A tiring day

Spent half of my day re-writing my resume as the agency yesterday didn't like the way it was set up. So have not had a chance to do much site wise. I did manage to do a bit of work on the Aus Health Info site, but still having problems with the cache for it, still not always showing the new site, just bringing up the old one.

It is driving me up the wall!

Will be renewing my focus on designing the online business as soon as possible because this is something I am not letting go.

Must take action!

On Hold

Well, things are on hold for the moment with the new site as I need to find a J.O.B. to pay the bills. Spent the day doing my resume up and went to an agency that may be able to get me some work.

Not giving up on anything, just prioritising things.

Update on new site

Arrrrrrggggggggggggggg, Wordpress drives me up the wall. I mean, how can everything look great on internet explorer and horrible on Firefox. It's all coming from the same CSS..... Frustration PLUS!

I am getting there however, have done my first draft pages for the home page, the how to use the site page and the about me page. Getting some friends to check them out and provide some constructive critique on them.

Now to do the hard work part and put the products up on the site!

Another busy day, but wierd too.

Well, had yet another busy day setting up the new site, should be up and running by mid February going by my R & D timeframe. Using Wordpress as a CMS for this site is a real learning curve. There seems to be a lot of variables that you just don't have to think about when using it as a blog.

All the different things in the CSS area really messes with you head in this mode, especially if you are used to html coding which is my preference. I am hoping that the supposed SEO benefits of Wordpress end up outweighing all the hassles I have had so far.

On another note, my site at http://www.aushealthinfo.com has been a total nightmare from this end of the world. My host (not hostgator, they have my new site and are great) swapped it to another server due to issues with the one it was on. I updated it and redesigned the look and theme for it. But now, even 2 days later, I keep getting the old site coming up half the time, even though it supposedly does not exist... Back to the host with more complaints I guess.

What a day!

What a day this has been, nothing but issues trying to get my Aus Health Info site up and running after it was moved from one server to another due to hosting issues from my old provider.

I have lost an entire day of R & D on my new site!

Not happy...

Thank god Hostgator is a better hosting company.

Hostgator Website

I have recently changed over to Hostgator.com as my web provider.

These guys are cool.

Though I didn't get my domain through them, they helped me to set it up really quickly.

They provide heaps of web space, an amazing amount of bandwidth and all the extras you could ever need, and all at an outstanding price.

If you are starting a new website, or have one already that is not performing quite as it should, then I would recommend you visit Hostgator.com today and make a change for the better.

I have and I am loving the difference.

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Progress

Been frantically learning how to do the CMS thing, and staring to get results. Got the layout to an acceptable level though still have not done a header graphic.

Will be starting on the contene side in the morning so I can launch the site soon.

Wordpress as a CMS

I am learning how to use Wordpress as a CMS. This means using it as a static content site which looks like a normal website instead of a blog site.

I found an interesting Wordpress template that is making it easier to get my head around the concept.

http://www.drikatruu.com/

It's free and easy to change.

Will be using it on my new site, will update how it is going on here.

Sick and tired

I am just sick and tired.... No, literally sick and tired. I have a cronic ear ache caused by an infection and just cannot function due to the pain factor.

Tried to do some work on my site to distract myself but have not been at all productive.

My thought for the day... If you are too tired, or not well, don't try to do too much as it just doesn't pay off.

Well, tommorrow is another day and the key is to just plod along and reach your goals.

Design matters

You know, a lot of people do not think about colours when they are designing their website. I mean, sure they choose colours that they like, but they don't really think about what the right colours can do for your sales.

Apparently the colour that is used most in the outside world (The real world) to encourage people to buy, is Orange.

I am working on incorporating this colour into my designs to see if this works on internet marketing.

I will get back to you on this.

Full Steam Ahead

Well, it's all systems go on the new domain now. It has finally finished moving the DNS servers and seems to have propagated through the internet.

I now have a place holder page on the domain to let any casual viewers know what is coming.

The page reads:

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Coming Soon

An exciting new website devoted to selling resell products online to make money.

You will find:

• A wide range of resell products at a great price
• Step-by-step instructions on how to use resell products
• Resources to help you get started in resell product sales
• Tips and techniques for effectively marketing resell products

Be sure to bookmark this page and check back soon.

Lets make 2008 your year for making an online profit.
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Now is the time I will be creating the site to upload to the new domain.

Consolidating my future internet marketing direction

Today I registered my domain name for the site I am going to create to list all the resell and PLR rights products I have on my hard drive.

I will be realistic in this, I do not expect to sell everything at a huge price quickly, I am going for the stance of providing affordable resell rights products to people that want to sell a product but do not have the resources to create one.

I will also be creating my own products and selling them as resell items to help with viral marketing.

All in all, it has potential. Now I just have to organise the stuff on my hard drive and start modifying it. Not sure where to start, but probably some resell rights Ebooks first up.

I plan to eventually have a lot of products on here, like a repository of sorts, where people can come to find whatever they need to resell and to learn from.

Another step in the master plan has been taken.

A Tiring Day

You know what, if you spend all day sitting in front of a PC trying to fix issues and organise things, you end up more tired than if you have been doing manual work all day. But it is a different type of tiredness that is harder to overcome.

I looked through my typical Internet Marketers hard drive full of downloads and even I am amazed. In about three different folders, scattered through My Documents, there is more than 3000 individual products that can be resold.

These include PLR ebooks, master resell ebooks, articles, software, complete internet marketing systems.... It's amazing what I have in here.

So, the battle begins to work out how to organise them properly and what to start with. There is an old saying regarding downloaded IM products: If you don't take ACTION then you just have a hard drive full of "dust collectors".

So, time to organise and to take action. What will be the first thing? I will let you know when I do it, and that will not be far away.

Cheers

It's Friday! Yay!

Well, it's Friday today and that means YAY!

• Not because it is the end of the working week.... I am not working.
  
• Not because it is the weekend.... Got no money to do anything.
  
• Not because it is time for the pub.... Hmmmm, don't drink alcohol.
  

No, it is YAY! it's Friday, because today my wife got accepted to do the course she has been wanting to do since childhood. It was a long road to get to here for her, but she did it and I am the proudest husband in the world.

That besides the point, we have been out and about all day, with organising (My language is English based, not American, therefore I spell things with an S not a Z) everything for her, but I have not neglected my own journey here.

Today I....

• Made a new Squidoo Lens: http://best.weightloss-site.ever.com.
• Tested the Lens with Stumble Upon: 52 hits in 30 mins.
• Came up with an idea for a money-less challenge contender.

So all is not lost in my aspirations for the day :)

The hard part

This is where the self doubt and hard part comes in.

You are tired, feeling a bit lethargic, bothered by every day things and stressed out about finding money to put fuel in the car.

It can be hard to see the future in what you are doing online, especially if you are not getting results as quickly as you had hoped. Sure, internet marketing is not a quick and easy pathway to follow, but sometimes you just wish you could see some progress in what you are doing.

Countless hours on the computer when you first start out are normal. You are excited by what you are doing and everything is new. But like most things, the tasks can be a little tedious after you have done them for while.

Persevere and work your way through the doubts, eat properly, get some rest and maybe take a day off from what you are doing just to refresh.

Just don't give up!

A Slower Day

Had a slower day today, not much online stuff and had to go out and do some things in town. However that did not stop me from thinking about where I want to be or how I am going to get there.

I spend a lot of my day thinking of these things, trying to sort out in my mind how to progress without the finances to make big changes. I know that the popular opinion is that if you want something bad enough you will always come up with the money to do it, but sometimes it's not that easy.

My wife is trying to get into a course that will start her on the way to being a Vet nurse. It is something that she has wanted to do since she was around 4 years old but has never had the support or confidence to persue.

This, of course, costs money. We are really in a financial hole at present so we have to prioritise according to what will be the most benefit to us, both in the short term and the long.

My wife doing this course is something that is not only beneficial both to her happiness and her opportunities, but is also time sensitive so it has to take priority for finances.

So, back to the drawing board for me. I am now concentrating on how to make enough money online to build what I am doing, and then to increase on it until it is at the level I am aspiring to.

I have no doubt that I can do it, I have always believed that this is my pathway.

My Business Plan

Well, I started writing my business plan today, going through the basics of where I am at present and what my long term goals are for this business.

It's quite funny that when you have not been focussed and you put all the details of what you have done on paper, you find that things have been going rather slow compared to how much work you seem to have been doing.

A lack of focus can really stop you from advancing in any direction at all. Though I have made a few small sales, I can see now that they were more by good luck than from anything I did myself. I am so keen to stop making the same mistakes over and over and to actually focus on the one system until it works now.

Although a lot of people put pride in the way of admitting thier weaknesses, I now know that the only thing that has been stopping me from advancing is myself, my lack of commitment to furthering my education in this field and my inability to stop dreaming and start doing what I need to do.

That is all going to change now. I am going to work out how to utelise my time better and part of my business plan is to structure my work on this endevour and place specific timelines on it.

The countdown is on to being successful.

Stumble Upon

Today I learnt about the power of Stumble Upon and part of how to use it.

I stumbled some posts from my Aus Health Info site and watched the traffic explode going from my average of @200 unique visitors a day to an all time high of more than 500.

Now, the one noticable thing from this was that more than 200 of these visitors were only there for 30 seconds or less, which means that this technique is more of a scattered shot instead of targeted.

Also, it was interesting to see what the most popular pages were that stumblers came to. The number 1 page that was viewed was 5 common misconcetions about fatloss and exercise with more than dounle the next most popular page.

Next time I use this I will be trying to target it a little better and have something that corresponds better to the post to sell.

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My goals

Today, the 13th of January, is my 41st birthday and a reflective time for me. I have decided to put down some of my goals on this blog to help me keep focussed on where I am heading and why.

My ambition in internet marketing is to combine my creative side and whatever skills I can to create an online business that will provide me with a full time income and let me do something that I enjoy as a job instead of having to work for other people in industrial areas.

My goal is to have a viable and profitable online business that has the capacity to expand whilst also having the tools and systems to be as automated as possible.

My commitment to this is 100% and I will make this happen within 2008.

My first goal is to have my existing website working correctly and making a profit by the end of January.

My first task, which I have scheduled to complete within a week from now, is to set up a business plan and a goal schedule and to begin implementing it.

Netwriting Master Course

I am using this post as a test to see if I can provide a download
file from my tripod website.

The download is a netwriting master course from the 5 Pillar Club.
Pease feel free to test this download and distribute this course
if you like. It really is a great course and can be given away to
whomever you like so long as it is not modified in any way.

The Netwriting Masters Course will show you how to "write
for success" and build a profitable, stable, online
business. It's very do-able... you just need to bring your
own brain power and motivation!

Best of all, this course is totally free!

Click here to download the Netwriting Masters Course FREE

This will take you to a download page. Simply click the icon and it will ask for a save location on your computer.

A busy day.

In anticipation of what is to come, I spent some time today organising my computer a bit better and trying to work out in my head my business plan.

I am sure that this is going to be the hardest part of the whole internet marketing thing as I am still struggling to come up with a business plan despite all the great resources that are available.

Oh well, I will re-read the idea of a plan again tommorrow and focus on getting it done.

A Business Plan

Today I am focussing on what it takes to come up with and implement a business plan. We all know that failing to plan is a sure thing in most failures, and I am determined to be successful this year in everything I do online.

The information I am getting from the private membership is amazing and I have already learned the basic as to how to create my business plan. I will be focussing on getting it all in order over the next few days and starting to action it.

Ahhhh, 2008, you will be my year!

A new start in IM.

Today I read some interesting things on a new private membership site that has been set up to help people like me who want to get into internet marketing but are not sure of the business set up required to be successful.

I have decided to devote this blog to my daily journey using techniques learned from this site, and applying them to other techniques and programs available.

Wish me well and let the journey begin!

My Mission

My name is Ian and I am going to be a successful Internet Marketer and become all that I know I can be in life!