Focus on permission-based marketing and customer benefits to formulate a winning plan. Then just Get It Going and build a relationship with your lists.
Hi everyone. To put things simply, I’ve been hiding from my potential, lurking, and just generally not giving the world my best effort. It all started many years ago with a lot of scholastic achievement. More recently, I’ve fixed up a LOT of social discomfort and acquired a LOT more social grace.
Maybe 12 months ago I was probably capable of what I will do this month. But I was uncertain. And it was a lot easier to keep “sucking in paychecks”, more or less, and NOT build a web property of my own.
So here’s my first real declaration of this fact: I’m a web property developer. I am developing THIS web property. It will provide assistance to other people, and it will begin to provide me a full-time income. (Yes, it is going to work. Check back with me in 6 or 8 weeks. Trust me!)
I will also help other people to develop THEIR web properties. I’ve had a few clients, and I have contributed to maybe 15 different businesses on the Internet so far. I’ll be making much stronger contributions, and to many more businesses in the coming months.
But I’ll also say that I am more likely to assist people talking on the phone than working on their web server or autoresponders. I was always a technical guy. Recently I’m becoming more of a business person, I must say.
Did you know that I can sell things just fine “from” a website without any “buy now” buttons? Just 4 months ago I wouldn’t have been happy doing that. Today I realize that making myself prepare a sales page is just creating silly, arbitrary rules. If I can provide services, either coaching or technical or marketing services, it doesn’t matter if any bit of that is automated and tied to a web page and a “buy now” button.
What matters is that I can perform technical and marketing and coaching services that will be of service to another business. And that other business will be happy to pay me for those services. And I might draw up my proposal on a napkin, in a powerpoint, or I might just describe my proposal with my gift for the English (or Spanish) language.
At the end of the day, business is business. Value is exchanged for value. And my approach to business is to provide more value than I charge because that will make for happy clients, and that will lead to clients happily referring their friends to me.
That makes for solid business with good revenue streams. I’m going to build that type of business, here on this patch of virtual Internet property. If you’re a step or two or twenty behind where I am, I advise you to keep an eye on what I am doing. You may be on the receiving end of some VERY nice value propositions soon.
Be especially vigilant near the end of August, 2010. And sign up for my email list – give me your email address on the form on the top right of my website now. Do it before you forget. You’ll be sorry if you miss out later this month.
Hi Tim,
Great to see you are coming out of your ‘shell’ and getting it going.
Building your social skills will be extremely beneficial and you have a LOT to offer others in technical know how and knowledge.
Brilliant site, can’t wait to see your launch.
Good luck and thanks for all your advice and assistance, I will gladly recommend you.
Hi Tim,
Really appreciated your comments on my blog and I left some ideas for you there. when you get time check them out and if there is anything further I can do to help please let me know. Happy to help OK!
I enjoyed your post and only wish I had your technical skills. I’m an absolute dunce when it comes to anything technical – for me creating a blog post is just about my limit.
But I love to help and give wherever I can in the non-technical areas. If there was anything I would comment on re your post it’s this: next time when you are writing think of this old Aussie guy who lives in remote Thai village and who is technically incompetent and perhaps does not even know what he needs to know.
I found by visualizing my mum that my blog posts automatically became easier to write and read…just a thought mate.
One more thing that will really help you get more blog comments is to install “comment luv”. It’s a free plug in that shows the last blog post of the person leaving a comment. It encourages people to comment because it promotes their blog.
Hope this helps. Still an awesome post Tim…well done!
Hi Tim, I found your site via a comment on Sally’s blog. Here is your 3rd comment
. Good luck with the challenge.
By the way, what is your GIGClub? I was reading about it on some of the tabs at the top but can’t quite work it out.
If you haven’t already, consider getting the Subscribe to Comments plugin going real quick. It sends an email to everyone who ticks the box saying they want a follow up email when a comment is added below theirs. If I had a list of the top 10 plugins, StC would have to be really close to position 1 in that list.
See, I wont know if you have approved or replied to my comment…
Regards, Michael.
Hey Michael,
Thanks for visiting! Wow, I love your post topics, cool mini-graphics with each post – and the flavor on your blog. I want to follow you around a bit and hope that your style will rub off on me.
Sally seems like a good one to get mixed up with. I like your sidebar, “get this first” label. I think I will swipe that real soon!
Cheers,
Tim
Hey Tim,
Ok Ok I will have to sign up now because I am nosey and scared I will miss out on something ha ha.
I am not the most technical of people to be honest, so I hope I can learn lots from you.
Thanks for your nice comment about me, very kind of you to say that.
Sally
Hi Sally,
You know, I realized when I was going through a video by Alex Jeffries for like the third time that he mentions you by name. Very cool.
Yes, I have had quite a background in techie things. I am looking for some topics to make into videos. Reminds me, I’ve got one to do for a friend in Oz regarding addon domains and hosting disk space.
Do you have a good question or two for me?
Cheers,
Tim