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My third day as a SoundOutCards Distributor.

Whooo Hoooo … I got my distributor kit today, and was so excited about it I drove home after work to pick it up.  Not something I normally do when I have school. It takes me 20 minutes from home to get to school, so I was cutting it close. I made it with 3 minutes to spare

I added a few more addresses to my contact sheet and have written down others I need to find the addresses to.

Can’t wait to get my main site done (will be working on that this weekend)

… Scott

My second day as a SendOutCards distributor.

I’m met with my first challenge …

One drawback to using the web for the past 15 years, all my friends and family have email addresses now. I can’t remember the last time I send something through the postal service.  Gathering physical addresses is taking more time than I would like, but we’re getting there

We sent out our first card today, and plan to send at least one per day. One can get lost in the selection process too, WOW there sure are a lot of great cards to choose from.

I was also able to change the site layout for Blogsprockit.

I have college math tomorrow so won’t get a whole lot done either, but will catch up Friday and over the weekend.

Until tomorrow … Scott

My first day as a new SendOutCards distributor.

Today marks day one, my very first day of many to come in this new venture. I need to start by saying this wasn’t a decision I made lightly either. A lot of research and preparation has gone into this. I -  like so many others who are tired of failing with network marketing – decided this time I would take the time to learn more about the company and what I feel has been the most important decision is being able to choose my upline.

I’m not going to blame all my past failures on my upline, but I can tell you this much, not having the right person behind you makes it a lot tougher. If you’re wondering about why I chose SOC, or what I did to research, you’ll have to wait for the new site, sorry. I wanted to get this journal started so I don’t put it off Read more »

Greetings!

Are you all ready for the ride of your life?

I just made the decision to get started in a new business venture that I’m sure will prove to be the best decision I have made since I asked my lovely wife (Sarah) to marry me

I’m not sure what the response will be, as I don’t know if this has been done before … I’m going to journal my daily activities in this new business venture and post a daily blog post on a soon to be launched site (currently being built).  Obviously these first days will be absent a blog home for my journal progress, so I have decided to start posting them here on my personal blog. (will transfer them to their new home as soon as I can)

I’ve started a new category titled SOC for those interested in my progress.

My goal with this is two fold …

1) I hope by posting about my daily activities it will act as encouragement to stay the course and keep moving forward. A way for me to be accountable to myself and others. One thing I have noticed from a lot of great blogs, and many blogs my wife reads. People like to read about REAL life, they’re drawn in, and really start to connect with the blog owner. I’m not going to be concerned about creating a mass following, and perhaps no one will be interested at all – lol – but I do know by posting a public time line of my progress, there will come a day where people will be interested in HOW I did it. That’s where it will be fun to look back after a couple of years and see where I was at the beginning of my journey.

2) I hope others will see this as a business that they can do themselves, and be inspired to start taking action.

There will also be changes coming to Blogsprockit as I am getting bored with the current design but only after my new site is ready.

Feel free to add any comments and I look forward to hearing about your successes too.

Enjoy … Scott

I have been researching the SendOutCards business for over a month now, and I’m ready to sign up.

Why did I wait so long you might ask … money … I wanted to sign up as an entrepreneur and didn’t have the money until now.

Here’s my dilemma at this point.

I can’t decide on who I should sign up with. I thought about going with the person who originally talked about SOC almost a year ago, but he’s not very active and I never got a card in the mail (something he said he would do).

I have come across a lot of great distributors that appear to be active, but I don’t want to sign up under someone that is too busy either. I have developed a plan that I will be using that incorporates my experience online, and I’m looking for someone that is just as savvy with social media and is actively using it to help build their business.

Two of the top people on my list haven’t posted anything new to Youtube in over a month, and neither of them are using Twitter on a daily basis. One of them keeps sending me automated emails that are part of her “marketing funnel” and I can tell she set the emails up several months ago, and she’s pushing a new marketing product that I don’t care to purchase. I liked the fact that she has used YouTube and other forms of online marketing to grow her business but there’s just a lack of a personal touch in her marketing (it seems to be all on auto-pilot now).

My other thoughts were to find someone who is working and growing their business and sign up with them to help them grow faster. Problem is, I’m having a tough time finding such a person.

Anyway … I just thought I would post this message to see what kind of response I get from distributors, and hopefully I can find someone with the qualities I am looking for as a SendOutCards mentor.

I’m looking for a distributor with the following qualifications …

Actively uses social media but not SPAMMING it
Is growing their business and making money with it
Is using current online marketing/technology to “ATTRACT” people to them (as apposed to chasing people)
Sends out cards regularly (i.e uses the products)
Promotes the retail use of the cards (not just looking for opportunity sign ups)

If you fit the above qualities then either leave a comment or send me a DM through Twitter (twitter id – @scottprock ). If I’m not following you yet, then send me an @ reply asking to DM me and I’ll add you.

I want to get started on this ASAP and I’m ready to grow this rapidly.

Thanks … Scott

Key Design Websites, move over. There’s a new web design and SEO company in Boise

After it was brought to my attention that this post was benefiting a previous employer, I thought it would be appropriate to modify it. After all, who would blame me for wanting to redirect the traffic to my current employer.

Take a look at the new face of  Boise Web Design and SEO.

Call me a little biased, but I think it’s a much better company. HA! – Digavise

• The lack of Twitter updates ends today – please help me show my employer how valuable Twitter can be – say hi to @KeyDesignWeb #
• ^SP If all goes well, this will post to several accounts via @HootSuite, so I can manage the Key Design Websites social media properties. #
• @hootsuite – sorry user error, I first needed to set up the profiles in the admin account and give each user access to the profiles. #
• @hootsuite – is anyone else having troubles getting social network profiles to accept new profiles? #

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• Wow! my last post on Twitter was Dec 3! WTF … where did 2009 go? #

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• Great collection of web design resources http://su.pr/1Ee1ho #
• If you love Hoodies, I'm starting a new Twitter account and would appreciate follows from those interested @isleofhoodies #

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The site is almost completely ready, with only a few tweaks here and there needed, but we needed to start spreading the word so those with online shops can see this site as a potential marketing solution.

The new site can be found at – isleofHoodies.com

This site is something I have been thinking about for quite some time, and it will be a fun and exciting new venture where I get to talk about great Hoodie designs, companies that sell Hoodies, anything and everything about Hoodies.

We will also be designing our own Hoodies in a new business to be announced soon, so this site will help us establish a market and allow us to test it out before we go all out with it.

Oh ya … Hey, we need Hoodies to be sent to us for our daily “Pull My Hoodie” section where we showcase Hoodies that are submitted to us. This is perfect for a company who wants to advertise their products. We will get to test out the quality of the Hoodie and talk about their business on the site and through out the online social media sphere.

Most sites that have this type of advertising model will charge for inclusion, but we’re offering this free of charge in hopes it will create a great community of people who LOVE Hoodies.

There’s a section already setup for those who want to submit a Hoodie, just go to isleofHoodies.com

Let me know what you think … Scott