The wheels on the bus

Any of you that have kids, or nephews will have heard the song, you know the one about the wheels on the bus going round and round.

Well it came to mind last night when I was on a one to one call with a customer.

He has been online for a while and makes some money, the first problem is he spends as much as he makes. He belongs to half a dozen forums which he pays for some of them, 3 (or maybe it was 4) plr sites, has an aweber account and 3 hosting accounts.

The second problem is he doesn’t like a lot of what he does, he has mailing lists but hates writing emails, doesn’t like selling. Of course the people pushing the PLR at him are telling him thats what he has to do so he does it.

Everyone talks about building sites, no one ever seems to discuss that there is a time to cut your losses and move on.

I think if this was my first call where I had sensed real frustration, and one guy sounded like he was near to tears, it wouldn’t be so bad but there definitely seems to be a pattern of people spending to much money and when they dont quite make it they go and join somewhere else and when that doesn’t work out they join the next one.

Hands up anyone who is humming the wheels on the bus as they join program after program?

I will share more soon, we are still working on getting this new blog set up the way I want it.

In the mean time if you feel that you would benefit from an hour talking to me about your business, where it is, where you want it to be and what is driving you nuts then pop along to my one on one page.

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Easter Weekend Already?

Last weekend was really hectic with the last minute push for wp easy ads, which I have to say did 3 times as many sales as I expected!

So what can I plan for this weekend to match the excitement?

Article Marketing Challenge – I am a bit late to this one but what the heck, 100 articles in 100 days. The date to have them all done and approved by is 1st July. So far I have added 3 and had two approved, I will aim to do a few more over the weekend.

It may seem a bit silly getting so excited over a mug, but I think it is the challenge and also if you can do it once then why not do it all year? 365 articles in a year? Now wouldn’t that drive some traffic to your sites?

List all my products in one place- I was recently talking to Kevin in Florida and he was asking me about this or that bit of software and it took me a second to realize it is one I sell! I get asked a fair bit about what software I sell and I think the time has come to bring it all together in one place so watch out for that.

I also have content to finish for a house raffle site, a phone store and a lawyers site.

In fact as usual I have far to many ideas to ever be able to get them all done but what the heck I will try!

Remember that there really is no free lunch, you need to work on the footings before the house will build itself.

Why is my computer slow?

I am in the process of moving my stuff to a new pc, I have had this one since moving to the states and it is on its last legs.

Well the new pc is suddenly seeming incredibly slow..

I defragedit, kicked it and did all the usual techy things that I do..

As I am sat here swearing like a sailor at Microsoft and anyone else I can thing of, a certain teenager pipes up..

“Oh yeah I borrowed some ram from your pc to see if it would speed up my games”

I have to give him credit he did look like he was training for the Olympics as he ducked and ran away from me!