Sep 11

Long term project management

Doodling, Heavy construction 1 Comment »

If you are looking for the RSS prize I mentioned in the previous post, I said you will only find it in my RSS feed!

Long term project management. It sounds hard, doesnt it?

Its not really. I know, I know, not all of you have studied business/computers and management in the university.

Universities are overrated though. There is nothing to be taught there that you cannot learn for yourself from seminars and/or good reading.

Anyway, lets stick to the subject. Project management is about managing a project, to:

  1. Maintain momentum
  2. Have smooth outsourcing
  3. Get completed on schedule
  4. Stay on budget
  5. Overcome unexpected difficulties

See? Simple really. It is all common sense. Grab a book on project management and read it (I will dig up a recommended one, can’t find it right now). You will learn a lot.

But the most important thing is not to learn a lot, but to see where you can use all those clever ideas.

On your business of course, where else could it be?

Learn the basics, and make PROJECTS. No, those scribbles on the napkin are not projects. Projects are well thought out, start-middle-end ideas, with a timeline (google it), projected budgets, outsourcing partners, a deadline, and well written specifications (check out the listings on elance for an idea).

Dont go the other way, to plan for a stupid website for five months! No, that is wrong too. Do the exact amount of planning required. Just give it some thought, and make it happen. A project outline is not an excuse to delay the start of a project, its a step by step map to completion of the project.

I know, it is not easy for the first timers (I also assumed there are no first timers on this blog, I tried to shoo them all away with my cheesy attitude). Once you actually complete a few projects, once you know what you need exactly, and can imagine a project in your head from start to finish without anything solid (or digitized, whatever) then you will be able to chourn out projects like a Quake 3 Nailgun spits lead.

I will let you do some research and reading, while waiting for my upcoming post. It will feature an example project management of the creation of a site, from start to finish, and the whole philosophy behind it.

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Nov 01

Insanity means doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results

Doodling, Mind over Pixels, WebWriMo challenge No Comments »

Take a “walk” around the fora and the blogosphere of affiliate marketing. You will see the same talks, the same techniques, and the same old crap. Stuff that maybe worked 2 years ago, which is a lifetime on the internet, or that may have never worked at all.

There are exceptions though, some serious discussions, new techniques and semi-automation.

I mentioned in an older post, that affiliate marketing in Greece is almost nonexistant. Honestly, I don’t remember my first contact with the concept of making money online as an affiliate. I got fascinated by it, and started reading and trying stuff like crazy.

The problem was that I was looking at the techniques I read, and tried to replicate them. US ppc campaigns to CPA offers, minisites on mininiches, adsense arbitrage, and the list goes on and on.

Only when I sat down and brainstormed ideas did I actually make a successful campaign. Of course, my trial and error had given me the necessary experience to come up with ideas of my own.

Now, I write my own manual.

Many techniques that I invented, I post them here. Most of them work fine, some don’t work at all, some just need the right circumstances, a sweetspot. Some work fine, but need a little secret hint to really blow up in your face.

Why am I doing this? Well, the internet is much bigger than you think. Sure, I might stumble on a competitor who uses my technique, that I uploaded here. Big deal, I am the inventor, I will find more tricks. The challenge even makes it fun.

But the most important thing is that I don’t do what everyone else is doing. Chances of tripping on a technique of my own are slim, because the guys that read this blog use them on over-competitive niches, acai offers, poker, the same old shit.

And even on those niches that I work on, I take a completely different approach than any other single competitor. 

Use you brain people. Laugh at those who use the same old tricks. Try everything, and create your own technique. Look at what people in other areas are doing, in television advertisments, in radio, in product promotion. Especially in the porn biz, these guys are always 2 years ahead of the curve. I am being serious on that.

But most importantly, screw everyone else’s opinion, and do what your guts tell you to do.

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