Continuing my “26 Weeks to Freedom” accountability project, today I spent quite a while watching Steve Clayton’s training videos for the “SEM” (search engine marketing) business that I will be establishing soon (and have referred to in previous posts). I have watched these videos before, but I realized I may have to see them several times to really solidify in my mind the reality that I can do this. It is not rocket science, but there are a number of skills that have to be mastered over the next few months before I can begin to offer my services to real estate agents and other small business owners. The possibilities are very exciting. Steve and his business partner Tim Godfrey have created several top-notch programs for making money on the Internet, and this one in particular is something I feel is just right for me.
In a recent edition of the Christian Science Monitor (which is now a weekly publication instead of daily) there is an interesting article which points out that blogging is falling out of favor with those who are under 30 years old, mainly because they find Twitter, Facebook, and the other social media sites so much easier and faster for saying what they want to say. That makes sense, since writing a blog (especially every day) does take a fair amount of time and many (perhaps most) people who have started blogging eventually abandon it for lack of time or enthusiasm. I intend to keep doing this one (at least until my self-imposed “finish line” after 26 weeks!) for at least three reasons. First, it keeps me on track—keeping myself accountable for achieving the goal I have publicly stated I want to achieve. Second, I hope it is interesting and encouraging to anyone else reading it who may want to start an Internet business of their own. And third, if it turns out to be a real page-turner (or at least, a reasonably good read) as I close in on the 6-month project deadline, I may take the whole thing and turn it into a book! I like books that are written in “real time” rather than after-the-fact, because not even the writer knows how it’s going to turn out! Anyway, to me there is really no conflict between blogging and communicating on Twitter and Facebook, because I’m now sharing every one of these posts on those two sites anyway. My “friends” and “followers” there can immediately see the title of each post and the first couple of lines, and if it looks interesting they’ll click on over. If not, they can skip it.
And I would rather do one long blog each day and give the Twitter and Facebook folks the option to click over here and read it if they want to, instead of cluttering up their home pages with multiple messages each day—which I feel is an imposition, as I’ve said in an earlier post. But that’s just my own preference, and I know other people (especially those under 30) feel differently about it.
If you’re curious about how I’m doing on this 26- week “accountability”
project–including the full, unedited blog postings for each day as I go along (with videos, photos, comments, and other links)–please visit my Creating an Internet Business blog site. I’ll look forward to seeing you there!