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elisabeth · 05-06-2008, 04:39 AM

Thanks Marth and 1000feet.

Marth: re debt -- I feel lucky that I have the option to get rid of it (or the vast majority of it) with one fell swoop (paying the rest off over time) and then build a business (actually start building it right away... ). I'm really psyched...

1000feet: Personal growth IS big right now. Is there room for another voice/blog etc.? Well, I've slowly started building subscribers etc. Without doing anything much fancy, I'm getting some 60+ visitors a day to my blog and growing, and my "list" has grown to, oh, a couple of hundred, but I've barely gotten started with serious marketing. Just some article marketing, some posting in forums. I love the web!

What makes me different? A lot, I think. My personal history (former foreign student, breast cancer survivor, former deejay, poet, etc.), my perspective, my "voice," I can hardly wait to discover where it'll all take me.

And I'll be quite happy to do things like copywriting and teaching businesses how to build their web presence etc. to make money while I keep building my personal growth web presence and speaking "platform" and write books. Oh, yes, and I want to speak at colleges too (to students, about college success, managing/alleviating exam anxiety, and so on).

I HAVE been thinking about doing this for years, actually, though I didn't think I'd have to give up my job to do it. But it wasn't possible to do those things while still at that university. Still, I also didn't have the web marketing knowledge I can now use to create cash flow while I wait for my book(s) to hit the big time.

So what can I say. Maybe it's divine timing. I think I'm actually grateful to Amex for forcing the issue. Although I could have done without the stress all of this caused me over the last several months until I came up with this plan, and I didn't really recognize the gratitude aspect of it until maybe yesterday.

05-06-2008, 04:39 AM	#4 (permalink)
elisabeth Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 89	Thanks Marth and 1000feet. Marth: re debt -- I feel lucky that I have the option to get rid of it (or the vast majority of it) with one fell swoop (paying the rest off over time) and then build a business (actually start building it right away... ). I'm really psyched... 1000feet: Personal growth IS big right now. Is there room for another voice/blog etc.? Well, I've slowly started building subscribers etc. Without doing anything much fancy, I'm getting some 60+ visitors a day to my blog and growing, and my "list" has grown to, oh, a couple of hundred, but I've barely gotten started with serious marketing. Just some article marketing, some posting in forums. I love the web! What makes me different? A lot, I think. My personal history (former foreign student, breast cancer survivor, former deejay, poet, etc.), my perspective, my "voice," I can hardly wait to discover where it'll all take me. And I'll be quite happy to do things like copywriting and teaching businesses how to build their web presence etc. to make money while I keep building my personal growth web presence and speaking "platform" and write books. Oh, yes, and I want to speak at colleges too (to students, about college success, managing/alleviating exam anxiety, and so on). I HAVE been thinking about doing this for years, actually, though I didn't think I'd have to give up my job to do it. But it wasn't possible to do those things while still at that university. Still, I also didn't have the web marketing knowledge I can now use to create cash flow while I wait for my book(s) to hit the big time. So what can I say. Maybe it's divine timing. I think I'm actually grateful to Amex for forcing the issue. Although I could have done without the stress all of this caused me over the last several months until I came up with this plan, and I didn't really recognize the gratitude aspect of it until maybe yesterday.