Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and a great 2009!
I hope you all enjoyed the holiday break. I know I did.
What did I do?
Well, I’ve spent the past couple of weeks relaxing with my family, catching up with friends and just taking advantage of the beautiful weather here in sunny Queensland.
And of course I’ve enjoyed lots of very yummy food… now comes the diet!
One of the first things I recommend you do when you’re trying to set up an online business is to keep a business journal.
I remember back in the early days when I was first advised to do this, how I immediately made excuses as to why I couldn’t.
I said things like ” I can’t, I don’t have enough time” and “I don’t know what to write”
But I persevered, and now it’s almost second nature to journal my thoughts at the end of each working day.
Like most people who make an attempt at internet marketing, when I first started I spent thousands of dollars searching for the elusive products that were going to lead me up that sure-fire path to success.
Now that I think of it, I’m sure that paying for professional coaching actually SAVED me money in the long term as it made me put my credit card away and focus on the job at hand — building an internet marketing business that worked.
As with any trade, there are always tools and products that are required, and Internet Marketing is no exception — there are some things that are absolutely necessary and others that are well worth paying for, just for the benefits they provide.
Today I headed down to the Gold Coast to enjoy a coffee with a friend of mine, Andrew Hansen, the creator of Firepow, a niche blogging software.
We decided to catch up as Andrew and his girlfriend Elysia have decided to leave Sunny Queensland and move to Canada before the end of the year.
As I sat chatting to Andrew I was once again reminded how lucky I am to be able to enjoy this lifestyle, to choose when I work, (or when I don’t) … and how internet marketing has made this all possible.
Now I’m not saying that I only work 4 hours a day, three days a week —far from it — I work hard, really hard and I spend many hours a day in front of my computer.
When I first decided to enter the world of Internet Marketing I had no idea what lay ahead. I clearly remember the feelings of confusion and frustration I experienced in the early days.
I understand how complicated and intimidating it is to navigate your way through the mass of information that’s available online. Thats why I decided that if I truly wanted to be successful, I had to get help from people who had already succeeded themselves.
My name is Collette Jones and I live in beautiful Brisbane, Australia.
If somebody had told me a few years ago that I would be blogging, my answer would have been “Blogging? What’s blogging?… Is it painful?”
Well, here I am… and welcome to my blog.
Back then I ran a traditional mainstream business. But after 10 years, the long hours and day-to-day drudgery of running operations meant that work was consuming my life. It was “all work and no play” — something had to change.
