My son thinks it's a scam!

My Son Thinks It's a Scam!

I had decided that if I could convince my son to buy my 10 copies of the YOTA book then there was still a chance that I could win the $1000 prize money. My idea was a great, however there were several aspects that could possibly affect it. The first and most obvious was the fact my son was not actually at home today, he was staying at a friends and even more iffy was the fact he was definitely NOT a morning person and the third fairly substantial issue....I drove him nuts asking for his help on the computer! He would cringe whenever I mentioned the words.."I am only just..."!

He could only say 'No' and then I would be at the same place, so I bit the bullet and rang him, and offered him 50/50. Money can be a great motivator, and luckily I catch him in a good morning mood...:)

I arrived at his friends house and wonder of wonders the link actually worked! Great! My plan was coming together........yes for about three seconds! The beautiful book with the Purple Dragon and Gold Coins on the front cover, that was going on display in my clinic was in fact an E-Book! Quite honestly I had never heard of an E-book, well I had heard the term mentioned at the seminar but I assumed that mean't you bought it via the computer and you received the book in the mail. Nope, you did buy it via the internet, but then you downloaded it and if you wanted a copy you printed it.

At this stage I was standing with my mouth open looking apparently quite upset.....and my son then said..."Mum are you sure you are not being scammed? It all seems a bit dodgy to me!" Great that was all I needed to hear. I assured him it was all above board and he proceeded to buy my copy of the E-Book. Yet another lesson for me, you could only buy one at a time, so one would have to do! I am now also running late!

Needless to say I did not win the $1000, however I can tell you over those two days I received so much information and a whole new world full of exciting opportunity. I even learned many new words, even if I didn't really know what they meant, yet! My mind was full of blogs, adwords, search engines, twitter, facebook and the list just went on and on. What was I going to do about it, not sure yet, however I figured it was like a huge jigsaw puzzle and the more I fiddled and played with everything, eventually it would all come together.

Now for all you computer experts and Internet Marketing Guru's do not always assume that a newbie knows something, often they will in actual fact not understand 90% of what you tell them. I know you have been doing this stuff for ever and think you are going back to basics...I am here to mention to you.....some of us do NOT know ANYTHING about what you are telling us. Do not assume we know something, because as the old saying goes...assume just makes an Ass out of U and Me!

One of the many pieces of advice I got out of the seminar was the fact that I might experience a syndrome called....PSWS..Post Seminar Withdrawl Syndrome.....how true that was. After the euphoria of the 2 days and the ongoing brain stimulus I came down to Earth with an almighty thud! Suddenly there was no one there to keep the uplifted tide going, I ended up with more questions than answers and my copious notes just didn't seem to make any sense. So the home work started, I read blog after blog and even managed to write a couple that did not end in cyberspace:), I eventually downloaded my E-Book and I signed up for some must have newsletters about Internet Marketing.

This all started a chain of events and sudden emails that invited me to all these different Internet Marketing seminars. I was telling a colleague and friend of mine about the amazing time I had and she said she loved going to seminars and was happy to come along with me and we could share the knowledge and generally bolster each other up. Great idea that, it means that if you do not quite get it, the other might have got it so you learn and share together:) Two heads are certainly better than one.

I was being constantly inspired to use the internet to gather momentum and to learn how to share my special poem with people across the world. My Green String was getting ready to roll:) Stay tuned:)

Day two Internet Marketing Overload.

Day two Internet Marketing Overload!

What an amazing day that had been! I listened in awe and some disbelief at what was being shown and told about having a successful business on the internet. I was certainly being encouraged to think outside of my personal "square" and to embrace the idea of this whole new world that was opening up at my feet. Both presenters had very different styles, however they were both very inspiring and I might add very uplifting.

By the end of that day I had bought a book for 4 paperclips, exchanged a @20 note for $40 and had my brain exploded and buzzing at the same time. If that wasn't enough a challenge was issued.......

Whoever sold the most copies of a book called.....Yota, which by the way had the most amazing Dragon and gold coins on the front cover!, would win $1000. That was certainly a great motivator, and on the journey home I had not only decided that I would win it, I had worked out what to spend it on as well. Lucky for me when I got home I could get straight into selling my copies of the book. This book was written by Sean Rasmussen, Aussie Internet Marketer, one of the inspiring seminar presenters.

The children were all out and my husband had been called into work.....peace and quiet for me:) Money for jam was the thought that popped into my head. However remember that energy called the Universe, well she had decided I was getting ahead of myself and the first glitch of the night was.......NO Internet! Surely not, I didn't even have any kids on hand to fix it....ugghh! I had so many plans, and lots of homework and I needed the internet to do them.

You also have to remember my code word...'Mum Not Geeky', boy was I in trouble. Then I had a brainwave, we had recently bought a little black stick thingy that was supposed to get you onto the internet. A wireless internet connection, was I game to plug it in and get it to go. My son had frequently given me some very strict instructions that if I was unsure about what I was about to do to the computer...do not do it! But surely I couldn't do too much harm, by just having a go? Fingers crossed and lots of good luck, I actually managed to get the thing to work and to get connected to the internet.

I mentioned homework, well that part involved writing a blog...not really sure what a blog was, I had to sign up to a rather dubious thing called facebook! and I had to sell as many copies of a book that I could. I had figured that 10 copies would be plenty. At this stage it was close to midnight and I had hardly started, in fact I was getting increasingly convinced that I had no idea of what I was about to do and how! I read over my notes and found that I was supposed to sell them via an affiliate link......a what? and again to whom?....and how? Rereading my copious notes again, it was starting to make sense sort of! I was to write a blog and attach an affiliate link and sell the books that way.

At the seminar it had sounded so very easy. Finally I managed to write a very blobby blog, and can I please ask if anyone finds any of my initial blogs in cyberspace could they either return them or burn them. I lost count of the number of times I pressed a button ( and I still not sure which button that was) and all my hard work would disappear...never to be seen again. So I would restart and it would happen again, and again...UGGRRHH! I might add by this time it was 3am and I had not sold a single book. I had however joined Facebook, and I was scared stiff at what I had done.

I am sure you can also be aware at how emotional I was at this stage, how the heck if it was so damm easy why was I finding it sooo hard. I was not only fighting blogs! I was also fighting tears of rage, disappointment and self doubt. If I couldn't even find someone to buy a book from me how on earth was I going to sell them a poem?

Enough of this, I conceded defeat and went to bed. I am sure that I had just gotten to bed when the alarm said it was time to get up. There was however a bit of hope for me, if I could get to see my son before I went to the seminar, I could get him to show me how to buy the books, I would buy 10 copies and sell them from my clinic. I would convince him to help with a good old fashioned bribe.....I would share the $1000 with him.

Armed with this plan........

Internet Marketing Overload

Internet Marketing Overload!

Have you ever decided to do something and five million things stop you? That sort of thing happens to me all the time, and a question I have often asked of people in general is "How long do you keep on having a go before you say enough is enough?"

Well having received my two free tickets to this big Internet Marketing Course in Brisbane, absolutely nothing got in my way! The tickets turned up, transport was arranged, the family commitments slotted in fine, I had no clients booked in....you get the idea! How exciting and thrilling, I was sure that I would find out exactly what I require to launch my Poem into cyberspace and the rest would just happen:) My Dad had always told me to keep my eyes and ears open, and to never slam a door shut with regard to business and knowledge. A family motto handed down by my Mum's father was "to thy own self be true", so I figured I would use both of their advice and listen, learn and act.

Since becoming a natural therapist and owning a Kinesiology Clinic, I have learned that we are constantly given hints, sometimes nudges, via the Universe and it is very useful to be aware of this process. I must admit prior to starting my Kinesiology journey I had not given that aspect to life much of a thought. My favourite male singer is John Farnham and at a previous workshop had been asked to bring in a the song that meant the most to me on a personal goal level. I had chosen "Your the Voice" by John Farnham, so you can imagine my total amazement to hear this song being belted out at the Internet Marketing workshop.

I was so in the right place!

There were literally hundreds of people milling around waiting to get their names ticked off and being given a notebook, pen and name tag. Everyone looked very excited and ready for fun. I managed to get a seat near the front and wasn't quite sure what to expect. Well this youngish man bounced onto the stage and started talking about the opportunity of using the internet to make wealth and how it was a great modern vehicle to reach out to people worldwide...PERFECT! Just what I wanted to know:)

He then got the audience to participate by giving us all a coloured paperclip.......I know! Remember that was what started it all a red paperclip!....What we had to to do was to share or exchange with others something for the paperclip, and whoever had the most paperclips or got a item of value was kind of the winner. The only catch was we were not allowed to approach the person on stage. Fair enough I figured, that was OK. In my mind I was not going to give someone else my paperclip, I was going to get the most back. Not sure of what I could swap, I decided to use my business cards as a bait....guess what I ended up with 5 different coloured paperclips...pretty good I figured. As it turned out not good enough to win that prize at that stage, and some people even managed to swap blocks of time from the person on stage...Yes I know we were told not to do that, but apparently, you were meant to anyhow. So next time I will know.

I was still pretty pleased to have swapped 4 others with my business card, and being a natural therapist my mind instantly recognized that I nearly had all the chakra colours. A few minutes later the speaker picked up a book and casually tapped it against his other hand, quick as blink I raised my hand and asked if I could swap my paperclips for the book. I know very cheeky of me, and I figured he could only say no, and of course I was very safe as there was not another person at the venue who knew me, so I didn't even have to feel self conscious. Guess what.......he said yes! Now I was the proud and I must say rather chuffed owner of a book called "Secrets of Internet Entrepreneurs Exposed"...how perfect was that, I was having so much fun:)

By lunchtime my mind was reeling with information, words that I had never heard of being constantly used, and my note book was being filled with all this stuff! OMG! Underlining the entire day was the attitude of ....take action! Be responsible for your own destiny! Boy did I require food and coffee!

By the end of the afternoon session I was on yet another mission.........My mind was going ten to the dozen, little cogs going in all directions, my thoughts jumping from here to there back to here!

That was just day one..wait until tomorrow..........!

Why Green String?

Why Green String?

Good question, why indeed. As you will know if you have been following this blog I had written an Inspirational Poem and was at a quandary as to what title to give it. Up to know I was using a very long title and it just didn't fit the poem. I was after something catchy and memorable!

As I sat in my clinic trying this and that, my son decided to ask for my opinion on a fancy dress costume that he was making for an upcoming party. The theme was a jungle theme and he had spent considerable time looking for the perfect outfit. Unable to find what he was after, as he was leaving the last shop he spied some artificial fern leaves and figured that they would make a perfect costume. He also found a ball of string with which to tie them on. He was delighted!

Now as his Mother, I felt it was my duty to tell him he could not just wear fern leaves in public without suitable clothes under them. I should have saved my breath, as he assured me it was a private party and he felt they were just the thing and he would lose the effect if he had to wear other clothes as well!

Great here we were in the middle of a financial meltdown and my son was about to be arrested for indecent exposure. Just what I needed to take my mind off things...NOT! I went on to say that he would have trouble keeping them in place, when he produced his unique idea...a ball of string. He was quite convinced that this string would keep the fern leaves in place and all would be good..trust me he said I know what I am doing. Oh Boy!

As he turned to leave the room, I suddenly realized that the coloured string was just what I had been looking for......a simple, catchy and perfect name for my poem....Green String! He was more than happy to let me cut off a length of the string and we parted, each to work on our own master pieces. I still thought he was mad, and was sure to be arrested, however I deep down believed he would not actually do it. I mean imagine how prickly it would be and the thought of sitting down...well the mind boggled!

However I had more important things to do....the name was absolutely perfect....and to have an actual piece of string to go with it....wonderful! To get with the vibrational energy I attached a piece of the string to one of my magical $1m notes and placed it on our fridge. As each family member came home I told them all about the name and how soon our challenges would be over:)

All I had to do now was to work out how to tell people about the poem, how to sell them the poem, how did they pay me for the poem, how did I get the poem to them and most importantly what format was the poem going to be in? I definitely required some help and guidance, a chance email very quickly got my attention.........

"You have won two tickets to an Internet Marketing Seminar in Brisbane" ....what was I waiting for?

Oh and do you think my son wore his fern leaves?...I will let you know tomorrow:)

To Buy or Swap!

To Buy or Swap!

Well that was the easy part, my poem was written. Regularly over the course of many nights, I would get up write a line or two and then go back to bed. It was a welcome change to laying in bed with the whole saga going round and round, at least this way I was doing something productive, even if did sound kind of crazy.

OK so the poem is written, now what? Gosh it didn't even have a title and how on earth was it going to help? It was obviously the first sign of madness creeping in, although each time I read the poem to myself I got goosebumps. It was quite touching even if I do say so myself. I still didn't know what to do with it. Maybe I could sell copies of it to others, possibly turn it into a poster and sell the posters, or better still one of those affirmation cards that people buy, however I would need to pretty it up, get some graphics or artwork done. This gave me a whole other set of problems and practical issues. Who could help me?

Needless to say, my family at this stage did perhaps think I was a little nuts. One of them however got my creative juices flowing by mentioning the internet and how you could reach many people through this medium. It triggered a distant memory of a story of someone who swapped a red paperclip with people around the world and finally received a house. That was it! All I had to do was trade my poem on the internet, trade or sell it enough times to get rewarded and our financial issues would be over. How easy would that be!

Yeah right!....how wrong I was...Easy? I now had another set of things to worry about and ponder on. For starters I had no name for my poem, and if you remember back to my first blog my computer code name was 'Mum Not Geeky'. What seemed like a great idea was very quickly grinding to a halt. I had been so certain that I could help our family get out of the ruin that we were facing.

Do you know how annoying it feels to know deep within yourself that you are on the right track and yet things beyond your control seem to derail you very easily?

I knew that my poem was given to me to make a difference, it was a gift from Grace, and it was up to me to ensure that I shared it with others. So long as I believed in myself, I could and would be successful.

Gosh if someone could swap a red paperclip for a house, there had to be a way that an Inspirational Poem could also be swapped or traded.

It was time to get serious and first on the agenda was to give my poem a name. I again received some divine intervention, this time in the guise of my son, and his idea of a suitable costume for a fancy dress party.................that however is tomorrow's story...stay tuned!

Internet Marketing for Beginners!

Internet Marketing for Beginners

Your require no Computer skills! Internet Marketing is easy! Anyone can do IT! Earn Money quickly and easily! My way is the best! Earn Money while you Sleep! Find a Niche!

Just...Just...Just!

Has anyone heard any of those sayings before? About two years ago now I became interested in the idea of utilizing the computer to generate wealth. As the adds go..easily, while I slept would be great, and as I was a complete non geek, I figured that I had the first qualification down pat:)

Now I know you are asking the question, "Why would a non geek, wish to utilize the computer as a way of generating income?" Believe me I still often ask myself the same question! However, the main reason was due to urgency and a crazy idea. In Dec 2008 my family returned from their annual 10 days holiday at the Sunshine Coast, to a phone call that has changed our lives. We received a call from CBA's Colonial Geared Investments asking for and as quickly as possible for over $105,000 because our Share Portfolio with Storm Financial no longer existed. The money was the shortfall that was owing to CGI, and how were we intending to pay it? Welcome home:( We were told that all of our well saved cash funds, our personal shares and all income that came those shares, our retirement plans and more scary our home was all either gone or would be gone when the banks finished with us. We were not the only ones, altogether there were over 3000 investors caught up in this living nightmare. I just didn't know too many of them at that stage!

To say that we were in shock is an understatement. How could this have happened? Why did it happen? How could we gain help? Who could help us? these are just some of the questions floating in our heads. As with any disaster or trauma, basic life has to go on and the days gradually crept into weeks and the intrinsic human ability to survive kicked in!

I kept having a dream to write a poem...not any poem...an inspirational one...one that would help us and many others caught up in this trauma to survive.

Now I know what you are thinking...."She's mad! A poem! What on earth! Is that the best you can come up with!" Believe me I have heard all the comments, lots of times, I even say them to myself quite often. However dreams start ideas, and these ideas can turn the tides and create huge change.

I listened to my dreams, and over the course of several nights, got up many times and wrote lines, one at a time and the result was a gift from the Universe, my poem

Why Green String and what that has to do with Internet Marketing? Well you will have to follow my blog to find out:)

See you tomorrow.

Mum Not Geeky

"Mum Not Geeky"

That is my code name on the computer. My children and often technical assistance personal cringe when I start a question with "I only want to......"
It is not my fault I was born in the fifties, and that I left full time work before computers were in full use within the workplace. I could however use a PABX telephone exchange or a gestetner copier and I even knew how to send a telegram. Most of these instruments are not heard of nowadays. So I am not technophobic just slightly technical illiterate.

The obvious question is why I would want to know how to do techky geeky things on the computer. Well computers are really good fun things and it is also possible, I have been told to earn some considerable amounts of money with them...even apparently even us non tecky people. Sorry I have to slightly disagree with that...There are times I struggle big time!

However when I think back over the last two or so years I have come along way.....I am even writing blogs now and they no longer disappear into cyber space! (Well most times!). One of the more frustrating aspects is the inability of people who have a good understanding of computers to come back to the basics. For them the basics is not where to find the on/off switch it is more advanced than that. They forget a time where they too had to look for the switch!

About two years ago I had the opportunity to attend an internet marketing seminar and the universe conspired for me to go. It was very exciting and lots of intense energy was in the room. A vast majority of what was being said made no sense to me at all, I hadn't heard of half of the terms and was not sure I wanted to. Considering that at 46 I decided to become a natural therapist and manged to work my way through Anatomy and Physiology, nutrition, chemistry and many other hard core subjects, this computer speak was even more strange and overwhelming.