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Sue McDonald

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!

Hi to all my readers. Well we have just finished the webinar for this week and we have a lot of homework to be done. Now I know that I said I would tell you the title of my book, but I will go one better and show you the graphics I have for it. So here it is.

Search Engine Optimization is the main way to increase the visibility of your site. The internet is really a level playing field but if you can get a break on your competitors by improving your rankings, why shouldn’t you? I tell you about both “on page” and “off page” Search Engine Optimization.

I have gone into detail and explained only the methods I used. I know there are other methods of SEO but my coach/mentor Mark told me only to write about the elements I had used. You will be amazed if you follow the advice I give, how easy it will be for you to increase your rankings. It is like anything else – it is so easy when you know how.

So this is Sue McDonald saying – why don’t you get a copy of the book and give it a go. I have to put it up in Clickbank and it could take 5 days to approve it so I will let you know as soon as it is.

Hi Guys. Well the webinar went very smoothly this week or at least for me. Mark had some very good information – some of which we had covered the first time through. We went through Ad swaps and Twitter – we went through both last time. I love the adswap site that was suggested to us and I would thoroughly recommend it. I have been using this site for months and my list is growing steadily. Yes, there are those people that will sign up for your gift and then unsubscribe. This can be disappointing but in reality these people are not interested in paying for products.

What you ideally want, is to get subscribers that you can eventually send a product and they will buy it from you. So many people on lists are freebie seekers only, and it is not until they are offered a product to buy will they unsubscribe. Mark says don’t worry about the unsubscribers and I accept that now but in the beginning I was always disappointed to see my lists start going down.

Then we went onto Twitter. Now I find that with Twitter – you can either love it or hate it. Personally for me, I will ban someone who uses an automated delivery service. I had some people who were sending me Tweets every few minutes on an automated system. I knew them personally but banned them anyway.

Now the last part of the webinar was devoted to creating a squeeze page for the product that we have all been creating. I am still not revealing the title of my book but I guess in week 8, I will let you all know. It has been a lot of fun writing this book and I hope you will all enjoying reading it and learning from it. I have got some of my graphics and they are good – or at least I think so. They will give the book a more professional look and as this is the first thing you see – it has to get people to want to buy your product. There is a saying “You can’t judge a book by the cover” but in internet marketing the cover is a big draw card along with a well created sales page.

So this is Sue McDonald returning to my homework and my new book. It is nearly completed just on the last read for any errors.

If anyone want to join the adswap group I recommend this is the link – Safe Swaps.

Hi Guys! I have gone through posting to the 350 blogs and the same as last time, I am finding blogs that have not been posted on for up to 8 months. Why do people sign up to do a course and never complete it? Of the 350 blogs I visited, I would say that only 10-15% have posted a blog in August – and we are past the half way point of the month.

There are many reasons and a main one could be they are trying to hold down a full time job and juggling a family and then find time to devote to the course. They begin to fall further and further behind and get despondent. Rather than have this feeling of sadness, why not concentrate on the other two and try again later – maybe with another coach and teacher. Sometimes, something has to give, and at this stage, it cannot be the day job that is producing an income, and it certainly cannot be the family, so that leave the last one – the course.

Some people never even wrote one post. They allowed themselves to be defeated before they started. Internet Marketing, like a lot of other things in life,requires the right mindset. I know I talk about this subject quite a lot but it is so important and people ignore it. You have to know what you want, believe in your ability and take the time to write down your goals. Affirmation and visualization are two of the most powerful tools that you can use.

I will give you an example of how it works. When you are young you started walking everywhere and you do not even know of the existence of a bicycle and you would not even know if you wanted to ride one. This stage of your development is called “unconscious incompetence” because you really don’t know, what you don’t know. Then for Christmas or birthday you get your first bicycle. You get to try to ride your bicycle and sometimes you fall off and sometimes you surprise yourself how hard you have to concentrate to stay on and ride. This stage is called “conscious incompetence” . This is because we really do not know how to ride but we are trying to learn. As time goes by, with all your concentration and focus you finally ride your bicycle. This is called “conscious competence”. Now you do not even think about balance and using peddles and all the rest so now you have mastered riding – you have reached the level of “unconscious competence”. It becomes an automatic thing, you can just get on the bicycle and ride it effortlessly.

The true success rate for Internet Marketing is between 2-3%. If, as a child, you could learn to master riding your bicycle just believe in yourself enough to master Internet Marketing. The thoughts we have and the images we visualize will determine the action we take. Positive thoughts will produce results.

So this is Sue McDonald saying I hope this doesn’t sound like a lecture – what I am trying to say that all things are possible.