August 30, 2009 By 1 Comment

IM-ville

If you have any friends on Facebook then you will know someone who is playing Farmville, that crazy game where people invest their time planting imaginary crops and reaping imaginary harvests, to earn imaginary coins to buy imaginary barns.  99.999999% of those people don’t want to BE farmers, but after playing the game I bet all of them think they COULD be farmers.

Hook that idea to the idea of making a living online. I just sat through the Tony Robbins/Frank Kern/John Reese video where they talk about why people buy the product but don’t do anything with it. It comes down to people do not have the conviction that the action will work and so they never take the action, or they take action in a half arsed way.

Soooo let’s combine the two ideas and have some smarty pants come up with the Facebook Online Income game that rolls creating websites, making backlinks, JVing, gathering affiliates, Google slapping and all the rest of the stuff that can affect your fortune and let people realise that they CAN make $10K a month (even if it’s imaginary in the game).

Soon enough they should have the courage to actually try the real thing.

Just a thought

Farming Cash

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August 28, 2009 By 10 Comments

Not Better, Different

be an orangeI was reading this article earlier today about how the consumer is not looking for “better” when there is an established brand, they are looking for new, and I compared it to the current state of the class of so-called-marketers, internet marketers.

In the internet marketing world, a large mantra of what is taught by the gurus is to identify a market by an affiliate product that is selling well, then creating your own product that is “better”. The trouble is, if that product has a good brand awareness, then going up against it with a “better” product is not going to matter one little bit. Case in point, Jamorama is the number 1 selling “learn guitar” product on the internet and has been for a while, yet so many wannabe Jamaromas pop up on a daily basis trying to outdo them. Unless they can do something new and different, they have wasted time and effort even trying to meet that product head on.

People buy what they know, or what is new and exciting.

This made me think about some of the activities I have been planning and how it reduced a great deal of anxiety that comes with comparing apples with apples….Bugger the apples, it’s time to be an orange! I am looking forward to working with women who are brave enough (or can pretend to be brave enough) to put some of that orange thinking into place.

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August 25, 2009 By 1 Comment

First Law of Robocashanomics

Like the robots in an Isaac Asimov novel, I now subject all of my actions online to a simple set of laws. The primary law is the one on all others are based. if you have been following me on Twitter you will have seen me ask -

Will this action contribute to me making money

If the answer is no, then KAPOW it’s out of here. The next set of laws are my ethical ones – will this cause damage to others, and will this cause damage to me. Both of these are optional depending on who I might be damaging (I am happy to damage the thief and the liar etc) and damage to me might come in the form of whether swearing will damage my reputation (probably yes but I am going to do it anyway).

No other rules are now consulted. No more “what will family/friends/random people think” . That one is a killer and should be stamped out of existence as soon as possible.

Let’s see that in graphics form (click for full size)

Thinking
Now before any smart arse says “you spent time on the picture and it isn’t contributing to you creating income” I say ” Oh really?” *wink*

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August 25, 2009 By 1 Comment

Getting Violent With Old Ideas

Look here’s the story so far. Something in the universe (or that massive collection of connections in my brain) is conspiring to ensure I get a good swift punch between the eyes. It’s like that extra hard revving sound you get when you should change to a higher gear in the car. It is time to kick it up a notch, BAM!

A seesaw of events which would bore the tits off of you (but I will probably go into because I crave attention when I am feeling a bit under the weather) are all saying NOW, NOW, NOW!

“Now what?” you may ask, and it would be a valid question seeing as this blog has lay dormant for a while, and I have apparently been putting all of my energy into fighting the good fight against “the man” and “big business”, and losing miserably (miserable is DEFINITELY the right word).

Now is the time to get good. Not just good actually, now is the time to get fan-fucking-tastic and strive to be the best I can be.

“The best you can be at what?” you ask again if you have got this far.

The best I can be at making money from this whole online malarkey.

Up until now I have just wanted to be OK, comfortable, making just enough. Fuck that! All bets are off now, gloves are on, and any other sporting saying I can dredge up to indicate I am making a challenge to the world.

I have this little internal flaw quirk that is always craving to PROVE SOMETHING, probably to my father, it’s his voice I hear berating me sometimes for being lazy. For me nothing is ever good enough, no amazing result is ever satisfying; no triumph quells the flames of desire. Instead I set a higher bar and go for it.

Which really doesn’t fit in with what I have felt like, and accomplished, with my goals for an online income; a piece of the puzzle was missing and I knew something was uncomfortably wrong, but what was it? Was it fear? Was it something else?

I watched Seth Godin’s presentation at the 99% conference (and you should too!) and finally the neural pathway between three disparate areas of my brain became a single straight road from DESIRE ->EFFORT -> SUCCESS. Up until now I have been working with EFFORT + SUCCESS, but desire…. desire has been on a beach in the Bahamas. Actually when you watch Seth’s presentation you will know what has been happening with desire (hint: too many details kill my desire to do anything for any period of time… and guess which part of my brain starts throwing up details).

I am committing absolute and premeditated murder on a way of thinking. It is ugly, and bloody and there is a lot of screaming involved. This way of thinking is not going down without a fight, but it’s my success or it, and it is in the way. I am not fighting fair either, not even close to lady-like. I have my thumb in its eye up to the second knuckle and I am wriggling it around.

I have dusted off the blog as step one to shipping (need a container for your “stuff” when you ship) and there will be more posts of this type. Confronting? Maybe…

More later

Allison

Cue Gonna Fly Now (Bill Conti)

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