One Mans Goal Progress Report

Marc Galeazzi from Make Money With One Mans Goal has been through a roller coaster ride since he bought the site from Bryan Clark. Over the months, Marc has suffered ridicule, which conversely has resulted in a heap of new visitors and many new followers of One Mans Goal. But being a newcomer to making a living from blogging is not the easiest thing in the world, and imagine how it would feel trying to learn Wordpress, Affiliate Marketing, SEO techniques and a host of other vital things under the critical gaze of thousands of bloggers.

Well that’s precisely what Marc has had to put up with.

I’m going to compare Marc’s experience in making money online with my own experience. I’m sure most of you had an experience similar to mine, rather than to Marc’s.

I began blogging for bucks not much over a year ago. I knew nothing then about how to make a living on the internet and still have much to learn. But I did have the advantage of being a blogger. I knew the basics of most free blog hosts and a smattering of html, so at least I had some sort of start. And as I was unknown (and still learning SEO), I could learn in privacy. I could make mistakes and no one would mock me. And I could learn about money making techniques until I was ready to face the internet world.

In comparison, Marc never had that opportunity. He was new to blogging on Wordpress. He wanted to make money online and he felt that buying One Mans Goal would be a step up the ladder; a money making blog all set up for him. His optimism may seem naive to some, although now I’m not sure that’s the case at all. However, I do not think Marc was entirely prepared for what this would mean. From the moment he purchased OMG, he was in the public eye.

Just imagine how it must feel when every post you make (even every comment) is analyzed and criticised (even from those genuinely trying to help you). And you know you are likely being watched by thousands of people. Some of whom will want to see you fail; to say “I told you so”.

If you are an authority in the Make Money Online world it can be bad enough at times. Fame is nice, if you want blogging fame, and many bloggers are less likely to criticise an ‘A lister’ (they hope for some ‘link luv’ instead), but even so, the authority bloggers still get their detractors. However, unlike newcomers to blogging, they have built up an army of ‘loyal suporters’ to back up their words.

Not so, if you have been open and honest about being new to blogging and making money online from the outset, as is the case with Marc. The detractors will declare you open season and even your fans with feel free to criticise your efforts.

And somehow, you have to keep going with your dream to make money on the internet, despite the untold stress this can put you under.

Can you really imagine how that feels? I bet many of you would give up, sell up, and tend to your wounds, before you even began to try making money again.

And for a while it looked like this was going to happen to Marc; that his roller coaster ride was going to go off the rails. When I wrote my post about a comments confrontation with Bryan Clark, I was feeling quite concerned about Marc and the future of One Mans Goal, but I’m hoping now that my concerns were unnecessary.

Marc is made of stronger stuff than many of us gave him credit for. And people respect that. Along with all the criticism, he has received help and advice from some of the best minds on the internet. And Marc has quite rightly taken advantage of this.

Justin from SEO Zombie has offered Marc Great SEO Advice and Grizzly, who can teach novices and advanced webmasters how to Make Money, is busy showing Marc how to try to get back his PR ranking, along with other great advice on how to Make Money With One Mans Goal.

And with Marc’s increased interest in making a success of One Mans Goal has come renewed help from other less expert but willing participators (including me). For a while we feared the worst and our participation lessened, but now we have seen the turn around. We know now that Marc means business, and many of us are doing our best to help him according to our abilities.

What this has produced is a truly interesting concept. One Mans Goal was always geared towards newcomers wanting to make a living from blogging, but even newcomers to earning online, can forget that the true blogging newbie needs more help than simply telling him about SEO techniques and Marketing. Many real newcomers need help with actually building the blog itself.

For example, those of us who have been making money on our own Wordpress blogs for some time, tend to forget that not everyone knows How To Add Meta Tags To Your Wordpress Header. Hell, when we started out, we probably didn’t know about how to read blog stats or How to Set Up A Domain Name. But these are all of genuine concern to many new bloggers, and they can watch Marc go through his learning curve with all of them, helped along the way with advice from his commentators.

And when you count in the fact that many of Marc’s commentators are experienced internet marketers, you can find really great advice about the different ways to make money online which makes the comments of OMG invaluable. Marc has made friends on the internet, an important process of blogging, and in return, his friends are helping him the best way they can.

And don’t worry about Marc taking the wrong advice. He is a genuine guy who appreciates help, but this doesn’t make him a pushover. He has learned to sort out the good and bad advice for himself, and watching the process as he builds One Mans Goal into a viable money making blog is fascinating and informative.

Despite the fact that Marc says he wishes to keep his target audience wide, I think he has actually found it, perhaps without realising. One Mans Goal has become a place where bloggers with varied degrees of experience of making money online can come together. They can not only help newcomers learn how to build money making blogs, but can also discuss different blog building and marketing techniques among themselves. No one has to feel marginalised, because all of the commentators are at different levels of expertise and experience and have different input to offer.

One Mans Goal is growing into a helpful and informative blogging community which can help people make money online. Some of this is down to the commentators and background helpers, but an awful lot of this is down to Marc’s enthusiasm, willingness to learn and persistant belief in himself.

As Marc said, when discussing how best to offer A Free Blog For OMG Readers:

There are no problems for a problem solver

Marc, you have my respect; loads of it. Kudos to you. You truly deserve success.

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