First I want to offer public congratulations to Dom, who has transcended newbie and become a professional marketer - well done you, way to go! And the spur? Well, Dom joined about 9 months before me and he's got there - he's probably worked at it harder and smarter darn it. It isn't that I'm seeing no success, but it hasn't taken off sufficiently and I was beginning to wonder why. He kindly offered suggestions on my site - things I should have been doing anyway - but it helped a lot to have a

I had intended to update progress - or lack of it, at exactly the three month mark but seem to have overrun a bit, but better late than never I hope. Back in May I finally decided to quit putting all my efforts into a site which, when I checked the keywords (and did the job properly as WA teach you to...) was never going to earn the accolade 'likely to succeed'. So with a lot of misgivings about starting projects and not finishing them, I did just that and started again. Even as I wrote and

I've seen the light.It's taken me several weeks of thinking and checking and researching then thinking some more. Not to mention more hours than I'll ever confess to watching Jay's WAbinars - essential newbie fodder by the way. One of the biggest problems I found is having no experienced knowledgeable sounding board to bounce ideas off. Of course, the biggest problem is myself. I absolutely hate to quit, giving up isn't an option -- truly you should see some of the complet