What is a Web Logue?

Why not call it what it is?  One’s thoughts, ideas and instruction should be posted on a web log. 

Blog sounds so droll, so….I don’t know…maybe it’s that “aaag” sound at the end of the word.  Sound is everything – more about that below.   Log sounds much more elegant, like captain’s log.   In fact, I think  it deserves a longer spelling, like logue or something.   Log has the sound of learning and education.  But blog with its aaaaaag…that’s just no good. 

Maybe it’s the association of that sound with other words like grog or nog (alcoholic and drunken) or flog (beaten and defeated) or bog* (as in bogged down).  Why do we have to shorten everything and turn stuff into acronyms?  Actually, in this case, it’s less an acronym and more an acrostic, but you know what I mean….

*Bog could go the other way – either in a “Use the force, Luke” sort of way or a shift to the dark side.  Sound it out with a preppy English accent and your mind will take you to beautiful cranberry bogs with a summer’s morning mist rising and gently swirling and once dissipated revealing clear, clean water - a lovely scene worthy of an artist’s canvas.  Go to the dark side and soon you are sinking in a dreadful baaaag on a dark, cold winter day and about to drown. 

Did you know that sound is processed by the brain almost instantly?  Eyesight, on the other hand, has a nearly 1/10 second delay – what you see is actually what you saw and so the question is, which is more reliable?  Sight and vision are what the mind interprets after the fact, but sound?  It’s right there and real. 

So now that you’ve read this whole little piece, and have had a chance to think about it, don’t you agree?  Wouldn’t it be so much nicer to call these things web logues?

New Guide Available – Getting Started With Internet Marketing

Hi Guys!  I just wandered onto a simple, easy to read (on real paper, no less!) guide to help us retired dudes and dudettes get started selling stuff on the internet. 

It’s a product being marketed to busy stay-at-home moms.  So… we’re grandmoms and grandads, right? I figure that qualifies us.

All kidding aside – this is the best product I’ve seen in months.  (Months – by the way – are like dog years when it comes to the internet-one month on the interent equals 7 dog years or at least 2 human years)

This guide covers it all.  Here’s an advance look at the table of contents:

• Mentoring Increases Success – Page 4
• The Five Minute Guide to Choosing an Internet Business Mentor – Page 5
• Reasons to Stay Home – Page 7
• Ways to Work from Home Online – Page 26
• Knowing Your Target Market & Unique Selling Proposition – Page 32
• Choosing a Domain Name – Page 44
• Hosting – Page 46
• Choosing Site Building Tools – Page 48
• Shopping Carts – Page 49
• You Need a Mailing List – Page 51
• Content Creation – Page 57
• Are you blogging yet? – Page 62
• Podcasting – Page 67
• Article Marketing on the Web – Page 78
• Special Reports – Page 83
• eBooks & Info Products – Page 91
• Using Video on the Web – Page 95
• Social Optimization – Page 96
• What is Twitter? – Page 99
• Other Social Networking Sites Worth Mentioning – Page 107
• Social Bookmarking – Page 108
• Issues of Mojo – Page 113
• Developing Systems – Page 115
• Outsourcing for Success and Sanity – Page 117
• How to Occupy the Kids While You Work – Page 119
• There’s No Money in Your Comfort Zone! – Page 120
• Copywriting Bootcamp: The Basics – Page 121
• What is a Press Release? – Page 126
• Making Friends with the Search Engines – Page 140
• Managing Your Books & Preparing For Taxes – Page 146
• About Membership Sites – Page 147
• Joint Ventures – Page 158
• Before You Spend Advertising Dollars – Page 162
• Work at Home Mom Interviews – Page 168
• Internet Terms Glossary – Page 171

Talk about getting your value!  The writers – who are actually stay-at-home moms discovered how to easily build their own business and they didn’t leave anything out.  Stay tuned and I’ll have all the links, email addresses and other resources available real soon…

Retired and Tired…of Not Having Any Money.

Yahoo…I just made my first sale!

Guys!  You have got to get busy doing this.  I’m not an expert yet, but I’m learning fast and from what I can see you really don’t need a college degree to do this stuff.  Internet marketing is still hot and the hottest products out there are information products. 

The reason?  Information products pay the highest commissions.

For those of you who are new to this, information products are e-books, training courses, “how-to” on-line seminars, webinars, tele-seminars and all kinds of other educational materials.  The world is thristy for information and people are willing to pay for quality instruction.

Do you want to make millions? Well…the fact is, the folks making millions are the ones whao are creating and delivering all of these materials.  Not your cup of tea?  Well…if you’re willing to settle for a reasonably good and steady income and you have a little patience, within 18 to 24 months (maybe as long as 30 months) you can be making over $100,000 a year.  Not huge, but nice…right?

So how does this work?  You sell the materials that are already created.  In other words, other people’s stuff.  This is called affiliate marketing and it’s a great way to earn some extra income. 
Rosalind Gardner has the best affiliate training program in the world and by clicking on the link below that says, “I Want It!”

I Want It!

and you’ll instantly be transported to her site and learn how you too can become involved in affiliate marketing.  Her Super Affiliate Handbook is a step by step guide on how to make a great living on the internet by selling other people’s stuff.

So give it a go!  Read all about Ros’s amazingly low cost program and see if it’s for you.

All the best…and keep rockin’  

-Mike Schwagler-