I am quite the idiot when it comes to IT stuff.
Friends have given up asking me to use Excel and Powerpoint. At one point, I thought Excel meant to do well at work and Powerpoint was some special power which magic users had in Dungeons and Dragons.
Talk to me about Cloud and I will tell you it is all about dew point and ADLR which stands for adiabatic lapse rate. Hey, I could sound Greek too, you know, but just from a different corner of the island.
Actually, I have been reprimanded by a fellow blogger before for not becoming IT savvy. I am sure he means well and I do see why he thought I was not doing enough.
Hey, I even gave up Facebooking after a few months but I only started a Facebook account because a friend told me my blog should have one. I didn't do it voluntarily.
To me, isn't having a blog good enough to reach out to people? Apparently, it isn't!
Oh my goodness, it is just too much for my Jurassic Age brain to process. Woe is me.
A meeting over the weekend with someone whom I later found out to be an internet marketing guru set me thinking about my blog.
I was impressed when I found out how he harnessed the power of the internet and made very good money.
Passive income, I thought. No, he said, not passive. It is still a business that has to be maintained.
Oh dear. That sounds like work to indolent me.
I did some reading on internet marketing over the weekend and I am still quite lost. I mean I have ads in my blog and I also recommend some value for money deals in my blog. So, I guess these are considered internet marketing too, right?
Then, why don't I make big money from blogging?
Of course, anyone who has followed my blog for a while would know that, for me, blogging was something that happened not by design.
I started this blog out of boredom and curiosity.
Any internet marketer would look at my blog's URL and shake his head. Too long. Too hard to remember.
Over the years, I just kept blogging and sharing my ideas. If I made some pocket money from blogging, I was happy but it was, obviously, not a major consideration despite what some people might think and say.
Now that I have been offered a peek into what I might be able to do with my blog, one question is, of course, how do I go about doing it?
Another question is whether I want to do it?
Truthfully, I am more interested in learning about how to do it than to be actually doing it. After all, it could be something I might be able to do in future.
A retirement pursuit? Maybe.
In a way, being really passionate about blogging without any overarching need for monetary rewards could have been a good thing because over the last few years, just doing what I enjoy doing, without any plan for branding, I found that I have established a brand.
What do I mean?
If we were to Google "ASSI" or "AK" or "ASSI AK", my blog would appear at the top of the search results!
It is true! Go ahead and try it.
I have known this for some time but the significance of it did not hit home until very recently. It is both exciting and scary.
I am an anonymous public figure!
I am an oxymoron!
How is that for wow factor?
Anonymous public figure.
Any marketing person would tell us that a strong brand is an incredible asset. So, could I be sitting on an asset?
If I could think of how to make this asset work for me, I could quit my day job and become a full time blogger like XiaXue and Mr. Brown, couldn't I?
Ahhhh... (picture Homer Simpson in a daze).
Ooooh... (nope, this is not a paid advertorial for Pizza Hut).
Sigh... (allow me to look phased out for a while).
OK, back to reality. Hard landing. Ouch.
Anyway, I am just thinking out loud here, as always. I hope I have not offended anyone.
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I could start a trend. No?
Posted by AK71 at 3:19 PM 22 comments
Want a free burger at Wendy's?
Wendy's "Son of Beef Baconator" is here!
We are always being asked if we want to upsize our orders at fast food restaurants. Well, Wendy's downsized their very popular "Beef Baconator"!
Ever felt guilty for indulging in too much meat? You won't have to feel guilty with Wendy's "Son of Beef Baconator" or "SOBB" in short!
So, how to get this burger FREE?
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