Taking Time Out
January 9th, 2010
Every marketing guru tells you to work hard but always take time out to avoid burn out. I have no problem with that so it was a leisure day today watching the footie.
216 followers on Twitter now (see previous post No Time to Waste). That’s in just over 2 days! Now I don’t for a second imagine just by having a heap of followers on Twitter I can relax and wait for the money to roll in. No, I’m using Twitter as one piece of a traffic generation method that I’m stitching together.
I have to say though, a lot of the people I’ve started to follow in return have plenty to say and there are a few gems hidden in there. I think I like Twitter, though I’m determined not to spend non-profitable hours on it.
I’ll talk about the other traffic generation methods and how they all fit together next week.
Generating traffic is all that I’m focusing on because I figure without traffic and without something useful to present when the traffic arrives I don’t stand much of a chance in terms of making money online.
I’ve decided to take weekends off and work like a carthorse Monday to Friday. I have a regular day job to take care of, fortunately I work from home and that’s a big, big benefit. The 9 to 5 will be working for the man and the remaining hours in each day I’ll work for myself (and Gordon Brown of course, mustn’t forget his bung!).
In my spare time today I was thinking about my Vision Statement. All the gurus I’ve listened to demand I have one. They say it doesn’t need to be complicated but it does need to be ambitious. Here goes:
I will earn enough online by providing top quality information products and services so I can give up my day job once and for all, and help other people do the same.
Isn’t the whole regular work scene humiliating, when you stop to consider it? Arrive when they tell you, leave when they tell you, eat when they tell you, mind your manners, be judged and rated and ranked and get thrown out the door when some bean-counter thinks there’s value in kicking you in the butt as thanks for all those years.
I just don’t want to do that any more, no matter how good the pay is. It’s degrading and I’m better than that and I deserve a more useful and fulfilled life. Provided I put the effort in to achieve it.
Rush say it better than I can. You may or may not like their style, but you have to admit – they’ve got a point. Have a great weekend.
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Firstly, I came in contact with your site as I was just setting up Twitter. I hated Twitter for a long time and did not have time to set aside for this new craze in so called “social marketing”. Furthermore, I blocked the Twitter.com from entering my computer through the firewall software.
Anyway, I think after using it for a few days now, have come to realize that Twitter is full of Hype. I see a lot of accounts with astronomical figures for Followers and Following. That is just ridiculous. There needs to be an overhaul of the Twitter system. Everything is just a mixed bag of fruits of all kinds. That is why I think Twitter as a personal media has very little benefit for me.
However, there are some accounts out there that do have value in pursuing but they are far few in between and it’s like the needle and the haystack story trying to find the good Twitter friends/accounts.
Fred from NetMarketingGuides.com
Hi Fred, thanks so much for leaving a comment! It’s a great boost when you’re starting up to know that at least somebody is reading the blog.
I tend to agree with you about the chaotic nature of Twitter. As I’ve previously concluded, anyone who is relying on this service alone to make money is likely to end up sorely disappointed.
However, as part of a larger marketing strategy and given the fact Google seems to be paying close attention, I think there is a place for Twitter. If you have followed my other posts you’ll know I have selected an automated service to build a follower list. I don’t think this is cheating because I would have used the same methods manually. Automation is simply a time saver so I can get on and do other things.
Whether this yields any true value I’ll have to wait and see. However, you said yourself, you first came in contact with this blog through Twitter. If I hadn’t been on Twitter you never would have found the blog and I guess I’m hoping this holds true for many other Twitter users.
But it’s not just about getting users to your blog. You have to give them something useful once they get here. Something other than a crude sales pitch. I see you have also commented in the another thread about link cloaking and have decided to use the script I presented there. I’m dead chuffed about that and hope you find it useful. When you commented I went and checked out your web site, which has a ton of articles that I’ll be plunging into over time.
So I think in this instance, Twitter has done the job it claims to do, bring people together when under ordinary circumstances they would have never met.
Anyway, pleased to meet you.