This Blog Stuff

I'd begun to think I was missing something. Maybe it was an age thing, or maybe I simply wasn't as intelligent as I thought I was.

The Beginning

When I started blogging, it all seemed simple. You had to find a vertical where you thought you could do better than the other players (I later found out we bloggers call them niches.) And you had to start a blog.  read more »

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell to them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time

I started this blog a year and a half ago - it was to chart my success (or so I hoped) in creating a full time income as a writer, and to share those experiences and new knowledge gained with as many people as possible. In time I planned (and succeeded in) bringing to market some products I could sell based on that learning.

In those early days, focus was easy. Recently, it has become impossible.  read more »

I don't know if you caught Nathan's post about How to JV your way to success - if not you should check it out.

In it, he joked that I am Robin to his Batman - of course we all know that in reality I would be Batman, don't we?

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I guess I should start by giving you the rationale behind it. Both Nathan and I have been regular consumers of paid forums, courses and programs over the last couple of years - I dread to think how much we've spent between us!

Many of these have provided some tangible benefits, and a few have been total failures. But one thing they have all lacked has been genuine help for our specific businesses. All have used a generic module approach providing the same general information to a large body of people.

So we decided to do something about it, based on a lot of the feedback we got from the consultancies we did as part of the Beyond Blogging book.  read more »

I don't know if you saw Jordan's original post a couple of month's ago: Regift and win $500.

Here's the story - he won a prize, and decided to regift it to someone else, so he ran a contest on his blog. But he added a twist:

The winner, and each subsequent winner, could either take the prizes, or add something to them and regift the whole lot by holding their own competition. Each person choosing to regift, will then be put into a prize draw for $500!

I got lucky today - I won the prizes being offered on Rhys Wynne's blog - you can read about it here: Happy Birthday to me

Eventually the value of the prizes will be such that someone will break the chain and take them.  read more »