My plan and putting it into action.

I joined this forum a couple years ago and I occasionally lurk here and try and add some new knowledge to what I've picked up about internet marketing. I can't help but think that if I would have stuck with it the first time I would be very successful right now. I guess there is no need to regret that now. I'm here and I'm taking action now.

I've decided that I'm going at this for real and I'm not going to stop this time. I knew if I'm going to get into this and stick with it I'm going to have to be supporting products that I enjoy. I also know that trying to take shortcuts and trying to get flaky artificial traffic will lead to problems along the way. So I'm going 100% white hat and I'm going to build my own blog and products from the ground up. I'm going to be selling and promoting something that everyone can always use more of. Motivation and positivity. I've started my blog at www.themotivationallife.blogspot.com and I've already got two posts up. I've started writing articles on article sites and plugging my blog to try and drive some traffic to it.

I tried installing Google Adsense but they denied me for some reason. Haven't quite figured that out yet. I'm not sure how I'm going to monetize this yet. The best idea I have is to build a real following and come out with a really great ebook that I can be proud of and sell it on Amazon. My blog traffic should drive me some sales.

I need to set up some way to subscribe on the blog so I can start building lists. I did set up the facebook and twitter for it though. I followed a lot of motivational speakers and tried follow my would be audience. I quickly discovered that twitter doesn't like it when you start following a bunch of people at once. I'll work it out as I go.

I chose motivation because I really enjoy all of the stuff I'm subscribed to and read everyday. Not to mention I've changed my entire mindset due to stuff like that and I love it. I keep my ipod loaded down with self help stuff and I think its great. If I can do that for someone else I definitely want to. I'm really looking forward to this project.

If you guys have any suggestions for me please let me know. I'm really a newbie and am just trying to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together. I'm willing to put in the work, but sometimes I get stuck on where to go next. I guess writing better and better content is always a good way to make progress.

Good luck to everyone else in your ventures. Reading about everything else you guys are trying and achieving is always more motivation to keep pushing forward. The android app is great and helps me check in a few times a day also.

Sorry for writing a novel everyone. Just felt like my lurking days should come to an end.