hit the jackpot. I talk once again why it is important to be passionate about your blogging niche and why you’d probably quit blogging if you didn’t choose a true niche of interest. I highly encourage you to read over this post and share your thoughts and feelings in the comments section!

Next, I touch on Video Blogging & Why You Should Take Advantage Of The Growing Trend. I’m beginning to see a lot of video bloggers that have increased their success by incorporating video into their blogs. Within this post, I discuss the advantages and disadvantages of video blogging and why you should consider giving it a shot. I encourage you to give video blogging a try if you haven’t already!

To cap of week #7, I let my readers know that I will be “Cutting Back On Posting Frequency: Just A Little Bit.” Don’t worry, I’m not bailing out on this blog, I just need some time to dedicate towards my other projects too. I think posting every-other day is a good frequency for this blog and felt it necessary to let my readers know of the change.

Other honorable blogging articles:

• Alan Johnson compiled a list of the most useful 1001 webmaster resources. It must’ve taken awhile to compile and the sheer volume really impressed me!

• Cuzzy, one of our most active members asks if you went dark for “Earth hour.” Be sure to stop by and participate in his poll!

• Kevin Givens, another active member, touched on the top characteristics of a successful entrepreneur.

• Dennis Edell, another comment contributor has applied a nice physics lesson to business and discusses why you should never stop pushing your business forward.

This concludes week #7 of the Weekly Milestones section. I recommend checking out all of my articles and providing your brain with as much blogging knowledge as possible to help yourself improve! Want to get mentioned in a future weekly wrap-up? Becoming an active member of Andrew Pavelski dot com will increase your chances ;) When you become a regular contributor to the comments section, I will dig through your blog and possibly share link-love with a post that I enjoyed. Especially if it is relevant to my niche!

Why I’ve decided to cut back on my posting frequency

• My other projects - The main reason that I’m changing my posting frequency is to dedicate some more of my time to my other projects. If anything major happens at another one of my blogs (it kind of has already), I’ll definitely share some insight here at Andrew Pavelski dot com. As I mentioned before, I probably won’t share the URL’s of my other projects quite yet because they are of completely different niches than this site and I don’t want any conflicting views or opinions. If you happen to come across my other sites on your own - wonderful ;)

• Balancing blogging with life - One area of life that I’ve really been slacking on lately is exercise and diet. I enjoy eating three full meals per day and taking time for exercising. Though I may currently look “in shape” and “fit,” I haven’t gotten a good workout for awhile…

• Writing guest posts - Writing guest posts on other blogs is something I’ve been aiming to do with this blog (and my other blogs) and I think cutting back on posting for a day will hopefully free up some time for me to write a guest post for a bigger blog like John Chow.

• More time for promotion - Promotion takes time and needs to be balanced with the production of quality content. Too much of one will defeat the purpose of the other. Too much promotion will get you traffic, but the traffic will never return if they don’t think you’ve got worthy content. On the other hand, too much quality content without enough promotion will make for an awesome website that nobody knows about. Keeping a balance is important and I’m hoping that my new schedule will give me more time for promotion.

What is my new posting frequency?

• Every other day - Look forward to a new blog post every-other day on Andrew Pavelski dot com. I have some really great experiments and ideas that I plan on sharing with you all at this blog, so be sure to stay tuned and keep checking up!

Why did I let you all know of the change?

• To be courteous - I think it is appropriate to be courteous and let your readers know if you plan on changing your posting frequency.

• To avoid confusion - I don’t want you to get confused and think that my blog died or that I’ve become a slacker. Since I was posting everyday for awhile - you may have really wondered why I cut back or gotten confused.