I posted a tweet on Twitter yesterday that got me thinking.
The story is about a 6 year old who has a simple blog that has pictures up of Ben 10 Toys. I know nothing about them at all, but I guess they are popular to some degree at least. The kid JUST puts pictures up of his favorites that are found throughout the internet from other sources. You can find the blog post here on the story http://budurl.com/6yroldblog
The crazy thing is that the blog is getting a lot of traffic and not just traffic, but people who want to buy the items pictured. The thing is, they are not for sale, they are just posted pictures.
Like I said before, you can read more about the story at the link above, but the point I want to make is that sometimes people overcomplicate things.
I mean realy, can it get much simpler than that? This simple blog was created with just pictures added and is getting a lot of traffic. Not just traffic, but buyers Wanting to spend money.
The post goes on to explain how you could do the same and I encourage you to do it.
So, here is the thing. Don’t just go read it, do something about it. Either read it and use that method or at the very least Take Action on whetever it is you have been planning to do.
If a 6 year old can get traffic to a blog with nothing but pictured from other sources, what is your excuse?
Don’t overcomplicate things. Everything does not have to be perfecty planned and laid out to get started with Internet Marketing. If you have been wanting to get started, just do it. It does not matter how simple it is, just Take Action.
I am as guilty as anyone at this. So many times instead of just Taking Action on an idea, I try to overcomplicate things and make it perfect and add a million extra’s to it and by the time I am done adding to the idea it is a huge project. Then that huge project can seem daunting and another simple idea can come along that seems like a great quick money maker. Then that quick easy money maker can grow in size just like the last one and the process can repeat itself.
So, my point is this. Keep it simple and take action. Just make sure to do something. It is better to make money on a simple idea than it is to keep building on an idea and never get it done or launched.
Part of the reason I put this site up now is because I had to have it up for branding and linking purposes.
I have a lot in the works right now related to Social Marketing and Social Networking. I differentiate the two of those things because I see them as two very related, but very different things. I will cover more on that a little later, but for now I want to give you a little heads up and set things up for the coming weeks ahead.
I am going to be doing a lot of things related to Social Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and Twitter and I want to let everyone know right now that I don’t have a huge following on either site.
I have done that for a reason on Facebook at least and Twitter mainly because I am newer to it and setting everything up for my Big Plan.
By the way, if you are not Following me on Twitter or are not my Friend on Facebook, please do that. Both my links are on the right sidebar, just go ahead and add me on both of them.
let me also say this, if you are not using both of those sites you Are missing out. More on that later as well, and trust me when I say that I will be covering that quite a bit here very soon.
As of this post I have 580 Followers on Twitter and I have 196 Friends on Facebook, nothing to brag about, but a good start. These numbers can be achieved in a very short time if so desired.
These numbers should be increasing very rapidly in the near future as I implement some of the strategies and techniques I will be going over on this blog and also on another site I will be lauching soon.
I will be announcing the launch of that site shortly after a few more decisions are made about the exact direction I want to take it in.
Ok, enough for now. I will be updating this as different aspects are released on what is going on and how you can be involved.
I don’t want this to be just me talking. Yes, I will be relaying what is going on and how I am doing things, but I want to make this interactive if I can.
Feel free to leave comments on what you want to see and learn. I will do my best to try and accomodate what people want this to be.
Welcome,
This is my first blog, I know I am just a few years behind the times, but better late then never, right. I had planned on waiting on this one since it is me and my name and all, but I decided to go ahead and launch this because of what I have planned in the very near future.
To be honest, I have hid in the background for a while now and never put myself out there. I have been doing Internet Marketing since 2000, so I have been around just never wanted to be visible.
Things are about to change and change in a hurry.
I have made the decision to go all out and do this right. I will be keying on Social Networking, Social Marketing, and Viral tactics as my main focus. Because of this I have to put myself out there as well and thus that is why ChadHeffelfinger.com is being launched now instead of later.
One thing you can’t do in this modern age of the Internet is hide. A lot of people came online and thought you could hide behind a website and email and never put yourself out there. That may have worked in the past and maybe in some niches still today, but overall that just wont cut it any more.
You have to put yourself out there and be transparent, and that is what I am doing here, right now.