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So as I mentioned in my first post on this blog, I am in the middle of a marketing masterclass, specifically John Thornhill's marketing masterclass. For the uninitiated, John Thorhill is what is known as an "internet marketer." He makes his living selling information products online, and he's damn good at it. He's also a truly wonderful guy and really enjoys helping people. His course is a 36 week course that walks you through setting up your first online business step by step.

Hello all; sorry I've been away for so long.

The truth is, even with all my talk on this site, I still wasn't focused on what I needed to be doing to achieve online riches. Even with the programs I participated in, I didn't stay on one path. Let me give you a quick run down:

• I quit the John Thornhill Masterclass. Unfortunately I ran into really bad financial times, and couldn't afford to continue to pay for the course. It's very thorugough if you are looking to get into product creation, but for me it just wasn't what I was looking for.
• I then started to persue computer repair as a niche I could enter, and quickly found it to be twice as competitive and half as profitable as I had anticipated. Additionally, my skills were not as high as I originally thought.

I'm still in the process of finishing the video to post soon; it's amazing to me how long getting a video up and running takes me! In the meantime, however, I've been cleaning out my closet of all my old books and things. So I fired up my old ebay account, and listed a bunch of books on Half.com. I think I'm going to have close to 50 when it's all said and done!

So if you'd like to check out what I've got up, click here. My user name is Noelle's Closet Deals - kind of makes me giggle a little bit.

Check it out, let me know what you think, or maybe buy a book or two!

First off, hi everybody! Sorry I've been gone for so long, but things have been stupid busy for me lately. At my day job (Shadowbox Live, for those who live in Columbus, OH!) has been demanding a great deal of my time. I'm a singer, actor, musician, and I assist with the production of all of our new shows, so I've been in a marathon of tech rehearsals since the 1st! I'm reaching the finish line however, as our last new show for a while is opening this Sunday. Yipee!! Luckily, I love my job, so while it's been busy, it hasn't been all "work."

Ok, so I had a different post in mind to write today, but a number of things derailed today when my computer gave me the deadly blue screen in early afternoon...

While working on music at a friend's house, I decided to open my computer and check on a couple of things (My section of the song we were working on was still about 15 minutes away at that point). Hit the power button and....

"Your computer has suffered a major error and will now shut-down"

Now in many people this is a terrifying moment in the day. For me, however, well I've had more than my fair share of computer blue-screens in the past 5 years alone. Although not pleased, I set about a system restore. As it turned out, I was missing one of my restore disks. Without all 3 disks, the computer could not properly reset to the factory defaults, and I couldn't access anything on my computer at all.

Last night, I got to be a part of an amazingly life changing experience.

As I've mentioned before, I work for a theater company in Columbus, OH called Shadowbox. We perform live sketch comedy (written in house) and we have a live house band that plays rock music between each sketch. This is our basic formula during the year. We also perform musicals, and the past year we've been doing a show called Back to the Garden, an original script about the Woodsock Musical Festival. And to date, it's been our most succesful show ever. It premiered in September of 09, was revived in Feburary of this year, extended by 4 weeks thorugh May of this year, and is returning to our stage in September of this year.