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Genesis of a Blogger
In the beginning was the word, and the word was good. The word was in fact two words — internet marketing.
When I was first researching internet marketing and making money online, I didn’t know HTML or Dreamweaver, I barely knew how to use Photoshop (though I was fortunate to own a copy), and my knowledge and experience of marketing was almost non-existent.
Had I known how much time I’d need to invest in the venture or how many different subjects I’d need to study, I sometimes wonder whether I’d have gotten involved, but the motivation was of course money. For more than five years, I’d enjoyed my involvement with the charity where I worked, but changes in my life had triggered a major shift in my perspective. It was a feeling I could not shake off.
Now I wanted financial freedom, so that I could be in charge of my life, and not dance to the tune playing on someone else’s iPod.
With determination and gritted teeth, I wrangled HTML and Dreamweaver, wrestled the auto-responder, and just as I’d gotten my head around the basics, and felt ready to enter the arena and start earning my millions from internet marketing, something struck me. Forcefully.
I could no longer ignore how frequently I was encountering references to social networking and Web 2.0. Nor the general consensus of opinion being that these ingredients had become essential to a successful recipe for making money online.
Eventually, I had to accept that the internet marketing techniques I’d been learning about, though still valid, had evolved, and now incorporated new elements, resulting in a more dynamic and social experience for the website user or customer.
At the time, this wasn’t a particularly welcome revelation, as originally I’d been seduced by all the hyped up product promos, informing me that I could, “earn $57,642 in my pyjamas, before breakfast … no technical skills or marketing knowledge required”. Call me gullible, if you like, but don’t you hear bells ringing?
Once I’d realized the trip was going to be a little bumpier than anticipated, I elected to stay for the duration. I chose to learn new skills and acquire new abilities, so that I could live my life as the person I wanted to be, somewhere I’d enjoy spending my time, as a member of a community I had chosen to call home. Internet marketing represented the key.
It was at this point, churning amidst the sleep deprived nights and unfamiliar inner stirrings, that it happened.
The blogger was born — and its name is Reward Rebel.
Welcome to the adventure.
Reward Rebel
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ACK!! Comments on your latest post are closed??
I’d also like to see a contact page of some sort
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Dennis
Thanks for alerting me to that, D, no idea how it happened, it’s now fixed. The system did crash last night and some strange things happened elsewhere on it, tho I dunno how something on server could be affected.
All’s well now… I hope… fingers crossed… touch wood…. must find a 4-leafed clover… where’s my lucky green hat…
Talk about tempting fate… I wrote the above reply a couple of hours ago, but when I clicked the Submit Comment button, I lost the internet access, and have been intermittently wrestling to regain it!! Again, “all’s well…”!
BTW I did put up a Contact page but then something went wrong with it, and I took it down, but haven’t sorted it out yet.
That’s seems to be serious intermittent issues…how exactly did the system crash?
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..Captcha Issue: Why You WILL Lose My Comment - Possibly My Subscription
My laptop’s power lead has a dodgy connection, and I think it quit charging the battery, which consequently died - like totally - having a very unhealthy impact on the system judging by the unfamiliar screens that displayed when I turned it back on.
Sure gave me a nasty few moments and made me go all ‘ooh er…’ and ‘wtf’! Think everything’s fine now - I’m just grateful I’ve got an external hard drive for back ups from laptop and pc!