Monday, May 7, 2007

Return from the "System" seminar

It has now been a week since I came back from the "System" seminar.

Being at events such as these always pumps you up. You get an adrenaline rush by meeting all those successful people, meeting new people who are at the same level as you are, etc...

During the event, we all are in some sort of fantasy land where everything is possible and everyday chores disappear. Of course, getting back to reality is something else and I have to constantly remind myself of the promise I had made to Lloyd and force myself to implement Tim G's strategy.

Reality is that I have a business and just setting up the outsourcing which will allow me to free up more time for my emarketing strategies takes up more time now than doing the work myself. One has to teach to those who will do the outsourcing.

Going to the seminar put me behind in some of the jobs I had to do, a couple of people I work with left on vacation so I handle some of their duties. Despite all of this, I have made some inroads and I am still on track for writing my first article by May 15th. Writing may not include publishing which would be on the 16th I guess. It will be tight but I will manage.

Writing an article involves including a link pointing back to some landing page which is either an adsense page or a direct sale page, or both. I will concentrate on making it a basic adsense page for starters and then worry about upsell and cross sell.

In the meantime, I have to narrow in on the article topic. My subjects of interest are scuba diving, travel, photography, health, body building. Health is kind of saturated so I will have to narrow down on that one and go for the long tail, same with travel. There are plenty of topics to chose from but are they monetizable. Particle physics is great but where's the money?