I got an email today from someone wanting me to joint venture with him on his new “product launch.”
Since anyone into internet marketing is aware that Jeff Walker is doing a product launch for his new Product Launch Formula 2.0 it caught my attention and made me laugh.
It also gave me a kick in the butt to work on my worldofwarcraftlevelingguide.net site. So I did some research and I wrote a “free report” called “The 100 Most Overlooked Quests.” It came in at a respectable 19 pages so I did a post hyping it and set it up as my free offer in a name squeeze. Then I did the usual social bookmarking bit.
The amazing thing is that by half way through my social bookmarking (which is only a small part of the promotion I’m going to do) I had two sign-ups! Kewl!
I might actually have a list to promote this new product launch to!
Seeing how this product launch goes will be good experience for doing my own launches.
Lesson 1 – find as many guys in your market as you can and spam them to help with your product launch!
Richard Internet Marketing
Today I changed sheets.
Nothing remarkable about that, really.
What made it remarkable is that it made me think about my mother. I don’t remember the exact occasion, I’m sure there was more than one, but as I was making my “hospital corner,” a picture of my mother teaching me this bit of knowledge popped into my mind.
It made me smile.
Thanks, mom, for teaching me how to make my bed.
Richard Random Thoughts
It is amazingly pleasant here today. I keep getting up from the computer and going outside to putter around the back yard. The sun is warm and the sky is that thin blue it gets when it’s warm and the humidity is fairly low.
The birds are feeding. There must not be any hawks around.
The humming birds are incredibly bold. The fly right up and look you over. They don’t seem much impressed and I don’t blame them. I’m a slow motion beast, lumbering through the background of their high speed world. My role as provider of sugar water is a non-issue. They don’t need me, really. I just make things a little easier is all. And I’m happy to do it. It makes me feel good to see humming birds at my feeder, so it’s a good bargain all around.
I can see that getting some decent humming bird pictures is going to be my challenge for the next few days.
New Facebook Gallery From Today
Richard Random Thoughts
I’m finally starting to understand how the whole social networking thing works in regards to internet marketing. The funny thing is that for it to work well and continue to work, the “fake” people I create have to be “real” people. The way they’re real is that they do more than just flog my sites. Real people don’t just have one or two bookmarks, so my “stila.girl22″ identity has a whole slew of Stila makeup related bookmarks and when she diggs one of my sites, she also diggs other similar sites. By sharing the love, we all gain because the more Stila sites she bookmarks, the more of a Stila expert she becomes… it’s really very cool when you think about it.
Richard Internet Marketing
Resistance was futile 30 seconds after I had it in my hands for the first time.
Sure, I’d seen the commercials and read the hype.
What I didn’t begin to know was that the iphone isn’t a phone. It isn’t a camera. It isn’t a hand held computer. What it really is…. is an emotional experience. It’s the experience of beauty. Form and function have come together and the result is just flat out cool.
Like I said, 30 seconds into it and I knew the question was no longer if I would get one. The question is when.
I’ll probably start with the ipod touch, which is the iphone sans phone and camera. It’s a wi-fi, touchscreen, hand held computer. I’m happy with my phone plan now, but I’m sure I’ll eventually go for the phone, but I’m definitely starting with the ipod touch.
The most surprising thing about the whole deal was discovering how clueless I was in thinking that the iphone was basically a fancy cell phone. It’s so not that.
It’s the internet in your pocket in a really easy to use way.
It’s fucking awesome.
Oh yeah, it’s also a phone.
Richard Net Life
The learning process is always the same, it seems. I read about something new, I jump in and start bashing away and then as I learn the nuances involved, I refine my efforts.
So in terms of learning about mailing lists and how to build them, I’m just now crossing the line from the bashing stage to the refining stage. It’s good to feel like I have a handle on it, but I also know that I’m really only now truly getting started.
So I’ve got the first iteration of the mailing list idea going at make-a-resume.org and now I’m going to apply it to all my other sites. Once I have all of them up to speed, it will be time to focus on traffic building and then back to mailing lists again to learn the “product launch” deal.
Onward and upward!
Richard Internet Marketing
I had a good phone conversation this evening with my friend Chris and one of the topics we touched on, amongh many, was self destructive behavior.
So it isn’t too surprising that later on, when I was working out, it dawned on me was a life afirming thing it is to work out. I know that seems like a no-shit-sherlock thing to say, but I’ve never actually thought about it those terms before and it made me feel good. I tend to think about working out as a means to many ends. It is satisfying in many ways, but I don’t think I’ve ever thought of it in philosophical terms… which is odd, because I tend to think of almost everything in philosophical terms.
So I’m happy about that.
Working out is says my life is good.
Richard Random Thoughts
Self-doubt is an insidious thing.
No matter how many times I accomplish things I never thought I could do, it seems that I can never escape self-doubt completely. It’s always lurking in the background, waiting to take control.
So the first part of keeping the faith is keeping faith in myself and being aware that self-doubt may be part of the reason I’m not getting to where I want to be.
The second part of keeping the faith, for me, right now, is not giving up on the path I have chosen. It always all seems bright and sunny at the star of a journey, but then I get into the woods and I have to start hacking my way through the brambles and thorns and before long I start to question whether or not I’m on the right path. But the fact is that all paths are full of brambles and thorns and that’s just the way it is.
So I’m keeping the faith. I’m keeping the faith in myself and I’ve just found a new machete so I’m cutting back brambles and thorns with a renewed vigor and I’m feeling confident again that this path is going to take me where I want to go.
Because in the end, it isn’t the path that takes you where you want to go, it’s the fact that you keep moving forward.
Richard Random Thoughts
