Big Changes Are Coming

In light of my big A’ha,(yesterday’s post) things are gonna start to change around here.

Forgive the mess while the renovations are going on, and keep checking in for new stories, photos and interesting facts about wherever we are in the world.

My A’HA Moment

I’ve decided that cooking is like life.

If you like cooking (which I do) then the way you approach the dinner time rush is potentially a reflection of how you approach life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some people meticulously follow the recipe handed down through generations

Some people will use new recipes

Some people just look at the pictures and then make the rest up

And some people just can’t cope with it.

So here’s my a’ha.

I don’t follow recipes (even though I love the books) I look at the picture, check out the basic ingredients and then ‘wing it’. Sometimes I fail, most of the time not. I am confident and pretty much know what is going to work because I have persisted, and experimented in my own way.

So if I can’t or won’t follow a ‘recipe’ in someone else’s cook book, then I’m probably not going to follow someone else’s system in business either!

I originally started this Blog to help create my brand and effectively ‘sell’ my companies products and system on the ‘back end’.

The product is excellent… The system is unmatched

I just couldn’t work it

Because I don’t follow recipes

I look at the pictures and then do it my own way.

Sneaky little Internet Marketing Tricks: My personal gripe!

Sneaky little Internet Marketing Tricks: My personal gripe!
We all hate that 7pm unsolicited call from someone trying to earn his or her commission by selling us something we don’t really want. A lot of us have quite funny ways of dealing with it (my husband would put our 2y/o at the time on the phone and say ‘talk to grandpa’ …They would generally hang up the phone before we did!)
And then there are the companies that send their salespeople door to door, often at dinnertime, to deal with the same disgruntled customer that just hung up the phone.
We all know about this, we all hate it and lately I have come across what I think is the equivalent in Internet marketing.
So the first one, which I must say I was guilty of when I first started (but no more) is the unsolicited advertisement in your inbox from a new ‘friend’ or ‘follower’ in Social Media. Sounds a bit like “Hi, would you like to buy something?” Harmless enough but a few lessons in social media etiquette are definitely required! I guess it’s easy to just hit delete and even block them if we want to.
The second is just as harmless, and I think a little more annoying, and that is people responding to my classified add with adds for their own business opportunity. Even though I have ticked the box saying it is NOT OK to contact me for commercial purposes, these advertisements still land in my inbox. There is no face, no proper name and the classifieds site masks the email address. As if I would join someone who behaves like this.
Number three is twitter specific and that is Retweet Hijacking. That is someone retweets you and then adds their URL at the end. I now check the link when someone retweets me. It’s only happened once and I sent an @ reply (public) saying something like “it seems a bit dodgy that you added your own link to my tweet”. I don’t know whether they got the message but it hasn’t happened to me again.
The fourth is the one that really stands out as sneaky and underhanded to me, and that is using my landing page forms as a way to advertise to me. This has happened twice to me in slightly different ways. Most recently someone filled out their email address, requesting more information, so I emailed them as requested, and the response I got was something like “your opportunity looks interesting… have you thought about this one http://www.imstupidurl.com” What the …?
And the most annoying one of all for me was someone clicking on my PPC add, accessing my landing page and writing “it looks like you’re paying too much for your PPC advertising….blah blah http://www.imevenmorestupidurl.com” right there in the ‘any questions’ line. In short, these people made me pay so they could advertise to me!! That deserves a wrist slap I think. Luckily and ironically I had started my education in Google Adwords and so it hardly cost a thing
I reiterate, as if I would join someone who behaves in any of these ways, with whom I have no relationship, and who holds zero credibility in my eyes.
What do you think?