In Spanish the term in social media circles is “Desvirtualizar” and last night I did just that. What it means is to meet people in real life that you know in virtual reality, or rather online.
So last night I went out with my other half to meet a group of people some of whom I already knew online but only two of whom I had previously met in the flesh.
In Spanish the term in social media circles is “Desvirtualizar” and last night I did just that. What it means is to meet people in real life that you know in virtual reality, or rather online.
So last night I went out with my other half to meet a group of people some of whom I already knew online but only two of whom I had previously met in the flesh.
I have been trying to plan August. Between client visits, holiday, a visit to England to take my eldest to University and a whole heap of work things are starting to get a little complicated. The truth is that at times i actually have a problem planning a day or two ahead because of the nature of what I do. New shiny things come up every day that may need my attention and there are always loose ends to tie up on current projects.
I don’t like to leave things unfinished. Do you? Therefore when I suggested to myself that it might be a good idea to produce a lot of videos very quickly it seemed like an interesting challenge. However I know myself intimately after so many years in my company and I knew if I didn’t put a huge hole in the project very quickly and get the whole World as accountability partners making sure I followed through on the project that it might fizzle out a bit.
I have an online friend who has very definite views on two things, MLM and affiliate or referral marketing. Now I can understand his misgivings about MLM or network marketing because 99% of the industry is smoke and mirrors with overpriced goods that do little to no good.
I have had one of those mornings where you finish up with the blood pressure through the roof and teeth ground down through so much gnashing of them throughout the morning.
My Hitler video has been described variously as hilarious, brilliant, stunning, really funny and extremely clever but it was also called linkbait. Now linkbait is where you just put something up to create a bit of controversy and therefore get more traffic to your site. I wouldn’t spend five hours working on something just for a bit of linkbait though, I would diss somebody in text!
As I write this I have a half naked 5 year old playing on the Wii nearby and another just getting up. My 18 year old is bringing her cases down for her holiday in Mallorca and the house is a total tip after a weekend of parties for the 4 year old’s birthday, and birthday party on Sunday.
I have just read something that took me aback somewhat. Were you aware that there are more than 25 million meetings a day in the United States. By meetings I think it refers to business meetings.
If so this is criminal. An absolutely colossal waste of time in talking shops. A meeting is usually an excuse to procrastinate. 25 million productive meetings could very easily pull the U.S out of their recession and very soon they would overtake China and India as the powerhouse growth economies of the World. Why won’t they though?
The 30DC is dead. Ed Dale has killed it.
It helped me to start in internet marketing and real online business and now it is no more.
There is a new kid on the block, The Challenge.
This morning I spent a lot of time editing four videos. Videos are a great way of getting your message out about something because more and more people are doing their searches in YouTube rather than through Google and because people’s attention span is often longer when the visual stimuli is interesting so not only the original video but also the editing is important.
I have to say that it took me some time to realise that you could actually, and I hate this word, monetise the internet. For years I understood that you had to physically sell something on the internet to actually earn money. The reason was simple. I had an estate agency and the internet generated leads in the form of clients who came over and bought a house for sale in Spain. Simple really. However that is slightly removed from actually earning money on the internet. That is a real world business supported by a shop window of the internet presence.
I have been developing a lot of websites recently and it is actually embarrassingly easy to rank websites for certain keywords in Spain. With a little thought and a small amount of backlinking you can be on the first page of Google.es within a few hours at times. Why is this though? Why doesn’t Spain get websites?
We have talked about enthusiasm, an idea and being tenacious and these are admirable qualities that are needed to start up a business. One of the things that is most overlooked is being in the right place at the right time and being quick to act. However this is not a business, it is simply an opportunity.
I have to admit that sometimes I just confuse myself. If I lose focus for a time I can easily forget a project for a few days and this month is a month for losing focus. Tomorrow is my wife’s birthday, next week my daughter’s 18th and at the start of next month my youngest daughter’s 4th birthday.
In my never ending quest to be useful to you I buy stuff, in this case the Cheap Click Code, look at it and then review it for you and tell you if it is any good. With the ever increasing price of clicks in Google my eye was drawn this week to something that promised me clicks to my ads at between 0.03c and 0.07c for keywords that cost anything between $1 and $4 in Google normally.
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