Paul Duxbury

Paul’s Weekly Ponderings

October 22nd, 2006

Hope that your week has gone well and that you have had a great weekend?

I know for us it’s been a little mad to put it mildly. As some of you will be aware my partner had a knee operation early in the week and I have been running back and too trying to look after them! Anyway things are slowly getting on the mend. So that is good news!

It’s that period of the year when Internet Marketing products appear to be launched left, right and centre. One of the things that seems to be happening is that the pricing of some of these products appears to be losing touch with reality! They are becoming more and more adept at marketing these products and playing on every concievable emotion - witness the latest email from the people behind the 6M Profit Method - essentially you must buy our $3,000 product aimed at newcomers to Internet Marketing in case you get sick! I am sorry I will not be recommending this over-priced product to anyone.

What worries me about this sort of stuff is that it is drawing people into chasing a dream which is out of touch with their real desires. Ask anyone if they want to be a multi-millionaire and I suspect their initial response will be “Yes Please!” Then sit down with them and talk to them about their real desires (as I do many times when I am coaching people at all levels) and their desires will start to come out. You will hear phrases like “I want to earn a comfortable living” or “I want to be able to look after my loved ones” or even ” I want to have a freedom of choice.”

Notice in there the phrase “comfortable living” and how many of us wouldn’t want that? How many of us would like to be able to make choices and decisions in our lives? The decision to go on holiday? The freedom of choice to decide whether we want to work for ourselves or want to build up a nest egg for the future? Does that sound a little more routed in reality than the day dreaming of being a multi-millionaire which some internet marketers hold out to us with their multi-thousand pound “offers of enlightenment” on a regular basis?

Don’t get me wrong I believe in aspiring to great things, indeed that is what so much of my work in coaching is about, but that is always rooted in reality and in the real and achievable aspirations of the individuals concerned. None of us should beholden to the aspirations of other people especially those that like to post pictures of their houses (with the spotless kitchens with no pans and plates in them!) or their boats which have never touched water.

Now I firmly believe that the Internet Marketing arena can offer many people the opportunity to achiev thir true aspirations without making them broke along the way! It is something I have managed to do over the past 12 months or so with some degree of success.

Those of you who have subscribed to my updates on the Internet Business Creators page will have received my recent email. In it outlined how my original idea of developing a series of eBooks outlining my approach to developing an Internet Business has developed in response to the people the project was aimed at. The feedback was that people want a more intereactive opportunity where they gain the information in a different way. So essentially I will be running a subscriber site/Blog where I will share exactly what I do to earn a very comfortable living which gives me freedom of choice. Price point set at something like $19.97 per month (reduced by 50% for subscribers).

It’s a project that is really exciting me and there will be more details in the next few weeks! If you haven’t signed up and want to then go to Internet Business Creators!

Now turning to other matters GenMates is continuing to grow at an amazing rate. We are seeing so many new members joining and taking advantage of the facilities on offer and it’s great to know that we are providing something that genealogists clearly want. We already have plans for a number of other sites in associated niches (areas of interest) so watch out for the news on those. If you are a member of the Warrior Forum and are looking at getting a Social Networking site launched in your Niche(s) my WSO offer is still available!

The events of the last week have delayed some of our activity but we are rapidly catching up! The Genealogy Audio Articles and The Scrapbooking Audio Articles are getting there and as someone said to me the other day they will be great to listen to on the colder winter nights. Talking of winter nights I don’t know about you but it doesn’t feel like autum yet does it! Well certainly not here in the Uk where the trees are still looking very green and leaf laden! Oh that reminds me the other thing I was asked about the Audio articles was whether the audio files will be available as MP3 downloads so that people can listen to them on the move. I am working on that at the moment and seeing how we can make them available at a nominal charge for the lot - so again watch out for news on that.

During the week I made a special offer available of The Genealogy Guide and literally dozens of people took advantage of the offer. It’s still available if you want to grab a copy for yourself and I will probably leave it available for just a couple more days at The Genealogy Guide.

We also received quit a few emails asking if we could make other offers such as that one and I am pleased to say we are doing at PK eBooks - Your eBook Store! The site specialises in home and hobby quality eBooks and you will find eBooks on Scrapbooking Ideas, Coin Collecting, Stamp Collecting, Amateur Photography and much more besides! Do take a look at the site as you will find a lot of eBooks and there is even a free download which I think you will find interesting!

So there you have it a very busy week!

Entry Filed under: Internet Marketing, Genealogy, Make Money Online, New to Internet Marketing, homebased business, Social Network, Create Social Network, Niche Audio Articles, Audio Articles, Scrapbooking, Hobby, Identity Theft, 6M Profit Method, Coin Collecting, Stamp Collecting