Nikki’s Search For Freedom: Creating an Internet Marketing Business

So here we are, at the end of another year. Am I older? Yes. Am I
any wiser? Highly unlikely.

At the moment, I am all gross and full of cold. I look like the living dead, and sound pretty zombified as well - far too much coughing and spluttering for my liking, and as for my nose, well, my entire face looks like it’s exploded. How’s that for a mental image? Not normally what you get from me, admittedly.

Therefore instead of being out with my friends paying 3 times as much
to get into a club to then have drinks spilled on me, I am at home with my brother. To be honest, the idea of going out at New Year just fills me with a level of dread. Don’t get me wrong, I love a chance for a damn good boogie, and obviously like being with my friends (that’s kind of the point in having them, surely?). But queueing for hours to get into the same places that I go when I normally go out, and being surrounded by drunken idiots (obviously I exclude my friends and I from the ‘drunken idiot’ description) just isn’t my idea of a good time. Perhaps I’m getting old. A house party however is a much better idea, but I can’t inflict my ill self onto my friends - even they have their limits of tolerance!

Instead I thought I would have a brief review of the year. Have I actually achieved anything? It’s all too easy to feel like you have been treading water forever and not making progress, so a little stock-taking is always a good idea.

Talking of stock-taking, I moved house recently - how on earth can one person accumulate so much stuff?! My brother was fairly horrified - he moved in one car trip, whereas I moved in about *cough* 10 car trips.

Anyway, that wasn’t what I was referring to. But then I do tend to get easily distracted. Therein lies a whole separate blog post. Ooh,
talking of distractions, apparently Pirates of the Caribbean 2 is on
TV at the moment…might have to take a little mosey over there while
I write the rest of this. See what I mean?!

So…what have I done this year that may be worthy of note and reflection. Let’s see.

I travelled half way across the world to Las Vegas in May to attend an
internet marketing seminar, cementing some great friendships at the
same time. (For more on that, have a squizz at my blog post on my
return from Vegas, including pictures & video).

I also wrote and released my first ebook, Social Networking Sites
Explained. The response to that so far has been very popular, so I
guess I did something right!

More to the point, I learned how to edit the sales page, adding in the
links to the download page, upload the book, and all the rest. I had
help of course, I am fortunate that I have a lot of patient friends
that are willing to assist me even when I’m being particularly daft.

I also learned how to use Aweber (well, the basic function at least), and so I have progressed reasonably well.

On a far more silly level, I also tried Pub Golf for the first time this year. It wasn’t the fullblown student version, but a marginally more civilised attempt - it was our work Xmas do, and we all dressed up in the most ridiculous golf attire (including pyjama bottoms for some people - don’t ask!).

I have also moved house, and am now sharing with my brother - this
means that we’re having most tasty roasts every weekend (the Meat King requires tribute after all), and he cooks for me as well. Good times all round.

Now, I’m sure there are other items of note that I could mention, but
the Meat King has just made pancakes for us to feast upon…it’s rude
not to enjoy such things!

May I take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very Happy New
Year, and may it be a happy, healthy, prosperous time (and a huge
amount of fun too - that’s why we’re here, right?!).

Purple Minxy Witch out.

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