The Diary Of An Internet Marketer

This advice comes straight from the heart to fellow warriors (like myself — I’m just as guilty!) who like to read, learn and soak up information - and prefer to put it into action later) Making money online really doesn’t have to be so frustrating and overwhelming. You can get a lot of GREAT advice here, to be sure. But no matter what method(s) you try and what you learn, there will always be two undeniable facts:

1. You will never know all there is to know about Internet marketing. You can read and learn and read some more, but taking that first all-important step to DOING is what separates the dreamers from the winners.

2. That first step is scary. Instead of filling your mind with “what if I fail???” thoughts, concentrate on providing the best product with the best value you can. When you put all your drive and ambition into doing the best you can, all those worries and anxieties tend to vanish rather quickly.

We all have made mistakes. Don’t let the fear of making them hold you back - it’s how you learn and grow. Take something as simple as a “mini site” on a topic you enjoy, get yourself a domain name and some basic web hosting and get out there. Start to finish, it’s one of the most cost effective ways to dip a toe into the online marketing pool and see what happens.

When you capitalize on a specific niche, you’re one step ahead of all the people out there who “want to” but never actually do it. So stop reading and take one small step toward your future success. Brainstorm some product ideas, see what’s out there and then take that step.

You can do it

 This post comes courteous of the Warrior Forum and in particular Sherice Jacob The Best eBook Covers and Headers You’ve Ever Seen!

I’ve missed a couple of days diary entries but I have had the worst headache for the last couple of days.  I’ve been struggling along and have been working on these articles orders although they have taken me much longer than they should have. 

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I just can’t seem to focus on my article writing lately.  I’ve had one of those weeks when I just don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere and sometimes I wonder if it’s all worth it.

Do you ever have days like that?  When you think about all the hours and all the effort that you put into your internet marketing business and just wonder if it’s all worth it.

I don’t know what it is but something just keeps me going and wont allow me to quit.  I don’t know if it’s the determination that one day it all will pay off or if it’s just that I can’t let my husband say ‘I told you so’.

I made a post a couple of days ago about being organised and I know that is one huge problem of mine.  I really need to set up a daily routine and try to get my internet marketer work done while the kids are at school and learn to just turn the computer off when they get home.  I feel like I neglect the children a bit because I spend too much time on this computer.

I couldn’t even tell you how much I’m making monthly, I should sit down and work it out.  I am so disorganised that I don’t even have all my financial records in order.  I really should do that, maybe if I had the actual figure of what I was making each month then I could set a goal to increase that a little each month.

I have about three more article orders to get through and I really should just get stuck into them and get them out the way so I can concentrate on my own work.  The only problem is that if I wasn’t doing this writing for others then I wouldn’t be earning all that much. 

Today I installed Adwords Analyzer on my laptop. I had it on my old computer so I copied the file over to my laptop and installed it but it’s just not working right.  It’s really been peeving me off too I hate when you just can’t get something to work properly and you spend way too much time on it trying to get it to work.  I need to do some keyword research on some of my work and although there are free keyword research tools they just aren’t as good. 

Ok, well I’m going to go and try and get some sleep. 

Take Care
Sheryl

Hey what’s up? My name’s Avery Berman, and I’m an 18 year old Internet Marketer. I got started when I was 13, and it’s actually
a pretty crazy story…

(If you want to see the video about that crazy journey, I invite you to sign up on my squeeze page at http://www.supersuccessfulsecrets.com/ . The first email I send has the video with the story in it.)

Oh, you want a teaser? Alright, alright, just because you are so cool.

When I was 13 years old I played a game called The Sims Online, which was a MMORPG, or a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. This means that there were literally thousands of people playing the game together at the exact same time, interacting with each other.

I learned quickly that I was very good at making money (or simoleons, as they called it) and that I could go to eBay and sell my virtual cash for REAL cash!

So, at the age of 13 I was making hundreds of dollars selling fake money online.

Obviously through eBay I discovered “make money online” schemes, and my Dad gave me his credit card number…

That’s all you get! If you want to see the whole story in video form check out my site above! (I know, I know, it’s a shameless plug. Let me have it! )

(Oh, and don’t worry, there’s a happy ending!)

Anyway… a day in the life of Avery Berman, the Internet Marketer.

What a question!

Well, I am currently attending College, but because my work (Internet Marketing of course) is more important to me in my eyes, I am attending class two days a week so I have time to work on my latest projects.

So, without further ado, here is the day in the life of Avery Berman on a day when he doesn’t have classes!

THE DAY BEGINS!

I wake up around 11:00 to 11:30 AM after getting a full nights sleep of about 8-10 hours. (Waking up refreshed every day rocks, by the way.)

I get out of bed, turn on my computer which is in my room, and walk to the bathroom. I wash up after the night to wake up completely, then go downstairs and make myself some breakfast.

I walk upstairs with my breakfast and sit at my computer. I immediately open up way to many tabs on Firefox and start the “workday.” (I hate using the word work for this, because it’s so fun.)

Before anything I open iTunes and start listening to awesome music…

Then it begins…

I first check my email to see if there are any pressing problems. I then check the many forums I frequent to see if there are any awesome topics that arouse my attention or if my topics have been replied to.

(I know I should probably do my real work first, but hey I need my leisure time… even though I get a lot of it.)

I then leave the forums and my email open and open a new tab with my website stats or whatever project I’m working on.

I then will open Frontpage (I like it better than Dreamweaver) and open up my websites or whatever I am working on at the moment and start writing and changing it all up!

After a few hours or until I get a lot of stuff done, I’ll start doing some social networking stuff or other methods of traffic. Perhaps make a video. I do whatever I need to currently to get traffic to my page.

I’ll check adwords or adbrite and see how the conversions are going.

By this time I’ll usually have YouTube open because I was checking the stats on my videos, and then I’ll start getting addicted and checking out videos all over the place.

Now, by this time it’s usually getting late (maybe around 6) and my girlfriend will start calling me and telling me to come over and see her and stop working.

I usually give in, and stop working and go see her.

I’ll then get home around 10:30 to 11:00 PM and check my email again and resume everything I was doing before.

I’ll be talking on AIM, MSN and Skype to all my friends and fellow Internet Marketers about what’s going on in my business and sharing ideas.
(I’m a cool guy… if you’re interested in talking with me you can reach me at avenator3000 on AIM… just don’t spam me, alright? )

Around 1-3 AM I’ll go to bed.

It usually ends up being around 2, even though I tell myself at around 12:30 that “I should be getting ready for bed now!”

I then twist in turn in bed for anywhere from 5 minutes to another hour, thinking about all the great new ideas I have to make money now that I’m nowhere near my computer and trying to fall asleep.

And thus ends a day in the life of Avery Berman!

I hope you’ve received a least a bit of entertainment out of this little story, and maybe even a little motivation!

Just remember… if a lazy 18 year old can do it…

Later all you crazy people!

-Avery Berman

P.S. Hey, remember to check out how I got started in VIDEO (Oooohhhh) if you want a cool watch.
http://www.supersuccessfulsecrets.com/

Yesterday I mentioned that I was watching our mouse who was about to go into labor at any minute.  Well last night as I was about to go to bed I had a look and she was doing these weird jerking things with her legs and I wondered if it was contractions or something.

Anyway about five minutes later she had a baby.  That’s the first time I think I’ve seen a birth in real life - even though I was present at the birth of my three boys I didn’t actually ’see’ it. It was quite amazing to watch really, she ate the placenta (which by the way I did not do at the birth of my boys:) ) and then licked the baby like crazy until there was not one spot of gunk left on it.  She’d pick it up in her paws and turn it around licking it, its just amazing.

Then she had another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another and another.  She had eight little babies over the period of about half an hour and then she just looked exhausted.

Poor little girl, I will be sure to keep her well away from any little boy mousies from now on.

I have spent half the day today checking on young Coco who is likely to go into labour any time now.  She’s one of our mice and she looks like she has swallowed a tennis ball.  How unreal is this though, here is the story of Coco…..

We bought Coco about a month ago and it turned out she was pregnant when we bought her.  Then she escaped from her cage one night and disappeared.  We searched the house and we could not find her anywhere and after a week we figured she was gone for good.  We still had 5 other mice.  Anyway, a couple of days later we found Coco who had made a nest in Bens room and she had four babies.  Now Coco and the babies have been kept in a cage of their own so Coco has never been put back in the cage with the other mice since she has had the babies.  In the other cage are 3 females and 2 males and they are together 24/7 but there is no sign of any of them being pregnant - which is good.  How weird is it though that Coco is now due to have babies and she has never been in the cage with the boys.  The only thing that we can think of is that one night - during that week that Coco was missing - one of the boys disappeared and he was lost for about 4 hours before we found him and I found him in Bens room.  So what are the chances that on that one occasion that he disappeared he has found Coco and done the deed and it must have been just after she had the last babies.  That’s the only way it could have happened, either that or she isn’t pregnant and has a tumor the size of a tennis ball.  I can actually see babies moving though so I don’t think it’s a tumor.

Anyway, that has nothing to do with Internet Marketing so let’s get back to the rest of may day.  I spent probably a good half of today writing articles.  I have tried hard to avoid everything else and just concentrate on my articles.  I have just finished one order and tomorrow morning I will start on a 2500 word report.

I spent a good part of the day looking for my Medicare card too since my son had a doctors appointment after school and I cannot for the life of me find my Medicare card.  He has a specialist appointment tomorrow too which I need it for so I just hope they don’t make me pay the full amount since I don’t have my card.  Actually if you read todays ‘tips’ you will know they were about being organised.  Looking for this Medicare card actually started me in my organisation as I had to clean up a fair bit to look for it.  My office desk is a lot cleaner than it was this morning.

I did the grocery shopping today too, so I did actually achieve quite a bit today, still not as much as I’d like but it wasn’t bad.  I’m heading off to bed a little earlier tonight as I really didn’t sleep too well last night.

So goodnight and take care
Sheryl

My tip for today is to BE ORGANISED!

Now I know this is a good tip because I did actually try it once

When you are disorganised you just have no idea what you are doing from one minute to the next ane your life will generally be quite stressful.  Trust me I know, this is a big problem that I have and that is one of my big goals - to get organised.

On the few occasions that I have been organised I was really quite surprised at how much I actually managed to achieve.  I worked so much more efficiently because I knew what I was doing and I could see clearly.

Maintaining that organisation is my problem and I’m sure if I stuck with being organised long enough it would become habit. 

When talking about being organised I am talking about:

• having a plan for your day
• having tidy surroundings
• in particular having a tidy desk and office
• having a structure in place that enables you to juggle your internet marketing as well as your home life
• having good time management skills

My desk and office is so messy that I’ve moved my laptop out to the dining room table.  Now that is messy too and at dinner time we eat with our plates on our lap sitting on the sofa.  My husband is forever complaining that he wants the table back.  I know that this is not the ideal situation and I know if I tidied up a bit that I would actually get more achieved every day.  I’m actually sharing the table with an extremely pregnant mouse that is about to go into labour any minute - which is quite distracting actually.

One of my biggest problems is getting stuck into a task.  I spend more time thinking about what I have got to do than actually doing it.  My time management skills are non-existant and my house is just full of clutter.

So these tips even though I am sharing them with you, are aimed at myself also.  Perhaps if I write all this it might make me get off my butt and do something about it.

I have goals though and I’ve gone out and bought myself a diary - A4 size with a day to a page.  My plan is that each morning I will open my diary and write a list of what I need to achieve for the day.  A bit of a ‘To Do’ list I guess.  I have done the ‘To Do’ list thing before and it does work.  The main thing with doing a list is to be realistic with what you can achieve in a day otherwise you will end up being disappointed if you are never getting everything achieved.

So that is my tip for today.  If you are already an organised person then I admire you and keep it up.  If you are not then join me in my quest to be organised and to put in place some good time management skills.

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Take Care
Sheryl

I should have done this earlier as I’m just about ready for bed.

My day started as usual getting out of bed at around 7:15am, having a coffee in an attempt to wake me up and then running around like crazy trying to get the kids to school in time.

I have the youngest stay home sick today - although I think he was maybe faking it.

After dropping the kids off at school I log on and check my stats and emails.  Then I spent half of the morning working on this blog and visiting the Warrior forum.  After lunch I spent some time writing articles before heading down to the fruit and veg shop to pick up a few things.  Back home I spent some time cleaning up in the kitchen before picking the kids up at 3:15pm and then spent some time with the kids and then folding washing.

This evening I spent more time writing articles (as a ghostwriter for other people). 

I will only write so much a day otherwise I start to lose focus which would result in poor quality articles.  So when I find myself losing focus I will stop for a while and do something else.

I do a bit of article marketing myself and although my customers are happy with my work I have never really been as successful as I’d like to be with my own article marketing campaigns.  So a couple of days ago I decided to purchase Article Marketing Domination by Josh Spaulding to see if I can get an idea of how I can improve my own article marketing.  I have just finished reading it and I must say that this is probably the best ebook that I have read in quite a long time.  In fact I emailed Josh to thank him for sharing the information in his ebook and to let him know how impressed I was.  In my 2 years of marketing I have never done that so that was just how impressed I was with this ebook.

I have no doubt that I now know what I have been missing in my article marketing campaigns and soon I will start using the methods in Article Marketing Domination and I am really feeling quite confident about it.  Tomorrow I am going to re-read the ebook as I like to read them twice just to take everything in as best I can.  Although I am not likely to get started until I finish this lot of article orders that I am working on.  I am quite looking forward to getting stuck into my own article writing though.

So I will submit this post to the usual sites that I submit to and then I’m going to bed.
Goodnight
Sheryl

PS. that is my three boys in the picture

Hi! My name is Melanie Bremner.

I have been running my online business for approximately 6 years now. I first
started off doing virtual assistance work and then got interested in selling
products online with a dropshipper.
I then expanded into the Resell Rights digital product sales and returned to
selling content writing for small businesses which I am still doing now.

I also have an 11 month old son who is quite the mommy’s boy so I have
learned to multi task with the best of them.

An average day starts around 8am. I get up to feed my son and put on a pot of
tea. I then boot up my laptop to check my emails. Completing my email
responses takes about an hour. By that time my son is bored of playing and
wants to spend some time with me. I spend a half an hour or so reading to my son
and playing various games with him. Then he is ready to play on his own again
for another hour before he has a nap.

For the next hour I post some responses on forums I have been keeping an eye
on. This way if my son does want to crawl over to sit on my lap I only need
one hand to type my comments.

When my son is down for his hour and a half nap,I try to get some writing done
for an article or whatever project my client may want.

I do all of my correspondence online through emails or Skype so I don’t have
to bother with a telephone. I find Skype calls I can do without having to have
a headset on so if I need to tend to my child, I can. Most of my clients know
I have a child and don’t mind the occaisional baby noises in the background.

We usually take a lunch break and go for a walk to get out of the house so
we can interact with other families at the library, park, or neighborhood
community center for an hour, then back home for another nap.

During the nap time is when I get the most of my writing done. On average I
am able to spend a dedicated 3 hours to writing without interruption during
the day.

When my son wakes up again, we have a snack and watch some “Treehouse”
programs together. Then my son will play again by himself for some time. This
is the time I add new content to my website, research topics, and try to learn
new SEO tips.

In the evening my husband will play with my son while I finish any projects
that have deadlines, or anything else that may be pressing. Then I make dinner
and we sit down to share our day.

Later on in the evening when my son has gone down for the night, I may spend
time brainstorming in a Skype chatroom with other internet marketers. I find
alot of my ideas for my research and writing by interacting with like minded
souls.

I usually have to remind myself to get off the computer and go to bed sometime
around 2am. That is an average day in the life of a work at home mom.

Melanie Bremner
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Our blog has the category of ‘A Day In The Life Of…’ and we want guest bloggers to give us posts about a typical day in their life as an internet marketer.

So I am calling all you internet marketers out there to come and be a guest blogger on our blog and let us know about your day.  I’ts not hard, we have a couple posts on here already that may give you an idea of what to write. 

So what’s in it for you???   You get:

• a link back to your website or blog
• your post will be submitted to Blogging Zoom
• your post will be submitted to Digg
• your post will be made into a hub at HubPages and include the link back to your website or blog
• your post will be submitted to ezine articles and include the link back to your website or blog

You can include a photo if you like and if you have a youtube video that you’d like to use I can add that to the HubPage.

So come and be a guest blogger all you need to do is email me at sherylpatstayhome-mum.com - you know what to do just replace the at with @

Email us your post plus a photo if you want one included and don’t forget to include the link back to your website or blog

Thanks in advance
Sheryl

BE CAREFUL CROSSING THE ROAD AND BE GOOD TO YOUR MOTHER!!

But seriously…….. not that I’m saying that it’s not serious that you should be good to your mother - always be good to your mother, but seriously…..

This is our new category called “Tips of the Day”

Now I just have to come up with some tips on a regular basis

My IM Tips for today:

STOP CHECKING YOUR STATS

That’s right, I know you are doing it.  So many people do, they run a new campaign or launch a product and then spend the next few days just checking their stats.  Checking your stats every hour isn’t going to make them grow any and all it is doing is wasting your time.

So spend less time checking your stats and more time doing something constructive.

Take care - come back later for my daily diary post.
Sheryl
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