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The iAssistant Is Getting A New Look
Posted by: | CommentsA few months ago, I joined Lateral Action: Creativity + Productivity = Success. Then I joined Sonia Simon’s Remarkable Marketing Blueprint. Most recently, I joined Third Tribe Marketing.And now, I am different, and my business is different. It’s hard to explain what has changed, but I’ll try. I’m more focused. I have ideas, lots of them. I have a plan to carry out my ideas. I have a community to mentor me and offer advice. All three websites are alike, and yet very different. I highly recommend them all.
So, I need a new look to go with my new ideas and have asked Pamela Wilson – Big Brand System (also a 3rd Triber) to design the logo for my new site: My WP Works. It is forthcoming toward the end of this week.
Part of what I have found is that I enjoy working with WordPress sites, and more specifically WordPress plugins, so hence the move to my new URL – My WordPress Works. Because of trademark legalities, I did not use the full WordPress name in the URL, only the first letters, as requested by Matt Mullenweg.
Another change: after working with Lateral Action, Remarkable Marketing Blueprint, and most recently, Third Tribe Marketing, I findĀ myself in love with Thesis and have purchased it for my new look. While I enjoy the different themes I’ve purchased from iThemes, I think Thesis will work best for my new look.
Thesis is installed and active at My WP Works, but the site is anything but complete, so if you decide to visit now, do so with the intention of coming back in a month to see the final product. Looking at it now will be good experience if you want to see a makeover in progress!
To return to the original focus of my blog, my next posts will chronicle the plugins that transition from this site to My WP Works. The Hard, The Easy, and The Impossible!
Business Wishlist for 2010
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Chris Brogan posted a blog with his business wishlist for 2010 and challenged his readers to do the same. Please click here to read his list. Definitely not a waste of time and definitely will get your creative juices flowing.
I am enrolled in Brian Clark’s Lateral Action program and Sonia Simone’s Remarkable Marketing Blueprint membership class, so I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about this. Sonia gave us a list of questions and had us make a minimum of 100 cards with one idea each on them. Wow!
Okay, here goes, my business wishlist for 2010:
1. To establish my blog as an authority on WordPress plugins for beginning and intermediate users.
2. Expand my freebies and products to include teaching sets of ebooks and video/audio files.
3. Write 10 more plugin guides.
4. Produce 5 free plugin products.
5. Establish membership sites for best practices in the usage of plugins.
6. Continue learning new software such as Camtasia and Adobe InDepth.
7. Enable as many people as possible to successfully maneuver the world of WordPress to launch and succeed in business.
8. Have a six figure business by the end of 2010 while maintaining and exceeding the level of personal happiness, freedom, and health I now enjoy.
I know it needs some tweaking, but it’s a start!






