Front lines update
Update for Aug 29 2009 – I believe I am now involved in a project that will effectively take me out of the running, time-wise, when it comes to taking on any new businesses to work with directly (for the next few months). Don’t want to jinx it but I think this could be my most lucrative project yet. Thank God for automation. Sept 2 – this new project is still frightening me with its godawful big potential.
So I spent about 100 hours, I estimate, working on one project that now seems to be a no-go, for no apparent reason. It happens. Set up adwords with 10 adgroups, wrote copy, studied the industry, etc. Hmph.
Meanwhile – busy doing my small part helping to re-fashion the main business I’ve worked for since 2005. Web site, powerpoint, pdf’s, autoresponders, printing …
And a marble manufacturing company asked me how I might work with them. This kind of thing intrigues me. Especially since, last year, I almost ended up with an opportunity to help move millions of dollars worth of granite that’s been chopped into giant cubes and left sitting in a field for 20 years (Kingston, Ontario Canada, if you’re interested). What a “co-incidence”. Anyway this new company gets everything done overseas and shipped directly to their customers, who are bulk-buying granite countertops, tabletops and lots more stuff.
This is the kind of thing that interests me much more than finding a niche I know nothing about and then doing the ebook-hub-squidoo-affiliate-jv-facebook-youtube-salesletter-autoresponder-backend-split-test thing. How about you?
One guy’s blog I read, because it’s entertaining, keeps talking about how he’s making hubpages by the hundreds (I don’t know what they are) and the total income is only a few hundred dollars a month. All these people who think they have to do it all themselves, but they have nothing unique to offer the world, so they go out and play keyword games to the nth degree, daily. Thanks for all the useless Internet page bloat, folks.
If you’re like me and you have nothing unique to teach the world, why not work for a real company?
Or are you afraid of taking this route because you want to “own your own business”? Well, then think of it as “your own consulting business” – based on ongoing commissions instead of hourly fees. Yes, any company can screw you. And you could be hit by a Prius. You learn and keep going.
There are just as many ways for you to hurt yourself, as there are for another business to hurt you. People are banging their heads against the wall by the thousands. Jeff Paul made the sleaziest infomercial ever, about getting rich online – that’ll be good for yet another few thousand victims.
You’re either an obsessive lunatic or a failure in this game. Truth.
Meanwhile I continue my small part in revamping a huge business, while helping to build what I hope will be another, completely unrelated huge business. I am subject to the whim of the universe in this regard, just as I would be if I were denying my own personality and trying to “build my own empire” but with massively larger return on investment.
