Not Another DVD!

Not another DVD!

This is it, my friend and I are going to make this Internet Marketing business ours! Between us we will get it right, and by making sure we have our weekly meetings we will be able to help each other, and support each other, and what we do not understand we can ask our mentor.

Luckily the first dvd was given to each person to take home from the seminar, that way I could get started straight away. Before I started to forget the terminology....which to me is still so strange. All of the knowledge that I was acquiring was what I needed to be able to easily make my poem known around the world. Once I had a proven process I could copy that process and that would be that. I keep assuring my family that it would not be very long before my poem, My Green String was a number one best seller:)

Well can I tell you now how much those monthly DVD's became a stress to me. You see it was not just the watching of the DVD's, it was the understanding what they actually meant, most times I couldn't do what they assured me was so easy. I was dammed if I could come up with a niche market that had a certain number of searches, and also a green bar and no competition, and the right keywords and and and and! it went on! Then there was the, for me, the challenge of the computer.

I was given lots of pre-packaged ebooks, all I had to do was market them and put them on a website, buy a domain name, get my keywords, and presto...I was making money...while I slept! Well I can tell you from this little black duck, it just didn't happen. You see although I was qualified by the aspect of being a computer illiterate, remember "Mum Not Geeky", that label didn't suddenly lift. I retained that ability to be absolutely flattened by the technical aspect of the computer. I would go to download my E-book material, and click to open......then this mysterious thing called 'winzip' would require me to say yes to things and then....it would disappear!

I have no doubt that my technical language will give you a small hint as to my ability, my children got so frustrated with me "loosing stuff" they made me a folder on my desk top called "Save in me". That way they felt I could put any thing I was downloading or saving in that folder and I would find it again. In theory that is correct, in practice not always. It was a long time later that I found, quite by accident, a drop down box called "downloads". You would be amazed at how many times I had downloaded the same article because I never could find it again. I really should have been given E for effort!

Another aspect was the reams of paper I was using by having to print all the instructions, and there is no point in you telling me now just to open and shut the little windows as I follow instructions. By the time I had clicked off one and opened another, I had forgotten the word or code I was using, so had to go back again. I hadn't quite got the hang of cut and paste yet! So I have lots of folders with instructions which I would precede to tick off as I completed a task. This was getting quite time consuming, and yet another DVD would arrive! Plus of course there was all those emails coming from all those great sites that would help me.

Was I enjoying what I was doing, did anything go right? Well yes, in a big way I was enjoying myself. I was certainly being challenged, however it was keeping me busy. I also felt a big sense of achievement when I managed to move onto the next step, or understood an article, or for me found something I had downloaded. The thing is I am the same as anyone else, all this was happening in my spare time. I still had a family to look after, a house to run, a business to work in these aspects of my life didn't stop just because I wanted to learn something new. It was on top of everything.

Our financial situation was still the same as well, nothing had changed there at all. The anxiety of the GFC and all of its ramifications to us and all the other ex Storm Financial Clients had not gone away. They had in fact gotten worse, because on top of anything else, we had to find paperwork from nearly ten years ago, and fill out questionnaire after questionnaire and financial statements and profiles listing how much you spent on groceries, cars, insurance etc etc when you first applied for the loan, and the same for when the loan may have been topped up and for now. Trying to get information and copies of loan documents out of the banks was like getting blood out of a stone. A stone also had more sympathy. They were dark times, with high tension, anxiety, stress and depression. Little wonder that the other stuff I was doing was like a circuit breaker. Frustrating but at least do able!

I had worked out a plan of attack for the DVD's , each month I got one that was for the Internet Marketing and usually a couple of bonus ones to watch, really a lovely gesture, but boy just added to the pile. So I got smart, I would only watch the important one and would keep the others for a rainy day. I managed to get through about 5 months, before I started to say I will look at that one later. I am not saying I had given up, I had just diverted a little. My clinic had started to grow and I also managed to write a workshop, which I run a couple of times each year. The other thing I did was to start to mix with other people who had already become successful with using the internet for business. I even wrote one of those E-Books and managed to upload it onto my website, so other people can download it:)

How is My Green String coming along....that is yet another story:)