Shockingly Shameless Self-Promotion

Posted on 19 February 2008

I used to subscribe to lots of Ezines and newsletters. I’m guessing that I used to get about 12 million per month, maybe a few less perhaps, but it was a lot and definitely more than 6. Rather unsurprisingly most of them were based around life coaching and self-development because I love reading that stuff. Every time I stumbled across a site that had one of those “Subscribe To Our Free Newsletter” buttons I was clicking away with a passion normally reserved for people hitting the ‘Click Here For Free Porn – And This Time We Really Mean It!’ button. Or so I’m told, I really wouldn’t know anything about that. I think I’ll stop digging and move on now and let us never mention the free porn quote again.

Over the last 12 months I have almost weaned myself of newsletters. In fact I think I’d now rather blindfold myself, strap 15 chickens to my naked body and go and play hunt the Gator in the local swamp than spend the necessary time required to find the useful nugget of information buried so deep in the advertising that you need a shovel, a map and a Bloodhound to find it.

These days I’m more of a Blog man. Yeh I know I’m about 5 years late, but what can I say? I’m English and we’re late for everything.  I love reading good Blogs and there are some brilliant ones out there. I try and link to the ones that I think add value even if sometimes the people don’t link back to me the ********! I’m not bitter though, honest.

Recently I sent some books to people that write Blogs I like and to date I have had 3 reviews published. I don’t know any of these people other than through their Blogs but I am grateful to them and I hope you can check them out below.

You may have noticed that adverts have started popping up on my Blog. I wrestled with my conscience on this decision for months and months before I succumbed. Some posts can take me over an hour to write (I know, can you believe it? An hour for this stuff) and I like to think they are useful to people. Therefore, I thought as long as I link to products and services that are relevant and I know are useful, why not give you guys an opportunity to buy great stuff or do fantastic training?

My Blogs look will change dramatically this week and there will be more ads than now. I’m going to hold onto the Google ads but also introduce some for books and training for companies that I personally know and would recommend. The overall look will be much better and there’ll be no annoying pop-ups that dive in front of something you are reading just as you get to a juicy bit, so rest assured.

In the meantime I’m going to link through to the recent reviews of my book and say this: If you like this Blog you’ll love my book so go and buy it here ;-)

Laura’s Review

Joely’s Review

Shann’s Review

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