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Have you ever felt like you are the proverbial sore thumb or the dog’s danglers?
I have and do….everyday.
Computers and the Internet weren’t part of my upbringing or education because being born within the baby boomer era, they simply didn’t exist!
As a result probably 90% of the people testing the waters and trying their hand in internet marketing, are below the age of 40 and have egos to go with it.
Hence sticking out like a sore thumb is part of being a baby boomer internet marketer. “It just aint’ natural” and many younger internet marketers don’t take us seriously or see us as real competition.
Do you know why the phrase “sticks out like a sore thumb” came into being?
The obvious answer would be that if you have a sore thumb it’s probably because you’ve hurt it accidentally and because its red and swollen its far more likely to be noticed by anyone who glances at your hand.
Well. If you said that, you’re only partly correct.
When we’re hurt physically we tend to favor the damaged area in several ways. The obvious one would be to protect it with a surgical dressing, bandage, sling etc; but what do you do with a sore thumb which has been hit by a hammer causing painful bruising but not breaking the skin?
You stick it out to the side out of the way to ensure it doesn’t get bumped or knocked again because if it does cop another bump regardless of how lightly….it*&%$# hurts!
Q) What makes a good boss?
A) A good boss will send you home.
If you’re in a physical job which requires you to use your hands and hand tools constantly and you wind up with a sore thumb or finger through a minor accident, a good boss will send you home or depending on the severity, to a doctor or hospital for attention. But that’s not what makes him/her a good boss in such a case.
What makes a good boss is that he/she knows that because you will be favoring the sore thumb or finger by sticking it out, it’s then in a place where it normally wouldn’t be and is even more likely to be damaged more severely because your brain is telling it that it’s where it belongs, when in fact it isn’t and as a result is more likely to be struck again by something which IS where it’s normally supposed to be and your sore thumb or finger isn’t..
Baby boomer internet marketers are a bit like that sore thumb because we’re within a niche we wouldn’t normally be in and as such are more likely to be damaged because we don’t have the basic education that so many of our colleagues and opposition learned as a normal part of their school curriculum as children.
As a result we need to be sent home or we need to learn to keep that sore thumb where the younger ones learned to keep theirs when they were young…….or do we?
As baby boomers what we need…. is to set a course which has all the basics already in place so that we don’t have to learn them or implement them.
My introduction to affiliate marketing was through a course created by Affiliate Marketing Millionaire Mark Ling and was called AffiloBlueprint. I can honestly say that I learned 80% of what I now know about affiliate marketing through that course and still highly recommend it and promote it but Mark and his team have just spent nearly the past year setting another such course which alleviates the necessity for all that learning and the sore thumb.
It’s called “AffiloJetpack” and is easily the best such course available anywhere and I highly recommend it.
While Affilojetpack is not specifically targeted at Baby Boomers, I see it as the ideal method for baby boomers to get into Affiliate Marketing while avoiding the sore thumb syndrome so many of us have had to go through.
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One of the many things which both confused and annoyed me when I first became interested in Internet marketing, was the “Don’t do what I do, do what I say” scenario used by so many affiliate marketers and guru’s alike.
Lambs to the Slaughter
I think it’s fairly safe to say that all who become interested in making money online, do so because they’d either read or been told that there’s easy money to made on the net. So, the next move is to go looking for a means by which they can become another rich internet millionaire.
Now, the one thing we are all invariably guilty of in our searches, is to sign up to what seems to be promising free news letters or actually subscribe to paid ones?
While there is nothing wrong with that “initially”, in that there is so much great free and paid information available online, one of the first pieces of advice every internet marketing course, affiliate newsletter or subscription regardless of cost will provide you with ….. Is to “unsubscribe from all the other subscriptions you have signed up for”.
The “Delete Your Cookies” suggestion
Many marketers will also tell you to delete your cookies and temporary internet files as well to ensure the security of your computer. But this ploy is really only to ensure that there is less likelihood of you buying the same product they are promoting from another affiliate who’s URL you may have saved or will be in the history of your browser. (This is a sneaky little trick which became popular a couple of years ago but fortunately seems to have lost flavor somewhat in that it lacks ethics, integrity and credibility.)
So once having done what is suggested, the next thing which will happen is that you start to receive the affiliate newsletter you subscribed to, which will usually contain several product links.
Circles within Circles
That’s fine as well because that’s how many affiliates sell the products they are promoting…..but, the links provided when clicked on will almost invariably take you to an auto responder opt in, sign up page. Now since you’ve already signed up to the page your now on, the new sign up will more often than not, subscribe you to one of the subscriptions you were advised to sign out of in the first place??????
The Gullible Newbie
Like so many newbies, I couldn’t understand the logic of this until I realized that by re-subscribing, I was actually doing so under the affiliate link of the person’s newsletter I had recently subscribed to and if I actually purchased anything from my new sign up, the affiliate I had just signed up under would receive commissions for that sale.
The problem is however, for newbies, they find ourselves in the exactly the same sinking boat they started in, with the same confusing glut of information overload they were advised to avoid in the first place.
The Catch 22
It’s all a bit like the dog chasing his tail in one direction and then turning around and doing it in the other. Poor old Fido doesn’t realize that the solution to his problem is to simply sit on the damn thing to keep it still and he can bite it and it’s fleas all he likes.
Internet marketing has it’s similarities in that if you find a method that you can sit on which will help you achieve success, don’t go spinning off in another direction.
A few days ago I received an offer from a list owner to write a guest blog post on my blog.
While guest blog posts are hardly a new idea for getting traffic to your site, it was the first time someone had actually suggested it to me so it sparked my interest.
Granted that the invitation came from a list I’d previously signed up to, I did have some faith in the sender because he had shown remarkable results from his twitter account and was also a member of a private forum of which I’m also a member.
In the guest blog post invitation, he’s taken steps to make it easy for anyone to contact him if they indeed wanted him to submit a guest post so I did!
He’s made a point of explaining the benefits of guest blog posts to both the blog owner and himself and also requested an outline of which topic the blog owner would like him to write a guest post on. He also mentioned that the email was being sent to 10,000 subscribers so I’d need to be fast!
Seeing this as a good opportunity to have a well known “twitterer” guest post on my blog, I wrote a detailed email back to him providing all the information he said he required to write the guest blog post and the following is some of what I wrote:
“I’ve been on your list for only a couple of months and joined because I was impressed with some of your posts in the marketing with Alex forum of which I’m also a member.
If you look at my blog you’ll see that I’m a baby boomer hopefully targeting other boomers with the intention of inspiring them to jump on the internet marketing wagon to ensure a regular income for their retirement.
I think the vast majority of people in their 60’s don’t have the skills to operate a computer to the degree where they can set up an internet business, and it’s those skills or the lack of them, I would like your guest blog post to target, in creating an interest in learning them.
The other thing which comes to mind is Australia’s notorious reputation for slow internet connections and how to develop an internet marketing business with that restriction”.
The following day I received the following email from him and my reply: Hi Sean,
Thanks for the email, but… can you tell me what you want a guest blog post on?
David “Hi David.
Sorry you didn’t get the gist of what I wanted. I thought I’d mapped it out within the 2 sentences below this message. (now above) If you could write a post on baby boomers entering the Internet marketing field………..with the usual complications and restrictions of not having previously had any formal computer training at school etc.
I realise it’s a broad field to write about but if you can write anything at all which is relevant to the topics it will have the effect you want in providing exposure to yourself and also provide me with a guest blog post etc.”
His reply indicated to me that the whole exercise was a waste of time in that it seemed that he wasn’t interested in carrying out any research on any other topic other than the ones he was familiar with in order to write a guest blog post for anyone.
What he wrote back to me was the following: Hi Sean,
Seeing as I am not a baby boomer myself, you would be far more qualified to write a post on that topic than me……
Do you have another suggestion for me?
David
I did have another suggestion for him but I think would be inappropriate to include it here.
Now I may be wrong but I think I made the topic of the guest blog post I wanted fairly clear in my first email to him and that realistically, even if only 10% of the people he sent the original email out to wanted him to write a guest post he would be writing 1000 guest blog posts which would keep him busy for quite a long time.
So….I guess it just reinforces what I’ve come to firmly believe and advise. Pay particular attention to whose lists you sign up to and restrict them to only those you completely trust.
Some time ago when I first became interested in internet marketing, I recall doing what most of us do when getting started in that I watched countless videos and signed up to numerous free and paid courses and news letters which had my inbox groaning under the weight.
I remember when online videos first took off as a marketing tool and I still recall my feelings of exuberance when I watched my first one, fully believing at the time that I’d found my future in the product it was promoting.
It was a new system unlike anything ever done before. It thoroughly trashed every other single method of making money online such as affiliate marketing, list building, email marketing, blogging, forum marketing, article marketing and every other system previously developed. It even went so far as to give eBay a blasting when at the time eBay was probably the most successful form of making money online there was!
It went on to show proof of how “Their System” had made this person 20K in as many days and yadda yadda yadda……
All you needed to do was to go to a certain web page where you submitted all your details including your phone number and they would be in touch within a few days to tell you how you would become rich almost overnight.
Sure enough a few days later when answering the phone in my home on the North East Coast of Northern Australia, I was greeted by a very friendly and heavily accented American voice that proceed to tell me how, by investing around 15K I could easily make around 5K in no time at all.
Now I’m no mathematical whiz kid but that idea didn’t seem to be what I had in mind when laboring through the initial video and filling in the form with all the little boxes which simply had to be filled in so precisely.
When at the end he finally asked me to sign up and I declined, he abused me for wasting his time at which time I simply hung up. I couldn’t believe it when the phone rang a couple of minutes later to have him call me back to berate me a little more, not once but 3 times after I kept hanging up. Obviously after the third time I just unplugged the phone.
I later found out that the person who called me was actually representing one of the biggest and most well known internet marketing gurus there is.
Another one was the guy who was making 250K per year with Adsense. He only wanted $297 to reveal his brand new never seen before cutting edge system.
Adsense????? Who was he kidding?
The above are just a couple of examples of how these so called gurus want you to be their own personal ATM’s and over the next few posts I’m going to attempt to outline how to avoid becoming a slave to these sharks even though you may only be a tadpole in their midst.
This really isn’t the nostalgia page at all. The nostalgia page is in the above margin above the header but I just thought I’d introduce it here.
As a result of the feedback and comments I received about the “Older than dirt” post I thought I’d reserve a special page just for nostalgia.
Since this blog is really from a baby boomer for the benefit of other baby boomers, we should see some amusing and maybe “lump in throat” memories emerge.
The whole idea is to just go to the nostalgia page above and write about a nostalgic memory. Preferably your post should be about things that no longer exist such as the way things were done “back in the olden days when WE were kids”
However you don’t have to be a baby boomer to post on the nostalgia page.
Any interesting stories you might have about the past are welcome. Maybe you heard something from your parents or grandparents which will be fine.
I’ll start it off with a few and hopefully others will add to it as time goes by.
Just click on the nostalgia page at the top of this page or click here to start.
It almost goes without saying that one of the most popular ways to make money online is with eBay; However there really aren’t that many people who make a lot of money by selling on eBay. While there are several reasons for that, the one which stands out is that most people just don’t know how to become rich using eBay.
In the past I’ve actually made money on eBay but really it was quite by accident that I did! On 2 occasions that I can remember, I bought something on eBay, only to find out when it arrived that it wasn’t what I wanted. The first item was a spray gun because I was painting a car but by the time it arrived I’d finished the job. And the second was a book which upon reading I found I didn’t like.So, I re-submitted the items and put the original starting bid price on them, plus a little bit more to cover the shipping costs I had already paid.
What happened next in both cases was that someone bought the items for more than I had paid for them and so turning me an accidental profit I didn’t expect. Of course that was just a small example of how to use eBay and I probably made about $5 on each of the 2 deals but if I was to repeat that 100 times obviously I would be making some good money.
In my case however, it’s just not practical because I live in a region of Australia where the nearest post office or shipping facility is too far away to warrant the expense of the time and travel. And of course there’s always the risk that the items bought to sell, either don’t sell or sell for less than I paid for them.
However, in having said that there are people who have been able to make a veritable fortune from eBay simply because they DO know what they are doing. My mentor Alex Jeffreys made very good money on eBay by firstly buying Motor bikes from Japan and selling them in England and then by selling CDs.
Another person who springs to mind is Francis Ochoco who was the first ever eBay Entrepreneur of the year. Francis has become instrumental in creating a series of eBay tutorial videos unbridled in detail in how to become rich from eBay. Below is a little of what he says about the Videos. Read the rest of this entry
This is just a quick post to mention a great little piece of free software which is available to those who need an alternative to downloading tutorials etc. and how to record video tutorials free.
Since the advent of online affiliate marketing and fast internet connections, particularly those with unlimited data transfer became available a few years ago, places like Utube and social media sites like Twitter etc. have become a haven for those who are either looking for short videos or need somewhere to expose a video to the world.
Internet Marketers have jumped on these sites as a means to expose their product to the world for free and have experienced great success in doing so. However, while these methods are great for both the video maker and the “hungry for knowledge internet marketing newbie”……. they are only great if the user has an unlimited data transfer or a very cheap Internet Service Provider. Quite often video tutorial don’t allow for downloading or provide a method to record video tutorials free of charge.
While many tutorial sites do provide such videos free of charge, more often than not, the videos can’t be downloaded to a hard drive meaning that in order to watch them over and over which is often necessary, the need to do so means either leaving the tab open which is also impractical in many cases, or re-loading from the net every time the video is required.
For me and many other folk out there, the above options are not available because I live in a region of Australia where the only 2 forms of internet connections available are dial up and satellite.
Obviously as an internet marketer, the former would make it impossible to operate and the latter being limited to a pre-determined amount of monthly data transfer, makes it impractical to be streaming or watching tutorial videos as they load because it obviously gobbles up the data transfer limit pretty quickly.
Of course there are many reasons why people would like to copy or record these videos. To be able to watch them offline of course, immediately springs to mind but unless they can be downloaded and saved, that’s impossible….or is it?
Recently I came across a piece of software which allows the user to record a video while watching it and then save it to a place of choice on their hard drive. While it does require the sacrifice of disc space, this is reduced somewhat by the audio within the video being automatically compressed so as to save space.
A hint in using it is to start the video and “pause it” and then let it run for the first few minutes before taking it back to beginning before hitting the record button. In that way if you are on a slow connection or if it’s streaming, you won’t get any breaks or pauses in the video which will use more of your disc space.
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There’s a term that’s been floating around internet marketing circles now for some years and is still worth a mention here, if for no other reason than to remind myself of its meaning and complications.
The term is “Information Overload” and can be an extremely serious drawback to budding internet marketers. As a baby boomer I first developed an interest in internet marketing for baby boomers a couple of years ago, but I was restricted to a dial up connection due to living within a region of Australia which had no other form of connection available at that time.
These days I’m still restricted to a satellite connection which is just so much better than dial up and allows me to get serious about internet marketing for baby boomers but information overload has very nearly put an end to a baby boomer’s journey toward internet marketing on numerous occasions. Read the rest of this entry
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Over the past few weeks since I set out on this venture which is ultimately to learn how to be a baby boomer internet marketer, I’ve come across quite a few unexpected hurdles. When I use the word ‘unexpected’, I do so with tongue in cheek because I knew from the onset that there would be hurdles. However I hadn’t realized that some of these hurdles would take so much time to clear.
I think I mentioned in an earlier post that so many of the free tutorials available on the net through places like U-Tube etc, are often out of date soon after they come online because the software they refer to is being constantly updated.
Such is the case with blogging. I think I also mentioned that in building this blog, I’m using wordpress which is a prime example of software being constantly updated.
As a baby boomer with no experience whatsoever with computers until well into my 50’s, getting my head around even the simplest of concepts was initially (and please excuse the pun), a real headache. I didn’t know for example that when a computer is shut down, it should always be done from the start menu, and not just by pulling the plug or using the on/off switch. It’s the simple things like that which kids have been learning at school for the past 20 years that makes new technology for some baby boomers so difficult to grasp. Read the rest of this entry
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