Tales of a cyber-hippy running an online business from home
If you’re into internet marketing chances are you have in your head a list of skills that you think you ‘should’ have:
and so on…
But have you ever wondered if you’ve developed the WRONG skills for your business just because ‘experts’ said they’re the ones you need?
You ever lose sight of what’s right in front of your eyes because of the distractions in the internet marketing arena?
I’ll give you an example – look at your autoresponder service and try to remember what it actually DOES, after all the bells and whistles have been taken away.
It sells for you on AUTOPILOT…
So what’s a fair price to pay for a bottle of wine?
Well if it’s a few bottles to have in the house and enjoy the occasional glass in the evening over a chat with my wife or sitting in the garden getting eaten alive by midges (as last night)…
…then I like to pay £5 to £8 ($8.50 – $13.50)
I reckon a significant number of people at my children’s school think I’m unemployed and on benefits because I’m always around during ‘normal’ working hours – dropping the kids off and picking them up 🙂
I’m always at school plays, sports days, concerts, ‘dad days’, and anything else my kids are involved with, again usually during 9-5 hours
Doesn’t help that I’m a really scruffy sod and spend most of the summer in shorts and T-shirt and most of the winter in a big old green coat
…despite the fact that I earn a very comfortable living from home
Here’s a breakdown of why you SHOULD buy every shiny new WSO (as long as it’s a blueprint or ‘step by step’ guide) as possible
This is how I rack up income streams…
I love IM tricks and tips…
…techniques and manipulations.
I like the cleverness of them, the ingenuity and the inventiveness of them.
But you can’t build a business on them…
The picture is of a witches’ grave.
We supposedly anyway. It’s pretty obvious the locals who buried thought she was a bit iffy because it’s the only time I’ve ever seen a skull and crossbones carved on a gravestone (although there were some suggestions when Margaret Thatcher died)
The grave is supposedly Continue reading
I read in the news (yep fully documented) about an African man who let a hyena chew off his genitals because his local shaman had said that was a sure fire way of becoming magically wealthy…
Anyway so I hired a full-time virtual assistant solely to run a new website ‘arm’ of my business.
We hire outsourcers, coders and ad hoc freelancers quite regularly so I’m very familiar with the process, but hiring someone full-time always takes a bit longer and is a little more in depth
I got up this morning at 7pm (which is 2pm in the Philippines where my new VA is based) to find several messages from her…
I’m not your typical internet marketer I reckon…
I don’t drive a flash car. We have a new one for going places in and an 11-year old one for chucking garden waste and stuff in the back and doing countryside ‘workhorse’ stuff
I don’t live in a big fancy house. We have a comfortable cottage in a nice village with enough garden to grow veggies and easily fit in a trampoline for the kids.
My kids wear second-hand school uniforms sometimes….
