In my neck o’ the woods only a couple hours left until 2011 rolls out and 2012 is jubilantly ushered in.
Amid the celebration and festivity is the reflection of missed opportunities that ushering in a new year inevitably brings.
Here’s to new opportunities, new challenges, new beginnings. Bring it on 2012.
What does a picture of an adorable swan family have to do with online ventures? Well, nothing and everything.
First of all I count it a privilege to be privy to such sheer naturally-existing beauty. Amid the blunders, magic and beauty still abound on our planet.
That amazing internet tools make it easily possible to share such beauty, exponentially, is incredible . That’s encouraging.
Having learned and still learning so much online it’s amazing that so many people are still clueless about online learning capability.
You can learn whatever, wherever, whenever you want. No more restrictions because of your situation or location. Information and training is available…at your fingertips. You can tailor training to work with or around your schedule.
Learn new skills, earn, empower yourself. It’s so much fun.
This is for the very many people working away in the background, at awesome talents…seemingly “poor’, waiting, for the right time.
“Our heroes are only truly heroic if they suffer crushing defeat — then come back from it,” Sonnenfeld says. And again, the comparisons to Edison, Ford, Disney apply: Each suffered failures before their ultimate triumphs. abc.news.go.com article on Steve Jobs
Kwai Chang Caine: When a man has nothing, it is then he is most able to raise himself up.
Broke does not equal “poor”.
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement. Author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. From Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
Imagine, your head teems with vividly captivating imagery and spectacularly “rich” graphics. You’re regularly transported to another realm…virtually. OUT – OF - THIS – WORLD.
Intriguing, spellbinding. It’s awesome. It’s fun.
While being privy to such fascinating and constant action you plod along and do your best to endure the every-day mundane. You really want to get people in on the fun and excitement to which you are transported everyday.
Dare you? More importantly…can you?
The timing may be all wrong. You have to bide your time, hang in there and wait for the right time before you can put it all together.
Even if on welfare is such a mind and minsdset, enveloped in such entertaining “richness”, ever really ‘poor’? Not a chance.
Broke? Absolutely. Broke can and may well happen while “the right time” takes time to come around.
But poor is when you can “see” no way out and remain hopelessely trapped inside your abject circumstances, even, in your imaginings.
For sure being broke is no fun, but broke can be fixed. A poor mindset…not so easily.
So open up your browser and enter the URL to get the downloadable PDF with SEO instructions for setting up your CMS platform to get the highest possible PR and in the top 3 of the SERPs. And btw, the PDF is in HTML.
HUH?
I can remember when that might as well have been Chinese. What I now refer to as online marketing ‘geekspeak’.
Did I know or think then that a simple search of the terms would have helped big time? Sure wish I had but heck no. Understand that when you’re starting out, likely, nothing seems simple.
What was clear to me was a great divide between me and what I didn’t know.
Was I daunted? You bet. Petrified in fact. Would I ever be able to learn all this stuff?
Of course there’s all the “NOISE” from so many “experts” and a plethora of online marketing products proclaiming that you don’t need to learn anything to be successful. You can’t miss them if you try.
All claim that with just between 1-7 mouse clicks – with seven being a magic number for some reason (no idea what) – go to bed then later check your account balances and voila!. You became a millionaire while you slept and you didn’t need to do a darn thing…besides 7 mouse clicks that is. Such Crock.
Unquestionably, big profits can be earned online and fast. Automation and leverage is the extremely profitable mechanism that drives the internet. The key word being ‘earn’ which clearly means work is involved.
There are skills to learn, hone and put in place before any mouse clicks – 1, 7 or anything in between – can earn you millions while you sleep. Not the least of these skills is a working knowledge of the terminology and jargon.
If you’re just venturing online into marketing and unfamiliar with the vernacular the jargon can seriously hamper your learning curve. It sure did mine.
And I have a background in healthcare so am familiar with jargon. But a PR in healthcare will do absolutely nothing for your PR in the SERPs in your online marketing endeavors.
Despite what the “experts” say learning the online marketing jargon will definitely improve your successful online outcome or income.
Once you get past being daunted, which you will (sooner or later) it becomes imperative that you learn the jargon, in addition to other online marketing skills. No different from learning skills you would need for any other venture or career choice.
Besides being fun, the ability to express yourself on any subject with authority that comes from knowledge and experience is pretty cool and oh so liberating. I had such a blast writing this post which I sure couldn’t without understanding even some of the jargon.
So yes, if you’re online and into marketing, learn the jargon, join the fun.
Despite problems, blogs, different from other space on the virtual landscape, are inclusive. Personal input by the regular user is the uniquely distinctive and attractive feature of blogs.
People get to share their message, market themselves and efforts, add their 2-cents to the mix. Who decides which message is not worthy or relevant?
More importantly, the vast majority of blogs represent people in the world with opportunity and enough yen to take action. People are innovating, learning, earning, improving, impacting and empowering like never before through blogs.
Throw out the baby with the bath water?
You don’t have to surf too far online to witness the epic impact of blogs in action. Networking and leverage made possible through blogs is priceless. You don’t just ‘throw out the baby with the bath water’.
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People taking opportunity and making effort to improve, success or failure regardless, is commendable. Consider that success is defined differently by the individual.
Some peoples’ sole intent may be to make major moolah with their blogs. Others are quite thrilled to just be able to take advantage of the blogging platform for a myriad of other, less profitable, but no less commendable reasons.
The prevalence of scams has gained making money online efforts a bad rap. However, earning money from any honest, worthy effort, including blogging, is also commendable and another great benefit that can result from blogs.
In a world rife with negativity where ‘the masses’ and especially women often feel and are routinely excluded from the mainstream, blogs provide the regular user opportunity to sparkle and shine.
Sure, the debates about who and what is more relevant will continue. However, it’s still early days yet. Blogs are still evolving, much like everything on the internet.
People are still learning the ropes of blogging. Hard to believe but countless people still have no idea what a blog is.
If survival of the fittest will be the final determinant of blogs that will endure in the blogosphere then it’s a moot argument that there are too many blogs. Just as with the movies and actors, songs and singers, the ‘better blogs and bloggers’, in it for the long haul, will surely be left standing long after the dust settles…
