Deep vs. Wide – Why The Experts Are Wrong

2012 has proven to be one of the most interesting and eye opening of my life so far on a number of different levels.

I started out with the intention of rebuilding my lost internet business. Then I decided that I wanted to share what I was doing on a blog.

Right as I started to ramp up both of them, Google rearranged the

deck chairs on the Titantic.

My previous background online led me to question whether or not I wanted to continue in that vein and play a game of cat and mouse with Google.

Ultimately, I decided against it.

From there, I bounced around a bit, trying on several different hats but never feeling fully comfortable in any of them.

Then I found out that I had been living with un-diagnosed brain damage for 30 years.

Then I learned that my daughter may have epilepsy. (Doctors have determined at this point that she does not, thankfully, but there’s still something going on there (a sleep disorder is the next best guess) that is going to need to be investigated further.

At times I’ve thought that I wanted to be a content builder

  • …then a list builder
  • …then a writer
  • …then a marketer
  • …then a Benefits Administrator
  • …then a hot dog cart vendor
  • …then a Hypnotherapist…

It’s enough to drive a guy crazy (or crazier anyway).

Here’s what I’ve finally determined…

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How To Defeat Demons You Can’t See

I'll replace this with a scan of my own brain as soon as I get it.

Mr. Long, please call me back right away. Your brain CT scan showed an anomaly. My life changed forever last Thursday. Thankfully, nothing is currently wrong. But a routine visit to the doctor to ensure that a recent bout of cluster headaches was due to nothing more than stress revealed a shocking discovery. The CT scan [...]

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You’re doomed to failure without a HOW and a WHY

Fail to plan? Plan to fail.

It’s one of the biggest cliche’s around. It’s also one of the most valid. One of the biggest reasons so many aspiring internet marketers struggle to earn even a single dollar online is due to the fact that they have no real plan. All they know is that they want to make money online. But [...]

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The “Search Winter” is Upon Us and It’s Time to Respond

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I normally won’t make a habit of creating an entire post about someone else’s post, but when someone who is very well known and has been around as long as I have writes something from this kind of perspective, I’ll make an exception. Yesterday I tweeted a post by Ed Dale about what he is [...]

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Thursday Thoughts #1 – Backlink Solutions

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(Welcome to the inaugural edition of Thursday Thoughts. This feature, published every Thursday (really?) will include current topics of the online world and how they relate to passive niche building, or any other random thoughts from the internet marketing sphere that might be too short for a full post of their own. I hope you [...]

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