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December 27, 2012

Writer’s Workshop :Review of Blogging Goals for 2012

Dominique Reviews, Thoughts blogging goals, talkative thursday

Since the start of the year I have set these goals for the blog. I’m glad to achieve all the goals that I have set out for the blog and more.

The goals that I stated in January were the following

For the blog (Dominique’s Desk)

Increase revenue to be able to save enough to buy a DSLR.
Have bloggers to guest posts on my blog.
Guest post on other sites/blogs at least once a month.
Increase readership and grow my traffic.
break the 100,000 Alexa mark

2012 was the year that I shifted gears and moved from a casual blogger to a professional one. I engaged a cyber agent to help manage my portfolio and also placed a lot of energies in growing this blog.

This year was a year of massive growth and increase in awareness of Dominique’s Desk. From March I started taking down in detail the various stats associated with the blog. I recently joined instagram in October and am slowly growing my followers on it.

	Mar 2012	Dec 2012
Alexa ranking	120,718	73,276
Twitter followers	2857	4468
FB Fan Page	1838 fans	9551 fans
Instagram	0	50 followers
Pinterest	100 followers	302 followers

The kids and I had lots of fun this year and we visited many new places. We made new friends and many long lasting friendships were forged with other bloggers and their kids.

I started up a monthly featured called my Top Ten Highlights whereby at the end of each month I would make a summary about the highlights of each month. I also have a review of my Insane goals monthly to make sure that I keep on track to achieving my goals.

Here is are some of the highlights in photos for November and December.

Doggie boy’s Birthday cake

The memories made through birthday celebrations. A tradition which will continue for years with the kids asking for customized birthday cakes.

Angry Bird Playground

The kids had lots of fun at the Angry Bird Playground at T3 during a media invite.

Did you achieve your blogging goals this year?

What do you intend to do differently next year?

December 16, 2012

[App Review] Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

Dominique Reviews Car game, IPAD App

Screen shot from the game

Need for Speed™ Most Wanted by Electronic Arts was recently released on the 30th of October. The boys were waiting anxiously for the release as they are very into cars and racing games. They couldn’t wait to try out the game once it was downloaded onto my iPad.

The different competition zones

In this game the objective is to race your way through the different zone to collect experience and cash. This would enable you to unlock and purchase better cars and upgrades for existing cars. The races that you have to go through are of varying difficulties for different among of cash if you do win the race.

Screenshot before the race

The objective before each race is clearly started before the race commences. I’m still stuck at the above stage as I’ve yet to master how to throw off the police and get the car to it’s destination in one piece.

screenshot from iTunes

My thoughts

The boys and I found this game really entertaining. We had lots of fun collecting cars and upgrading them as we went along in the game. We love the graphics and enjoyed the thrills being able to race the various sports cars in the various races.

It was quite easy to control the car while the game was in motion as you only need to tilt the iPad left or right to move along the route.

It had been really addictive and I had to set strict time limits on the boys playing the game to ensure that they had time off screen to rest their eyes.

You can purchase this app for $6.99 from the iTunes store

Disclaimer: I received a promo code by the sponsor to redeem and try out the app for review purposes. Opinions are 100% my own. This post has a Compensation Level of 1 . Please visit Dominique’s Disclosure page for more information.