As I sat down to write this email, I remembered the above quotation from Steve Martin. Not only does it apply to me when trying to write a salesletter or an email, but also in many aspects of my life.

Writer’s block is called procrastination which is also another form in my opinion of writer’s block.

Can I be so bold as to make the assumption that it also applies to you?

In my subject, I made a promise to you that I would solve your writer’s block or procrastination, so here we go.

It may sound too simple for you to work, but every time where I find it hard to do something, it solves it for me.

That is to find another solution. Let me give you some examples:

Problem: It takes me about 5 months to do my book-keeping

Solution: I send off all of my receipts to the Phillipines and get a year’s accounts done for a couple of hundred dollars

Problem: I am simply unable to sit down and write an ebook

Solution: I outsource it to one of my writers and have it back in days.

But outsourcing is not the only solution. In fact, a lot of the time it doesn’t enter at all.

Problem: I spend too much time on customer service

Solution: Change of mindset. Realize that customers or potential customers are the most important thing for me and my business

Problem: I take days to write a salesletter and am not that great at it and I dislike paying copywriters thousands of dollars.

Solution: I create video salesletters which generally convert better for me and I can do from start to finish in a few hours.

So, my point is, to try and always find an alternative solution or think outside of the box so that the task which is holding up your project (or your life) does get done

So my question for you:

What is the one thing that is currently stopping you from achieving your goal that I can help find a solution?

Please leave a comment below:

I felt that was much more friendly…

So the point of this blog is really to try and give out as much info as possible on things that I discover during the day or little tweaks which will help you in order to be more successful at internet marketing. I want to make a lot more videos, so watch out for that also.

I thought that it would be appropriate to just explain the basics of this blog, so that if you want to, then you can copy the general layout. Any WordPress experts, please feel free to tell me in comments that I have done something wrong…

I have kept fairly thin on the plugins so far. What I have installed are:

1. Askimet to try and stop spam comments. As it is already in WordPress, all that it takes is to activate it and enter your WordPress API which you will need to sign up for.

2. Kimili . This is a handly little plugin for showing videos on your blog. Although it may have changed in the latest version of WordPress, it is fairly hard to display camtasia on your blogs, so this helps (and it is free).

3. ABThemes. This is a plugin by David Pankhurst which I have used on other blogs and always serves me well. Basically, it is a way to easily create a theme for your blog. It took me a few mins to set up the theme for this blog in the way that I want it…although still not sure about the coloring.

In addition, I made a few tweaks:

1. Added a ping list so that the ‘right’ places are informed when I make a post.

2. Changed the permalinks to /%category%/%postname% so that the search engines like.

Please do let me know if there is anything else I should do, as WordPress is by no means one of my expertise…