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.

Hi Guys! Well this week was a bit stressful for Mark regarding the webinar. It took 3 attempts to get the sound and picture running simultaneously and that was after he had taken advice from Go to Webinar. I think it might have been the internet voodoo spirits paying him back, because he has got us students, wearing our fingers to the bone posting on 350 blogs.

That’s my explanation – do you agree?  This is a massive task but I am determined to get through it. Even though I want to get it completed, I can only do it for so many hours in the day. I am certainly in for a busy week completing last weeks homework and watching the videos and doing this weeks work. As the old saying goes – “no rest for the wicked and very little for the righteous” ( not sure these days where I fit, but I believe it is the righteous group ).

So what was the content that we all waited around so eagerly to hear?

Well as always, Mark is teaching some little extra information and that is great. First task – to put a gravatar on our messages. This will display the picture that you choose. We increased our ping list also. Now for my favorite – squeeze page and download pages.

I must tell you that I typed in the webinar that I didn’t like one of Mark’s videos this week – as a student that is a pretty bold statement. It was a personal message to Mark only (or so I thought).  He asked me why and I said I would have to watch it again and let him know. But…. can you imagine my embarrassment when he asked me in front of the whole group why didn’t I like it? I think my face went every shade of red and I was glad no one could see me.

So now I am just about to watch it and see why I said what I did… So this is Sue McDonald saying come back next week and I hope I can explain why.

Hi Guys!  Well it has been a bit stressful this week – I didn’t have the internet again. Well technically I did still have a connection, but I had used all my download up and it reverted back to standard and so slow. I went in to the internet provider and asked for an upgrade and it took them five days. Once before I lost it for two days and that was bad but to not be able to load or watch a video for five days – now that is super withdrawal symptoms. I was suffering the blues and I felt lost – ask my husband and some friends.

So now I really have to work to catch up and get all my homework done.  I will just go through last weeks videos one by one and follow all of Marks instructions. Fortunately for me, this is my second time going through the course but Mark has changed a few things along the way. That is the beauty of doing it the second time around. It reinforces what you have done before and there are a few extra things I have to do.

So you can see I really have to get stuck in and work. Well yes, it is work but I do enjoy it and I feel I am getting somewhere. I feel sorry for the students that are not enjoying the homework. Some said that in the poll last week.

The old saying “You have to crawl before you can walk” applies equally to internet marketing. We all want to be earning some money but we have to get the basics in place. Once we have all the basics I know that the money will follow. I have made a few dollars and look forward to making more. Can’t wait till we all get our own product and Mark shows us how to take a PLR and make it our own but hey I am jumping ahead.

So now guys this is Sue *Ozzie* McDonald going back to the videos to do my homework. I will let you know how it goes.

Hi guys. Well we have just finished week 2 and I noticed some new material that Mark has included this time. That is what he promised to do and he has certainly kept his promise.

I just love learning this subject but I wonder how many other students love it the way I do or they are looking at it as a hard slog.  Confucius one said  ” Find a job you love, and you will never work another day of your life.”  That is such a true statement. Although I spend hours on my computer doing internet marketing, I wouldn’t want it any other way at the moment. I know what I am doing is building a strong foundation for my business.

What enables me to do this, is the right mindset. Yes – I am back to that subject again. It is one of the most important aspects of anything you do. If you approach any task you do with the “can do”, “will do” approach you will find things a lot easier. Have a look at what you have to do and make a plan to achieve it. Do not allow yourself to be side tracked and start going down the wrong path.

The reason why there is such a high percentage failure rate in internet marketing because some people cannot stay focused. They open their emails of a day and can spend hours just looking at some of the videos that have arrived. If you want to succeed – stop doing this. I am not saying don’t read your emails – what I am saying don’t waste a lot of time looking for the “quick fix and make money now system”. It does not exist.

Instead, write down the list of homework that you have been given and tick each section off as you do it. When you look at the page when you have completed each section, you will have achieved your goals for the week but more importantly you know that great feeling of accomplishment.

So this is the real Sue McDonald saying can’t wait to learn more.

Well yesterday was the first day of my coach and mentor’s new course for Newbies 2.0. Mark Terrell has invited previously students to join the class again so I accepted the offer. This course is slightly different to the first course and Mark said he will be teaching new material and that is what I love – learning new lessons.

I find Internet Marketing is such a massive subject and I do not understand people who think they can learn it from buying books. Even some people buy ebook or video courses, sometimes costing thousand of dollars, but find that without support they are lost. You must have support and coaching if you want to master this subject in a logical, methodical way.

What I love about this course is the support that each individual student receives. Although I completed the originally Newbies course, there are still two things that I know of, that I didn’t do. So now I have my chance to fix that. Isn’t it funny how we all like to put off the things that we are not comfortable in doing? That is what I did  and now I have the chance to redo the course and complete the missing parts. Maybe I am a little more experienced now so things might not seem so daunting the second time.

You are probably wondering what I failed to do. Well, one was putting a question and answer page on my blog and the other was to write a report and put it into Warrior Special Offers. I am not even sure that both of these things will be a requirement but I should imaging they will be. After carrying out some research, I have already started writing the report and hope to finish it in a week or two.

So again, I am asking you to join me, the real Sue McDonald on a further step of my IM journey.

Hi Guys this is Sue and I have some great news from you.

My good friend, coach/mentor Mark Terrell, has just launched his Coaching Newbies2.0 Course! This guy is making serious cash online and he’s about to show you exactly how he does it! He taught me so much and now I would love for you to be able to progress and make money on line without having to spend a fortune to do it.

If you read my earlier blogs, you will see that before I found Mark and his course, I had virtually spent a heap of money trying to master Internet Marketing. Don’t believe all that hype – if you are truly serious this is the course for you. Mark over delivers on every aspect but particularly with support. This is one of the easiest courses to follow. I will tell you that places are limited – so Mark makes sure everyone gets skype and email support.

You’ve seen all those Guru’s online showing off their flash cars and houses well the truth is they have really got them! The problem is they don’t show you how they got them….. But now you have the opportunity to learn how to make money online by following a step by step blueprint.

So as I said this is a great opportunity for you to be able to forge ahead of the pack. I want to see you succeed so if there is any help that I can give you or any further questions feel free to ask.

Now why don’t you go and see what Mark is offering – Click here

I’ll see you inside!

I have been issued a challenge by my mentor/coach – to create an original product for the Warrior Special Offer. I have no PLR as a guide, all I have is my ability to research the subject matter and create my product.

This is a pretty daunting task but I love a challenge so I am just going to see how it works out. The challenge is based on creating a product in your own particular niche and by the time I have completed it,I hope I have a very informative product. So, as I am primarily in the Internet Marketing niche, I have to decided  what subject I want to write about.

Not to make it too easy or too hard I decided to write about how to create a product for any niche. So within the next few days, I will have done all my research and produced my own report. I am thinking of doing it as a video – again, another challenge, because I find video rather frightening.  I believe that if you can produce a product in one niche you can easily produce on in another niche.

The thing is, there are rules to follow when you are creating your own product. Most new marketers like to take a PLR and rewrite a large percentage but I do not have that luxury this time so I will tackle this head on.

When I have completed I will post a link here and then you will be able to go see the results.

So until then, this is Sue McDonald saying thanks for reading this and come back in the next few days and I will tell you how I went. I know it will be a fair amount of work but I am sure I will give it my best.

Hi- this is the real Sue McDonald and I just wanted to tell you I wrote a blog in March saying I wanted to get this blog to number 1 position under the search of “Sue McDonald”and guess what happened this morning – I finally did it. I typed in Sue McDonald to search in Google and this is what happened. The highest I had ever been before was number 5. Can you image my surprise when I found that “My IM Journey” had reached number 1 out of four and a half million?

It has taken a few weeks and several blog postings but I now know that it was possible. I had some reservations sometimes but I always believed that it could be possible. There it is – that mindset that it was possible. When I wrote the blog ” What’s in a Name” on March 20, there was only a results of 748,000 and I was in position 144. Now there is a massive 4.5 million.

There are several ways that I have been able to achieve this results and if you read through previous blogs you will see how I have used SEO and other methods to get traffic to my site. I must also says thanks to my coach/mentor Mark Terrell, who if he did doubt me when I wanted to get to the top of the search, never said so.

So, if like me, you want to get the top for your particular search, just follow all the rules. If I can do it, you can too. It may be easier for you because you may have less competition. Follow all the steps that I have told you about in my blog posts and I am sure you will achieve the same results.