An Intro to Randy’s Ramblings

Hi, and thanx for stopping by

Randy Smith here, and this is my blog.
(I figure you guessed that already) …lol

It’s one of the ways I stay in touch with the great people
I’ve met on my internet travels. Another is through my mailing
list which I’d love you to join if you haven’t already

RandolfSmith.com is the home of my ‘infamous Randy’s Ramblings’

So called because I do have a tendancy to ‘Ramble’ on.
That said – it’s a hype free marketing zone like no other!

You’ll often find me showing you the copy & paste emails that some
marketers would like me to send to my lists – and then giving my
honest opinions of what I really think and whether it would be a good
purchase, and for whom!.

Another feature you’ll see repeated is my popular sign off:

“As always – only spend your ca$h on things that
WILL help you (Not the stuff that Might One Day!)

As ever I really mean it when I say -
Here’s hoping you’re …..
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!”

I’ve had numerous comments from readers who appreciate
the advice of ONLY investing in products or services that will help
your own marketing efforts (too many times marketers seem to care
more about the short term profit of their promotions, rather than the
long term benefit to their subscribers….in my opinion anyway!)

And the passion part is just something I feel strongly about.
If you can ‘Really’ love what you do – it’s just not work, and never having
to work makes life great fun to live

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OK – on to a little ramble.
I thought I’d tell you a little about me so you know where I’m
coming from.

Firstly – This post is an update (as of August 2008 with further edits since)-
so much has changed since I first started this blog, it really needed
updating…lol

Here goes:

Name – Randy Smith, Age 45 (mental age – I still think I’m in my twenties)
Sunday name – Randolf

I live in the north of England with my Partner (Sara) and her son
(Cameron aged 10 in september),

[Edit]

- as of september 08 we are no longer a couple, just friends who live together.
(and I’m happy to say that friendship has flourished with only minor
and resolved issues)
I have 4 grown daughters from a previous marriage who no longer
live at home – and two of those have given me three grandsons …
(even though I am no way old enough or responsible enough to be
a grandad!!!!)
I also have a wonderful relationship with Rachel, the sunshine of my life
who just fits into it perfectly. Basically – life is great!

OH – As I’m in England – please allow for time zone and spelling
differences

I’ve been in direct sales for 20+ years, and did very well from it.
In income terms I would have beeen considered very successful.

I then had my own retail furniture outlet and was MD of the company.
Unfortunately that business collapsed in september 2006 and lead
to me losing everything through bankruptcy.

I’ve been online since around 2000/2001 and failed miserably
for years….lol
(Kept falling for the get rich quick type schemes)

I had a hypnosis site for a while back then, and eventually changed
to a Poetry site. I never made any major money from the hypnosis
site, but I did start to make an income from adsense on  the free poems
site. I got it up to a PR4 and 1000 hits a day – then google banned me
- due to an overly grateful customer clicking way too many ads …lol

That put an end to that sites profitability!…lol

I had just about given up online when I was referred to yet another
MLM type program.
(I’ve tried around 30 or more over the years…lol)

I joined, and having shown it to a few friends – I was in profit my first month.
Then I started promoting it online….. and it grew to a level of around
$1000 a month. I needed tools and resources to promote it which lead to
me becoming more active in online marketing.

I built a small list and started to recommend some of my resources to the list.
Noticing that a lot of folks ‘new’ to the net looking for ‘cheaper than guru’
products and resources, lead to the creation of my MonthlyBargains site…
and another list…. By then I had some understanding of html so I started to
build my own sites.

These have been growing steadily since, and the rest as they say is history!
I’ve also made connections with a few good (ethical) and professional
online marketers whom I can get help and advice from, that I can trust… lol

After a policy change in the program that got me into monthly profit, the
income from that dropped to a few hundred a month. But by then I was
beginning to make regular money from some of my own sites.

That has lead to a good few failures and some great successes.
I now have numerous websites, I’ve created products of my own, and
I write salescopy for a select few marketers from time to time.

You can find links to some of my sites in the margins
(That initial program eventually had another policy change with
completely obilierated my income from it and I recently Quit and
stopped promoting it at all)

After being motivated and encouraged by the results of my own
efforts, from initially earning in excess of $100 and seeing it steadily
rise, I made the decision to keep at it and took a part time stint as a
DJ (and old hobby) to allow me to concentrate on my online activities.

The DJing finished at the end of June 08 due to the club needing to
cut back on the cash it was spending, but fortunately I’m at the point
where I now earn enough to keep Sara happy with my contribution
towards the household expenses and still enjoy life.
(Sara told me I’d have to go get a ‘job’ if I didn’t make enough…lol)

From being what I termed a ‘very experienced newbie’, I would suppose
I’ll have to admit that I do seem to be able to find my way around
these days. Don’t get me wrong – I’m still useless at so many techy
things…. and even when I do get my head around some stuff – it changes
so quickly.

But I do have a good few online friends to whom I can turn for
answers to anything I get really stuck with. So that, I suppose is
why I too like helping others where I can. (and naturally hope to keep
earning a living in the meantime).

To quote Zig Ziglar -
“You can have everything you want in life – if you just
help enough other people get what they want.”

So right up front I’ll tell you….
I don’t plan on making hundreds of thousands a month.
I enjoy my family time as well as my online connections, and if I can
keeping bringing in enough to continue enjoying what I do, I’ll be happy.

My goals are to keep making a full time living and see it gradually
increase to somewhere beyond comfortable…. but at the same
time to continue feeling passionate about what I do.
I don’t want it to become a ‘job’. I want it to stay fun, make more
great friends, and keep loving my family life too.

That sums up a little about me, I look forward to getting to
know you, learning more and hopefully being of some assistance
in areas where I can be.

So here’s hoping I can provide you with some useful
information as I ramble…

And more importantly:

Here’s hoping you’re …
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!

Til next time
Warm Regards to You and Yours,
From Me and Mine.
Randy
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