You know, I am a person that learns better by doing. When I do a training session or teach a specific class, I try to apply that method to my teaching / training methods as I can. (Some say I teach but others call me a trainer) (Not Physical Trainer though !! I have enough time trying ot keep myself in the same shape.

Anyway, Lately I’ve noticed that it seems that everywhere you turn it is “Twitter this and Twitter that” or Twitter can do what ? or Twitter did what ? It never ceases to amaze me at what a new product or process does when it is related to the internet.  Internet Marketers put together teams of people, set up outsourcing, stay up all night to think about how they can be the next big thing using Twitter as the hook and more $$ the bait…

Brad Paisley, the Country Music singer-songwriter, guitar player extrodinaire Brad Paisley, had a song and won some awards a couple of years ago about, “Being A Celebrity”….  It was such a unique idea but yet it really hits the nail on the head.

I was just going through my nightly run of all these emails, seeking the few that I needed and wondered how long to hold on to some of the others.  And then it hit me.  There was one central theme the past few days or weeks, You want to guess what it was? You already know, TWITTER !  Twitter and how if you use it this way you’ll grow your followers base by ……..     Use this technique and you’ll be able to sell online more than you have before…. The list of Twitter programs or methods or The “It List” goes on and on..

Well, I’ll confess that because there are only 24 hours in a day. And I have a bad back and a bad foot that keeps me from standing or walking or sitting for too long (any of the three), I can’t absorb or try to even pick out what to even attempt to use. Not to mention understand all of Twitter’s Rules and Regulations. It seems as of today, I somehow lost my  tapjim   Twitter account.  I can’t open it. It sends the little bird to the screen that says, account not flapping its wings ( or flying or something like that)

So by now, I’m sure you figured out that I have been venting a little as well as really pointing out something that is an issue across ALL OF INTERNET MARKETING ! And that is,  there is so much stuff out there, how does a  newbie or even an experienced marketer go after a new niche or a new traffic method or learn what new toy is going to spin the longest.???

Here is what I know, I know that there are tremendous opportunities on the internet to make a living.  The type or style of living is your decision.  Be careful of what you read and the traps that some use to target the down and out or the just laid off or the “Where do I start?”  groups on the internet. In my opinion, most of those guys or groups have been doing it so long because they came in when it was easy to make money on Google Adwords. Or they were able to purchase a software package that was awesome, as long as you followed the program.  But some of us, myself included, ended up looking at so much I just got confused. Then I got discouraged. Then I ripped off, then I decided I was going to give it up. I was in Information meltdown.

Go back to square one….. I heard  Dr.John Maxwell say one time, “What do you laugh about, what do you sing about, what do you cry about ? You find those three things and you’ll find your passion. Then you will find what you will be happy doing to make a living. ” But then it will not be a job, it will help define you and your legacy.

You see, I gave up the big house, my kids are grown and my wife told me she wasn’t going to cut the grass, trim the bushes, paint the deck, pressure wash the fence, clean the house and then continue to be a teacher anymore. So I had to find a house that she could manage.  No, I’m kidding… But getting rid of the big house is true. We gave it all up to be an a smaller home that was not a weekend job to manage. We have time for us now. Even with my physcial problems, I am happier now than I have been in years. I’ve been married 30 years this year. I have the best wife and the greatest kids. Both are college graduates, my daughter is married almost a year now to a great man. My daughter gave up her musical quest and now she and her husband both work in higher education.  My son is an aspiring singer-songwriter that does freelance vocal work. He will be performing with the Nashville Opera this year as he gets ready for Grad school so he can teach or peform if he chooses.

All this to tell you a story and fill some space on the page.   No, I want you to know who I am and what I am about.  And this Twitter this and Twitter that came about today and I had to sit back again and remember, What makes me laugh, What makes me sing and what makes me cry ?   Those are the things that makes me do what I do and take a break if I need to get back on track.

I hope you were able to get something out of my rambling words tonight. I can think of a few marketers that I know, that don’t spend days and weeks and hire people or go places just to make the next buck. They keep life balanced.

I’d love for you to buy products I promote and or use. And I’ll have my own products for you soon. But I will not fill up pages of screen shots of ClickBank accounts or PayPal accounts. Or fill you with hundreds of testimonials. And fill the pages with all the other fluff.  I’ll do it  as I heard Frank Kern say, (and he heard it from someone else,) : 1. Here is my stuff.  2. Here is what it will do or help you accomplish. 3. And here is what it will costs…….. Then you can look at the product and decide if it is something you could use or learn from. If not, then move on till you find what you need.  I just want to put products and services in fron t of you that I use or have used, or that I other marketers that I trust their judgement on, recommend a product or service.

Here is to another day of life And as my GrandMother use to tell me, “Have a good bed and a good pair of shoes, because you’ll be in one or the other most of the time !”

Have fun doing what you do ! And may all you seek take you to a new level in life !,

Talk soon,

TAP