I'm always looking at how to use the internet for new ideas to market and grow my offline business. Most simply suck offline, then there are those things that just need a little tweaking and work great.
Oh, you thought the internet was all I do???....remember, I'm the person that drinks too much coffee and always talk about one-trick-ponies!
If you're anything like me, you do the same thing. As solos, its easier for us because we can change on a dime if need be and hunker down with what works while everyone else chases the next great turnip or something equally as useless. Besides, I believe even the village idiot can have a good idea once in a while!
While looking around today for some ideas to build my mailing list, I decided to take a closer look at this social networking thing. Of course a lot of it was about trying to trick the moderators at the new 'pedophile network' - MySpace.
Before the owners of MySpace get their drawers in an uproar over that pedophile remark - consider how a parent is going to look at your site: anywhere that children from 5 on up are encouraged to put their friends contact information and add their personal details is asking to be raked over the coals.
Besides, anyplace that is for teens who haven't got it that every word they use - our parents used better when you pissed them off, is not for serious business builders like us.
Ok, my little rant is over. Let's get back to this Squidoo thing.
Tiffany Dow is a member of the Warrior Forum I told you about and she offered a free report on using Squidoo for business owners. I did get the report because (1) I read a lot of information with "business" in the title and (2) It was a freebie.
I got it, read it and rushed off to setup my account and then became that deer caught in the headlights of a Mack truck - all dressed up and not a damn clue what to do next.
Have you ever heard a little education can be a dangerous thing? Yeah well, in this case it was true. I had just enough education to get me stuck.
So I made the investment for Tiffany's video and ebook. Those missing pieces made this social networking thing make sense.
The price at the time I bought it was $47, which for Social Networking on Squidoo was a pleasant surprise because it really is a product with meat to it.
While it works for how I use it - to bring traffic to my blogs where people can subscribe, call me on Skype if they want to find out about me as a coach or just get some encouragement for going it alone, your uses for it may be entirely different. Remember, take what you can use and leave the rest.
This post is short because I'm getting over the flu or something equally as weird. So it's off to bed with 3 fingers of warm Baileys Irish Cream...sweat it out don't think!
I'll leave you with this
Tada Ima: A Japanese term for only now. Focus
only on the moment, the immediate task at hand. - Jason Cain
