Wait a second, is that pointing at me?
I want to rant. Today I attended a webinar by Jeff Gitomer about social media. I have told myself countless times that I was going to stop attending social media webinars since they all say the same very basic information that could be told in 5 minutes, but instead gets stretched out to an hour. What I got today was even worse.
The way of the ninja requires much patience.
I have been working through Glenn’s process on my newest attempt at finding a marketable niche. Today I had an epiphany. I think I have been grouping my keywords together incorrectly up to this point in my excellent business adventure.
To explain: Glenn has you do A LOT of homework before you ever even think about jumping into a niche market. Thus far in my business activities around this type of business, the homework has been most of what I was doing. In the last niche I tried, I made it to some implementation. But I quickly figured out that I didn’t want to go any further with that niche. And I think I just figured out (one of the reasons) why.
It may seem small, but a whole lot of them could make you a mansion.
I believe one of the main problems people have with reaching for really big goals is figuring out where to start. I know that that was a constant problem for me in trying to build a business. I followed tips from The 4-Hour Work Week. I asked people who had their own businesses. But nothing really jelled for me until I found a process that made sense to me.
I highly recommend WordPress.
So I was just scrolling through my WordPress back end when I saw them recommending something called “Sexy Bookmarks.” So I clicked in to see what it was and it turns out that it adds to every one of your websites pages the ability for your readers to share directly to up to 100 different social media sites. This is fantastic!
Is there anything ninjas can't do?
A couple of days ago I talked about applying a great new technique I figured out in Google Adwords. So I thought I would share with anyone who might be interested.
I dove into Adwords through my entrepreneurial efforts because everything I read was that it was the ideal advertising channel to start a business from. (I don’t believe I have said it enough, but Glenn Livingston is amazing!) I wanted as much experience with it as possible, so I implemented it at my day job as well.
Never stop exploring!
One thing that constantly amazes me about business is how little I really know. Through my business ventures I have learned so much. But when I go back to what I did a year ago, a month ago or even just a week ago; I find that I missed so much.
For example, I have been studying Google Adwords for almost 2 years now. Within the last two months I have began to understand how to really use it. Don’t get me wrong, I have been using it successfully both at my job and in my business. Maybe a story will describe it best.
Ashton cares about what he shares.
For quite some time now Oprah has been a king-maker. You go on Oprah’s television show, your (insert product or service here) blows up. Oprah’s book club selection regularly becomes the number one best seller within a week of being her choice. Want to be labeled as crazy, just go on Oprah’s show and jump on a couch. People will be talking about it years later. It even works the other way. If Oprah gets mad at you, just watch your life fall apart into a Million Little Pieces.
Keep Going! Never Stop!
Yesterday (while gushing) I said that I had decided to start over (AGAIN!!!) on my business search. What I meant by this is not that I am starting from scratch. I still have two very good ideas and I am pursuing both of them. What I did mean was that the path I was following turned out to be a bad one. I am still following Glenn Livingston’s method, and I still highly recommend him to others. I just found that I was still too broad in my target.
I am happy to announce that I finally get to move forward on my business due diligence. I have had to wait for two weeks while a program called Affiliate Elite did some work for me. But now it has collected data over a long enough period of time that I can continue on.
So I am working on getting my keyword target for my new business venture and Google’s Keyword Estimator Tool is not working. Kind of difficult to go through my process if I can’t do the main step. Oh well, find something I can do and get it done. Like write on my blog!