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Day Nine

By Ed | April 16, 2007


6.24pm

You know what? Through writing this blog I’m beginning to see exactly why I’ve been such a spectacular flop at making money online. Which in a sense is great, because at least I can see where I’m going wrong. Problem is, how do I fix it.

The reason why I’ve been such a flop is because I have no plan. I have no specific steps to achieve. All the information I’ve read in the past about the best ways to make money from internet marketing have coagulated into a hideous mass of half baked thoughts that sits at the back of my brain laughing at me because of all the money I’ve spent feeding it and helping it grow. Will I ever manage to untangle that mess and make sense of it all? I doubt it.

“Oh how I long for the simpler times. Before the allure of online riches burrowed under my skin and warped my soul.” - Ed Baker (professional malcontent).

I really need to have a complete clear out (can you get an enema for the brain yet?) and get myself a focused plan of action. I need to know what I’m going to do at each stage and how I’m going to do it.

So what the bloody hell am I going to do!!! Although the problem is clear to me (i.e. that I’m basically screwed unless I get my act together) the question still remains. What do I do now?

Here are some random mumbles…

  • I don’t want to spam my way to making money. It’s just not my style.
  • I don’t want to try and set up five hundred blogs with no real content in the hope someone will pass by and click an ad.
  • I would like to create my own products and promote them through affiliates.
  • I would like to be successful at promoting and selling other peoples’ products (affiliate marketing) - but so far I have continuously failed at this.
  • I would like to build a list but am concerned about providing fresh content that would keep them interested enough to stay on the list. I also think my desire for honesty would cause a problem here. I wouldn’t feel comfortable trying to brainwash my subscribers into buying a product under the pretense that ‘it’s really good honest and thats why I’m telling you this because I want to help you’ like so many do. My style would be - “here’s a product you might like but you might not. And by the way if you purchase it through this link then I’ll get a slice of the profit.”

Which reminds me of a great little page that I stumbled upon a while back. Please check it out as it sums up the whole sick ethos of virtually all of those online marketing, multi-millionaire gurus. And we fall for it so damn often. Here’s the page.

Not much else to say right now except thanks to all the readers of this blog and the mybloglog regulars (you know who you are you sexy lot).

See you tomorrow.

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One Response to “Day Nine”

  1. Keep weighing everything out…that is the right direction to finding the solution to anything you are trying to solve. You are eventually, if not already, going to hear from a bunch of people that you do not need to look at the negatives and you should only be positive. I say unless you are planning on have plastic surgery to put a smile on your face I say be real like you are and set the goals that take all things in consideration. Always look at the negatives and the positives… and keep this blog going…I am digging every word…and using a few in my rant on what the internet marketing guru’s said would work the is not working…. Moved my rant to http://businessgolf.wordpress.com

    Posted by: Scot Duke on April 17th, 2007 at 3:22 am

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