I love how things evolve. You start out with an idea – you act on it – and before you know it, the idea has become bigger than you’d have thought.
And so it is with the Internet Business Tribe.
I’m Nic Lucas and I’ve created the Internet Business Tribe Blog as a place for people to follow my internet business antics – and learn from them. Why would they want to do that? Well, there are a lot of benefits I could list – but primarily I think that people like to watch and learn from someone who is already doing what they would like to do – or are interested in.
The year 2009 is definitely the year of reinvention for many people – and many of them are turning to the internet to explore business opportunities. The internet is one of the fastest growing market places in existence and – frankly – it can be a mine field of great expectations and poor outcomes. It also offers an unprecedented opportunity to turn possibility into actuality – to leverage the current skills, knowledge and expertise that you have for two linked purposes: to help people and to make a profit.
Over the coming months, I will be releasing a number of products into the market. By following this blog, you’ll get to see my mistakes, my blunders, my failures and my stuff-ups. I hope to have a lot of these – since this is exactly how I’ll become a true authority on the topic.
I also plan to succeed – and I hope you stick around to watch and learn from that as well.
You can read a bit more about ‘who I am‘ elsewhere – but suffice it to say that in the offline world, I’m a researcher, an academic (I’ve been teaching for 15 years), an editor, and I’ve got a few too many postgrad degrees. I’ve been involved in publishing and online business since 2003 – but I have really ramped it up over the last year as part of the 2009 Year of Reinvention.
I’ve managed to hang out with and learn from internet marketers such as Brett McFall, Sean Roach, Pat Lovell, Tim Thompson, James Schramko, Dr Mike Woo Ming, Barnaby De Palma, and the guys from Noble Samurai. I think I must have heard and met virtually every ‘big’ internet marketer on the speaking circuit – people such as Mike Filsaime, Frank Kern, John Reese, Armond Morin, Jeff Mulligan, Perry Belcher and Andy Jenkins. And if you hang out with people like this – and listen to what they have to teach you – your learning is accelerated.
Now, I’m a natural educator. I’ve been teaching people my entire life. I get enthused about something and I do nothing but learn everything there is to know about it (hence having too many postgrad degrees!) and then I can’t shut-up about it – and so I start teaching people what I know. And this latest thing – called internet business – is no different.
So, welcome to this blog. I started it over at my ‘personal site’, niclucas.com, but with all I’ve got planned, it made far more sense to shift it over here under the title of my new tribe, the Internet Business Tribe. There’s a lot going on in the background and my approach to online business and internet marketing is quite different. Partly because I’m different and partly because I come at this from an educational background.
You don’t become a wealthy internet marketer over night – just like you don’t become a surgeon over night. First you have to learn the language, then the basic core knowledge, and then you do advanced learning, and you acquire skills by applying them in real-life situations.
It might ‘appear’ that some people just waltz into internet riches – but have you ever heard of ‘recognition of prior learning’? Some people come at internet business and already have a whole range of relevant skills that fast track them through each stage. It’s just like a science graduate who starts medicine and ends up with exemptions from a whole swag of courses.
Learning how to start a successful business on the internet is a huge topic – but it’s worth studying and it’s worth applying the knowledge and skills that you learn. Personally, I love it – and it will hold my interest for many years to come.
So, stick around, spy on me, take notes from what I do, learn from my mistakes and my successes. The internet is moving fast, so it’s important to hook into something that floats you along the stream.
Cheers,
Nic
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