This week has been a little bit stressful I think. There is so much to do when you are trying to manage your normal everyday life and your Internet Marketing homework. We are still in the driving traffic to our blog phase and I know it is just a matter of time and persistence to get people to sign up for my free book. On the other hand, I know people from all around the world are visiting my site. I know this because of Google analytics. This is an absolute great tool and everyone should use it.
If you install it you have so much you can find out. If you go to Google analytics and “View report” and then “Map Overlay” you can view where your traffic is coming from. I really don’t know how some of these people have found me. I have people from over 14 countries as of this morning. The next interesting statistic is to go to Traffic – you will find out the source of your traffic.
I have cloaked my URL in my signature block on the warrior forum. I know you don’t have to cloak it but I just want to see how many people would want “to follow my journey in the IM world”. Again, I have been trying to be an active and participating member of the forum this week and I have managed to get 9 people to visit my site. I even managed to get thanked once. I thought that was worth the effort I had put in. So over the next few weeks, I shall have to keep going to the warrior forum every day. I’ll make it my number two priority because I always start my day by checking my emails.
This week on the webinar, we were given a few more ideas for driving traffic to our site. I intend to implement then and I let you all know how I get on. Till then, cheers…
Well – just finished another session with Mark and my fellow students. I have done heaps of studying on internet marketing in the last few months but there is always something that you haven’t been shown or you haven’t been told. Tonight was about getting heaps of back links and it is so much easier than the way I was shown. Can’t wait till I see how many links I can get.
Now this week we are also going to upload a free book to our blog and start building our list.
Have you ever been to your inbox and it is full of the next best thing – the magic pill that will give you millions if you swallow it? I have followed Mark’s advice and not bought a single product. I have previously and my download box is full of unread ebooks that I thought I really needed. I have been unsubscribing from so many emails, I even had one cheeky marketer contact me and ask for a reason, we have now become friends.
I agree with Mark that, if you are on a marketer’s list, people should foster a relationship with you before they try and sell their products to you. With most of the ones I have hit unsubscribe, they are sending me an email through adswaps and just want you to buy the product. I can get 3 or 4 emails for the same product.
These marketers are certainly teaching me what NOT to do. As some marketers now realize that their emails are not being read and they are wondering why. You really have to stand out from the crowd and foster that relationship before you start selling your product. So tomorrow I am going to up load my book.
Come back then and have a look and let me know what you think………. Sue
Now here is the second thing I have to catch up on continuing on with this blog.
I have done courses before but this looks good and goes right back to basics. This is where everyone should start learning to blog. When I recently attended a weekend workshop in the UK for Internet Marketing with 50 people in attendance, there was at least 15-20% who did not know how to write a blog. By the way, I live in Australia so going to a workshop in the UK was a major thing but I was disappointed that I didn’t learn the advanced stuff that I believed would be taught.
So now Mark is going to teach me the missing bits. I am quite happy to do this blog and learn. I will add to it as much as I can and tell you all about what I am learning. I have been blogging for about 6 months now but wherever you are at; you can still learn something that you didn’t know before. I have already.
By the end of the Newbie’s part of the course – which is 12 weeks – I know we will have learnt so much and progressed so far. But one step at a time just like any other journey.
Last week I spent a week in the Australia bush in a town called Longreach. Australia is such a vast country. We went there on a train known as the Spirit of the Outback and the journey takes 24 hours. Longreach is known as the beginning of the Qantas airline. It originally started (90 years ago) as a mail service but soon it was taking passengers as well.
The town has created a Qantas museum. Qantas stands for “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services” and has come a long way since it first began. The headquarters are now in Sydney but the service is very proud of its beginnings. The Qantas fleet now circles the globe carrying passengers and cargo all over the world.
There are two planes there that you can walk through and see what it is like to be in the pilot’s seat. There is a 747 and a 707. The 707 is one of two that are still able to fly. The other one is owned and flown by John Travolta who has become an ambassador for Qantas. The museum buildings are quite extensive, displaying aircraft from former years.
Just across the road is the Stockman’s Hall of Fame. This was opened and dedicated to the stockman who originally opened up much of Australia.
Now apart from enjoying the sights in and around Longreach, there was one thing that I did not enjoy. The internet was only available from one carrier and if you moved too far out of the town there was no service at all.
You can easily see that I know I could never live where I cannot get the internet. I felt completed isolated from my friends. I was glad to get back home last Friday. I had over 500 emails waiting for me and heaps of skype messages.
So now I am back here to work on my internet marketing and I love it. I am starting a great new course Internet Business Code X.
Always nice to go on holidays but there is no place like home.
Hi Guys cannot tell you how glad I am that we have finally started the Advanced Course. I know my fellow students feel the same. Mark actually told us what we are going to learn and explained exactly what we would be doing during the course.
When he was going through everything and explaining that we would be expanding on the previous Newbies Course, it made me remember what my journey into Internet Marketing over the past year has been like. Yes I basically started out as a newbie about 18 months ago and for the first 6 months never really advanced. In fact, my back account was going backwards because I was buying courses, DVDs, CDs and ebook and any other information I thought would help me. There is a term for this – information overload. It was not till I joined Mark’s Newbies Course that I started to move forward. Now the reason for this is very simple.
Mark designed the course for people just like me who have little or no knowledge. It is a structured course each week building from the previous week. You have to learn all the basics before you can move onto more challenging things. By the end of the course what had I achieved?
I started with my blog and driving traffic to it to build my list. Now I had a list of 3 when I started and now I am nearly near 2,000. It is really not about the size of your list it is about the quality of your list. Don’t get disheartened when people unsubscribe from your list because they would never buy from you in the first place. They only joined your list for the free items you were providing.
So as well as building my list (which is always an ongoing proposition) Mark got us all to produce our own ebook and get it up on Clickbank. There was a sense of achievement when I completed that part of the course. During this course, I have even managed some sales of some of the products I have – not a fortune but at least a start so you know that what you are being taught and what you are putting into action really works. Another amazing thing that I have been able to do, is get a PR2 ranking in Google for my blog and it is not even a year old yet.
So I am really looking forward to gaining further knowledge and creating more products and getting further sales. It is certainly going to be a great course – especially the section about creating multiple streams of income.
So this is Sue McDonald saying if you want to learn like I have, just join Mark’s course.
Well we arrived back home – going in 30 hours from -14 degrees Celsius to +30 degrees Celsius. Definitely a great difference from our time in the US but we will cope the thing is you just have to adapt. We have come home to a state where our capital city Brisbane has been flooded and the state is trying to get back to normal.
Fortunately for us, we live south of Brisbane and our house was unaffected but this was not the case for some people who have lost everything. For these people, there lives have changed. Everyone in life has at some time to adapt and change and this can be both good and bad. The best way to do this is to have a positive mindset that you will are going to be a winner.
So now I am home, what are my plans? My initial plan is to attend more classes and increase my knowledge in the field of Internet Marketing. I have had to make some crucial decisions regarding a business deal and one decision has been rather difficult for me but I know that whatever happens I have made the right decision.
This is what life is all about really change. If you are not where you want to be or you do not have what you want yet you and you alone have the power to change everything. Now I am not saying that by making the decision to change that things will happen immediately, but if you know what you want from life, it makes it so much easier to work towards attaining your goals. Remember that goals are dreams and desires that have to be completed in a certain time frame.
Affirmation and visualization is one of the easiest ways. Write down your affirmations and repeat them over and over to yourself. This is how you reprogram your brain. When planning for a change, be realistic in the time frame that you are going to allow yourself to reach your goal. If you wanted to travel overseas to work (for example) write out a detailed plan how you are going to achieve it. Note I did not say how you might achieve, I said how you are going to achieve it. So we have our goal in mind and a written plan and now we have to implement the plan. Always be positive with your affirmations never include words that are negative or the word “want” because that means you are lacking something.
So all that is required from us is to follow the plan and along the way celebrate the milestones you achieve. Getting started is the hardest part but remember the Chinese proverb “The longest journey begins with a single step.” This is your year so take that step or should I say leap!
So this is Sue McDonald just saying in another way – “Just do it”.
Well this is certainly the countdown now. We fly out to the US tomorrow and I still have not even packed my bags. So I have less that 24 hours to get all the rest of my jobs done.
I love traveling but one thing I don’t enjoy is the time you spend in airports. If you travel a lot you will understand what I am saying. We fly from Brisbane to LA and then on to Chicago and then to Providence. Now if all flights are on time I estimate we will only wait about 7 hours on the way over but the return journey we have a waiting time of nearly 10 hours. Our flights have been changed twice already and who says they cannot be changed again.
On the way home, the first leg of the journey stops off in Washington then to LA and then home.
I am really looking forward to this break, but in truth, it will not be a break from Internet Marketing. I am taking the trusty laptop so I can continue to do all the things I have to do to have a successful business on line. I still have three weeks of the present course I am doing. So I have my homework and webinars that I have to do.
The advanced course with Mark, starts two days after I get home and I am really looking forward to it. In it, he teaches how to create multiple streams of income and basically make money while you sleep, or better still, while you are go on a holiday.
Well Christmas is fast approaching and then comes the New Year and all of those resolutions that we all make. I have but one resolution and that is that I am going to be successful at whatever I do. This is not boasting but just stating a fact. I am prepared to work very hard for what I want and I know if I do that then I will achieve all that I want. I believe that if you do nothing you will get nothing so think about what you want and how you are going to achieve it. Think carefully about your New Years resolution and whatever you want, plan how YOU are going to get it. YOU are the most important person and you should only want the best for yourself.
If you are in the field of IM and you want to be a success, I would suggest that you get yourself a coach/mentor and learn the business step by step. You didn’t drive your car without being taught and IM is no different.
So this is Sue McDonald saying will talk to you when I get to the US. Take care till then and I will let you know about my holiday.
Hi Guys! Like the sand falling down in the upturned hour glass, time is running out for me to get all that I have to get done. I have not done any Christmas shopping and I know there are family and friends who will be looking for their presents – so I had better start moving. I still have some Internet Marketing projects I want to complete also.
I have four weeks exactly tomorrow till I fly out on holidays and if all the flights are on time and we are not delayed it will be 38 hours from my home till I touch down in Providence. Now that is a long time, but that is just if everything falls into place and there are no hiccups. So apart from times in the airport, I will not have time to turn on the trusty laptop. I dare to say I will not turn it on till the following day after I arrive.
I have done this particular flight several times now and sometimes things have not always gone according to plan. Once we were held up in LA and missed our schedule flight and ended up flying to Atlanta and then Providence not Chicago and then Providence. On one of our return journeys in January 2007 we spent a whole day snowed in in Chicago – not a lot of fun that day. We finally left Chicago around 10.30 in the evening but we had missed our flight back to Australia.
Oh the joys of these long hauls but earlier this year I flew to London and that is 25 hours in the air.
Going to the US, we cross the International Dateline – we leave Australia on Tuesday 7 December and arrive in Providence in the evening of the 7th. Now the reverse happens on the way home. We depart January 15 and lose the 16th all together and arrive back in Australia on the morning of the 17th.
My grandchildren do not understand how you can lose a day and I have tried to explain it but I don’t think they still get it. Their biggest worry is what if that was your birthday or even worse than that – Christmas Day? The things that children worry about.
So this is Sue McDonald saying I am really looking forward to Christmas with my family and friends in the US but still have a few things to do. Will keep you posted on how things are going.
Hi Guys. Can you imagine my surprise this week when I was notified by Clickbank that someone had purchased a copy of my book? It was not so much the joy of seeing that I had some money in my Clickbank account but it proved that what Mark Terrell has taught us really works.
There are so many things to learn if you want to be successful at internet marketing and one of the greatest things is to have the right mindset. I cannot say this enough, because if I didn’t have the belief in myself, I would have given up a long time ago. There are still days when I struggle with various parts of internet marketing but the more I do things and repeat them the more I will learn.
All I can say to you is have the right mindset, have your goals both short and long term and have the written down plan that will help you achieve the goals. Visualize what you want and through a series of affirmations – you can get and have anything you desire. Yes you have to work for it – but you know that you get nothing for nothing. Don’t be the one, who when things are not going to plan, you walk away from it. Don’t be like the guy who saw too many rocks on his farm and sold the farm only to find out later – they were not just rocks but diamonds!
Always stay positive and if something goes wrong, learn your lesson from it and move on. Some of the best lessons are learnt when we experience a problem or difficulty. These are the lessons you never forget – so if the same or a similar thing happens, you know exactly what to do.
So this is Sue McDonald telling you just to keep going and never give up because if you want it you can get it!
