Ditched Corporate Life for Internet Self Employment
I am being totally up front here I want YOU to use my code to sign up for this year’s Thirty Day Challenge.
If you have ever thought about learning how to bring traffic to your current sites, make money from the internet, or just understand what things like Google AdSense are all about then join this FREE learning opportunity.
No scam, no spam, and you can ask me anything at any time if you have signed up through my link.
I so was not going to post this, but blergh what the hey, in these days of extreme transparency why not let it all hang out a bit.
Writing a blog under your own name means that some of the real life stuff that happens will eventually, somehow, seep into the bits of information you really want to blog about. I learned from Caroline Middlebrook’s blog on the effect of being honest about real life events. Mind you what is happening in my life at the moment is nowhere near as traumatic as what was happening to Caroline, but still it is having an affect.
Cutting a long story short, the large multinational TLA IT company I work for has outsourced their entire network division to another large multinational IT TLA. This is proving to be a very difficult process and day 1 is May 1st. This means I am working my butt off (despite my regular tweets on twitter) and dealing with the angst of 70 people, most of whom are lost, disillusioned and pretty much at the end of their tether as the debacle transition drags on and on.
Now mix that with my desire to go to the Immediate Edge Beechworth conference which runs from the 26-28th of April. Right through the middle of me having to herd cats and hand out Kleenex. I knew this some months ago when the conference was first announced and I was cool with it. “it’s OK” I told myself ” There will be other conferences, probably not this year, but one day”.
It is NOT OK 
I want to be there *stamps foot*. I want to hang out with the smart people and learn all the stuff they know. I want to meet people I let influence me, in person, shake their hands and have a laugh. I want to learn the “secret sauce”. I sound like a 5 year old with all the “I want” statements, but I really DO want.
Stepping back from myself here, I know that I am being manipulated by stuff.
So [goddam it, huge chunk of blog post disappears due to WP throwing toys out of the pram] from memory I said, I can recognise why I feel this way, and it is the sort of urgency and desire I want to engender in others when it comes to making them buy things. Also, if I really want something and feel it is worthwhile then I should be pushing harder to make it happen.
Apologies for the self-absorbed meanderings!
/end rant
Name: The Immediate Edge
Media: Membership Site
Cost: US$97 p/m
Please note this review has been updated here – Immediate Edge Review
I have been a member of The Immediate Edge since it opened almost 12 months ago. At US$97 a month is the most I have ever invested in anything to do with internet marketing. So is it worth it?
Let’s look at the names behind the Edge. Ed Dale and Dan Raine.
Ed Dale is the super nice guy with gorgeous kids and a pedigree in being a “real” person who has made it through being smart and in the right place at the right time (and not by accident).
Dan comes across to me as the one that knows the dark side and would use it if necessary to achieve his goal. Sort of like Professor Snape in Harry Potter.
Together they make a quite impressive team.
BUT they are not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Being excited by the lure of the “new” it often seems that projects trail off into the ether and no satisfactory closure takes place. Several sweeteners for joining, such as the share issue, seem not to have got off the ground at all.
If you are looking for a step 1, step 2, step 3 = profit! You mostly won’t get that in the Edge.
What you will get is some great thought provoking ideas to build on for yourself. The Edge is not a place for the faint hearted, or the unmotivated. There are no “lessons” at the Edge, you learn by watching projects evolve, you apply what you have learned to your new or existing projects.
I advise you not to jump straight from your first Thirty Day Challenge straight into the Edge. You will be disoriented if you do. Go off and put into practice what you learned in the 30DC for at least 6 months. Get a grip on working unsupervised, and learn where your true passion is. Then sign up if you still want to.
In short: not for the beginner but great for those who can adapt and apply concepts to existing businesses.
Thirty Day Challenge Testimonial Video By Allison Reynolds (download please, no streaming)
I have totally been sold on getting one of the new MacBook Pros. From the sermons of Ed Dale singing the Mac praise to a hilarious article in an Australian newspaper that I am unable to find the link to at this moment. I want, and can easily convince myself, need one
The thing is, I do not want to pay for it.
Why don’t I want to pay for it? Why would anyone want to pay for anything if they can get it for free? But seriously, this is the internet, and on the internet miracles unexpected things can happen.
Now I could give you a sob story about how I have Multiple Sclerosis and Graves Disease and that having a MacBook Pro would totally make my miserable existence better, but that would be begging and I only beg for my Multiple Sclerosis charity site . Instead i am looking for ways to use the internet to reach this goal, and will be happy to jump through hoops to get it.
Currently options are pretty scarce
So where do we go from here?
Well someone can just take pity on me and send me one. I am not proud and would accept it gratefully as well as being indebted for at least 12 months to them, perform shameless plugs, write blog comments about how cool they are, link to their sites and market the arse off of them on places like Twitter and Facebook.
Failing that I would love to be able to do something new on the net to get it. Groundbreaking like One Red Paperclip….. I am tapped out for ideas though…so here is where I turn to you for help.
If you have an idea, any idea, no matter how silly, please pop it in the comments section. It just might be the seed of something awesome. Or you could just send me a new MacBook Pro 
Thanks in Advance
