Taking Sabbatical!

I looked up the word Sabbatical and its definition pretty well describes what I am going to be doing.

A sabbatical year is a prolonged hiatus, typically one year, in the career of an individual taken in order to fulfill some goal, e.g., writing a book or traveling extensively for research.

Well, I guess it is time to finally fess up that none of this stuff out here on the internet really works. I would like to say it is just me, but unfortunately there are a large number of us out here that are now realizing that None of this is really all worth it.

I will be taking a sabbatical to work on my next book that I will be outlining all of the fallacies of the internet…until then you may want to check out my other book to catch up on what is going on.

You can check out the periodic blogs I will post over at my main site, IBGS Blog. Hope you enjoy the archive of blogs I have posted here.

Wrap Up the Week

Yes and what a week this has been.  Lots going on but not going on. Watched Nyle Pruitt powered a golf ball over the horizon.

I posted the Table of Contents for my book so you can check that out. 

I was over checking out KZPS.com, and I is still cooking…A little too much Country Music, but Hey, that is what the on off switch is all about.

That reminds me, I need to check in with SemiTough to see what the heck is going on.  Haven’t been over there in a while since I have been buried over here with all of the changes with IBGS.

Ol Rex Dixon is still cooking over on his site.  I hear he is getting into a lot of new stuff.  HUMMMM guess we just will have to keep reading.

Business Golf Tournament Aftermath

Wrote up a lot of thank you for the event I played in yesterday and got them out to the people I met at the Tour 18 Dallas Promotional Invitational Golf Outing.

It was fun, ran into a lot of good friends and that is what golf is all about. So now I am resting and getting ready for video blogs tomorrow.

Golfers Are Not Online!

Wow! Have you seen what is going on over on the IBGS site?Like every thing else on he internet, things move quickly and things change. IBGS is going to start addressing the issues around what it is going to take to get more golfers online.

Looks like golf in business is really a subject people want to know more about. Unfortunately, there are not that many golfers online. But that is the point of what is being said over on that site.

There are tons of reasons why golfers are not online. The big one is they are golfers and they are playing golf and not sitting around surfing the internet or hunkered down in a Chat room of some golf site. No they are on the course, at the driving range or somewhere getting some exercise of some type, even if it is just doing 12oz curls. That is probably more productive than sitting around looking at all of the foolishness going on over on MySpace and Facebook.

Today has been one heck of a day…

I spent most of the day working on and rehearsing my speech I am giving to a group of potential clients.

I took a few breaks through the day to keep my sanity that all of this is worth it.  Cleaned out more SPAM than I care to think I had.  So far, I have cleaned out over 3200 spam comments and other contacts that are from the infamous SEO’s…

I saw where my old buddy Rex Dixon was staying under the radar today…working on the day gig is wearing on him…

Took a moment and wrote a email to another close friend at the PGA to announce that my non-profit charity pro-am, Screen Door Open Charity Pro-AM. is still going on this Fall.  A little classy invitational affair of Business Networking event I cooked up 9 years ago…something I know how to do and wrote about in my book as being the best way to maximize the golfing dollar.

Then I am wrapping up the day with sitting on my go buddy Arm Chair Golfer.  I was hitting his Blogroll…he has some very interesting characters who I know I can pick on from time to time to blog about or comment on their blogs…when I get the time.

So, there you have it…still kicking at it from both ends to make it work.  I know that one day I am going to look back on this and say this was all worth it.

Seven Days A Week!

If you are like me, if something is not working, I can’t just walk away and take a break…I have to fix it before I can rest.

That is what I am doing with my sites, my business and my golf. Everywhere I go I am asked to fix something.

I was out at local home improvement warehouse earlier this evening picking up supplies for my next project when one of my wife’s clients saw me and come up to ask where my wife was. After taking 10 questions related to my wife speaking at a Franchise Conference this week here in Dallas, the real reason she came over to me came out…she couldn’t find any help in the store who knew anything about anything…go figure.

So here I am solving problems….fortunately the problem she was having was more of not knowing where something was and I pointing her to the right department and showing her the bin the stuff she needed was in…then I was back to my stuff. I got out of there and I was back to the house to watch what I was watching live earlier in the day, the EDS Byron Nelson Classic…

Anyway, I am now back here in the Bagroom Studio editing video’s and working on keeping a few contact updated on my new Business Operations Consulting I am offering.

The problem I can’t solve is getting my new web-site launched…seems I need to sell more copies of my book and take on a few more retainers for client consulting before I can get the new site launched…a little of a Catch 22.

I am sure there are many out there who are in the same shape. I would love to hear what others are doing to raise the capital they need to get the site they need developed and launched.

So, I am now working on some business templates for processing out clients business operations and getting things in file for when I start snagging some clients.

I have a few speaking gigs coming up and usually I get a client or two out of the speaking I do. There are a ton of business golf outings I have been asked to review…so here are things coming up, but who knows what will happen by then.

So there are always things that are in the works that makes all of this not worth it, but, I am still here so I guess it is worth it…to an extent…buy my book, that makes it more worth while.

Taking A Half Day Off!

OK, Thursday evening I needed to take a break and stopped working on my three sites, IBGS, Business Golf and this one. I think I have provided enough content to keep the spiders busy for a few minutes anyway.

I cracked open my file that hold my twelve books I am writing and picked one to write a chapter or two. Like in all of books, I get to the point so the chapters are really short.

Since I was going to be playing in a member-guest golf tournament the next day I wanted to capture some thoughts on golf tournaments and how winning and losing is something golfers need to know how to do. This chapter is going to be a good one.

I went back into my notes from the number of conversations I have had with my good friend who is the executive director of the Northern Texas PGA. We have had many discussion on how a golfer not knowing how to win and not knowing how to lose a golf tournament can ruin his/her image to a point nobody will want to be around them or play golf with them.

So, after spending some energy getting my readers ready for my next books I needed to take a break form that…so it was off to my Netvibes to scan the 876 RSS feeds I have to the world.

I usually check RD’s feed to see if he has found something of importance…then for a refresh look at things I bounce over to the Golf Girl who usually has something different to think about or look at…a different approach to golf through the ladies eyes is always entertaining for me and important since 80% of my client base are women business people.

I have to check on my feeds to DigitalGolf.tv and TheGolfApproach.com to see what those outstanding Non-SF golf sites are up to.

Generally I will get some notice from my inter-circle on something to check out…this time Golf Girl provided me a site of another lady golfer blogging, Fairway Flapper…a yet another approach from the lady golfers to report the golf news. It is another one of the clean sites I like to go to check out now…so I will probably be cranking up he ol Business Golf Triangle to give her a push into cyberspace.

Then I go over and check out my other supporters site…Elizabeth Marshall and Kammie Kobyleski I stop by to review from time to time….I am putting Elizabeth up on the interview calendar to produce a podcast with her soon.

Speaking of Podcasts, I am sure all of the Podcasters of the world have heard that ClickCaster is turning their site into a Pay-For site. Mr Business Golf has evacuated his presence since their was no ROI from the FREE side to justify paying for something that provided nothing back…more on this from RD and I over the next few months.

Then I always end my day taking a look at a few of my large base of attorneys’ sites who are slowing coming online… Tamera Bennett, with her Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law site and Kat Tidd, with her Franchise Law practice are worth checked out to see what they have to say.

Then it is off to bed where golf will be part of my next few days activities…I suggest everyone learn to play golf…it is really worth it..

Phil Michelson: The Real Deal..

OK, I hear ya…You want me to talk about Phil Michelson…OK, here is the first of two things I have to say about Phil Michelson.  Rex Dixon, should take heed here..nah!

Traffic: Who Gets it?

Let’s see, I am about to crash. This has been a full day…business meeting, email to Rex Dixon, in the studio for about five hours doing videos, Email to Rex Dixon. Editing them for about 5 hours, email to Rex Dixon, back to editing, email to Scott Walker, back to editing, email Rex Dixon. Back into the studio to redo the previous videos, email Rex Dixon. Ate dinner, checked out Rex.tv,, emailed Rex Dixon and edited on the videos….checked my Yahoo emails, checking on HitTail and all kinds of stuff.

Somebody should be getting some traffic out of all of this…I hope IBGS is ..Now it is time to get some rest because I am playing in a golf tournament tomorrow… That is all worth it…

OK, Here is the Big Deal!

OK, Here is the Deal!

I had been talking to my fleet of Internet Strategist over implementing another tactic to get my books sales up…

The Business Golf survey showed that people, golfers and non-golfers, want to know more about it. The only way I can come up with getting more people to know what Business Golf is all about is to sale more books.

Well leave it to my chief strategist Rex Dixon to come up with the “Here is the Deal” Campaign… Just make a deal with my viewers. A straight forward, you buy my book and I will make it worth your while.

Very simple marketing and out here in Never-Ever-Land…

Well it was worth a try…it is on now, so you will have to check it out.