The Open Source Marketer

Overview: A motivational speech.

Last night I took my family to see the Pixar film Ratatouille and for over an hour and a half we were amazed by an animated world of imagination, exploration, dream seeking, and creativity. For those of you who don’t know, Ratouille is about a rat in Paris who wants to be a French cook. Let me tell you, when I left the theater I felt totally inspired and energized.

Now this article is not a movie review. But it is about belief that you can do great things right where you are with what you have regardless of who you are, where you come from, or how you got there. In most ways that is all of us. The subject of interest and the circumstances might vary, but the fact remains that we only fail to win when we fail to try. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are looking to enter the field of Internet Marketing you must know one thing up front. Internet Marketing is not about getting rich quick.

Some people would like to make it about get rich quick schemes but the truth is a lot of work is involved.

If there is anything that has ruined a generation of good people is the idea of that there is a get rich quick answer.

The problem is that most get rich quick schemes don’t work for everyone. I qualify this by saying, not everyone because some people have managed to make get-rich-quick schemes work for them. Some people are able to make lots of money in a short period of time. It might be their situation, it might be timing, it might be their own personality, but these factors don’t always add up for everyone. Read the rest of this entry »