My goal with this blog is to document, discuss, share, and inform readers of online advertising opportunities, internet marketing strategies, and the lastest technologies.

With that said, I will also utilize this blog for it's dominant purpose, as a personal journal. Documenting my day and life.

A little about me, I'm an self-employed online internet marketer, web advertiser, and IT consultant. I have useful knowledge in my field of work, though I still learn new things everyday, which I hope to share with you all. I am not a web programmer or any other type of programmer. I can not write a lick of code. I do consider myself a webmaster, because I am able to create, design, and develop web pages using WYSIWYG editors. I also use web templates, pre-made scripts, and custom-made scripts, developed by third-parties. I also consider myself a webmaster because I host my own websites on my servers, I support my network and servers 100%. I am a Microsoft man, I only use Windows OS's. I do not have knowledge of Linux/*nix. I tried to use Linux RedHat 7.2 one time in the past, I got frustrated within two days and went back to Windows. I had it setup and networked but couldn't get any programs to install correctly and a hundred other things went wrong. Anyway, as you see I have sporadic knowledge of network/systems. My skill set is within marketing and advertising. I do alot of reading and research. I surf the web at least 10 hours a day. I do extensive web advertising. I have a list of clients whom I had the pleasure of providing my talent. I will possibly mention or discuss clients, which relate directly to a topic, but I will not make any reference of association throughout my journal.

I have websites which I mainly use for testing purposes.  JournalHome.com will be my first full-pledge website which I would take seriously and build from ground up.  In the past I have done work for clients and helped my clients build their sites to a honorable status.  I have used my websites as test sites to research and test new advertising platforms.  The approach this time is a little different, I will advertise, support, develop, control, and market my website (JournalHome.com) with the intent to be successful, with a solid foundation in blogging history.  I still have clients and I still take on new projects for web advertising, but I do not take on anymore than I can handle, therefore, I can see success in my vision. 

Web advertising and internet marketing is my passion and I do not claim to be the best, but I am good at what I do.  There are some advertisers and marketers who are able to get you listed at the very top of search engines, in extremely little amounts of time.  I call it "luck" mixed in with a little bit of skill.  Not that I don't have confidence in advertisers or marketers, but landing a website at the top of a search engine, especially in a little amount of time is not an easy task, and alot of times it never happens, but when it does, usually you have no clue of how or why it is at the top for a certain "keyword" that you only can explain it by "luck" and skillful marketing.  Sometimes, the methods used are unethical or devious (like link spamming), but there are rare occassions that the methods used are ethical and practical.  Usually, that is when a advertiser or marketer has a solid platform or playing field.  Meaning, they have different resources and connections...they have a larger network to deliver your advertisement on, which means a greater audience will see and respond to your ads.  That is what I believe in, building relationships with other adverrtisers, marketers, webmasters, businesses, networks, etc. for the purpose of developing a solid platform to advertise for the benefit of your clients.  As of yet, I have not reached this plateau so I rely on skill, talent, and time.  I am able to draw attention to clients ads and successfully market clients websites as well as client products and/or services, but my current approach is time consuming.  It usually takes me about 1 full year to plant a foot in a market and receive steady amounts of traffic to a clients websites.  I do not see this as a downfall, because I use proper advertising techniques, which are ethical and practical, and 1 year is what most advertisers are able to offer, regardless if they state something different.  As I grow my advertising platforms, I will be able to deliver more time crunching results.

I approach web advertising the same way Michael Jordan approached his b-ball game back in the late '80's and early '90's: Focused and Ready! That's why I'm the Michael Jordan of Web Advertising!

Feel free to leave comments for any topic within my journal.

3/7/2005 - Introduction