We hear how useful Myspace, Facebook and Twitter are becoming useful as free marketing tools so why not use them to the greatest affect? I have read numerous articles on the subject before putting my own thoughts on paper so perhaps they are not so original. But since everyone has a personal view reading mine may give you a different slant.

I decided Facebook would be the place to start because I’ve not been active with Myspace to date and the two are somewhat similar. Twitter is a different type of site and one on which I often post a line or two but limited when it comes to photos.

That’s not me but my granddaughter at her Christening a few years back. The contrast between us may shock you but here it is. I will also confess I am totally grey since my pic was taken.

So for today I thought I would concentrate on Facebook and give you my outline of how best to make an impression on your friends and potential customers. As I assume you are basically a stranger to all the people that call themselves “friends” but since they have decided to read your blog or your comments and if their interest had been sufficiently stimulated they will go to look you up in your profile. If you want to impress it’s best to give them some personal information. People who hide behind graphics or cartons are hardly likely to make any impact. You will have a photo of yourself available and pics of you and your partner having fun would be great. People relate to people! It therefore all helps to establish you as a real person rather than a nonentity who just churns out words and advice.

BRAGGING SESSION

I don’t have a lot of family shots because I’m the one who usually takes the pictures. The ones taken of me are most likely to be when I’ve been acting in some movie. I do that both as an amateur and a professional but despite my enormous talent I have only had small roles in movies but as an amateur actor on stage I had many leading roles. I have one or two I’ll be adding shortly to my Facebook:

This was shot of me on the set of Kasey Chamber’s “Like a River”. I was the song and dance man though all I did to be honest was to prance around with my brolley in the downpour from the hose pipe.

Here are a few more pics from my earlier acting days. I can’t remember who I was in bed with except she was female (in case you hadn’t noticed), I’ve never held a commission in the army but I was a banker in “Peter Pan” the movie shot at Movie World on the Gold Coast.

So if you have some skills or photos to stimulate interest don’t hesitate to show them to your adoring public.

So about my past, I hope the CIA don’t see this! I was a singer as a child and did many stage performances so strangely enough when I had to leave school I decide to become a government scientist with the MOD in the U K. When I graduate from college they made me an Assistant Experimental Officer and gave me all sorts of things to do in electronic development work. Some of those developments proved successful and I moved to bigger and better things during that employment. Naturally I am being brief because if I went into detail on the various projects I could fill a book. So at the end of that career when Margaret Thatcher decided she didn’t want so many government scientists some of us took early retirement. The time was right for me having just completed a four year project with a team of young men. We had successfully made a prototype electronic telephone exchange as part of a large range of new innovative electronic devices and successfully demonstrated it to NATO generals and the U S as the new communication system for the military. God knows what happened to it?

During this period, I learned to be a glider pilot and did power flying as well and also became a thespian at the local theatre where I tended to get lead roles quite frequently.

I moved from U K to New Zealand and became a company manager. I also learned a lot about philosophy in N Z from the School of Philosophy in Auckland but my family and I could not really settle there so we moved on to Australia after a few years.

Employment was a problem in Australia and I couldn’t get my teeth into anything as I had done in New Zealand. I thought real estate would be a good back up job so I took various exams which included Real Estate law and maths so I could up my commissions which I never got. I resurrected my interest in ballroom dancing and got another Gold Medal. I took the Investment advisors exam which I passed with distinction and worked at that for a few years then when the markets crashed I went back into engineering with a firm of consultants.

That was the time the De Lorentis Studios opened on the Gold Coast and I had such a cosy relationship with the casting director I could get a small part in first T V series in Australia in Mission Impossible every time I could take a day off. Then I went to acting school and graduated as a pro actor.

Then I thought I might survive better if I worked from home so I trained as a masseur. I qualified in Swedish and Sports massage. I have the greatest respect for naked ladies wanting me to rub my hands all over them but so many of the men got excited before I’d even started. I couldn’t handle this so I gave it away.

Obviously there is more to my various careers than this but I think it gives most people a good overview. I am always willing to give something a go that really grabs my interest like the Internet. I will make some suggestions in my next blog.

I was reading a number of blogs the other day when I came across one in particular – like many others I’ve seen in the past have to say – offering to Reveal the Secrets of Internet Marketing. Many people have made that offer already and mostly simply talk you through the steps of making a website on video, uploading it to a hosting company, connecting up to a transponder etc. I wouldn’t call that a secret! It’s important to a newbie of course but you can have the best looking website in the world and get zero sales if you have no one going to look at it. What every budding Internet entrepreneur wants to know is the cheapest and most effective way to market his or her site successfully. So surely that’s a secret worth revealing though I have to add if everyone is offering these secrets on line in some form or other what is secret about them? Isn’t there a saying along the lines a secret revealed is a secret no more?

The first thing you may hear when you come onto the Internet is the money is in the list and maybe another old saying so often repeated, if you continue to do what you have always done then you will get what you’ve always got. All true of course but hardly a secret. Maybe you are banging your head against a (metaphorical) brick wall but you cannot see how to change things. Perhaps even though you do not lack incentive or motivation by what you are doing you find it frustrating because it is not yielding good results. I have been there, done that and it’s all too common. Then I found a site designed by experienced marketers that organised my thinking and processes to change all that. Take a look here. That is what I would call the pathway to success because success does not come to you like the Big Bang theory but rather after time and effort.

In summary, the secret of success on the Internet is to get known as a supplier of relevant, quality information and you will become a dominant force to be reckoned with. If you don’t have much knowledge of your own right now then do your own research and pass it on to others. By giving a service to others in that way you become knowledgeable, make yourself known to others, gain respect and make yourself money. If you lack organisation in your sales and marketing or want to find out the best way I have seen on the Internet to get organised to make money go here.

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