I was reading over at the ystoreblog that Marketing Sherpa has released their Wisdom Download 2007. Once I got to the correct page I found out that they do this every year. Make sure you head on over and grab your copy.

http://wisdom.marketingsherpa.com/wisdom.html

Linda Buquet has made a very elegant and timely post over at 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums about learning to Focus in your affiliate marketing efforts. This is something that is amazingly hard to do in life – whether we are talking about affiliate marketing or about driving a car down the street. But it is also absolutely AMAZING what someone can accomplish when they do focus. Do one thing and do it good and you excel above the rest.

Since about 1998 I have been on my own in business. I left a job that paid very well at IBM to become an independent consultant. All of the joys and luxuries (and hardships and taxes) that come along with owning your own business were suddenly thrust upon my naive shoulders. Among all of the other things I had to work on there was the task of coming up with a company name. ATBS Consulting was the name that popped into my head (or my wifes head) one evening back in 1998. It stands for “All things big and small”. Hey what can I say – I thought it was catchy and it met with the approval of my better 1/2 so it was good enough for me.

Then about 2-3 years ago I decided that I wanted my business and my efforts to have meaning. I did not want to be just like every other consultant out there. I wanted to bring a message to my clients that my company was going to be able to help them solve the biggest problem they had at the time. We were not going to try and tackle all of the demons that a company had when we started working with them ; we were going to tackle them one at a time. And the one we were tackling would get my complete and undivided attention. My friends and family were brainstorming in the car coming North back into Oklahoma City from a road trip  and it hit us (it might have been on the side of a truck): Focus Consulting Inc. For some reason it immediately felt right. By presenting that name and a short tag line to any company I would be able to instantly tell them what my “value add” was above my competitors.

Today I still strongly believe that FOCUSed ACTION will get you anywhere you want to go. That is why I renamed my company, and that is why I started this website. Together you and I are going to go on a journey of focused action and accomplish great things. I hope you enjoy the ride.

Only 4 days until Affiliate Summit. And I still can’t wait.

xo,

Patrick

As I ramp up my efforts in the Affiliate Marketing world I’ll be sharing step by step lessons as to what I do to succeed and what I do to fail. But until some of that knowledge starts flowing I found this post (and podcast) over at Revenews that might be helpful to those of you that are wanting to head that way.

Teaching the Basics to Affiliate Marketing Newbies in under 60 Minutes

Enjoy!

One of my many interests is affiliate marketing. And if you are the least bit involved in this field then you are aware of the twice annual migration of affiliates to Affiliate Summit.

The first Affiliate Summit of 2007 (Las Vegas) will be here in just under a week – and I could not be more excited. Affiliate marketing is one of those fields that with a lot of hard work and time dedication can make you a modest income while giving you a lot of freedom. And that is one of things in life that I find myself looking for more and more – freedom.

The people I am going to meet are people of action. And if I had to choose one word to describe me and the people around me that I like then that would be the word. I have chatted online with so many people who make their living the “affiliate marketing ” way. One of the common threads in all of my discussion is the freedom that this sort of lifestyle brings you.

I learned a long time ago that nothing I do should be solely about the money. It should be about buying my own time. And I just cannot wait to get around people the feel and think the same way.

Are you going to be there? If so look up Patrick Allmond and let’s sit down for a chat. I don’t know who you are and it really does not matter. More than likely you are a person like me who does not want to sit around and do nothing. You want to construct a life and buy some freedom.

See you in a week.

The weather in my state and the states surrounding us has been terrible the past three days, and forecast says we have one more day to go. This is not fun if you get cabin fever easily – which I do. However it is a GREAT time to get stuff done in the office and online.

This weekend I have been able to…

- Consolidate all of my hosting accounts to one company

- Make some mods to this site and get it to a usable point

- Cancel my other hosting accounts so now I am down from 3 to 1

- Brainstorm on some ideas with a friend of mine (via MSN IM) of how to make progress in our online/offline ventures.

- Start planning the end of the week when I am going to go to the Affiliate Summit.

What did you do today to take a step forward?

Love ya,

Patrick