Personal Update
If you have been following my status updates on Facebook you would have seen that I am on a fitness kick at the moment. In fact on Tuesday this week I managed to complete a 5 kilometre run in 26 degree heat. Now for those of you who are super fit out there, I know that’s not incredibly impressive, but I am celebrating the achievement of my goals all the same 
Today’s personal update is going to be a little longer than normal, because I have had a lot of questions lately around my future direction. It has now been a few months since I started sending out regular newsletters again, posting daily on this site (yes I know I missed a few days here and there) and providing free training. I have found it great to be able to provide daily content, and the feedback I have received to date has been awesome.
So here’s my plan moving forward:
- SSM Marketing Website – I will continue to provide free Internet Marketing Education and support through this site indefinitely. As long as you keep reading the posts and enjoying the learning, I will keep writing, filming and training. The forum that we launched a few months ago will also continue to be available to provide support to you for free as long as it is being used.
- Weekly Newsletter - I will continue to write and send this newsletter weekly, because I love sharing my thoughts and learnings as much as you enjoy reading it (I hope). From time to time in the newsletter I will provide a recommendation for a product, seminar or website that you might enjoy.
- Events – I have reduced the amount of events that I am speaking at as I want to spend more time working on producing new internet businesses. I believe that the market is perfectly placed to launch Internet Businesses now. I will from time to time promote an event I think would be worth your while attending, but I personally plan to spend less time speaking.
- Products – I have not been working on any product development lately and do not plan to bring out any paid products in the near future. I do make one exception to that as Matt (who is a contributor to SSM Marketing) has been developing a great product and I plan to recommend that and provide some support and training with him. With that said though I have also been working on some free products which I can provide for those of you who are stuck and need a hand.
- Mentoring – I have been doing some limited mentoring at the request of some clients and will continue to do this, but am not marketing or promoting this publicly.
- Consulting & Web Business Development – I am working on various exciting consulting and web business projects and hope to showcase them to you over the coming months. In fact, I am extremely excited about two of them which I believe are going to hugely successful in their niches. Stay tuned to hear more about that in the coming weeks.
Ok wow, now I have written that it seems like I have a lot on my plate, but any of you who know me well, know that I love Internet Marketing and I love a challenge.
One of the other questions I get asked a lot is who would I recommend if someone wanted to take their education further and work with a mentor. Currently there are two programs that I highly recommend:
- Sean Rasmussen’s Year Of The Affiliate – Sean is one of the most ethical, integrity driven Internet Marketers I have ever met. He really lives to serve and as such any program of his you join, you know you will get what is promised. I am not recommending Sean because I get an affiliate commission, because I don’t. I am recommending him because he is genuine and he gets results. For more about his program visit his website: www.YearOfTheAffiliate.com
- Nicci & Lee’s Business Academy Online – Nicci & Lee’s training is fantastic hands on training and I recommend them highly. I have friends who are doing their program at the moment and they really love it. Again, I am not recommending them because I get an affiliate commission, because I don’t. I am recommending them because they are genuine and get results. For more about their program visit: www.BusinessAcademyOnline.com
Sean and Nicci and Lee do not know I am writing this about them, so if they are surprised that you contacted them, don’t worry about it. Just tell them a friend referred you
Finally to finish off this massive personal update, I would like to let all of my loyal subscribers know that I have no association with Geekversity.
Until next week,
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Get an Internet Marketing Kick Start…
In the next few weeks a friend of mine is running several Internet Marketing educational events around Australasia, so I’ve asked him to give me a few free tickets for his upcoming Sydney event that I can give away to my valued newsletter subscribers.
The events are all about helping you access the tools and info you need to get your internet business off the ground sooner and he’s managed to pull together some of the best internet marketers from Australia and the world to share their insights with you.
Shaun Stenning has been an internet marketer for over 7 years. He has experience in a broad range of online and offline marketing fields and specialises in Search Engine Optimisation, Conversion, Traffic Generation and Monetisation.
Matt Stenning is a Social Media specialist who is passionate about unearthing new strategies and ideas online. He also has a broad range of internet marketing experience.
Stephanie Stenning specialises in online product marketing and copywriting.
Caitlin Foster
- 4th Nov, 09 12:11am
Hi Shaun
Just want to say ‘thank you’ to you and Matt for being such fantastic and inspiring Internet marketers … and people. I learned a lot at IM Retreat Melbourne and am just starting now (Wednesday 4 November 2009) to put into practise the theory and technical tips you both taught (yeah, much later than others in the class, I know. Other creatures called ‘family’ have needed my attention, energy and time since class. Lucky none of them needed any money! I keep telling them to go away so I can do my Stenning-sourced work so I HAVE some money!!)
Best of luck with all your plans. You’re right; you DO have a lot on your plate, yet if anyone has the energy and passion for their subject and ‘doing the doing’, it’s you. I’m amazed at how much you cram into your life on just the Internet marketing side of things; to find out you are now running kms and getting ‘fitter n’ fabber’ made me feel even MORE impressed! How do you do it? I think the answer must be you hardly ever sleep. Hope you eat healthily and also take time out just for enjoyment; stop and smell the roses. Remember the saying ‘All work and no play …’
I look forward very much to continuing to see the great quality work you produce; I’m sure you will always have an eager audience for your education and training output. Your students/fans are very lucky you, Matt and Steph produce the excellent info you do; without you, we’d all be less energised and less monetised and less fulfilled than we are/could be. You offer us all a much better future and I’m very grateful to the three of you for that. I want to get cracking now on becoming one of your success stories.
Thanks again. And take care; balance all your activities; don’t wear yourself out.
Til next time, cheers from Caitlin