Resources and Stuff
Here’s the interview with Trent Dyrsmid, for his Online Income Lab. You can listen to it online or download it and there’s even a transcript for reference (and SEO benefits, I assume).
Also: here’s my SYNND Review, that I published this week and forgot to mention.
Finally, here’s my new “share-my-stuff-please” box that I’ve now added to the end of my posts:
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I use a plugin called Tweet, Like, Google +1 and Share for this (how’s that for a descriptive name?).
Let me know your thoughts and comments on any or all of the above!
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Spammy comments are always filtered or removed. No surprise there.
Note that I don’t reply to all comments, but I do read them all. If I don’t reply to your comment, it most likely means that I agree with what you say and don’t have anything meaningful to add, myself. I appreciate and read all comments and your comments play an important part in what I write about, so keep them coming.
Spammy comments are always filtered or removed. No surprise there.
What a coincidence Shane… it so happens that I just posted the below on facebook minutes before viewing your video:
“Do you know that if you have a roof over your head, clean water, and at least one meal per day, you are better off than most of the people in the world?
For what we have: Thank you God. Truly.”
Hi Shane – I would respectfully disagree with your comment about the “unfairness” of the world in general. I believe that we are in a time period in which many people feel entitled to success in almost all areas of their life. That success and many other things should be handed to them without much effort on their part.
I believe that your comment that as you work hard things get “more fair” was absolutely on the mark. The old saying “the harder I work, the luckier I get” I believe is the essence of all of this.
I believe that when you build something easily you don’t appreciate it, but when you work and toil and succeed, the sense of accomplishment is worth more then the money (almost).
I am glad that it is not easy to be a success in the IM field, that leaves more room for people who aren’t afraid to make it happen through intelligent work.
Sam Sinopoli
Hey Sam,
I agree that many people have an unbelievable sense of entitlement. And I think I need to include myself, simply because as a first-world citizen of the 21st century, I have no concept of how hard life can really be and of how little the world truly owes me.
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” What a great way to summarize! :)
Thank you Shane for reminding me about this.
I have yet another take on it Shane. I’m perpetually astounded that even though the U.S. continues to be the genesis of just about every good “big” thing on the Internet, ie Adsense, Facebook, the Internet, the computer, etc… The people who you see pop up most often in the money maker winner’s circle are folks from elsewhere. Often places you never heard of, like France, for example.
The innovators are from elsewhere, at least a disproportionate number anyway. One guy I know is in Switzerland, or Sweden, or some some such. Starts with an S anyway.
Even the worker bees who do the hired out drudge work often come from some South Seas island that was bypassed by MacArthur in WWII because of its strategic unimportance. Using only shortwave, the one computer on the whole island, powered by lemon cell batteries, is in constant use by a loin cloth clad entrepreneur who only speaks Mong Mong, but is much sought after as a top rate article writer.
So, while you would think that the average hard working Engrish speaking USian, who does have an unfair advantage, would dominate the net, it taint necessarily so. Sadly, there are valid reasons for this, of course… It’s hard to build a website using only an iPhone or xBox.
I suppose the upside to this is that I don’t really need the local competition.
I have other world shaking philosophical meanderings on this whole net thing, but I will, at this point, subside, returning control to you and the growing legion of Shane fans worldwide.
Norm
Cowchip/AL
Hey Norm,
Alway look forward to your comments!
I’ve never paid attention to where the various online entrepreneurs are from, but now that you mention it, you may have a point, there. I’ve seen a lot of interesting startups as well as established online marketing companies and SaaS-type companies come out of India, for example.
Not sure about the lemon-battery powered computer, though. :D
Although if you look at the stories many successful entrepreneurs tell about themselves, they often find themselves with their back to a wall, before they break through.
Part of this is an inevitable bias (things are always worse before they get better – ain’t possible any other way), it could also have to do with motivation.
If your life is too comfortable, you might not have the drive to do the hard work necessary for building a successful business.
The luck of the draw. I am indeed very fortunate to exsist on this side of the world. When you think how easy it would be to improve the conditions for billions of people simply by providing access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation. It is astonding to me how the powers that be can spend trillions of dollars on arms, defense, bailouts ect… and virtually ignore a very real easy to fix problem. Truly unfair.
On a lighter note. I thought the SECockpit webinar was excellent. First time I had questions answered on a webinar. The live hunt for good adsense keywords was a lot of fun. The only other thing that I wanted from it was a link to Trent’s blog, didn’t get that but I opened up this “Sunday Update” and there it was. Awesome.
Cheers
Hi Jay,
Thanks for your comment! Glad you liked the webinar. I also found it very enjoyable. :)
Norm, sounds more like opinions than facts.
Bo, I’d be the last to argue that with you. However, circumstantial evidence has hung many a man. From where I sit I see a ton of fired up foreigners.
Norm
Shane being one of them I suppose :)
Opinions are always welcome.
Also: from where I sit, I see almost only foreigners. That’s probably because Switzerland is so small, though. ;)
Shane, great video this week and especially relevant to me since I’m starting an SEO business in my local market and of course the odds are stacked against me.
Your video reminded me a lot about a book I read recently “The Dip” by Seth Godin. Here’s to pushing past the tipping point or “conquering the dip”. :)
Thanks!
Hi Nisheth,
Ah yes, “The Dip”. Someone recommended that to me once, but I never read it. I probably should. Godin’s stuff is usually very enjoyable.
Hey Shane,
I’m pretty new to your site, but I liked your video and appreciate your reminding us that we are blessed. I am trying to make some money thru IM and truthfully, am still struggling.
All the best, Greg
Hello Greg,
Welcome and thank you for your comment!
You’re in good company, sturggling in IM. Keep struggling for long enough and you’ll make it. I have no doubt about that.
Shane, firstly thanks for the video update.
I do share your opinion on the tipping point whereby the visitor numbers get rolling when reaching a certain point.
Getting to that number that seem to break the barrier to entry, is really terribly arduous. Some sites are easier and some just do not seem to move at all, after much nudging and shoveling. Maybe, for such none moving sites, the market nor fans are ready for them.
That can be a difficult thing: knowing when you need to push further and when you really should give up and invest your time elsewhere.
I know I’ve made the wrong decision on several occasions…
Hi Shane, I really like your calm outlook and your clear assessment of the nature of the odds we face when starting out with small business blogging or website building.
There’s an art to everything online and with the right understanding and mindset there would be more people creating success in the IM space. I suppose everyone is playing against one set of odds or another. It’s up to the individual to decide which odds are best and proceed toward the tipping point of success. Steve D.
I agree Shane, The world can be so unfair and we westerners should consider ourselves privileged. But your message about the tipping point is so true. I’ve had a blog for about a year and although I don’t post unless I have something important to report I still get a steady stream of traffic. I haven’t done article marketing or backlinking etc. yet, but I understand that I should, in order to increase traffic my site. However, I’ve been heavily into learning about SEO for a while and have seen the light! If I optimized my blog a lot more, I could expect more traffic. I understand the importance of good keyword research and wish that I could justify getting seocockpit. Such an amazing service. If it were a one time fee I’d have jumped on it, but I’m not yet in the league to pay monthly membership fees. I guess you’ve heard that from many people. So for now I’ll have to go about it the long way – until I reach that tipping point! I have the determination. Cheers and all the best.
Hi Gail,
Thanks for your comment!
Don’t forget that there are ways to build traffic, beyond SEO. If you don’t want to do any of that, you can still use other promotion methods (especially social media stuff and blogging go together quite well).
Concerning SECockpit: we are aware that the pricing is an issue for some. When developing SECockpit, it was a decision between making the best possible tool, without compromises, or building an average, affordable tool. There are already more than enough of the average, limited tools available, so we would have added nothing to the market by making another one of those.
SECockpit is not for everyone. That said, I’d love to see you generate enough income online so that a monthly subscription here or there doesn’t matter anymore. :)
Gail,
You underestimate yourself and your success. With a PR of 2 for your site, I wouldn’t call you a “newbie.”
Maybe you could do more and include the things Shane mentioned, but “Newbie?”
I think NOT!
All the best,
Steve
Thanks for the encouragement Steve. I didn’t actually say I was a newbie, but it’s just that I just haven’t applied myself enough yet. I make a sale here and there and have a small list. My mind is full of ideas and I find it difficult to focus on any one of them! I’ve been working on one idea for a while, having found a great keyword that is searched often but has no decent sites servicing it. I’m currently looking for a good WP theme that displays categories on the front page. PixDesign is a good example but I noticed there were too many support issues, so my search continues!
Hi Shane.
Thanks for the share plugin – I was about to ask what it was since I obviously skim-read too much.
I’m a notorious skim-reader as well, so no worries. :)
I tried several social plugins like that and it’s the one I liked best. Very simple setup and clean options plus it “lazy loads” separately from the rest of the page, so it doesn’t slow down your loading times.
Hey Shane,
Thanks so much for the kind words about our recent interview on my podcast. I’m waaay behind in my email, so I didn’t managed to listen to your update until just now.
I really enjoyed it as well and look forward to having you back on the show. As well, thanks for the link to my site. My subscriber rate went THROUGH THE ROOF in the last two days; largely, I think, thanks to your link. I supposed that it didn’t hurt that I changed my primar optin method to a video of me offering up some pretty killer free training, either.
TTYL,
Trent
From the human perspective life is unfair from a more universal perspective there is nither fair nor un-fair, life is just IS.
I sometimes ask myself Why is that in poorer countries people have less, yet they laugh more and in well developed countries people have more yet many of them whine all the time that life is unfair!?
BTW, I love your blog and have noticed that I started to visit it more often just because you use your vodeos in mp4 format which can be played on iPad. I wonder why so many even well established websites still don’t bother to make their videos in mp4?