I’d like to welcome you to my new blog – IM Geek Girl. This is not going to replace my other blog Audible Marketing but instead will run in conjunction with it.

For a long time there have been things I have wanted to blog about that seem inappropriate on the Audible Marketing site. Sometimes I have blogged off-topic but most of the time I have just not posted it. AM was always supposed to run in conjunction with my voiceover business and be a learning tool for people who want to learn more about audio marketing, and how it relates to the wider world of Internet Marketing.

So, I finally bit the bullet and set up a new blog.

Why IM Geek Girl? Well, it started as a phrase some of my female online friends started using. We kept calling ourselves IM Geek Girls or IM Girl Geeks (as in Internet Marketing Geek Girls). Now, not one of us is a day under 30 (actually I have no idea how old we all are – that’s the beauty of the Internet, it doesn’t really matter) but I’m 35 and certainly not a girl anymore. But it’s a fun name and it stuck. We’re all women who met through our love of Internet Marketing, which we all use for our different businesses – information marketing, voiceover services, offline business promotion, coaching etc. That makes it sound like we are an exclusive club, but actually we meet new IM Geek Girls everyday on the Internet (usually through the Thirty Day Challenge, Immediate Edge and Twitter) and we just use it as a universal name to encompass all the fantastic (and often unsung) women who are working Online.

I’m not a tech head but I have friends who are. I do love new shiny gadgets but usually require someone to give me a quick lesson in how to best use them. I love using computers and the Internet, and you only have to show me something once and I’ll run with it. One of my best friends is a computer whizz and he says I’m a geek, so I’ll take his word for it – I think it’s because I’m the person he turns to when he wants to know about optimizing websites, social networking and finding good keywords. He also calls me the Queen of Google – if he wants something finding fast he’ll just ask me to Google it;)

This blog is going to be a bit more personal than Audible Marketing. Again, I always aim to be open and honest when writing posts but in the framework of the other blog there have been many things I have omitted.

So, I hope you enjoy my blog whether you are an IM Geek Girl or Guy (yes, guys are welcome too). I’d love to hear from you and read your comments – and don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed (just click on the orange button in the top right and add me to your reader).

Lisa