I just updated my blog with a post about 'The Importance of People' in this world of Internet Marketing. It would be so easy to isolate ourselves and only converse with our computers, but it is essential to our survival as Internet Marketers to create relationships. If we seriously want to raise our profiles on the web we need others!

Enjoy the journey.

There was an interesting thread today about the role of Passion (with a big "P") in your online endeavours.

Here's the original thread (if it doesn't get nuked for some reason, that is).


I started writing this response and it became far too big for a forum post so I put it here. I hope it's helpful.

Here goes:

First off, at the time of posting this, my absolute favourite comments in the thread so far are:

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