A Day in the Life of an Up and Coming Internet Marketer October 4, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , 1 comment so farWhen I got up this morning (Sat. Oct. 4 2008) it was cool and very rainy outside. I got up as I usually do, throwing on some almost passable clothing. Jeans, T shirt, Sweatshirt.
Then I did what I’ve done so many times. I came down to the kitchen area where I have a nice big work table with a view into the forest beyond.
I have to have a big table because once something is put away, I can’t find it! Just one of my personality quirks. It drives my long suffering bride batty but one of her personality quirks is that she can put up with me!
I looked at my list of most important things to do to move my business forward.
Yesterday I was a having a heck of a time trying to get it arranged so that after a customer had purchased my website tutorial they would be automatically redirected to the download page so they could get what they paid for.
Today I had an email from Dave Bullock (an Internet Marketer extraordinaire) in which he explained how to do it. He made it sound so simple. It’s not his job to help me with little details. He just did it because I asked. Nice guy.
I still had trouble with it. So I emailed Sarah Brown (another Internet Marketer extraordinaire) and asked if she could tell me how to get it done. Well, her partner Tony Shepherd wrote me back and cleared up a few things, too. Great folks, all.
I’ve had it working before but Paypal must have made some changes in between this time and the last. It was a complete mystery to me and I was getting ready to prep the website with a notice that I would be handling the download personally after my customers had paid.
Definitely NOT the way I want to do it. I want these little webpage sales sites to run automatically because..right there…is the beauty of this form of sales. Autosales. It’ll happen when you’re sleeping.
So I went to Google and typed in “How to get paypal to redirect my customers to download page” Talk about the long tail search query.
Bingo! I had my answer and was off and running.
It’s been like that through most of this IM experience. Things are moving along and then they hang up, usually due to the fact that I don’t know something.
But I got it and in the process I solved a couple of other little mysteries. Plus, I was once again reminded that these folks who are so far ahead of us, our mentors, the ones who make a lot of money, are there for a few reasons.
They are sharp, know marketing, they have been at it for some time, and they are really good people.
That’s who I want to be associated with! Who wouldn’t?
I’ll see you on the road to success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
PS: Want to earn a little money on the net? Learn how to build a webpage. rw
