What I Didn’t Learn At School

There comes a time where you just don’t have time to learn yourself everything about SEO and marketing and everything else you are supposed to know to run a successful blog and make money on the Internet. But don’t blame yourself, you should be very organized and have awesome time management skills to get around everything from making your own product, running a blog, twitter, spend time on your mailing list and all the SEO things with article writing, hubpages and squidoo lenses.

I worked and played with some keywords too, but when talking to a SEO guy that I’ve been buying services from, he told me I was doing everything wrong.

That was when I thought.. why try to use a lot of time with squidoo and hubpages when all the hours I will put into it, probably will be wrong. The keywords will be all messed up and the end result will not be as good as $30 dollars will get me.

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Twitter has been around for a little over a year already and 2008 has really been the year for Twitter. It has become a tool for traffic and marketing but also to keep connected to friends and family. Many people do like me, they use one account for business and one for private. It’s almost impossible to track all the conversations on my business account but on my private it’s easy and fun.

Many people I’ve talked to think it’s to late to jump on the Twitter train. That it is filled with users marketers and people that try to sell you stuff and spam you. I don’t blame them, there is so much spam coming from some of the users and Twitter is working hard to kick off the black hat marketers that wants to build fast and hard. Just yesterday I tried to follow some of the people that follows me, but many of them where blocked for climbing to fast. He he.. stupid newbies.

Anyhow, It’s not to late to get big on Twitter. Twitterholic keeping track of who is big and who is not on Twitter and if you look at it with my eyes, a Norwegian Viking, It’s not that hard to be the biggest Twitter user in all of Norway. The Kid Tech Guru wrote a blog post last month about the Top 3 Twitter users from every contry in the world making the biggest Twitter user in Norway the net browser Opera with 1,749 followers.

If you live in the states you have some hard work to do to get the biggest on Twitter. You need to beat the President himself, Barack Obama with his 149.000 followers.

So when will you be big on Twitter? And will you black hat yourself to the top or get people to follow with a friendly giving smile?

I’ll try the last one! Please add me to Twitter! *Friendly Giving Smile* and help a Norwegian Viking to be the biggest Twitter user in Norway :-P

Hi guys and Happy New Year to everybody! This is my first post in the new year and it comes a bit to late. So what have I been up to lately since I clearly haven’t done anything on my blog? Well as they say, new year brings new opportunities and also you start a year with blank papers. I needed some time to get my head cleared and start to plan.

You really have to work to succeed, and I feel that I have actually worked too. But still I feel that I’m somewhere on the same spot as I was only a few months ago. I don’t see the big change and the work I’ve put in haven’t really given me the results that I was looking for in that time slot.

So I sat down and started to think things through. Where did I actually wanted to be from the time I started to where I am now? My answer was a stable 5 figure income on a monthly basis. I then asked myself what action should I have taken to get to the goals I had? And guess what, I couldn’t answer that question.

I felt kind of lost and didn’t know what to do. I know I had a bunch of stuff to do. Many people to talk to, stuff I wanted to do, blog post I had to write but some how I couldn’t get started. So I went back to basic and looked over Alex jeffreys first module about planning and taking actions. It was clearly that I haven’t followed all the steps of what I had learned. I was so ready to get started and earning money that instead of planning I just jumped straight to the profit pulling platform and waited for the money to come to me.

Now I am a man with a plan. I sat down and started on my yearly goal. Where do I want to be this time one year from now. I then divided the year down in 4 containing 3 months each. I then take the first 3 months and go in detail for the first month. Then I took those steps for the first month down to week by week and ended with a daily plan for the first week with a final task everyday to plan tomorrow today.

This gives me tons of time saving and believe it or not better sleep. I was often awake through nights always thinking about what to do the next morning. Then when the morning comes I go to my computer, start reading mails and look over comments and traffic for my blog. Then I surf some news and other fun stuff and believe it or not, when the day was over I haven’t done a single thing productive. But now with the planning skills of Alex Jeffreys I’m back on track where most Internet Marketers would have quit or jumped over to the next thing or product.

I’m glad I got this thing started so early this year and by looking at my plan I have a lot to do so I better wrap this up now with a question. Have you made your business plans for 2009?