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I am having a little bit of a change of direction for this site going forward, with more of a concentrated effort to showcase my work as a writer of fiction, non fiction and free thought. As I have said here over the past few weeks, there are enough blogs out there about people making money online, internet marketing and blogging in general. All are fine topics, and there are some pearls of wisdom to be found in the other 100000000 sites out there that talk about there subjects.
BUT, 95% of internet marketing is marketing in the pure sense. What they are marketing to you is products that allow you to market the concept of marketing to others. If that sentence doesn’t make a lot sense, the reason lies purely in the reality of the situation, and not my grammar. It is a pure caste made of air, a house of cards, the emperors’ new clothes. People telling others how to basically sell nothing. MLM pyramid schemes, get rich quick sales pages, too good too be true offers. Not for me thanks…
With latest Google page rank fiasco, I don’t really see the point of building a business who can have its profits halved, quartered or decimated completely by a giant corporation. That is not building an asset or a legacy. It’s a ticking time bomb, being fuelled by the time you put into it.
Sure if you love it, then do it. But do what you love, express the ideas that are in your head, the ideas that are yours alone because you thought of them. Create, don’t chorus with every other opinion or business plan or genre that you feel everyone wants to hear.
What I will share with you are ideas of how people can make money from their creative works, from their songs, novels, short stories, designs, graphics, games and un-categorisable projects. I will also detail my journey from unknown writer to hopefully known writer. I know that inside every blogger out there flogging some useless affiliate program (Hey that’s a new word… flogger : someone who writes purely for the commercial aspect online to sell ads) is a novel, or a screenplay, or a killer new bit of software just bursting to get out.
That is the revolYOUtion, letting that creative bit of you out, and making the systems of the internet and the commercial world work for you, not mindlessly selling your talented self after 10 cents of adsense dollars every day trying to make it rich, writing content that every other person is hashing out pursuing the same goals.
I think that I have made my point.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Good luck Steve with your new direction. The revolution is something we are all part of and very exciting. I agree with you there have never been so many ways to make money and do better marketing, but to lose the essence of new thought and actions will be a step backwards.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Indeed, I write whatever comes into my mind. Let that creative inner-self out!
October 31st, 2007 at 2:57 pm
So true, the house of cards comment. It often strikes me that there is more money to be made in selling people how-to-have-a-career-in-whatever than in the actual whatever. Wel, maybe not more, but more at a mid-level. eg., more mid-level success in recording musicians than actually being a musician. of course this could be bollocks, I dunno.
Thanks for the offer re LivingNow website etc, I will keep you in mind
The not-so-new-anymore website is better than the old, but I am already getting over it and have very different ideas for it going forward.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Hi Seamus,
I think that you have hit the nail squarely on the head. It’s the old story of people that made the most money from the gold rush were not those looking for the gold, but those that sold the shovels.
Only a handful of the miners would ever find any of the stuff in the ground.
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