Introducing myself

Thank you all for the warm welcome!

So, I ended up buying the access to the War Room. So far it looks great, eager to dig more into the e-marketing stuff (specially copywritting).

I'm still feeling like in a identity-crysis. In fact, I must confess that I used to have some kind of aversion to internet marketers and to the word marketing in general, probably because I've seen so much crap around the net, that I ended up creating this deep association.

However, in the last few months, I decided I would take a fresh view on the subject. It happens there's the bright / beautiful side too!

For example, I've been working as a developer for quite some time, and lately as a Rails programmer. I love Ruby and Rails, the web platform and the internet in general. The Rails world is very elitits, many Rails programmers struggle / want to become a celebrity just like David Heinemeier Hansson.


What they don't know, is that even DHH uses marketing strategies to promote himself. He might not use the classic letter format I usually see around the e-marketing world, but he has blogs, he published a book with his company, it's all e-marketing, it's using the power of the this new media called internet to reach a niche of people, provide them with something that call their attention and exchange it for money or more publicity.

I do feel, however, that a lot of the "underground" (please, don't take undeground as a pejorative term) e-marketing world has a very amateurish-like quality in what relates to the web as a technical field, and sometimes in general.

So, my approach here will be a bit different. I love what I do, I love the web and I love to develop for it. I like quality. I'm not focusing solely only on money, but I do want to invert the time = money equation (4-hour workweek dream, if you haven't read Tim Ferry's book, you should!). I don't want to keep exchanging money by my time and services, it's just too boring after some time. I think that's my main goal. Money, IMO, should always be a consequence of something deeper.

I'm brazilian, but currently I live in México. I happen to speak Portuguese, English and Spanish, all three fluently. I live a relatively comfortable live right now, but I just have so many things that I would like to do, that if I keep exchanging my services for money, it'll take years before I will be able to make all of these dreams come true. One of the things I'd like to do is to just take a backpack and travel around the world. I just can't do it right now, though

But I won't give up. The WarriorForum seems to be a great opportunity for me to expand my networking of like-minded people. Note: I wouldn't like someone that only wants to dig for $$$, I want to actually learn about e-marketing in all its simplicity and complexity, experiment a bit (affiliate marketing) and then create release something that will aggregate value (I have a few projects on the way, a inner-game ebook, a gtd ebook for geeks and a software to manage my e-marketing stuff) and use the learned e-marketing strategies to sell them.

Right now, I don't have much time, and while I want to start ASAP and eventually "kill" my 9-5 job, I think I also need to take my time. I will be traveling to Santa Monica next week (work stuff) and after that I will start acting on a small plan I have.

Let's keep in touch !

Cheers,

EDIT: I'v been browsing around and I must say this forum is a goldpot full of business and paradigm-breaking ideas and opportunities. Assuming most of the people around here are honest and excited about IM, and not just scammers, then the networking potential is, IMHO, the most awesome aspect of it. From what I saw too, the forum itself is a nice platform to start selling own's products (so called WSOs). Great place to be, I think!

Marcelo.