What’s an un-blog post? Well of course it’s where I tell you about the un-products that are part of the unlaunch.    Yes of course, I know now I need to tell you  what the unproducts and the unlaunch are, and that requires a story:

Once upon a time,

not all that long ago there was a musician named Pat O’Bryan. Pat was a blues guitar player, he traveled all over the world and performed with many great blues artists. But there was a problem, as great as the blues is, playing the blues doesn’t tend to pay very well, no matter how good you are. Fortunately, Pat met Joe Vitale and began to learn about Internet marketing. Of course in the beginning, Pat was still on the road a lot of the time, but keeping up his new Internet business. He began to call it his “Portable Empire.” Fast forward a few years, Pat is now an extremely successful Internet marketer.

Pat has been very generous in sharing what he’s learned about doing business online through the seven “unseminars”  that he’s put on. Quite recently Pat started teaching even more through his Portable Empire Coaching Program. I am fortunate enough to be a member of that program. One of the things that all of us in the program have done, or are doing, is to create products to sell online. All of the products which are available are collected in one place which you can see at http://portableEmpirecoaching.com/products.html

My Journey to the Spirit of Healing is not quite ready yet, so you won’t see it there, but there are quite a few really wonderful products. One of the things that Pat recommended to us in creating these products is to keep the value to price ratio very high, and many of these products are being sold very, very inexpensively. The members of the coaching program are amazing people who have made some really cool products, I’ve bought a few of them myself and found them very useful.

So since Pat promotes unseminars, and refers to our weekly coaching calls as unwebinars, we decided that the launch of our products would naturally be called the unlaunch of our unproducts.

A number of my uncolleagues from the coaching program are also posting about the unlaunch today. Here are some links to their posts, each of us is talking about this from our own perspective and I think you’ll really enjoy reading them.

http://thesleepsecretebook.com/blog/you-want-what-for-christmas.php

http://www.TipsOnWriting.net/blog

http://loverockstar.com/

http://kellymariaclark.com/

http://mtnjimfisher.com/

UPDATE: I left off 2 blogs, sorry Claus and Chuck!  Check them out!!

http://harmonicthought.com/harmonicblog/http:/harmonicthought.com/harmonicblog/the-one-thing/

http://www.clausdjensen.com/my-portable-empire.html/

UPDATE 2:

http://internetworkcafe.blogspot.com/

UPDATE 3:

http://marthagiffen.com/blog-unblog-question/

I woke up this morning with a powerful realization. I have felt for a few days now that I have been getting more and more frustrated with what I’m trying to do online. My realization is rather simple, but profound, at least for me. So here it is:

This is Not a Picture (Image by PinkMoose)

The more time I spend finding resources about doing things online, the less time I spend actually doing the things I want to do online and creating the things I want to create. There is an almost infinite amount of information available about virtually any topic on the web. Some of this information is terrific, some of it is worse than useless, but I just can’t look at all of it. There’s just too much of it, and if I try to look at all of it, or even everything that seems interesting, all I will ever do is read about blogging, or any other topic. I’ll never actually get to writing the post.

So at least for today, I am committing to myself to focus on doing, starting with this post. In the long run, I don’t know how ongoing to find the balance, there is very interesting and very useful data out there. For now though I’m just going to focus on doing.

How do you balance what you do online? Please comment, I’d love to hear your methods.