shermancox

Well,


We are pass the mid way point. I started at the end of August and now we are at the end of november...It is a 6 month program. Here are some facts.

* I had a mailing list of around 3100 that I sent the offer to. I still haven't done any more advertising then sending email to my main list that is about at 3400 now and the special list that is about 300.

* Currently there are 53 subscribers paying 27 bucks a month

* I have kept...

I am about to start playing around with article spinning. I purchased the Magic Article Rewriter and Magic Article Spinner WSO here. I then took one of my articles from my blog and reworked it in magic article rewriter.

Magic Article Rewriter is a cool tool. I think it is best however to work sentence by setence. It took about an hour to rework my article in that tool, but then I posted the article to 215 directories in the submitter. Not sure how many will accept or what will...

I was reading a post by the self publisher Morris Rosthenthal at these links:

http://www.fonerbooks.com/2009/09/vi...-catching.html

http://www.fonerbooks.com/2009/10/yo...ther-am-i.html

These posts question the very idea of the efficiency of blogging to sell books and secondarily to make money.

check it out...I need to think about these things in that my business centers around blogging.

Trying to get everything perfect is the recipe for inaction. Everything will never be perfect. I am coming to the conclusion that it is better to wholeheartedly follow a flawed plan than to halfheartedly follow a great plan. And both are better than spending all your time constructing a plan.

As I continue working on the membership site, I am more and more aware of the fact that I have known enough to do this for years. Instead of waiting for the perfect plan, I needed to act. ...

The last few days, I have talked to people who were not necessarily invovled in marketing either offline or online. Both gave me some advice that I had to turn down. They both told me to stop looking to address my niche and expand to the general public. One person said that if you expand to the general public you can make enough money to fund your foreays into your small niche.

The suggestion made sense to the two people, and it used to make sense to me in the past. Why focus on...