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Well that didn’t work

February 12, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Like I was talking about in my previous post, I am doing something, testing new things, getting into new revenue streams, etc.

The kicker is that I am failing, not miserably mind you, but I am not getting the return on the investment that I am looking for.  Not so much on the money side as that is doing fine, it is more the time versus profit investment, and to make the matters worse I don’t see that it will get better over time.

So what does that say, well try something else.

Might seem weird that I am switching gears again after not even 2 months of trying out the whole Ebay Affiliate marketing thing, but it just doesn’t seem to be working for me at the moment. 

I recently read The Dip by Seth Godin, and an interview of him by the CEO of seesmic.com (cool idea but not quite there yet) and Seth Godin mentioned that the reason that he is not on Twitter is that he couldn’t be the best at it so he decided not to try it out.  In The Dip he mentions a similar thing about the importance of being the BEST in the world at whatever you do.  This world is not necessarily the Earth, but what ever niche that you are involved in.  For example, if you have $500 to spend on a camera, you are going to go out and find the best camera that you can for $500.  You are not going to go out and buy the 3rd best, that would not make sense.

So what do that mean to me, well it means that I have to put more emphasis on the niches that I am going to be interested in for the long term and that will allow me to become the best purveyor of whatever that I want.

I am still going to be involved in my recently made ebay affiliate sites and try to make them profitable, but that will be played out as more of a diversion rather than a main study.  I already have ideas of what my new site and content that I am going to build into my new business.

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2009 is going to be exciting

January 7, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

I have some goals for 2009 that I am going to reach.

500 Posts

The first one is to achieve 500 posts on this blog.  Bluenoser.net has been online for years, but I have only around 300 posts and some of those are useless ones that I put up at the beginning just to have content.

MORE PROFIT

In 2009 I have a goal to quadruple my online profits.  This is not an overly ambitious goal, and I think that by the end of January I will be making it a TEN fold increase.  Tim of 4HWW and some of has followers have said that making high goals actually increases your likely hood for success.

More Time

I am in 2009 going to increase my productivity to the point that I can spend more time doing what I want to be doing.  That includes travelling and reading.  This is the first year that I have read less than 10 GOOD books in a year.  I miss reading and increasing my knowledge.

Professional Equity

Along with my various online endeavours I am going to start working on building “professional equity”.  I am not sure if this term has been coined before, if not here is my definition.  Anything that increases your worth to your profession and company which in turn increases the demand in your services.  I have started doing this by achieving my LEED AP designation, and in the first of the year I will be gaining my P.Eng (once I finish my diaries).  There are two more on my list one is to get my FE in April and follow with my PE in Maryland, or another state in the US.

The other BIG thing is staying tight to my chest, but hear is a hint,  it is going to be a teaching program for a tight niche in my industry that I have expertise in, and believe that there is a lack of information available to fellow engineers and industry in general.  I hope for this to be my muse(read 4HWW if you don’t know what this is)

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Time for a Trip

December 15, 2008 By Jeff 2 Comments

It is getting to be that time again.  Time to think about another trip.
With Christmas fast approaching, deadlines piling up and winter coming, it is time to start thinking about getting away from here for a week or 3.  We have been talking it over about where we want to go, and what we want to get out of the trip itself.  I have been following Kim and Rob over at  and thinking that one of their trips would be something fun to emulate.It would be different from the last few that we have went on.  Vegging in DR, shopping in NYC, visiting family in Florida and of course Disney.  These were fun, but I think that I need to go somewhere else and see something else.

Punta Cana 2008

So now the question is where? 

I am thinking about a 2 week tour of the Greek Isles, or maybe San Francisco.  Or Spain.  There are a couple of that drive where we go.  I live on the Atlantic Coast of Canada, and don’t want to go too many time zones away.  That might actually negate San Fran from the list.

Timezones are not a big deal for a long trip, but since I figure I will only be able to get away for a week at most I don’t want to spend time recovering from Jet Lag in either direction.  3 time zones I think are max, maybe 4.  So that really limits me to the west coast of Europe and the entire eastern seaboard of NA.

Where would you go?

We really have no idea where we want to go, but we do know that we want to have a blast, and there has to be beaches and warm weather.  the trip is scheduled for February.  So leave us some suggestions and links so that we can get this party started.  Once I know where and when it will be just the motivation that I need to get all of the crap that I have on my plate now DONE.

Cheers,

JM

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