Plans, PLR, and Participation

It’s funny how plans change. And it’s disconcerting when you end up doing something that you swore you’d never do again. And even more disconcerting when you realize that it was fear that was holding you back, and that it’s really the right thing to be doing no matter how badly you want to fight against it and hide away. And I probably would have never even noticed how things were changing if I hadn’t popped in here and re-read what I wrote about my Q2 goals.

By now, you’re probably wondering what I’m rambling about, so here’s the scoop. I’ve been pretty quiet for the last few weeks really thinking about where I’m going and how I’m gonna get there. I almost let myself be talked into creating a completely new business model that would see me totally abandoning my goals and starting over. One good thing that has come out of that little detour is that I have been able to narrow down my focus to the one area of internet marketing that continues to get me all fired up, even after 12 years of slogging away in front of the computer.

It’s funny how it should have been obvious to me, given the list of what I originally set out to accomplish by July 1st. But it wasn’t, and it took some good hard conversations and a lot of thought to actually make me see and admit that yes, I am a PLR addict. Nothing gives me a bigger rush than buying a new package of PLR material and seeing how many ways I can rewrite, reuse and repurpose it. It appeals to me on so many levels — it feeds my thirst for knowledge and my need to conquer new worlds (niches); it opens my mind to new ideas that would never have crossed my path otherwise; it stretches my creativity to the bursting point, and it gives me the reason to justify my obsessive need to research a topic to death. All that, and an income too — pretty cool, eh?

What amuses me the most is I look at that list of goals and see how much more I could do, and others look at my list and say it’s too much. And I suppose it does look like a lot, and in fairness to my body’s need for food and sleep, I could probably cut it back a bit.

But here’s the thing I’m struggling with… and where the change in plans comes in… If, say, I were going to offer my services for either re-creating content, or teaching how to re-create content the way I do it, shouldn’t I do it first and offer up the proof that it can be done and that I have at least half a clue as to how to go about doing it?

If, for example, I were to tell you that I could take one PLR article and create at least 10 pieces of content out of it, would not the first words out of your mouth be “prove it”? They’d sure be mine if you told me that so don’t think I’m gonna be insulted if you ask me to prove that it can be done.

This is one of the reasons that I don’t write a whole lot in the Internet Marketing field even though I love it and I’ve been doing it since 1997. I like proof! And I’m not smooth enough to finesse you into believing something works if I haven’t tried it for myself first. But that’s gonna change, starting now. The writing that is …not the smooth talkin’ fake-it-til-ya-make-it bs. Because as I work towards completing as much of the content goals on that list as possible in the next seven weeks (I know I’m not gonna get the whole list done now), I will be writing about the process and showing you how it’s done.

Is there a catch? Sure, there is, and it’s not what you think….

Your participation is required. One of the things that frustrates me about blogging is the feeling that I’m talkin’ to myself. So I need to know that you’re reading and using what I’m writing about. Use the comments section to answer the questions I pose, leave your feedback, and share your results if you take action on any of the things I share. As long as there’s comments (at least five of them) for every post, I’ll continue. When the interaction stops, I stop posting. I think that’s only fair, don’t you?

So to get started, here’s your first question… How many pieces of content do you think I can create out of a package of 25 articles. Leave your guess in the comments, and I’ll let you know on Monday how much I got done over the weekend