As you can see, my last post was July 28th about trying Twitter (and the last post before that was from 2007)… well two things I’d like to say about that post…

First of all, I’m still not really feeling Twitter. I have the account for following other people but don’t post on it. I just don’t see the value in updating everyone with my current status. Any advice or suggestions that could help me see how to enjoy it?

Second, something terrible happened just a couple days after making that post, I was one of 3 passengers in a car accident and one of my closest friends passed away. The rest of us are all healed up now, but needless to say, it had an effect on my view of life and my desire to work (which was already low to begin with).

Lately I’ve been feeling like I want to get back into marketing though, but do bigger things besides just being an affiliate. I’m beginning to make businesses that actually have tangible value (products, customer lists, branding, etc). I’m experimenting with more fundamental marketing tactics and with diverse traffic sources. The case studies that I posted on here before were fun, so I’m gonna do more write ups of what I’m doing now.

This blog is also gonna get slightly more personal with added randomness to the topics… and there will be no posting schedule.

Oh, I also have a pretty bad ass tracking software that I’ve been programming and using in-house since April ‘08. Every time I fire it up to make marketing decisions, it gets me pumped to start more campaigns. I’m probably going to be releasing it free as open source, but it’s no where near polished for public use yet. Anyone interested in beta testing?

So that’s about it for my “coming out of retirement” post. Sometime this week I’m going to put a post up talking about my current business plan. It uses a lot of fundamentally sound marketing techniques, mixes in affiliate marketing, has it’s own products, has future plans, and best of all, has real value.

Leave me a comment and let me know you’re still reading ;-)

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