I’ve been completely SWAMPED! Let me tell you about it all and then you will see my progress.

I believe I am a a fairly typical “newbie” to internet marketing. The technology of “the web” is not a problem, but there are so many different people telling you that their way is the best and that some other way is “old school”! I’m flooded with marketing e-mails offering me the latest “get going quick” strategies and I really don’t know which, if any, it sign up for.

I started my internet marketing journey about 6 weeks ago when things were nice and quiet at home. Unfortunately then exam season struck and my 2 boys came home “to revise” – and brought their girlfriends – because it was quieter and they didn’t have to think about meals and shopping, etc. WHAT!!!

Then my husband returned from his sojourn in Spain – bringing with him 2 Huskies – to add to my Jack Russell Terrier (crossed with something with long legs)

So now, instead of the house to myself and the commitment to give 1 dog a quick walk, I have a house full of youngsters and dogs! and MEGA competition for the computer!

Last weekend I squeezed 1 day away from the family to go to the Internet Millionaires Summit in London. I wanted to be there on all 3 days Friday to Sunday, but…

1. On Friday my boss at my current part-time job couldn’t release me for the afternoon – I’ve lost count of how many Friday’s he’s rung me to say “nothing doing this afternoon, don’t bother to come in” but THIS Friday it suddenly became imperative I was at work … sigh
2. A month ago I had promised my daughter that I would attend an event on Sunday with her – prior to her attending for officer selection with the RAF. So I couldn’t renege on my promise, could I?

Well, at least I got to the Saturday session and was able to meet Alex Jeffreys, George Brown, Dean Hunt, Roy Carter and Andrew X in person and shake their hands. Guess what! In all my rushing around and planning and sorting out the family I’d forgotten to take a camera! Oh well, next time, please, lads! Oh, and as the sessions were videoed, I’m really hoping George can arrange for me to have a link so I can catch the sessions I missed.

(The event with my daughter went off very well, thank you for asking )

So, taking all this chaos into consideration, I decided I really must formulate a plan and write out my goals. Does this sound familiar to anyone else starting out? I do hope so, or I’ll feel a freak.

I’m still formulating the plan but I think it will go something like this:

Timetable myself for 2 hours a day to “work”
Allow myself 1/2 hour to blog hop
Allow myself 1/2 hour to scan all these sales e-mails and begin to unsubscribe to most of them
Think how to fit in facebook and twitter too
Inform the family/dogs/hubbie what my “work” times for the week are and bag the computer and living room for that period of time

How does that sound?

I’ve also decided to write an “Elevator Pitch” for my blog.  This is a short, snappy description to catch someone’s attention while you’re riding the elevator with them.  It will also serve to keep me focused. Mark 1 of my elevator pitch is :

JTInternetMarketing.com charts my voyage from stay-at-home mum and part-time shop girl to “globe trotting” mum and internet marketer. My goal is to have an income that enables me to travel and take time to tend my olive grove.

What do you think of that for a focus? Please leave me your thoughts.

PS I got this idea from problogger.com’s course “31 Days to Build a Better Blog”

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You may well ask! It really looks like I’ve been neglecting my readers. Many apologies, dear friend! Let me tell you where I’ve been.

The first weekend in June I jetted from London, England to St. Louis, Missouri, USA for a conference.

Things didn’t go well at the start – I arranged for my son to drop me at Heathrow Terminal 1 – I had checked it several times because I thought Terminal 1 was only internal or European flights. When I got there I rang my sister, with whom I was travelling – only to find she was at Terminal 3. I rechecked my flight details and realised that I was flying from Heathrow terminal 3 to Toronto Terminal 1.

So I walked on over to Terminal 3 – well, under, actually as you go down to the underground station and out the Terminal 3 exit. It didn’t take more than 15 minutes, thankfully. Once there, we decided to do the self-check-in at a machine seeing as we only had carry-on bags. Guess what! At each machine there was an airline assistant to help you use the machine! Did that amount to self-check-in? Oh, well, it saved some queuing, I guess. We changed our watches to Toronto time as soon as we took off from Heathrow and took our anti-jetlag herbal remedies – would they work?

The flight was uneventful – smooth, food provided, entertainment in the seat back of the seat in front, etc. We had a 4 hour stop-over in Toronto which was long and there was nothing to do since we had transferred to the “internal” departure lounge and there was nothing there except a couple of lacklustre fast-food outlets. Anyway, we didn’t really want to acquire any Canadian money for such a short time.

On to St Louis in a small aircraft – I really like these because you can see the terrain you are flying over. Most “carry-on” bags had to be left at the plane door for stowing with the checked baggage as there was no room in the cabin.

At St Louis we took the metro from the airport directly to a stop very near our hotel, which was part of the Union Station complexThis used to the largest railway terminal in the world but since the demise of steam travel has been turned into a hotel, conference, shopping complex. Take a look at here and here for some more information.

The hotel was comfortable and convenient. We found that our days consisted of:

• wake up
• have breakfast
• go to 1st session
• grab a quick lunch
• second session
• grab a quick supper
• evening session
• bed

So I can’t really tell you much about the weather except that it was warm and, I think, sunny.

The plan was to do some sightseeing on Monday morning before heading home again but we were all so tired that we had a lie in on Monday – but we did manage to go to the Gateway Arch which was conceived to commemorate the westward growth of the United States between 1803 and 1890. For those of you interested in seeing more, go to here.

And then the return trip was very similar except the stop in Toronto was slightly more bearable since there were several other people from the conference returning on the same plane and we were in the “international” departure area so there were more shops and restaurants.

In case you wondered… the anti-jet-lag remedies DID work – both ways – and we were able to enjoy the conference and hit the ground running when we got back to our duties in the UK.

As to the conference … well, I’ll tell you more of that in my next blog. But while you’re waiting – why not tell us where you have been in the comments section?

PS If someone could tell me how to indent the bullets above, I’d be grateful. Thanks

If, like me, you only hear of events AFTER they’ve occurred – here’s a heads up on some that haven’t happened yet! Hope you make it to one of them. If you hear of any more – please add them via comment and I’ll move them into the post-proper

Information is courtesy of www.bencatt.com

For seminars outside the UK see Willie Crawford’s Internet Marketing Inner Circle membership site for a comprehensive list.

June 2010:
Monday 7th June 2010, London

“Social Media Breakfast” session – 2 hours over breakfast

Speaker: Frank Orman of LeadGenerators

Website for further details: http://www.leadgenerators.co.uk/seminars.html

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