Jun
22
New Creative Directions
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- Um, what are you doing in the middle of the road?
Goals are good. I had a goal for this blog at the beginning of the year.
The problem was that I got so busy I didn’t have time to achieve life’s more basic goals, like showering or taking my kids to school.
Since my last blog post I:
- Attended an internet marketing conference in San Diego and made some friends
- Did a small business management course and made some friends
- Attended some local business events and made some friends
In the middle of all that, I still managed to:
- Maintain a full-time work-from-home technical writing position with a large technology company
- Increase my number of Twitter followers from 1481 to 1483
- Discover a cafe in walking distance from home staffed by members of the Munster family
I began this blog wanting to talk about two writing courses that I found helpful, so here’s a very brief update:
- I still think Holy Lisle’s course is ‘top-shelf’ for quality and value for money, but you gotta work at it to get the most out of it. This project for me is on the back-burner for the moment.
- The other course was at affiliateu.net, which has been down for weeks, and without any notice to its members. I just checked again and there’s now a WordPress theme up, so maybe my life-time access for $97 might come good. They haven’t responded to my queries, so I’m keeping my expectations low, like I have about the Australian soccer team at the next World Cup.
I’ve also been working on some new e-books which I’ll mention in due time.
So you could say I have more work on my plate than an outsourced Indian programmer, but I’m still here and you’ll see some changes soon.
- Would you like sugar with that?
Jan
28
Online Writing Goal for 2009
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I first met Bill Hibbler online years ago when I started investigating online marketing resources.
Bill had written some reviews about expensive software and courses that I was interested in at the time.
His inexpensive e-book saved me a lot of time and wasted effort.
In addition to saving me lots of heartache, Bill was happy to answer my additional questions as it related to a project I was working on at the time, and his willingness to help a stranger was definitely unusual!
Since that time I always kept up with what Bill was working on because I knew he was a genuine guy and he didn’t hide behind some slick marketing machine.
In December, Bill launched AffiliateU to help train people to begin doing business online as affiliates of other products and services, which is how he got started. As you learn the ropes, you can start developing and selling your own products.
To be sure, I was already familiar with many of the topics he has inside his ‘university,’ but the clincher for me was the bonus of all the material from his intensive ‘e-book mastermind class’, which he conducted as recently as last year for about $1300.
This material is FREE as a bonus when joining AffiliateU, for the small amount of $97.
I’m the first one who will use free or inexpensive resources, and what Bill is offering is definitely value for money.
In fact, this web site writersmojo.com was inspired by the material at AffiliateU and is the first step towards my online writing goals for 2009.
I will continue to go through Bill’s material at AffiliateU and will report on any new things I implement as the year progresses.