To Desire an Empire

While there is some great information inside here…I no longer wish to keep it up. Please know that if you are researching me that this information in here is very old information. You are basically looking at the posts leading up to my bigger success in Internet marketing.

Please meet me over at http://www.imdiscoveryzone.com for the latest greatest on Justin Brooke and what I can do for you pertaining to online business.

Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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Yesterday, I gave up. I laid on my couch put a pillow over my head and planned to wallow in my sorrow. I was tired…Tired of trying so hard to only end up meeting adversity yet again. I push and I push and I push with all my might and I can only move the wall an inch at a time. So I gave up.

2 Minutes into my pity party, I remembered a quote from G.I. Jane. It was a line by Master Chief John, the antagonist of the film. He quotes a poem by D.H. Lawrence about self-pity. The line was; “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

This got me back off the couch and while still a little depressed about things not going how I wanted, I fought on. I reminded myself that I did not get to where I am today crying over all the hurdles in my way. I jumped each hurdle one by one as they came. There is no major punchline to this story. I just wanted to let everyone know what happened and how I dealt with it. Maybe the story will encourage you to do the same, if you ever come across this issue.

Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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I have been on the Internet since Kodak pictures released the first full color web image. (besides the crummy clip-art stuff) I was around when MTV.com was launched. It’s too bad I was too young to have taken the dot com boom seriously, back then. I know there are some of you out there like me…and even more that are not.

To the ones who are like me…Do you remember when the hottest computer game was Oregon Trail? What about Word/Number Munchers? I remember the day I decided to give Google a try instead of, my old love, AltaVista. I remember the day I switched from Yahoo search, the old king of kings, to AltaVista searching.

Right now I hope I am talking to the those that remember when Ask.com used to have real people behind it. When it was AskJeeves.com You used to be able to go to them and ask a live person a question. Then that person would go out of their way to find you the exact answers you wanted.

I am looking back at the evolution of the Internet and seeing what it has become today. I do not miss my 9600 baud modem, and actually hope to forget it one day. However, it seems tons of people think the Internet has finished it’s mutations. They are carrying out the same techniques, reading the same books, and trying to communicate with customers the same way they did it in 2000-2001-2002-2003-2004 and even 2005.

We are not in that world where people are just signing online for their first time, and gulping up as much information as they can anymore. We are now in a state where TV is fast losing ground to the Internet. People are getting comfortable with the Internet. They know what they want, and they know how to tell whats right and whats wrong. We have lost the element of surprise, and we don’t even have that fresh new car smell anymore.

Not to mention we are not using the same Internet that 10 pages of Yahoo search results on one topic, meant it is highly competitive. (It was actually once like that) If you take a look at the recent huge successes, there are no one man shows. The big successes know that in today’s world it takes being a Juggernaut to succeed. Todays state of the Internet requires leverage to succeed. Leverage off of a quality built team around you, leverage off captive audiences, leverage off strong, trust built, relationships with your target markets.

We all still have this competitive mind frame, and we owe this to the current big dogs up at the top. They came from the days of yore when there were only thousands and millions of people online. When the Internet was still basically in its foundation stages. They needed that mentality to survive and succeed back then. We need to take a long hard look around today though. There are now billions of people online, and we now have niche markets that can have as many as a million people in their audience. Can you seriously as one person handle one million customers by yourself? I don’t think so.

If you’ll remember even those same big dogs at the top that once taught us to be competitive and secure our ideas…are now all partnering, forming teams, and sharing ideas. If you are still trying to crush your niche as a one man/woman show…doesn’t it just sound logical that if you had a clone of yourself you could do it twice as fast? This is why we need to be out there looking for people to team up with, partner with, ally with…and even dare I say it help boost each other cross market.

It only means more money in everyones pocket when we are all helping each other out. You don’t have to take my word for all of this…because at the end of the day…Who the hell am I… right? So, I do not expect you to take my word as gospel. Go out there and look for yourself. Step outside of your normal day to day activities and observe our new surroundings, observe those that are successful right now, and read into them…you’ll see that I didn’t just hammer away at my keyboard blindly. I see something…can you see it too?

Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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Today is the second day of 2007…I couldn’t be happier. I woke up 2 hours earlier then I normally do so I could get a jump on things. I am just so excited about what I am going to accomplish this year that I can hardly sleep. It’s the truth!

First thing I did this morning was write down my goals.

• Stop trying to tell people only what I think they want to hear.
• If I make a to-do list, too do it today and not next week.
• Show everyone who I am more.
• Continue cigarette free (23 days now!)
• and Finally to average $5k/month by this time next year.

Then I decided to re-vamp my company logo to show my attitude for this year. (animated unveiling above)

This year is about reaching goals no matter what the obstacles may be. To push forward, and not let anything affect my track. Thus the rhino image came to life. I figured there were few things more unstoppable then a rhino, and that it definitely portrays my attitude towards this year perfectly.

Last I decided to let this blog take on a much more personal role.

I’m tired of trying to follow all the rules. This is my blog, my house, no longer will it be slaved away. Previously, I wrote with intents of getting people to link to me, or search engines to be my friends. I don’t care about that this year. This year I want people to be my friends. I want everyone to know who Justin Brooke aka MpyreDzirez is, and what he does.

I just thought of another goal…to start getting comments on my blog posts.

I want all of you to tell me what it is that you want from me? Would you rather have “how-to” articles and top ten lists? Or do you want to see true case studies of my successes and failures?

Do you want to know what I read or heard…or do you want to know what I feel and know?

I know I’m no Guru yet…However, I have made a crap load of mistakes that you can learn from and I myself am always learning. Failure has truly been my professor in the school of success.

I’m ready to build relationships and attract friends…If you’ll have me?

Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke

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Adobe has done something they have never done before. They have released a fully public, though beta, version of their famous photoshop graphics editing program. This comes as a beta to their CS2 update named CS3. The reasoning behind the release…to provide native support for Mac based Intel chips for Adobe’s CS2 customers.

The Windows version of the beta will also be available for download.

To install the beta you just need a valid CS2 serial number which will last until after the final product ships (Spring ‘07). If you don’t have a CS2 serial number the beta will expire in 2 days. Adobe stresses that CS2 is still the current shipping version and CS3 is offered as a beta only with no support or warranties of stability.

Download at http://labs.adobe.com

On top of this the folks (Colin Smith) over at PhotoshopCafe.com have offered a launch site to go along with this release offering reviews, articles, tutorials, tips, videos, discussion forums and links to all the important places! Don’t be shy in the forums either they love participation.

I’d also have to add that PhotoshopCafe was crucial to my early stages of web design. I learned the in’s and outs of Photoshop from Colin’s mind boggling yet incredibly simple to follow tutorials. Then perfected techniques through the help of his forum members via critiques. Thank you Colin for always staying on top of things.

Learn more about all this at PhotoshopCafe.com

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