Learning Internet Marketing

EBay continues to be something that a lot of people would like to learn and I will be conducting an number of workshops in the coming weeks on Saturdays from 10 in the morning until three in the afternoon. Last year at this time, I was giving eBay workshops and having a hard time filling them. But since then, one of my students made a couple of thousand dollars on eBay, and there was an article written up in my local paper. As a result, I have four workshops filled to capacity and a waiting list of people waiting to attend. It's amazing what the power of social proof can do. I haven't changed but other people suddenly see me as an expert because someone else said I was.

I finally bought Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9 speech recognition software. Since I'm writing a lot of articles these days, I wanted to try it. It really does turn talk into text and is faster and more accurate than typing, especially my typing. E-mail, instant messaging and surfing the web can all by done by voice. Although I had to teach it how I speak a few times before it was accurate, before long it was working very well and I'm impressed by how smart it is. Now if my husband listened so intently, just imagine. I bought the cheaper standard version, on sale for $79. There is a preferred version which also transcribes recordings from handheld digital recorders, has wireless microphone support, and turns text into speech as well. The preferred version plays back your dictation so that you can correct it, inserts your signature or logo with a simple voice command and lets you import and export user files on any PC. For what I need, the standard version is fine. It's...

Recently, I was asked to participate in a live television show at our local community TV station. I was part of a three woman tech panel and was there to discuss blogs. We talked a lot about how women could bring their businesses online and use a blog or website as a marketing tool. The only thing that bothered me was that the other two women were techies who made a living setting up websites and blogs for people. They made it seem so difficult that a person couldn't possibly do it themselves. Since I teach blogging, I know that to set up a blog on Blogger is extremely easy. Even Wordpress, although more difficult, is still not impossible to do yourself. And imagine all the money you would save. Anyway, I enjoyed the time, it was a great experience, and an added plus was the traffic to my site that resulted because of the publicity. If you get a chance to appear as a local expert on your community televison station, go for it.

Well, I'm finally making some money online, but until I get my name out there, it's a lot of long hours of hard work. I've been ghostwriting for some Internet marketers, so along with making money, I'm learning about all kinds of topics, and seeing more of how marketers operate. I joined the warrior forum - if you are serious about being an Internet Marketer, you should join if you haven't already. You can get a complete education just from reading the posts there. Anyway, I posted a number of times to establish myself with the community, then I posted a warrior special offer advertising a special on my ghostwriting. I'm doing 400 word articles and was hired by a number of different marketers, to the tune of over 100 articles ordered. Good thing I like to write. So tell me, are you a warrior member?