A Week in the Life of an Internet Marketer

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I’ve just re-read that title and it sounds really pompous – Oh well, it is what it is 🙂

If you track back through my recent posts, you’ll find a lot of mention of Dean Holland’s Quick Start Challenge and how I have been trying to stick to the straight and narrow and really follow through with everything he has talked about.

One of the things I was most interested in was whether or not our little “band of brothers” (and, I guess, “sisters”) is artificially skewing all the numbers we are seeing on our blogs. I quite deliberately stepped out of the blog commenting in the group and concentrated on the outside world for a while, just to see if the self-congratulation was giving everyone false results.

Unfortunately, it looks like my guess was reasonable – and not only that, but it proves how crap I am at commenting in other ways! I think my WF signature has the wrong kind of message for that forum, which tends to be looking for a quick million bucks from a freebie download and I suspect that spreading myself round the internet needs to be much more intense than time seems to allow. I need to think about that one….and change my forum sig too.

Interestingly, I did get a message from one Warrior, who was keen to be on the sharp end of my reviewing technique, so the signature did have some effect, it just gave the impression that I was up for reviewing others’ work, not that they should visit here for the reviews. Fortunately for her, her WSO turns out to be pretty good, so I sent her a few corrections and suggestions on how to monetize it better. Maybe I should turn myself into a proof-reading service …..

Internet Marketing as a Business

One of the many interruptions this week, has been the arrival of my company’s “filing date” for yearly results. One thing I would say to any aspiring entrepreneur in the UK is to tiptoe into the whole Limited Company creation thing, don’t jump in with both feet  like I did until you have some earnings and an accountant to sort it all out.

As a (very) small business, I’m still in a position of doing my own returns and keeping the company straight and legal is a huge time-suck.

Treating Yourself as a Business Asset

The other thing that I have committed to, is to get myself in gear and get back to the gym. Middle age spread and Internet Marketing seem made to go together and I’ve been guilty of making excuses about the gym because I felt I couldn’t spare time “away from the business”.

It has taken a while, but I have realized that actually I am the only real asset my company has. Of course there are domains and sites and email lists, but I still need to be around to make them work well, so if I croak that wouldn’t be a good thing 🙂

So, to add to all the other stuff, I have decided to treat my “gym time” as an investment in corporate asset number one i.e. me! In another post I may add all the gory details of where I’m starting from – it all feels a bit sordid really, but I’m told it helps to make a public commitment.

For those of you that have never had any need to hit the gym (curse you!) I should probably say that all of this will involve lots of running (going nowhere), lifting (building nothing) and generally pushing bits of things around that don’t want to be pushed. If only our cave-men ancestors could see us now.

I’m going to try to fit in some of the things that Tim Ferris talks about in his 4-hour body book, I find his approach to (self)experimental health really interesting. So I’ll put up his minimal stats figures in my “confession” post for you all to laugh at. Note that there will be no before and after shots until I’m pleased with the “after”.

 

List Building for Beginners

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List Building for Beginners – that’s the name of my new project…..but I have also decided that List Building for Beginners should also be the focus of a new product that gets built as I work through this month.

Now, I know that’s a lousy name, so my first challenge is to come up with something better, and the second is to decide if I want this to be a product I sell at the end of the month, or if it will be used as a giveaway for my list-building.

I’m veering towards selling it at the moment. What do you think? It will be super-cheap, to get folk started in the process as quickly as possible.

I started yesterday with a bunch of grand plans to get loads done in the evening, only to realise that the UK taxman needed feeding by the end of the month. As a result, I ended up filling in forms all night and my IM plans went awry yet again.

The good thing is that I had spent my lunch hour brainstorming the topics I need to cover and implement for my List Building for Beginners course, so I don’t feel so far behind. This morning I have written the first article, and I hope to get some more time at lunchtime to write a few more.

All of the articles will be posted to article sites around the internet, I may spin them before uploading, but they will all point back to my squeeze page for the List Building for Beginners product. So, one more thing I need to do is to create a freebie for that page.

Anyway, the work day beckons, so more musing on all this will follow tomorrow. Send in those product name suggestions so I don’t have to stick with List Building for Beginners!