Why is my blog about Internet Marketing and Narcolepsy? Simply because these are two elements that have a huge impact on my life.
Internet Marketing is how I, my wife and my younger sister earn a living. Narcolepsy, which I developed at the age of 18, does its best to negatively impact on my Internet [...]
Since I’m about to brand myself as an Internet Marketing heretic, I can’t exclude the possibility that I may shortly find myself bundled into an unmarked van, never to be heard from again. In case this does turn out to be the last article that I ever write, I hope you’ll take what you’re [...]
“But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.”
The above verse marks the point at which W.H. Auden’s poem abandons sentiment and proclaims the inevitable, destructive, march of time. This is something which internet marketers come to know only too well. [...]
You can couple the title with “Facts are sacred…” or “Truth prevails where…” whichever you prefer. Either way, everyone should be free to share their opinion, as long as they don’t object to having their ideas challenged and they have the humility to be willing to change their position in the face of a [...]
Sometimes you have no choice but to do jobs that you don’t enjoy, but if you have a choice you’re far better doing what you love.
Some will argue that, first and foremost, you should do what you’re good at, but most of the time that’s the same thing. If we’re good at something it’s often [...]
Category: Entrepreneurialism, Success
It’s a long-standing stereotype that British people love to queue.
It’s not so much that we love it – we moan about it as much as anyone else – more that we accept the polite conventions of queuing, such as maintaining a healthy distance from the person in front of you, tutting quietly (while inwardly seething) [...]
Category: Articles, Just For Fun
Pointing an accusing finger at the successful internet marketers – commonly referred to as the “Gurus” (it’s more accurate to use the label of “celebrity” but, for the sake of simplicity, I’ll stick with “Guru”) – is not exactly an original topic, but I’ve got a fresh angle from which to fire my self-righteous indignation.
Most [...]
Category: Articles, Entrepreneurialism, Success
In this article I’m turning my attention to the peddlers of the pseudo-scientific, quasi-religious, quantum quackery, that is The Law of Attraction.
Clearly I’m not going to be making any attempt to be of objective in this discussion but, to be fair, since a recent film raised awareness of this philosophical flight of fancy, you’d be [...]
Category: Articles, Law of Attraction, Success
New Internet Marketers are renowned for being tight with their money. It’s good to be careful with your expenditure but if it’s to the point of hosting your website on an advert supported service or trying to subsist on nothing but pop-tarts, then you’re taking it too far.
When you’ve got a nice, regular income [...]
Category: Articles, Backup, Outsourcing
Do you ever have difficulty leaving work behind?
For home business owners, this is a particularly difficult challenge because you’re never more than a few yards away from the office. At the end of a work day, resisting the urge to go back to the PC and ‘just check one quick thing’ takes a steely determination. [...]
Category: Articles, Authority, Influence, Liking, Reciprocation, Scarcity, Social Proof, Upsell
In Lewis Carroll’s novel, “Through the Looking Glass”, the Red Queen tells Alice that in the Looking Glass world “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place”. Although most commonly applied to evolutionary theory, the ‘Red Queen Effect’ is a fitting allegory to describe very nicely how many people run [...]
Category: Articles, Blogging, Productivity, Time Managment
