Posts under ‘Observations’

It’s been way too long since I lasted posted on here and for all intents and purposes, I had pretty much given this blog up for dead. It did seem a little pointless to continue posting about IM when my own efforts weren’t producing very impressive results. After all, there is only so much I can say about structuring Adwords campaign, when I no longer have an Adwords account or how to get massive amounts of traffic when all I’m getting is just a trickle. There is good news though on both the personal and business fronts.

I really can’t stand it when people start blogs with good intentions of posting regularly to them only to abandon them after a few short months. Looks like I’ve joined that prestigious club. I just checked and my last post was about my plans for 2009. Sigh.

Granted, few people are interesting enough as well as inspired enough to make blog posts on a daily basis. I truly admire those who do. I originally began this blog as a journal of my Internet Marketing experiences. In that regard, it also serves the purpose as a kind of therapy. It would take way too long to detail everything that has occurred since my last post back at the beginning of 2009 and now.

As is typical for me I’m a bit late posting about my plans for 2009. This really isn’t a post about my goals and certainly not one about lame resolutions. I’m still working through New Year’s resolutions from 1986. I think striving to make improvements in one’s life and overcoming obstacles and bad habits is a 365-day a year effort.

At the planning level, things are a whole lot broader and it came down to identifying my strengths and weaknesses. I took a self-assessment test that Jerry West linked to on his blog. To be honest, I already had a pretty good idea what mine were as I think will all do. However, taking the self-assessment test confirmed things for me.

A regular and thoughtful commenter posted a question to me regarding my experience with the various PPC training courses I’ve purchased over the past year. All of these are big name courses and most were surrounded with a great deal of both hype and anticipation:

• PPC Clasroom v1
• PPC Classroom v2
• Black ink Project
• Commission Blueprint

Now, I don’t have to refer back to the original sales letters or wrack my brain too hard, but the only one that actually iived up to the full promise of its promotion was “The Black Ink Project I“.

The more I watch “Mad Men” on AMC the more hooked I get. This show operates on so many different levels as Ken Kesey was fond of saying. Of course, there’s the central drama of the Madison Avenue advertising firm, which anyone at all interested in sales and marketing should be fascinated by. Then there’s all the sub-plots and individual pyshco-dramas that are slowly playing out over the course of the season. This dramatic tapestry alone simply blows my mind!