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Pursing the Entrepreneurial Dream

A couple of years ago, I decide that my pursuit of climbing the corporate ladder was fruitless. It wasn't for me...not what I wanted. I craved freedom. I've learned a lot about becoming an entrepreneur, and I'll share what I've learned with you. Getting control of your life again isn't a pipe dream. Financial, professional, and creative freedom can be yours.

Viddler - A Video Social Networking Site

I’ve come across a new video social networking site. It’s not exactly new, but it’s not known widely enough to be commonplace yet. At least, it’s not as popular as YouTube… I’m talking about Viddler.

I came across it while reading a health and wellness newsletter I subscribe to. I went and checked it out and immediately saw the benefit. I’ve joined and have started posting some videos (one business-oriented video and a couple of personal ones).

I’m going to take full advantage of the social networking aspects of the site to help get some exposure and brand-building going on. I encourage you to do it, too. Social networking is a great way to get exposure to your products and your brand. Video networking sites, such as YouTube and now Viddler, can help you, too.

Naturally, you’ve got to have some video. If you don’t have a video camera, try your web cam, the video feature of your digital camera, or just borrow something. Get yourself out there — start small and then build up to something that will work for you.

Click here to go to Viddler.

. 22 Aug 08 | Marketing, Social Networking | Read on | Comments (0)

Upcoming Article: SEO Copywriting

I’m starting on a new article that should be of interest to anyone who has a business-oriented presence on the web. SEO copywriting is very important in today’s online market. There are just too many things competing for attention. Your site has to stand out. One of the ways you do that is with a little bit of SEO copywriting.

If you haven’t yet subscribed to the Cube Escape Newsletter (over there on the right), then you should now. I’m writing this SEO article for the newsletter, so you should sign up if you want to read it. And then there’s also all the other content you’ll get from the newsletter. Sign up today!

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. 23 Jul 08 | Business, Marketing, Internet Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)

Making New Plans for the Coming Year

I’ve been quite busy lately, working, Christmas shopping, and whining about how much I need a vacation. The vacation is coming soon, but it’s only a week, which is 1/600 of the actual vacation I need.

Let’s see what that actually is, since the number 600 just popped into my head while typing. Well, that’s 11.54 years, which is a mighty fine vacation if you ask me!

I digress. I’ve got some plans for the coming year… Money-making plans. Business ventures — maybe adventures is a better choice of word. I won’t tell you all about them right now. Instead, I’ll tell you about them as I implement them. Let’s just say that my current ventures are making money, but could be making more, and I’ve got some ideas to tap into other markets as well.

Some may say that if I do too many things, nothing will be good. Whereas that might have been true in the dark ages, we have the internet now. My plans will work out something like this: Create machine, plug machine into internet, let internet do the actual work while I maintain machine. Maintaining a few machines isn’t really much work, and will add some variety to what could be an otherwise bland week. So you see, it’s not really spreading my focus out thin, so that nothing gets enough attention. It’s just creating machines that make money while I rest. Sure, I’ve got to maintain them, but that’s no big deal. I’ll keep my machine count down to a manageable level and everything will be fine.

Making money on the internet isn’t really hard, but it’s not easy either. I would say that it’s somewhere in the middle. I’ve definitely had some false starts and bad ideas, but I’m getting the hang of this now.

. 10 Dec 07 | Business, Marketing, Goals, Internet Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)

I’ve started podcasting

I have branched out into another area of promotion: Podcasting. I haven’t really decided on the specifics yet, but I’m not worried about it. I’ll get it all worked out soon.

The podcast I have is in the iTunes podcast directory, and can also be found on my career education directory. Here is the podcast page. The general theme of the show is commentary about life, careers, and education. But really, each show will end up being whatever I want it to be. I’m not going to limit myself to just those topics. Sometimes I like to freestyle it.

So check it out, and be sure to subscribe to it via iTunes, or whatever is your preference. I’ll probably have a weekly show/talk, and then supplementary material uploaded whenever. And don’t fret about the quality. I’ll get a proper setup and nice software soon.

. 21 Oct 07 | Business, Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)

Boy, did I miss my deadline…

I had set a deadline for myself to have the first draft of my current copywriting project done by the end of this week. Well, that was officially yesterday. It’s not done. Nothing is done on it. I did absolutely no work on this project the entire week. No worries, as it’s purely academic. Real money would have meant real work would have really taken place.

I just started back on it tonight, but I didn’t do any actual work. I’ve been reading through the project specs and thinking of research possibilities. I could only come up with four sources off the top of my head, so I’ll have to do some more digging around to find more usable data.

On top of that, I really need to get a base site together for my copywriting services. I have a site, but it’s little more than a placeholder. I need to get some actual content and real information up there. I suppose that even though I’m technically still learning, I should go ahead and offer my services for the world to use. I do have some cashflow generating copy out there on the internet right now. So maybe I’m not really learning, but just learning more, and how to write more better. See what I did there?

Yeah, that’s it. I’m just furthering my training. Time to sell!

. 14 Oct 07 | Business, Marketing, Goals | Read on | Comments (0)

YouTube Marketing

I am going to be experimenting with marketing via YouTube. I have a few ideas, but I need some time and some software to implement them. However, I have already begun. I created a quick little commercial and uploaded it to YouTube. You can see it here.

Nothing fancy. I was more interested in seeing how it would work than putting out a quality commercial. But don’t worry, if you want to see some good content, I can do that. I’ve just got to buy some software and maybe some hardware first. I’ll be creating commercials and instructional videos for my career education directory.

I’ll post more links when I get some more videos up. And I’ll also keep all of you informed of any traffic improvements via YouTube.

. 13 Oct 07 | Business, Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)

I’m getting farther and farther behind…

In my last post, I said that I had planned on getting my current sales letter project to at least 1st draft stage. But, here it is, Wednesday night, and I haven’t done any real concrete work on it. And…it’s getting close to quitting time for the day.

You see, I work to much. Even though I have some lofty goals, I am making myself get some rest and relaxation every day. Gotta stay healthy after all! I just looked at the clock. It’s quitting time.

I think I’ll go relax with some video games and my little one.

. 10 Oct 07 | Business, Marketing, Goals, Freelance | Read on | Comments (0)

Been putting off the writing of copy…

I’ve got a project waiting to be written, but it’s just sitting on my dresser collecting dust. Actually, it’s my wife’s dresser, but let’s not fret about semantics. Ready for the tired line?

I’ve been busy. I’ve been doing so much other stuff, my copywriting assignment (class assignment, not work assignment) has gone to the good old back-burner. At least I’ve still been writing some. I have been writing articles and web copy, so my brain is getting plenty of writing exercise. I’m even going to write a story next month (go ahead and guess what for…), and the side benefit of that will be an exercise in my creative brain muscles. That will help out with my copywriting, too.

I have, however, set a deadline for myself. And that is to have at least the first draft of this sales letter done by the week’s end. Since it’s Monday right now, I’m not worried. I had some net connectivity issues this evening, so I didn’t do the research I was planning on… Oh well, I’ll get it knocked out tomorrow and still have the rest of the week to crank out the first draft.

No problem.

. 08 Oct 07 | Business, Marketing, Goals, Freelance | Read on | Comments (0)

Gotta drive a lot of traffic…

I have got to drive a lot of traffic to my career education directory. As of the time of this writing, I average 20 - 30 unique visitors every single day. These visitors result in around 75 or 80 page views.

I need about 2000 unique visitors a day. So…how do I do that? I’ve got to figure out how to drive that many people to my site every single day. My numbers are getting better and better, as the site’s content grows, and as I work on my internet marketing. But I need to put the traffic into overdrive.

Any ideas?

. 25 Sep 07 | Business, Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)

Writing Articles

I have been writing a lot lately, honing my craft, and I have even been published. I have been published at Ezine Articles, an online article repository where each article submitted receives editorial review. I don’t get paid for the articles, but I do get exposure, and some good internet marketing. Additionally, my articles are included in the Ezine Articles RSS feed, which means they can be picked up by others who want to publish my articles in their own ezine.

You can check the articles on my author bio page.

. 17 Sep 07 | Business, Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)
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