Comments on: Finding you place in internet marketing….. http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/ comments and observations relating to marketing on the internet Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Ken http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-78 Ken Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:05:38 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-78 Hilary.... I have found that with each step I take the next one is easier. I think it is a matter of gaining confidence in myself that makes me more willing to extend myself. Personally, I don't like the term "selling". To me it sounds like I am convinceing someone to do something they might not want to do. If I am providing a good value then they will want to have it. Thanks for visiting Thom.... Speed of movement is not as important than the movement itself one of Newtons laws of physics(I have been away from school too long to remember which one..lol) "A body in motion tends to stay in motion..." So far as finding niches, everything I read says to pick a niche for which you have a passion. It may not be the most profitable but by developing your skills in this area you will view it liss as "work " and will be willing to try more things and thus gain experience and knowledge which you will be able to apply to more profitable areas where you may have less knowledge. So far as your gunslinger comment.....I just watched THE MAGNIFICENT 7 as I was working on my blog this weekend....a perfect example of your analogy. Gary... Gazz-man...Leonardo or whatever name you are using today, I will spread some mats around and we will all feel at home. MAW can be an inter-discliplinary location.I agree with your assesment about IM being a tough gig. There are so many big names and the network between them seems very tough to join. Like you I have a few areas which I plan to explore after we complete things with Alex but doing so now would seem to require too much energy to do so now and still devote the proper focus on what Alex is teaching us. Regarding the Theme... it has become easier to work with after I learned a bit of HTML to be able to get the sidebars to work with things. The paragraph default has not been an issue for me but perhaps that is because I haven't worked with anything else. Thanks for swinging by. Ken Hilary…. I have found that with each step I take the next one is easier. I think it is a matter of gaining confidence in myself that makes me more willing to extend myself. Personally, I don’t like the term “selling”. To me it sounds like I am convinceing someone to do something they might not want to do. If I am providing a good value then they will want to have it. Thanks for visiting

Thom…. Speed of movement is not as important than the movement itself one of Newtons laws of physics(I have been away from school too long to remember which one..lol) “A body in motion tends to stay in motion…”
So far as finding niches, everything I read says to pick a niche for which you have a passion. It may not be the most profitable but by developing your skills in this area you will view it liss as “work ” and will be willing to try more things and thus gain experience and knowledge which you will be able to apply to more profitable areas where you may have less knowledge. So far as your gunslinger comment…..I just watched THE MAGNIFICENT 7 as I was working on my blog this weekend….a perfect example of your analogy.

Gary… Gazz-man…Leonardo or whatever name you are using today, I will spread some mats around and we will all feel at home. MAW can be an inter-discliplinary location.I agree with your assesment about IM being a tough gig. There are so many big names and the network between them seems very tough to join. Like you I have a few areas which I plan to explore after we complete things with Alex but doing so now would seem to require too much energy to do so now and still devote the proper focus on what Alex is teaching us. Regarding the Theme… it has become easier to work with after I learned a bit of HTML to be able to get the sidebars to work with things. The paragraph default has not been an issue for me but perhaps that is because I haven’t worked with anything else. Thanks for swinging by.

Ken

]]> By: Gary Simpson http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-77 Gary Simpson Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:48:23 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-77 Hi Ken, Gee looks like "Martial Arts World" around here - LOL! With regards to what you and Hilary and Thom have all said the "marketing" side of it is the important bit. You can have the best product in the whole world but if you don't market it or tell anybody about it then what good is it? Not everyone wants to sell internet marketing. There are so many products that everybody will eventually end up selling. I think the fact that Alex has got us promoting HIS product has blinkered a lot of people. Even Alex said he wants to diversify into boxing and leather jackets. Hmm, maybe even he can join MAW over here - LOL! The selling of IM courses etc is a tough gig. There are so many of the big boys in it and they HAMMER people. I think I read somewhere that Jean wants to get into something to do with autistic kids. That will undoubtedly be a niche that will be a popular one with parents seeking answers to this affliction. I, personally, have an interest in many other areas and I already have products that I can sell. But I am waiting to see what develops in this course and giving it my full attention. I am just setting up the foundations of good structure. Thanks to all you good folks for referencing me above. I appreciate it and I am also pleased to be able to give some good info to anyone who wants to take it. Regards Gary SIMPSON PS: Ken, I REALLY like the theme of this blog but I don't like the way it defaults the paragraphs. It's the only thing putting me off installing it myself. Hi Ken,

Gee looks like “Martial Arts World” around here - LOL!

With regards to what you and Hilary and Thom have all said the “marketing” side of it is the important bit. You can have the best product in the whole world but if you don’t market it or tell anybody about it then what good is it?

Not everyone wants to sell internet marketing. There are so many products that everybody will eventually end up selling. I think the fact that Alex has got us promoting HIS product has blinkered a lot of people. Even Alex said he wants to diversify into boxing and leather jackets. Hmm, maybe even he can join MAW over here - LOL!

The selling of IM courses etc is a tough gig. There are so many of the big boys in it and they HAMMER people. I think I read somewhere that Jean wants to get into something to do with autistic kids. That will undoubtedly be a niche that will be a popular one with parents seeking answers to this affliction.

I, personally, have an interest in many other areas and I already have products that I can sell. But I am waiting to see what develops in this course and giving it my full attention. I am just setting up the foundations of good structure.

Thanks to all you good folks for referencing me above. I appreciate it and I am also pleased to be able to give some good info to anyone who wants to take it.

Regards

Gary SIMPSON

PS: Ken, I REALLY like the theme of this blog but I don’t like the way it defaults the paragraphs. It’s the only thing putting me off installing it myself.

]]> By: Thom Swartwood http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-76 Thom Swartwood Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:11:13 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-76 Ken, I was over on Gary Simpson's blog and pick up a line from Hilary Dickinson. I wanted to stop over and take a look. I to agree with your post today. The time is fast coming when Alex will be off doing his thing and we will be off doing ours. I am spending more and more time learning from everyone I can and continuing to fail forward. I know I am getting somewhere I just don't know if I am getting there fast enough. I have also been thinking about what you stated in your post. We do all have to find our way. It is a large part of my goals for 2009. I am learning alot about Internet Marketing although there are other areas I already know a lot more about. I have two passions in my life (aside from my wife and family who are my first passion). One is the Martial Arts and the second is Motivation and Selling. I will have two site up soon that will being dealing with each one of these. I am also working on a Self-defense project that should be ready to unveil very soon. I bring this up to show that everyone out there has something they are good at or they love. Take that, whatever it is, and make it your niche, cultivate it, grow it, provide valuable information and people will be clammering to learn from you. The important thing is action. I have been reading a lot of blogs and some of the best ones I find are talking about how out of 500 people that signed up and paid good money to Alex to learn are not even in the game. Garry Parkes is one and Gary Simpson is another. I have been following there work for a while now and I respect them both for their insites and their willingness to help those who are will to work. I am very glad I caught this link today because you are one of the good one. You strive to give valuable information and are willing to help those who are willing to help themselves. I will stop by often to collect those great bits of wisdom and will continue my learning curve so I can also be someone who is there to help others. Relationship building is what is all about and finding the passion and commitment to move forward no matter what will make you a success. I am learning very quickly this is what we are learning above all else. Remember, even a gunslinger can be brought down by someone who has the passion and commitment to do what it takes. Also remember many a gunslinger put on the white hat and decided to be a part of the solution instead of the chaos. Lets learn what we can as fast as we can and make a difference in our prespective areas of expertise. Let us all become the gunslinger in the white hat helping all in our charge to be healty, happy and prosperous. Have a great day Thom www.thomswartwood.com Ken,

I was over on Gary Simpson’s blog and pick up a line from Hilary Dickinson. I wanted to stop over and take a look.

I to agree with your post today. The time is fast coming when Alex will be off doing his thing and we will be off doing ours. I am spending more and more time learning from everyone I can and continuing to fail forward. I know I am getting somewhere I just don’t know if I am getting there fast enough.

I have also been thinking about what you stated in your post. We do all have to find our way. It is a large part of my goals for 2009. I am learning alot about Internet Marketing although there are other areas I already know a lot more about. I have two passions in my life (aside from my wife and family who are my first passion). One is the Martial Arts and the second is Motivation and Selling. I will have two site up soon that will being dealing with each one of these. I am also working on a Self-defense project that should be ready to unveil very soon.

I bring this up to show that everyone out there has something they are good at or they love. Take that, whatever it is, and make it your niche, cultivate it, grow it, provide valuable information and people will be clammering to learn from you.

The important thing is action. I have been reading a lot of blogs and some of the best ones I find are talking about how out of 500 people that signed up and paid good money to Alex to learn are not even in the game. Garry Parkes is one and Gary Simpson is another. I have been following there work for a while now and I respect them both for their insites and their willingness to help those who are will to work.

I am very glad I caught this link today because you are one of the good one. You strive to give valuable information and are willing to help those who are willing to help themselves.

I will stop by often to collect those great bits of wisdom and will continue my learning curve so I can also be someone who is there to help others.

Relationship building is what is all about and finding the passion and commitment to move forward no matter what will make you a success. I am learning very quickly this is what we are learning above all else.

Remember, even a gunslinger can be brought down by someone who has the passion and commitment to do what it takes. Also remember many a gunslinger put on the white hat and decided to be a part of the solution instead of the chaos. Lets learn what we can as fast as we can and make a difference in our prespective areas of expertise. Let us all become the gunslinger in the white hat helping all in our charge to be healty, happy and prosperous.

Have a great day

Thom
http://www.thomswartwood.com

]]> By: Hilary Dickinson http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-75 Hilary Dickinson Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:32:53 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-75 Hi Ken Well I did as you so eloquently phrased it in your comment on Gary Simpson's blog: "In my own situation, rather than throw in the towel, when I have noticed these feelings creeping in I have gone blog hopping more than usual making comments with the hope that with greater exposure I may post something that will make some one want to visit my blog(without blatently pimping my site)." I so agree with you. I love posting on Gary's site (and I thank him for mentioning me as a good writer)because there is always good value, great comments, interaction, humour and great feedback. I don't have that on my blog yet - but then there is no reason why I can't later. We are each working to or own timetable and there wouldn't really be the room within this community or the time for us to visit all the blogs and interact fully if we all had a Gazz-man site. I think we can have that type later when we spread our wings more to bring in others who are currently outside our community. I agree with you entirely about there being so many different niches we can work in. When I tell people what I am doing they always seem to ask me what I am selling and I try to explain that although I am following Alex's mentoring at the moment (which I always tell them is brilliant!) and that I am offering his ebook and videos (or will be when I finally sort out my sidebar sign up form) that each of us will probably move in a different direction to suit us. I have spoken about the need to tailor what we are doing to suit ourselves (and not anyone else) on both my own blog and Gary Simpson's because I believe that is so important. But if we don't let go of the edge then we will never learn to swim in our own waters. I feel that I have moved into the shallows, but am getting ready to launch off into slightly deeper waters as soon as I can. But one thing I can safely say to anyone who asks me (and I said this to someone today at the college where I work part time)I have learnt so much in the month or so since I started this course and am really enjoying it. I will of course take it much further, but the kick start that it has given me to start learning about blogs, widgets, RSS feeds, squeeze pages, Twitter etc has already made my investment in this course worthwhile to me. And that's what is important. As you say there will always been a finite number of "marketers" selling techniques, but if we each find the right place for us to be there is plenty of room for us all to make a difference not only to our own life, but potentially to the lives of so many other people too. That's what will make all the hard work and huge learning curve now worthwhile. Now that I have found your site, I have added it to my blogroll so that I can come back and visit you again soon. Hilary Hi Ken

Well I did as you so eloquently phrased it in your comment on Gary Simpson’s blog:

“In my own situation, rather than throw in the towel, when I have noticed these feelings creeping in I have gone blog hopping more than usual making comments with the hope that with greater exposure I may post something that will make some one want to visit my blog(without blatently pimping my site).”

I so agree with you. I love posting on Gary’s site (and I thank him for mentioning me as a good writer)because there is always good value, great comments, interaction, humour and great feedback.

I don’t have that on my blog yet - but then there is no reason why I can’t later. We are each working to or own timetable and there wouldn’t really be the room within this community or the time for us to visit all the blogs and interact fully if we all had a Gazz-man site. I think we can have that type later when we spread our wings more to bring in others who are currently outside our community.

I agree with you entirely about there being so many different niches we can work in.

When I tell people what I am doing they always seem to ask me what I am selling and I try to explain that although I am following Alex’s mentoring at the moment (which I always tell them is brilliant!) and that I am offering his ebook and videos (or will be when I finally sort out my sidebar sign up form) that each of us will probably move in a different direction to suit us.

I have spoken about the need to tailor what we are doing to suit ourselves (and not anyone else) on both my own blog and Gary Simpson’s because I believe that is so important. But if we don’t let go of the edge then we will never learn to swim in our own waters. I feel that I have moved into the shallows, but am getting ready to launch off into slightly deeper waters as soon as I can.

But one thing I can safely say to anyone who asks me (and I said this to someone today at the college where I work part time)I have learnt so much in the month or so since I started this course and am really enjoying it.

I will of course take it much further, but the kick start that it has given me to start learning about blogs, widgets, RSS feeds, squeeze pages, Twitter etc has already made my investment in this course worthwhile to me.

And that’s what is important.

As you say there will always been a finite number of “marketers” selling techniques, but if we each find the right place for us to be there is plenty of room for us all to make a difference not only to our own life, but potentially to the lives of so many other people too.

That’s what will make all the hard work and huge learning curve now worthwhile.

Now that I have found your site, I have added it to my blogroll so that I can come back and visit you again soon.

Hilary

]]> By: Ken http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-73 Ken Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:25:45 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-73 Lea, I did not get that message.. But when you are in admin mode the should be an area in the comment section which will let you toggle moderation of comments on or off. Ken Lea,

I did not get that message.. But when you are in admin mode the should be an area in the comment section which will let you toggle moderation of comments on or off.

Ken

]]> By: Lea Burke http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-72 Lea Burke Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:41:40 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-72 Hey Ken, You have summed up our journey with Alex in a remarkable way!! This is the exact path we need to be following and I know with those of us willing to cross over to the other side, we can achieve our goals. The greatest difference in this coaching course is that Alex is creating such a support group in us all. You would be crazy not to jump on board. Thanks for visiting my website..did you get a message that I had to approve your comment? I went to the discussion area and had that choice removed. If you did get that message, do you know what I can do to have that option removed? Look forward to hearing from you.. Talk soon Lea http://leaburkeonline.com Hey Ken,
You have summed up our journey with Alex in a remarkable way!! This is the exact path we need to be following and I know with those of us willing to cross over to the other side, we can achieve our goals.

The greatest difference in this coaching course is that Alex is creating such a support group in us all. You would be crazy not to jump on board.

Thanks for visiting my website..did you get a message that I had to approve your comment? I went to the discussion area and had that choice removed. If you did get that message, do you know what I can do to have that option removed?

Look forward to hearing from you..

Talk soon
Lea
http://leaburkeonline.com

]]> By: Nigel Yip http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-70 Nigel Yip Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:01:41 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-70 Hey Ken, Most wonderful blog, wish I saw it earlier and yes I couldn't agree with you more about making a an impact in the non-marketing niche and I certainly won't be grasping by the side of the pool - instead I shall be hoisting sails on my new current canoe soon to be turned into a super blingy catarmeran and set sail around the world instead. All the best Nigel Hey Ken,

Most wonderful blog, wish I saw it earlier and yes I couldn’t agree with you more about making a an impact in the non-marketing niche and I certainly won’t be grasping by the side of the pool - instead I shall be hoisting sails on my new current canoe soon to be turned into a super blingy catarmeran and set sail around the world instead.

All the best
Nigel

]]> By: Gary SIMPSON http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/there-is-a-new-wind-a-blowin/#comment-65 Gary SIMPSON Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:45:11 +0000 http://kennethdouglas.com/blog/?p=54#comment-65 Hello Ken, Since you invited me over to this specific thread Kenny I can only conclude that you wanted me to endorse what you have said. Obviously I do - VERY MUCH. Those who have been following my threads of late will be getting the same message from me - over and over again. Soon, the hired guns will leave Dodge City and start gun-slinging all over the wide plains of the web. That will leave a bunch of "unprotected" people here wondering why the big boys and girls don't wanna play with them much any more. But the gun slingers have been warning all of you to arm yourselves NOW coz the day of reckoning is rapidly approaching and there will be a time when you have to "leave the side of the pool" as Ken so eloquently put it. Or as I say... hit the praries yourself. Kenny, I'm so glad I came here coz I saw this from you: <blockquote>"The tools will be the same only the crop will be different."</blockquote> Heh... heh... brilliant! I really LIKE that. OK dude, I have hammered THREE posts down while I have been here, stuck a can on top of each, walked back and shot 'em all off. BANG. BANG. BANG. Wyatt Earp Simpson is about to leave town, pardner. Gary Simpson Hello Ken,

Since you invited me over to this specific thread Kenny I can only conclude that you wanted me to endorse what you have said. Obviously I do - VERY MUCH. Those who have been following my threads of late will be getting the same message from me - over and over again.

Soon, the hired guns will leave Dodge City and start gun-slinging all over the wide plains of the web. That will leave a bunch of “unprotected” people here wondering why the big boys and girls don’t wanna play with them much any more.

But the gun slingers have been warning all of you to arm yourselves NOW coz the day of reckoning is rapidly approaching and there will be a time when you have to “leave the side of the pool” as Ken so eloquently put it. Or as I say… hit the praries yourself.

Kenny, I’m so glad I came here coz I saw this from you:

“The tools will be the same only the crop will be different.”

Heh… heh… brilliant! I really LIKE that.

OK dude, I have hammered THREE posts down while I have been here, stuck a can on top of each, walked back and shot ‘em all off. BANG. BANG. BANG. Wyatt Earp Simpson is about to leave town, pardner.

Gary Simpson

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