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Web Marketing & Blogging

For the past few months I've been doing a lot of research on web marketing and doing business online. Back in the day I remember thinking that the internet was going to be a very powerful economic force. Having a Navy career going on it wasn't something that I would choose to focus on. Looking back I can see that it would have been a worthwhile endeavor to try to learn as much as I could about the internet. Not the spectator side or surfing, but the creative, productive side of the internet. That's all water under the bridge now.

Some would say that ship has already sailed. The internet is all grown up and the good ideas have all been taken. Far from it I say. We have yet to see the greatest fortunes the internet has created. We have yet to see the next greatest thing that will become part of our daily lexicon like Google, or Hotmail, or Myspace. Everyday new websites are going up. Brave entrepreneur's like my older brother David Robert are working diligently on sites like Proximity Cast as a way to help serve people in new and exciting ways. The guys at Google are constantly pushing the creative envelope of computing to bring the cyber surfing and cyber producing public new and creative ways to seek out products, services, and information they need with products such as adsense, adwords, and google apps.

In my quest to carve out my own little dot com empire I've been reading blogs like Dosh Dosh, John Chow, and Alvin Phang's Gather Success. I've gathered a huge amount of information from Paul Graham, and Timothy Ferris. Reading these blogs and websites has provided me with insight about how blogs are monetized, keyword research, adword campaigns, and affiliate marketing. Reading these websites I am continually discovering other sites like Stomper Net which has provided some of the most valuable nuts and bolts information.

Almost any guru will tell you that the secret of being successful at work is to work at something you love and are passionate about. One of the sayings goes do something you love and you'll never work a day of your life. My friend Colin Fithie says pure job satisfaction is getting paid to do something that you would do for free. My friend Kimberly Bliquez actively pursues these concepts in her life and her TV show Living your Passion.

At the beginning of this year I decided that I was going to learn how to design websites, learn how to be an active web producer, and create a web income of at least $100 per day. To date I have made great progress on learning web design, and being an active web producer. Pulling together the elements necessary to create what is just a small web income of $100 per day has been elusive. Part of the problem is figuring out what I am most passionate about. There are a number of subjects of which I am interested and can talk passionately about. There are a number of subjects of which I have deep information which I can talk passionately about. It has been a paralyzing exercise in trying to decide which one I will focus on and talk passionately and in depth about.

My nephew, Sam Birdsong, proposed to me yesterday that I should not limit the subject of this blog, but open it up so that I might talk about the many subjects which grab my interest. Ungrudgingly I have to accept this point. From reading much of the above blogs the ones I enjoy the most seem to follow this format, and I can see the value of Sam's advice.

Here is a list of the blogs and resources that I've found helpful and interesting over the past few months:

2 Responses to “Web Marketing & Blogging”

  1. wow!!! you’re on your way. bz.

  2. Sam, Just following your advice! Now its your turn.

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