September 3, 2009 By 2 Comments

I Hate You All – Now Give Me Your Money

Here’s something to think about. If marketers and sales people were truly empathetic towards you, wanted the best for you,  they would try to make where you hang out together a better place. If they were smart enough to try and build a long term relationship….You don’t go smash up your mother’s house when she invites you over for dinner now do you? (well maybe you do but I would imagine you also have a police record and probably a current restraining order, as well as that cheesy “get 10000 more Twitter followers eBook”).

How many of those businesses, marketers and sales people do you see in social networking who are working to make the place better for YOU?

I am talking to you BIG NAME GURU who is selling your system for leveraging Twitter followers or Facebook friends or whatever piece of crap where you try to link causation to some form of action because the gullible or the desperate REALLY WANT THIS TO WORK.  I don’t need to rely on you for my next pay check and so am not afraid to shit in this nest.

Leaders look to what the environment they work in will be in the next few years; parasites suck the life out of whatever is there now with no regard to the future. There are so many crimes of opportunity happening in the internet marketing world right now under the guise of “good marketing practice”.  Bricks through windows and defacing graffiti is changing the happy, sunshine drenched paradise that could have been, into a ghetto.(OK I am laying it on way too thick here but you know what I mean…*tapping into your nostalgia of things that never were*)

There are few rules in my house, but one of the often uttered ones are “don’t whinge if you aren’t doing something to fix it”.  To fix it I am going to raise my army of ethical, environmentally friendly fembots/ mandroids to show the world what can be done with a little forethought.  Or I am going to sink back into the mire and make this franchising product I have been mulling over.brickthroughwindow

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September 21, 2008 By 1 Comment

The Rules

When I was growing up my father would counsel me in moral matters by saying “do the RIGHT thing*” without really explaining what the right thing was. It was expected that by watching what he did and following along (and running in the opposite direction very quickly if I didn’t) I would KNOW what the right thing was.

As I have grown older I have seen what I think is the “right thing” change, mutate and I hope, mature, as a result of life’s lessons. I have gone from wanting to do the right thing by everyone else, to wanting to do the right thing by myself.  This sometimes gets me into conflict with others who have opposing views when it comes to pleasing the herd.

So when I saw today that Tim Ferris has advised that you should write your blog posts like you have had a couple of drinks and are speaking to a friend (rather than being all prissy and trying to please everyone) I cheered.

I can hear the opposition to this comment already. “Of course HE can say that, he is rich and famous” “What would he know, he doesn’t really talk to normal people like US”. Thing is, many everyday people communicate in our blogs like we are at a church picnic with complete strangers. We mind our manners, mouths and thoughts and completely crush who we really are.

Yes there will be people that don’t LIKE who we really are. This is the internet and if you aren’t disliked by at least ONE person then you aren’t being heard. Take it as a compliment if you have ruffled someone’s feathers with your blog posting about which way the toilet roll should go on the spindle (paper over the top!). As long as you are not going out of your way to be deliberately nasty to an individual, or group, for no other reason then you get a kick out of it, then I accept you have an opinion and demand you do the same for me (some things you should demand, not ask for, and reciprocity of rights would be one of them).

So when it comes to blog posts about how to blog post, or how to Twitter, or how to be a man or a woman, or how to Social Network then BAH I say to you.  There are no “rules”, there is only doing what you feel is right.

*funnily enough that became an anti-litter program slogan in Australia for a while… “do the right thing” was followed by “put it in the bin”

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September 8, 2008 By 6 Comments

No Mucking Around

It is nine whole days since the end of the 30DC. In that time I have buried my ex-husband, consoled my heartbroken children, gone back to work after compassionate leave and taken a germ of a business idea and made it reality, just like *that*!.

Today saw the first whisper on Twitter announcing the “launch” of the Secret Women’s Business Network.

Now I haven’t done it all by myself (that would have been absolute madness!) and my partners in crime Barb, Lisa and I have a HUGE amount of work still to do, but it goes to show how quickly and painlessly one can do this kind of thing on the internet. How to achieve this sort of result will be part of the curriculum when we fully open the doors (exciting!).

Don’t expect one of those huge hoopla launches, the SWBN is working on the snowball principal. That our environment and content is so good that word of mouth will keep our membership growing at a steady rate. Also, we are totally committed to ALWAYS making our announced dates.  Nothing beats great project management (another part of our curriculum) and we will be eating our own cooking as they say, by demonstrating this as a cornerstone of owning a “real” business.

I had a huge rush of adrenalin this morning after making that one simple twitter post, all of the work in those 9 days was now a reality! My passion has become a reality and I am writing this grinning like a crazy woman.

Look out world, here we come!

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July 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Do Not Be Offended

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Do not be offended if I don’t follow you,

It’s not because I don’t care

Do not think I don’t see you

Or the important things you say

Because I do

Just not there.

Do not think that I am rude

If i don’t answer straight away

(or at all)

The noise is deafening sometimes

Shouting accross waterfalls

is seldom successful

Maybe you need to whisper in my ear.

Do not think that I ignore you

that is not true

Say something that is relevant to my interests

And I will be reading, watching, listening

(image acquired from here! )

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July 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment

The Stuff Of Dreams

I have my Twitter set up to SMS me when there is a direct message. This works great now that Twitter has their stuff back under control. What I forget is, I have Twitter friends who live in very different time zones.  So this morning the iPhone buzzed me awake around 4am with a direct message. (It was a great message by the way).

Luckily it woke me right in the middle of a dream I was having. The dream was about how I will distribute my book and the extra electronic things I want to go with it.

Now dreams for me are a rollercoaster ride where I have no control over the action. I am totally immersed in the experience and I am unable to suspend disbelief during it (unlike my partner and kids, they can lucid dream at will) so most of my dreams are crazy mashups of daily events and complete randomness. This dream however made, and still makes, perfect sense to me.

My dream even went through a debate that i would have sat down and thought about anyway. The result was a perfectly reasonable conclusion and I happen to agree with my dreaming brain self on the outcome.

What I will need to do is sit down and flowchart how it will all work and then figure out where to get the solution. I am sure it is feasible, just need to ask around the place on what.

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June 1, 2008 By 2 Comments

Now This Looks Interesting

If you are a bit of a trend seeker like myself (that is not trend setter, I am as fashionable as a red setter) you will be interested in ferreting out information about what people are thinking, doing and saying. This would explain my infatuation with FriendFeed and today my love-at-first-sight meeting with Twitscoop.

This thing is awesome (and is probably not unique) as it shows you in cloud form what words are “big” right now in the Twitterverse. I happened to take a screen shot earlier today after the announcement of Yves Saint Laurent’s death. Can you see how the news was suddenly a HUGE topic on twitter.

Twitscoop of Yves Saint Laurent's death

You can see that everything else being spoken about is dwarfed by this discussion. Hover your mouse over the words and the last 5 or so Twitters on the subject are displayed. Click on the word and they are all displayed in chronological order.

I was a little late catching the Thirty Day Challenge broadcast hype screenshot, being about an hour into the broadcast I missed the lead up, but this gives some idea.

Twitscoop Thirty Day Challenge

Ok that is pretty cool but what else can it do? A couple of things that I can see that are useful…

You can save specific clouds, which I am guessing might be a vanity thing, but would be great for when you see something interesting but don’t have time to investigate.

You can search for terms and look at the trend over 1-6 hours – 3 days. I can see using this for launches as a hype meter, research into how trends pass through twitter, and monitor how the rise and fall.

Here again is “Yves Saint Laurent” search term over today

Twitscoop trend of Yves Saint Laurent's death

And then there is the search term search which I love in web page format. For niche research it is a beauty! Killer use – type in “question” and see people asking all sorts of things. ” I have a question blah blah blah” “Can someone answer my question”. The view is over a three day period maximum, but still that is fertile ground to dig into for ideas. For those people in the Thirty Day Challenge this could be a pretty handy tool to use

I was able to tell Jason Moffatt that only two people had mentioned Goji Juice (his pet thing) over the last few days. Only two in how many people?

Oh and what is that to the left of the cloud? Why it is the recent bigger hitters in Twitter about every two hours. Now if that doesn’t give you ideas I don’t know what will!

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May 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Projections

Time to narrow the focus on my projects down a bit as we come up to June 1st and pre-season for the 30 Day Challenge. If you have read the About Me section you will know that I have Multiple Sclerosis and this can, and does, interfere with how much I can output. As much as I want to go at a million miles an hour, the body/brain need to be frequently rested.

So there is one single goal this weekend and that is to finish the e-Book. That’s it.

My inner voice is yelling out about other stuff like writing some great content for Knewsroom, or finishing off some of the other sites I have, or playing around with the Storestacker app, but I have to tell it to shut up. If I keep going too hard I am going to be in all sorts of trouble physically, and that just won’t do.

On another note I have been flabbergasted as to why Project Supernova has faltered somewhat. The CTR has remained high (20%+) and the cost of a click is down to 32c but these buggers are not buying anything.

Then it struck me, I am only getting 32 visitors starting at whatever time Google considers start of day . So if I get 32 people between midnight and 6am for example, how many of them are really “buyers” and how many are just “lookers”. To test my theory, I have upped my maximum daily spend to $25 which will give me 75 new people a day. If this does not prove to be successful by Sunday night US time then i will close the whole thing down as too costly for this niche (but oh so good for say my ebook niche maybe?)

So don’t worry if you don’t see me saying much on Twitter over the next couple of days, I will probably be enforcing some bed rest with a good book for much of the weekend.

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May 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment

A Good Day

Quick snippets of news from my day that really are relevant I swear!

Snippet 1: Knewsroom got their back end in gear and busted out the totals for work produced in the first couple of days. My 3 published articles and various investments made me US$468. For the amount of time I invested this was a bountiful return! Hurrah for Knewsroom

Snippet 2: The SpyBiz article about my being a Geek Girl Blogger was published today. I realised after the fact that there are bits from my geeky past that I forgot to add in, like meeting my (now ex) husband on a BBS back in 1985, or writing game reviews for AtomicMPC . or my PC building and modding, or my game playing (cannot wait for Spore to be released!)…but I think you get the picture, I am a Geek and and Girl…and I blog.

Snippet 3: I may be a bit quiet for the next two days in my usual haunts such as twitter as I am trying very hard to write something decent for MarketingPilgrim’s SEO Scholarship. Erm yes I have left it till the last moment and am despairing that i will even get it finished in time to get it in….just need to figure out what to write about :)

A lazy post i know, apologies!

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May 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Twitter Shite

Random tweets from twitter about shite

HotFish I should say phone based broadband shite. I dont even know what the hell what means anymore. I just know what I dont want: SATELLITE!

whiticism have become master of buying more than $400 worth of shite from target. also, of packing cart to point that cashiers are incredulous.

e26ld Andy Rooney’s dumbest report ever: Shite I have on my desk.. ooh look.. a staple remover. Retire please. Now.

Mollena Talk shite all you want about “California Values”:my adopted home has the dope-ass weather,sho nuff.We can AFFORD magnanimity. SUNSHINE=JOY

whorecat oh man, i wanna hear you say it! im waiting for a bus, its cold and we went to a shite theme paprk, was a laugh xx

Yaraher @ellanosv: shite… “こんばんは”

jaybushman putting the dead folks away for the night. producitve evening. i hope. part of me thinks i’ll look at tomorrow and think its shite.

jdrumgoole ugh the horror of renrollment on the ActionPack program. Microsoft Partner site, more like partner shite, still loading as a I type this

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May 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Twitter Bitch’n

Random Bitch tweets from Twitter

doylemb I just witnessed some stupidly deranged chav bitch take her baby in a buggy to the top deck of a bus. How retarded is this country exactly?

cory_grimes @Bantis I thought it was just going to be some vindictive bitch who went around and used her “teeth” on guys she hated.

isrock bitch cat now sleeping peacefully while i continue to twitch and itch on couch. entirely possible i may rub off all my eyelashes by morning

parislemon @mdoeff – that’s exactly why those who bitch that twitter isn’t mainstream are missing the point, who cares, it’s still damn useful.

lene WAAAH SUZAKU YOU PUNK ASS BITCH :(

lewisleong Editing your own writing is a bitch.  I need perspective.

savethedave is pissed he can’t find a good non-yellow cheese at a US grocery store and finding it ironic that he used to bitch about the exact oppos …

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