| Been trying (trying!) to spend my puter time expanding and promoting Lysergix Productions. Today, I waded through the VOLUMES of information out there on internet marketing. |
| What a bunch of crap! Sorry, I just HAD to get that out. |
| I know that there's good reason for using salesmanspeak when talking about this stuff. I know in the end it's all about the hit count and the profit margin. I know that making lots of hyped-up statements with exclamation marks! is motivating to lots of people. I have a good friend at hellifax.com who uses this kind of salesmanspeak to keep himself (and others) motivated, focused, and positive. And it does feel good to engage in it sometimes. It does make me feel more confident that this might ever make money. And that's important, because if I didn't think that then why would I even bother to do it? |
| What irritates me about it is that there's too much use of platitudes and generalizations. It's like... it's like religion. It's about casting out all doubt and forging ahead to carve out YOUR piece of the pie (place in heaven?), and you WILL get yours because YOU are acting on your ideas (follwing your divine inspiration?), not like the SHEEP who have 9 to 5 jobs... ew(e)! All you need is enough confidence (faith?) in your ideas (and a subscription to their "in-the-know" magazine for fifty bucks). Never mind that your ideas might royally suck, or that maybe you really aren't smart enough or connected enough to make your idea work (or that maybe you subsribed to the wrong magazine?). |
| And then there's the time thing. It's all about DO IT NOW, hurry up, get registered for this, you need ads that go here TODAY because who knows, the trend might change tomorrow and you'll be ANCIENT (read: broke) as a web business. You know what? I hate working outside my home for that exact reason: following someone else's timetables. And I'm NOT going to get sucked into making that a part of my business philosophy. I'm not out to trick anybody into making a rash decision, dammit, and I'm not going to hurry up just because you people who make these websites think it's a good idea. I just want to make good web sites. And I want people to pay me for them simply because I need money to live. I'm hanging a shingle, not a billboard. I couldn't handle attracting that many people. And that's okay. |
| I am just not an enthusiastic capitalist. Can't I work for myself without being one? Can't I just do the "new millenium" equivalent of shoemakers or seamstresses? People want web pages, and I like making them. I hope I can get better at it. I hope that enough people choose my designs and pay for them because I would like to live more comfortably (i.e., get an apartment that has more than one room). I like money as much as the next person, but I just don't feel right acting like a jerk to get some. Is that even possible anymore? |
| Maybe this just comes down to me being too fragile to fight for money or anything else right now. Maybe when I feel better I'll chase the buck a little faster? I guess we'll see. |
| And oh yeah about the Laverine and Shirley song: NO I WASN'T SERIOUS. I added it for campiness value, and because it's one of my few childhood telemoments. I used to hope that those women never got married, but I sure didn't think working in a brewery was what I really wanted to do either. I'm still not sure what I wanna do when I grow up. |
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Sclemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated.
We're gonna do it!
Give us any chance, we'll take it.
Give us any rule, we'll break it.
We're gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin' it our way.
Nothin's gonna turn us back now,
Straight ahead and on the track now.
We're gonna make our dreams come true,
Doin' it our way.
There is nothing we won't try,
Never heard the word impossible.
This time there's no stopping us.
We're gonna do it.
On your mark, get set, and go now,
Got a dream and we just know now,
We're gonna make our dream come true.
And we'll do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true,
And do it our way, yes our way,
Make all our dreams come true
For me and you.
- The Laverine and Shirley theme song
"Making Our Dreams Come True,"
by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox;
sung by Cyndi Grecco.
...really excited to add my first link to another site today!
this is a wonderful site made by Circle Mong-Soa.
thanks Jese!