Anyway, cool news today is that Jay Berkowitz of TenGoldenRules.com has posted Episode 30 of his great podcast series.  And, I think for perhaps the third time, you can hear me stumble through a call-in comment on the show.  This comment is about the necessity of having multiple online personalities for dealing with different aspects of one’s life.  I’ll expand on this here at a later date .. have to get a quote rolled out for a eager account manager right now.

Jeff

Well, it wasn’t TOO painful but certainly not easy! I duplicated the old Flying Pig content from www.theflyingpig.ws to this new site www.theflyingpig.info. Now, I need to spend some time getting ‘er updated.

Jeff

So, if you are a relative newbie to Internet Marketing  and you are out there “doing it” with blogs, PPC campaigns, social marketing efforts,  SEO techniques, afilliate programs, and all and have a site where you “talk” about what is and isn’t working for you, please drop me an email or comment here.

Jeff

In the previous post I wrote about having some affiliate dollars flowing in. I received a courtesy phone call (you know it’s gonna’ be something not-so-good when you get a call prefaced by, “Hello, this is John Smith of XYZ Company, I am making a courtesy call to inform you …) telling me that the facet of the affiliate program I was working would no longer be supported, and even being terminated in just a couple of days.

Well, due to the required lag between sale and compensation to allow for returns, I still had a couple of checks in the queue. But when those process through, that’s it. Boy, I’m going to miss those checks! I have to shift that business effort to a conventional online affiliate model and it should be good for a few more bucks!

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been dabbling with the Build A Niche Store (BANS) software package. I have created a few partial sites as I’m learning how to do it. I would LOVE to have a week away from the J-O-B and other distractions (like filing taxes) to be able to focus on finalizing these sites and creating more.

As these sites become ready for public viewing, I’ll have to venture into the world of PPC. Seems that PPC is probably just one of those things that you can’t get a feel for it until you just go ahead and do it. I’ve seen lots of info about keyword searches and such, but I’d like to see a step-by-step description of creating a PPC campaign and monitoring it through a cycle.

If any of my accidental readers know about such a course, please comment here or use the email link.

Jeff

Wellll, THIS little piggy certainly resembles that description!

Since before the holidays, I’ve felt like I’ve been in a state of mental hibernation. Even though in a strange sort of incongruous manner we’ve been VERY busy at the J-O-B. So busy to the point that I once again sacrificed vacation time that I was too busy to take before the hours were wiped at the end of the year! Maybe all that corporate crank turning has just left me a bit burned out. That, with the chilly temps, sure makes me crave a long snooze.

At least I have been pullng in some affiliate dollars that helped a lot at Christmas. And, so far, the sales have continued at a good pace through January. I had feared a post-Christmas season crash.

But, I really need to change the approach I’m using marketing these affiliate products. The current effort is way too hands-on and gets me involved in too many “housekeeping” details that the business could and should handle without so much of my involvement. I’ll work at getting this channel more Internet focused to allow me more bandwidth to pursue additional income streams … too much internet-marketing-speak, huh?

If you’ve found your way here somehow please leave a comment. I’m thinking about writing an eBook about how to create secret web sites, since I have extensive proven skills in that field.

Jeff

The site is intended to become a reference site for resources I’ve identified and a blog to chronicle my progress down the path, hopefully with commentary from other folks who have the same dreams, and from the people that hold the tools and information needed to make the dreams a reality.

Jeff