Inside Pauls Brain

I just sent a email out to some of my lists reminding them about the special offer on Article Helper Pro.

The email was honest and told them a bit about what I am doing, no need to tell them about the tool as I had already told them about it.

As always I get a few unsubscribes, and I have learnt to take that as part of life, I also made a lot of sales which is nice. I get the sales and they save some money.

One of the people who unsubscribed took the time to send me a message, now I have had rude messages before, I have had lots of polite ones as well.
This message was meant as an insult but you know what I am taking it as a compliment.

LOL - wat - ur funny man - but not a marketer

Ok aside from the fact that she can’t spell the word “What” and writes in TXT speak, oh and the domain she uses has a really poor built for adsense site on it, I actually think she has hit me right on the head.

I like to think that people like being around me in the offline world, I enjoy a laugh (and pie!) and a joke with people and if the worst thing I get told this year is that I am “Not a marketer” then it isn’t a bad thing for me.

I may not be much of a marketer, I mean there are a few things I do (or don’t do) that prove I am not a real Marketer
I don’t put inflated income claims on my pages
I don’t promote everything that comes out
I do answer my own emails

But you know what, I make a nice living, and I sleep at night proud of my products and I really enjoy helping people and getting to hear all the positive stuff my customers are doing.

So if I have to spend my days playing with my daughter, working on our new house so it is just how my wife wants it and going and eating cake with my brother in law and the family on Sundays, well I will settle for not being much of a marketer.
Maybe becoming a real marketer would make me richer.. but we aint exactly starving so I think I will stay as I am.

Paul

What fallback?

When times are tough (or we decide to do some painting and end up spending 3 times as much as I hoped) and we need some quick cash my wife falls back onto eBay.
She will go into a cupboard and sell of some baby clothes (this has been the latest one), or we take $20-$40 in dollar bills, go to yard sales and buy things to resell on eBay.

Everytime we turn on the news we keep seeing people talking about gas prices and food going up, I know I can’t do much about the price of gas or food, I can do something about my income.
Ebay is a good way to earn some quick cash, it can be a major money earner in fact but that is something that takes more work and a little research.

More on that later…

My wife loves shopping online, we have a young baby and we have just moved into a house that needs some work so there is always something to do. She doesn’t want to spend time going from one shop to another looking for things like the huge play pen we just got.
So she shops online, ebay, amazon, wal-mart etc are her stomping grounds usually. Now when you go to Wal Marts site you can either have the item delivered to the store or pay for shipping and get it delivered to your home.
Normally she will get it shipped to the store and then drive the 5 miles to the store and pick the item up.

Now gas is $4+ a gallon here she is starting to look at the delivery charge as not so bad. By the time you factor in the cost of the gas (especially since it is so hot here now that she has the air con running which seems to suck up the juice) and the time factor then the $9 or even $15 doesn’t seem so bad for delivery after all.

My wife is not out of the ordinary I am sure, she is a very normal web surfer, so if she is thinking like this how many others are.
This isn’t just a Wal mart thing:-
Books- if you know what books you want why drive across town to Barnes and Noble when you can go to Amazon and get free shipping if you order enough. Instead of spending $5 worth of gas, buy another book.

While you will probably always have to drive to the store for food, just about anything else could work out cheaper for people to get shipped direct to their house.

The expression is When you have lemons make lemonade, well it applies as much as it does offline.

I am back, I am back..

I have been moving a lot of my sites recently, getting rid of some of my hosting accounts and generally cleaning stuff up.
I have had as many as 6 accounts with hostgator at once and I am gradually closing all but my reseller account. the thing is I canceled some subscription payments and in amongst them was one I wanted to keep ..

That is why this site has been down for more than a little while..

I am back!

I think I will be moving this site as well , so then I only have two payments going out..well for now..lol

Ok I will be back soon with some real info, lots of catching up to do..