Thanks for this great idea!

Whether you are in MS Word or notepad or submission box, you still would postpone the article if you do not force yourself to complete the article.

Remember! Submission boxes have options of draft.

It is more a matter of discipline and not get distracted by emails and other https

If you start to finish, you would do it irrespective of other factors.

Otherwise no amount of software can force you to finish your projects

As you say, the important thing is to give a solution that provides value to your target market; the unfortunate truth is that a large number of people are producing a vast amount of material online without any commitment to doing that at all. Whether or not they are successful in their commercial aims does not alter the fact that this third rate material is produced and continually swills around us whenever we use the search engines.

On balance, I think that adsense and affiliate marketing are beneficial, and have provided a valuable lifeline to many website owners who DO try to provide real value. But let's face it, adsense is a two-edged sword: how many of us have spent long hours slotting in those 350x250 spots into our sites at the cost of readability, user satisfaction and aesthetics?

You're absolutely right when you say that you have to write a lot of articles to come up with a few good ones. That's why you should edit them aggressively, if you're truly committed to providing something worthwhile for your readers.

Your time management techniques are familiar to me (although over the years I have consistently failed to put them into regular practice...)and are great, "take no prisoners" type advice. Sure, they're not for everyone, but once you overcome your inertia by taking some action it's a lot easier to build momentum and keep going.

My best hope for the future is that search engines continue to improve their algorithms so that the most egregious excesses of the marketing and SEO industries are rendered ineffective, resulting in their consequent commercial demise.

But we can all help by resisting the urge to churn out undigested, unedited link fodder and at least try to provide some real value to our readers.

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss some of these issues,

Tony

All it takes is practice. If you write a lot eventually your writing will get better and your info won't be "third rate" ... some of the best comedians write hundreds of bad jokes to get to the good ones. You can't write 100% good material.

And the worst possible thing you can do is sit and "wonder" ... you'll talk yourself out of writing anything in the first place.

Tony,

Not being a communist, I believe in the free market. Therefore if you write a bunch of crap, people won't read it, people won't click on the ads and you won't get enough money to justify writing anymore.

But if you put a lot of articles out there, maybe 80% will be average and 20% will be really good. Then guess what, you've tested what people like and what they don't... and you can devote your article writing time to coming up with more of those 20% topics.

The only way to know is to test. And what you might think is a crap article could be pure gold to someone else... it's not about what info you THINK people want... it's what they actually want.

Yeah, I know, who cares as long as we can make some money. Let's try and exploit every available avenue - like social networking sites, blogs, whatever - even if we spoil it for everyone else. Really, isn't this kind of attitude perilously near spamming? Nothing like human greed for inventing excuses to justify essentially antisocial behaviour.

If it's not relevant, yes that does suck. I find it annoying when I get marketed to on my personal non-IM MySpace account. That kind of behavior comes close to "spoiling it."

But with Twitter, Facebook, etc... stuff I do use for marketing purposes, there are groups to join for us internet marketers, there are people who add ME to find out what I'm about, and I've made a few JV connections using Twitter. Definitely non-spammy if you do it right and give a solution that provides value to your TARGET market, not just any market.

i think you have hit the nail right on the target!

Between the Eyes with a hammer.

I have been doing Internet marketing for atleast 5 years
and making money, and my experience is that...
what you just said. Write it online.

I din't know that myself earlier, that Iam doing that.
sometimes, i used to feel , i could have avoided many
mistakes or could have written better, but 99 times
out of 100, I think, I was more effective because
i could actually send the Mail or letter.

You said It !! ( Like - NIKE - Just Do it )

great words.. you know it.

jayant Hudar
Internet Business Coach

The simple principle of taking action is sound and worthwhile Robert. Your practical suggestions however are ideosyncratic. They may work for you but would not work for many.

While your controversial or "out there" style works well for you and you do provide value in your content, I'm inclined to second the comments by Tony Page above.

Let's think about raising the bar. Then we can take a leaf out of your book, so to speak, and DO it. There is altogether just far too much junk cluttering the web. Try not to encourage even more of it. Thanks.

One of the most depressing things to me about the whole internet marketing/selling scene is the complete lack of emphasis on value. Anything goes, any kind of crap as long as it drags in a few poor bastards to click on my adsense or gets me (I hope) some link love to boost my site in the search engines. And don't get me started on RSS feeds as a substitute for work or using your brain!

I realize that most people involved in online marketing are simply interested in making money with the least amount of industry possible, and that's understandable, but I can't help getting the feeling that just as we're busy trashing the physical environment we're doing a similar thing to the online world.

Yeah, I know, who cares as long as we can make some money. Let's try and exploit every available avenue - like social networking sites, blogs, whatever - even if we spoil it for everyone else. Really, isn't this kind of attitude perilously near spamming? Nothing like human greed for inventing excuses to justify essentially antisocial behaviour.

Sorry about the rant, but it's just that I get a little tired of wading through putrid lakes of barely literate filler, usually derivative, as I traverse the internet.

It seems to me that recommending people to vomit out their first thoughts onto the page, or rather, submission box, and send them out into the ether unpolished, unchecked and often, unthought (is that a word?) through is just a recipe for adding to the morass of second-rate, brain-clogging word-waste surrounding us.

Ah, now I feel better...

Tony Page