627 authors have turned in a book list for Shepherd (or committed to writing in). This last week was great as authors contacted me after seeing the launch (plus a lot of referrals) 😃.

I did a lot of cleaning this week. I am slowly reaching out to the 477 authors who responded but didn’t finish a book list. Usually that is because the timing wasn’t right, they got busy, or they forgot. And, I am putting together a better system to do follow-ups.

On Monday I started training Joy, who is helping me with data entry on books and author profiles. This will take a huge swath of work off my plate and she is doing great. She should be fully up to speed in a week or two.

I am playing with the idea of hiring someone to help me with: the editing process with authors, author follow-ups, and a few other items. I need to clear more of my time for marketing as I work to ramp up traffic. I am going to sit down and look at that in a few weeks.

Related book lists are looking great and we’ve been playing with them in our staging environment. We will ship this feature in a week or two.

What types of recommendations are we making?

We’ve got a lot of internal cleanup for the frontend and backend planned for May.

Things like:

Have a great weekend, we are having a beautiful Spring here in Portugal :),

Thanks, Ben