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Head Down & Tail Up!

Jacinta — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:58:51 +0000

Hello All,

OK…………..

So another month has gone and I haven’t written a blog post!

So much for keeping up with my goals! Yeah right, I am already slacking behind!

Well sort of……………………………………..

Over the last month I have actually been very very very busy, doing a lot of tasks and learning, plus I have completely re-focused my energies.

Like I mentioned in my last blog post “It’s The Decade Of The F Words” I had talked about revamping my spray tanning niche websites. Well that has actually been my main focus for the last month.

I had a coaching call with John Thornhill (JT) the first week of February which gave me the focus I needed.

I got access to the phone calls after buying Michael Chenay’s new product “Millionaire Mentor”. I really like it when JT includes skype calls in his bonuses, they always give me the incentive to buy.

And yes I do take him up on his offer! You would be mad if you didn’t. How often do you get the chance to chat one to one with an Internet Marketing mentor??????

Actually to tell you the honest truth……..

I had no idea what Michael Chenay was promoting or anything about the product.

I didn’t even look at the sales page.

I knew the product was going to be $37, but that was it!

I actually bought the product purely for the opportunity to get on skype with JT and pick his brain.

So how is that for the power of bonuses!!!!!!!!!!

I also went through JT’s “Affiliate Promo Formula” in the last month. Really great product and I do recommend it! LOVED IT!

I will do a product review and detailed summary for you a later date. Just got to organise my own bonuses for it! Hahahaha

(Speaking of bonuses I still have to take Randy Smith up on his bonus Skype calls from buying through his link for Affiliate Promo Formula! )

Anyway back to chatting with JT and how it influenced me…………

The call I did went for an hour and it really helped me find my perspective in what I want to do with my niche.

Initially I was going to use the call for creating some content to be able to giveaway and had a whole lot of questions I was going to ask about creating a business online.

However at the last minute I actually chose to use the call to my advantage and get personal and get a real honest opinion.

I am so glad I changed my mind as I have been head down & tail up working ever since!

So thanks John if you get to read this post!

Your call kicked my butt!

So far I have been stripping my niche blog back and slowly rebuilding it over the last 3 weeks.

I discovered that the initial one page blog that I put up 2 years ago had been earning adsense and has been getting traffic!

Go Figure!

Talk about set and forget and then find out you have earned some cash. And concidering the blog was a boring welcome page and that was it, nothing more! Not even a banner link to my sales page to my spray tanning manual! Doh!

I was in a bit of shock for a few days!

Goes to show you that I hadn’t looked at my adsense account in a year!

(I honestly thought adsense was a waste of time and was going to remove it altogether. Boy was I wrong!)

Another task I achieved in the last month……………I created my first Camtasia video in the process of starting the website rebuild.

FINALLY!!!!

I decided to record the process to see the changes and create a case study for myself, plus what better way to learn Camtasia at the same time.

(It is nearly 35 mins long! Oops on that one!)

Although note to self: I do say “Um, So, & And A LOT!”

And get this………………………. since making a couple of changes in the last week, I have earned adsense again!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm I think some “ahas” are happening here.

The website I am changing is “Spray Tanning Tips”

You can have a look if you like. At the moment all I have done is add in the banners to my sales page and rewrite the welcome post plus add and configure a few plugins.

Plus I have changed over all the auto responders for the site and linked them up to my sales page. (That took ages! )

Imagine that site about a 3 weeks ago with no banners or side widgets, no links, nothing! All it had was a welcome post and the adsense!

It sat like that for 2 years!

I will keep you posted on what I am doing with the website, as I do believe this is going to be a really interesting case study for micro niche marketing at its best!

OK so what else have I done in the last month?????????????

Heaps and heaps!

I have teamed up with Miss Sally Neill (Yes Miss Blog Hopping Queen Herself! ) and we have started holding each other accountable.

OK that sounds a bit funny reading that back!

The point is, Sally and I are trying to speak to each other at least once a week, sometimes on skype and sometimes email depending on the kids, work, commitments and the time difference.

We are telling each other the goals and tasks we want to achieve and plan for the coming week, plus bouncing ideas off each other etc etc. The other advantage is that it is great to have another persons perspective.

I have actually found this to be very effective for me and I think Sally may agree with me.

I have achieved more tasks since we started this process because it has felt like I have had assignments I need to hand in, like when I was back in school!

There are some weeks where I have needed the kick up the butt and then there have been weeks where I know my extra little motivation rants have helped Sally when she has needed it.

Speaking of which Sally will soon be releasing her product “Blog Hopping Queen” and has written a blog post asking people to submit their blogs to her book!

I think this book is going to go really well. I have had the privilege of getting a sneak look at it and it is absolutely full of content that every new blogger should read.

It is a must for learning about the power of blog hopping and traffic building at the same time!

So to get your website included in the book, all you have to do is pop over to Sally’s blog (once you have read my blog post and said hello! hehehehe ) and let her know you would like to be considered!

Edit Alert: Sally just messaged me! She has closed her comments for her ebook. However because I have written my blog post I have twisted her hair (hahahaha ) and if anyone goes over to her blog from mine she will include you!

But you have to tell her “Jacinta Sent Me!”

If you don’t say that, you will miss out! And you don’t want to do that because I know this book will do really well and the traffic exposure will be awesome for you!

Here is the link to the blog post for you to comment on……. “Blog Hopping Queen – Sally Neill”

Edit Alert: As I have been writing and editing this blog post I just got a message from Sally that she is doing a joint webinar with Alex Jeffery.

The webinar is Wednesday March 2nd! It is FREE! They are going to discuss their “Simple 3 step formula to create your very first automated profit funnel that can easily crank out up to $8,000 a month starting almost right away!”

(I won’t be able to attend as my little one is in Hospital Tuesday having her tonsils out. )

I am sure this training will be gold, so if you want some really cool free training here is the link to Sally’s Webinar “Sally & Alex”

So back to what else I have been doing in the last month…………

I joined a new forum!

(Well actually I have been a member since 2009! I just became more active! )

www.honestworkfromhomesuccess.com

Most of you that know me probably know that Holly Mann’s ebook “Honest Riches” was the very first ebook o Internet Marketing that I bought online back in 2007.

(Actually it was the first ever downloadable product I had ever bought!)

Well “Honest Work From Home Success” is Holly’s main forum and I was asked to be a beta tester for a new section in the forum.

(OK………….it was a competition! Holly wanted 10 beta testers, @500 commented and I managed to be picked! Woo Hoo! Happy Dance! )

Holly’s section is awesome and is perfect for newbies! Considering I have been online for a few years now learning this stuff, I honestly didn’t think I was going to learn anything new.

Boy was I wrong!

I learned a heap just in the first week!

(I now know about robot txt’s and redirects etc etc Had no clue what they were before!)

I am enjoying Holly’s forum. Every one seems pretty friendly in there and there is a heap and heap and heap of information and questions in the free section alone!

Here is a link to Holly’s blog if you want to know more about her. She is one lady I really admire online! “Holly Mann”

Plus………………………..

In the last week I have been doing a crash course on “The Challenge“ training.

(Ed Dale & Dan Raine’s free training that they do every year! )

As I write this I am up to Module 7. I figured that because I am stripping down and rebuilding my niche site I had better get back to the basics of micro niche marketing and this is what “The Challenge” teach!

The course is brilliant!

It teaches you about keyword research, understanding a market, how to be a leader in your market, how to understand your statistics, do your research, writing your content, using the power of web 2.0 and so so much more.

The killer here is that this stuff is FREE!!

Did I say FREE! Yes FREE!

I have paid for courses that haven’t taught half of what these guys teach for FREE!

I promise I will write a detailed summary of the training as soon as I have finished the training and implemented the tasks in conjunction with my niche blog so you can see what I have done and how I have used the knowledge.

(This is part of my case study for improving my niche websites. )

So in summary of the last 5 weeks.

Basically my head hurts, my brain feels like mush and I feel like I have information overload just a little!

However in saying that, I am still on a mission.

A mission to turn this whole process from learning to earning!

Plus my bubba started pre school kinder (OMG she is a big girl now! ) and we took her to the zoo to see the baby elephants and baby tigers!

OK enough rambling.

I have 13 more videos I need to watch before tomorrow night so I had better get a wriggle on!

I hope everyone is going well and I do hope to be popping over to your blogs very soon.

Until next time……..

One Day, One Task At A Time!

Cheers

P.S So………..What have you been doing the last month?????????????

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A Challenge & The Future!

Jacinta — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:57:40 +0000

Hello All,

OK. So Where do I begin…?

It is amazing to think that it has been nearly a month since I last posted. Where have the days and weeks gone?

Well firstly to tell you the truth after completing the challenge I suffered from 2 things:

1. Complete exhaustion to the point where I had trouble turning the computer on. The challenge was amazing and an absolute awesome experience, however I did not realise the amount of energy it actually took out of me to keep everyone motivated as best as possible and encourage everyone to complete the challenge and to actually do the challenge myself! I was tired and need a well earned rest to recharge my batteries.

2. I suffered information overload! Yes you read right. I think I had information overload. I was over whelmed and amazed at the response of the challenge, the encouragement from everyone and the feedback I received. I have spent the last couple of weeks thinking about what I want to do.

OK so now to the points of the post.

A summary of the challenge and my plans for the future!

The 100 Blog Post Comment Challenge August 2010 Summary

What a ride!

What an amazing, humbling, overwhelming and awesome experience all in one for me. I never knew that one little idea could cause such commotion. It was like a pebble being dropped in an ocean that caused massive waves!

First:

I would like to say a very very BIG BIG BIG Thank You to the following people.

Randy Smith, John Thornhill & Sally Neill!

@Randy,

Thank you for the amazing support that you gave for the challenge. It was actually yours and Steve’s comments in the Masterclass Forum that made me believe that this little challenge could be possible.

@John,

Thank you for getting behind the challenge as well. Thank you for promoting the challenge to your list and for writing the blog post about it. Your encouragement and support really got a lot of people inspired to join in.

@Sally,

Yes it took a little convincing to bring you out of blog hopping retirement, however your support and encouragement was second to none. You inspired so many people to join in and have some fun blog hopping, even with your injured shoulder from playing too much boxing Wii!

I still giggle when I think of that thought process.

Steve King, Mandy Allen, Barry Wells & Thu Nguyen!

@Steve,

Thank you for going with my “bimbo moment” and actually using my comment to inspire a challenge! Thank you for the promotion and thank you for your support.

@Mandy,

Thank you so much for all of the encouragement in the Masterclass Forum. Thank you for getting behind the new students and really encouraging them to give this challenge a chance. For them to learn and grow online and the chance to meet a lot of new people.

@Barry,

Thank you so much for all the encouragement and messages and emails to encourage me to keep motivated and keep this challenge alive. I think I would have given up halfway through.

@Thu,

Thank you for the graphics that you made, that we could all use, plus Thank you for introducing us to Cheryl Ragsdale’s Blog and her new social bookmarking link service TGIF Links. How Cool!

And a big thank you for doing your recent guest post on the discovered gems of the challenge. You have no idea the perfect timing that post was for me!

And finally,

A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO YOU!

To all the contributors that joined in on the challenge and gave it a real shot! It wouldn’t have been a challenge if it wasn’t for you! Over 60% of us actually completed the challenge in its entirety!!

This challenge was more than just blog hopping and leaving comments on people’s blogs. It grew to become something so much more than that.

This experience has taught me about the real power of community. The real power of naturally networking and building genuine relationships.

I have met some amazing people though this challenge and been to some awesome blogs that I will be visiting again.

But most of all,

I have had the experience of a real online community of people all coming together for a greater good.

There was no money to be gained from this challenge. Just the chance to meet some new people, some new blogs and set a challenge and complete it!

I would also like to say,

Thank You for all the feedback I received on how to better the challenge and what to do next time!

Yes you read right. There will be a next time!

I have thought long and hard about the feedback I have received and have decided on a few different plans of attack.

I have had a big chat to Randy Smith and approached him about his forum at More Monthly.

There were suggestions to start a forum in the feedback, however to tell you the truth I don’t really want to create a new forum when I am already a member of a fantastic forum already!

It just didn’t make sense to me.

So I have approached Randy to create a special discount just for the challengers to join his forum. We are going to create a special section inside the forum just for ‘Challenges’.

So if you want to create a new challenge we can talk about it there. The challenges are not limited to just blog hopping, they can be product creation ones, traffic, list building ones etc etc etc.

What ever challenges we like, we can start. We can have smaller challenges, more targeted challenges, etc etc etc. We will be able to challenge ourselves to our hearts content!

As soon as Randy gives me the go ahead on the dedicated discount page I will email you all and let you know.

Randy’s forum is awesome and there is already a few of us in there. He has a ‘Link Swapping’ section, a ‘Blog Updating’ section where we can post whenever we have updated our blogs and let other forum members know.

There is an ‘Ask The Experts’ section where you can ask what ever you need to know. A ‘General Marketing’ section, a ‘Non Marketing’ section plus and ‘Advertising’ section and so much more.

The membership cost is normally $14 per month. This also includes 16 products he gives away with the membership, plus there is a section in the forum where there are bonus downloads we receive every month as well.

(If you want to check out what he offers in the membership click here: More Monthly)

Now like a said before, Randy is organising a special promotion for the challenge contributors so don’t join just yet. Wait until I say YES!

Now speaking of promotion.

As most of you know I only ever promote or endorse a product I believe in and have had experience with so in saying that I would love to introduce you to Daniel Sumner’s new monthly mentoring program.

“Online Income Advisor”

Last week Daniel asked me to have a look around inside the members area and see what I think.

I love it! So much content and so much quality. I was amazed. I have learned a heap already and am looking forward to next months lesson 2!

I wrote a testimonial for Daniel and am delighted to be a member of his new program. (You can see the testimonial on the website: Online Income Advisor)

For those of you that don’t know Daniel very well, let me tell you he is the real deal! (You can read more about him on his blog here: Dan’s Blog)

I have known Daniel for the last 2 years, however mainly through the fact that he was helping John Thornhill with his Masterclass Coaching helpdesk.

Daniel was the one I always went to when ever I had a technical drama, and no matter how silly my questions were (and believe me I have asked some silly ones ) he would answer me.

And if I didn’t understand, he would re explain in a different way until I did understand. Sometimes he created videos to show me or there were times when I completely didn’t get it, he would changed the code for me.

When Daniel told me 2 weeks ago that he was introducing his new mentoring program I jumped on board without hesitation. Not only is Daniel a very genuine and inspiring marketer he has the technical understanding as well.

He can teach you behind the scenes how to do the technical things as well as the marketing and online business development side of things as well.

I would not have the confidence I do today to fiddle around with plugins or changing code to my blog and websites etc etc if it wasn’t for having Daniel’s guidance when I was doing Masterclass.

I can not praise Daniel enough and I do mean this in all honesty.

If you are new to internet marketing or trying to create a business online, Daniel’s “Online Income Advisor” mentoring program is a great place to start!

Daniel’s Online Income Advisor

This blog post is getting long, but I wanted to let you know about Daniel’s coaching before he considers putting the price up!

My Blog’s Future

OK so now for part 2 of this blog post, however I think I have nearly written enough.

I am a little hungry and want my lunch!

Like I said earlier I have been thinking long and hard about my future and there are quite a few things I want to do.

First:

My blog is turning 2 next week, so in celebration I will be officially launching my first newsletter. Yes I have had a signup form at the top of my blog for a long time, however I have never really written a newsletter and after much thought and deliberation I am looking forward to doing this.

I plan on writing once a week on a Tuesday, telling my subscribers about my ‘bimbo’ moment for the week , plus news, reviews, tips & tricks and good quality freebies when I find them.

Plus I will be recording some parts of the newsletter in an audio form as well, just in case people want to have a listen too.

I am not sure yet but I think I might call it,

“Jacinta’s Tips & Tricks To Newbie Success” for B.I.M.B.O.S

(Beginner Internet Marketing Business Opportunity Seekers)

What do you think?

I will also be getting back to writing here on the different Internet Marketers I have seen speak at seminars and the notes I have written from them.

(I just watched a 2 day seminar last week and have 2 booklets of notes to share already )

I will be continuing with my motivational blog post series as well as my training experiences too with different training programs and products.

Plus I will be developing some new products with some new joint venture partners, so stay tuned for that update.

And finally I will be getting back to selling on ebay! I have a credit card to pay off and 2 sheds and a spare room of stuff that I think will be someone’s treasure!

So in summary to this very long blog post!

Watch this space for some exciting news and releases to come, plus I might create a new product challenge!

So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

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Creating My Business Online Daily Tasks & The Future!

John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Master Class Coaching Program Week 33!

Jacinta — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:22:51 +0000

Hello All,

Welcome to Week 33 of John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Training Masterclass Coaching Program.

10 training weeks to go! Woo Hoo!!!!! Happy dance!

Well actually there really is only 3 weeks as the course officially ends at week 36, however I have decided to write about the extra 6 weeks that we received.

4 of those weeks were case studies that John made of some fellow students website sales pages. (I will write about these in one post.) 1 is on writing our own case studies and the final week we were asked to participate in a survey.

In this weeks training we begin the final phase of our coaching program called “Advanced Tactics” so with out further comment lets begin with this weeks tasks…….

Internet Marketing Masterclass Week 33: Creating And Offering Discounts

One advanced tactic a lot of marketers use is having a special discount page for their products. This page can be used for subscriber specials, or for previous customers. This page is not one that will have affiliates promote unless you set it up for an exclusive affiliate later on.

This week we were sent our usual welcome letter for the week, our checklist of tasks plus we had 4 videos to download and learn.

Video 1: Create Discount Folder

Having a discount folder can work to a business advantage. For example, we may have someone interested in promoting our product but would like to preview it first. Rather than give them a free copy, we could offer them the discount version and possibly make a cheaper sale.

The first thing John wants us to do in this video is to create a ‘Discount’ folder and copy all of our sales page files from our website into this folder.

Basically this is a duplicate copy of everything.

Video 2: Add Discounted Product To Clickbank

In this video John shows us how to add our discounted product to ‘Clickbank’.

We are shown:

How to access our ‘Clickbank’ account settings to find our listed products

How to take our first product and duplicate it

How to edit the product number and title

How to determine the discounted price

How to direct the product to the same Thank You or Download Page

And how to save the settings

When deciding on a discounted price John recommends that it should be between 30-50% off. The bottom line is that the product is a digital downloadable item and as long as we can make extra sales where we may not have done so before, then the price should not matter too much.

If we are doing the discount page exclusively for joint venture partners or super affiliates then it is recommended to be at least a 50% discount.

Video 3: Edit Discounted Page

Before completely adding our product to ‘Clickbank’ we will need to edit our ‘discount page’ as well as renaming it.

All we need to do to change the discount page is to rearrange and edit some of the text.
For example adding in “Special price of $XX available via personal invitation only” in the heading.

Where ever we have written the full price of the product we should put a ‘slash’ through that price, add in our discount price and underneath the discount price add, “Through This Special Link”.

We will also need to edit the payment button to whatever product number we created the discount product to be on ‘Clickbank’.

Once we have edited and changed the discount page, the files are ready for uploading and for completing the ‘Clickbank’ application process.

Video 4: Upload Discount Folder

In this video John shows us how to upload our discount folder to our products website. (We should already know how to do this from uploading our original sales page. )

Our folder should be uploaded to the same folder that we uploaded our ‘Affiliates Folder’ and ‘Thank You’ folder to.

The next thing that John recommends for us to do is to test our links and ‘buy button’ to make sure everything works properly.

If we want to generate quick sales we could create a title such as, “For the next 48 hours I am going to have a special discount link…..”

Send the email out to our subscribers list and then take the page down after 48 hours.

We could also duplicate the process and offer discounts of different amounts.

There is nothing stopping us from having our main product priced at @$97, plus have a discount page of $77 and then another discount page for $67 and $57 etc etc.

As we create more products in the future having discount pages can be a great way to cross promote our products to our different buyers.

The more different ways we can promote our product even if they are at different prices, the more chance we have of making sales.

The more sales we make, the more money we make!

Once we have created the folders, edited the pages and uploaded all the files to our webspace we then need to confirm that our discount page has been correctly uploaded to ‘Clickbank’.

Important: Make sure that these products are not able to be viewed in the marketplace. You want the products listed as private. You only want invited affiliates to be able to promote these special pages!

Week 33 Checklist:

Our checklist tasks for Week 33 were:

Create a discount folder

Edit our discount page and rename it

Upload the discount folder to our product webspace

Add the discount page to our ‘Clickbank’ account

Test the sales process

Create other discount pages if we want to

Continue posting to our blogs

Continue visiting the masterclass forum and communicating with fellow students

Continue to visit fellow students, marketers, niche blogs and forums and post comments where appropriate

Continue writing and submitting articles

OK so that is Week 33 wrapped up.

So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

P.P.S John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Masterclass Coaching may be closed at the moment. He has just started the new 2010 program and he only ever takes a limited amount of students at a time so as to dedicate himself to our learning, basically it is a first in first served situation.

Update From 10/4/2010: John has just released a one month $4.95 trial to Masterclass meaning you can sign up for $4.95 and trial the training. As far as I know he is limiting these places. If you see a sold out sign, then do sign up to be notified when there are new places available again.

This training program was the best decision I ever made. I would not be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for John. I can not recommend this program enough!

Click On The Image To Be Taken To John’s Coaching Website

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John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Master Class Coaching Program Week 32!

Jacinta — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:29:08 +0000

Hello All,

Welcome to Week 32 of John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Training Masterclass Coaching Program.

It has been nearly 2 weeks since I last posted. Ooops on that one!

Life has been a little hectic, I have finally been able to schedule some time now to really get focused on some study and training. The one thing I do find hard when trying to set up a business online around a 3 year old and family commitments is organising time management and allocating set times so I don’t get side tracked.

It all sounds good in theory, however before I know it life has interrupted and another week has gone past and I wonder what I have done. I wonder how many other people feel like this. I am sure I am not alone!!

OK so with out side tracking any more!

Lets begin with this weeks training…….

Internet Marketing Masterclass Week 32: Creating Viral Reports And Ebooks

This weeks training is all about using viral marketing as a form of traffic generation.

What is Viral Marketing you may ask?

Well a simple way to explain viral marketing as I understand it is as follows:

Viral marketing occurs when you have a report that can be given away, sold and re-sold (ie: have resell rights) that can have affiliate links with in the report so people can earn potential money by promoting it.

In other words I can create a report and give it to my affiliates to give away. The links inside the report to my main product can be re-branded with the affiliates affiliate link. Therefore if anyone clicks on the links inside the report and buys my product the affiliate will earn a commission.

I hope I have explained that ok?

The bottom line is, the more this report circulates around the internet either by being given away or sold, the more chance we have of people clicking the links within the report, visiting our websites and possibly buying our products.

These free reports are a great way to promote our products and websites as everyone loves freebies!!

As usual we had our welcome letter and list of tasks to do for the week, plus we had 7 videos to download and learn. This was a big week!

Video 1: Download Viral Pdf

In this video John talks about resell rights products and how they can benefit our business and promote our main product.

As I tried to explain earlier, the idea is that we create a small report that can either be given away or sold by other people or anyone that gets access to the report. However to take this idea further John encourages us to create a report that can be re-branded with our affiliates affiliate links instead of our own.

Just having a standard report to give away is one way, however if we really want to promote our product well, a brandable ebook is a great incentive for affiliates to promote our product more effectively. The affiliates know that they have the possibility of earning commissions from any of the re-branded links inside the report.

The first thing we need to do in order to make brandable products is to get ourselves some software that can make our ‘pdfs’ brandable. The software that John recommends for us to use is called “Viral Pdf”. Currently the software is $27 to buy.

(I haven’t bought this software yet or made my report to give away for my spray tanning website. I do plan on doing that over the next few weeks so I will keep you posted and let you know when it is ready! )

Video 2: Create A Resell Rights Or Free Ebook

The idea of the free/resell rights ebook is to give your reader value as well as encourage them to purchase the main product.

You want to provide good quality content but keep the important secrets for your main ebook. You don’t want to reveal everything about your topic or else there is no reason for people to buy more.

A simple way to write a free report is to use parts of our main ebook. The report does not have to be a very long one, we could easily get away with it being a few thousand words under 10 pages. We should be able to write our report fairly quickly especially if we are selecting parts of our main product and using a cutting and pasting technique!

Depending on your niche, you could use private label rights material to create your reports, especially if you want to make quite a few reports that will lead back to your main product. According to John there is no reason why we could not make 10 resell rights or free reports all linking back to our main ebook.

If you need to source private label rights material you can find a wealth of good quality products from “PLR Monthly”, “Resell Rights Fortune” and in the special offers section of the ‘Warrior Forum’.

Video 3: Create Brandable Links

In this video John shows us how to create the hyperlinks within our report that will be able to be re-branded with the ‘Viral Pdf’ software.

Before we are shown how to use the software John reminds us of the importance to provide value with our reports. Although the idea of the report is to encourage the reader to buy our main product it is not recommended to just promote the main product. We should make sure our report provides good quality content as well as enticing the reader to want more.

Next we are shown the basics of creating the hyperlinks with the tags needed so that the links can be branded.

We are shown:

How to create a hyperlink in our report

How to add the ‘viral pdf’ tags needed

And how to save the links and edited text

If we have any problems John recommends that we read the help files and manual that comes with the viral pdf software.

The other thing John suggests is that we create a second affiliate account with clickbank if we haven’t already. This is so that we can use our second affiliate account to promote our ebook just in case people don’t re-brand the report and we will still earn a commission for our sales. (This is a good way for testing how viral our report becomes.)

Video 4: Sign Your Pdf

In this video John shows us how to sign our ‘pdf report’.

We are shown:

How to convert our document to ‘pdf if we haven’t done so already

How to open the ‘ViralPdf’ software program

How to set the ‘pdf’ up to be ‘signed’

How to ‘sign’ the ‘pdf’

And how to save the ‘signed pdf’

One thing John points out in the signing process is that we shouldn’t set a time limit, this can interrupt and corrupt the signing process.

Video 5: Brand And Test Links

In this video John shows us how to re-brand the ‘pdf as an affiliate using the ‘Viral Pdf Rebrander’. (This is the software that we will supply our affiliates to rebrand our reports with their affiliate links.)

We are shown:

How to open the ‘pdf’ in the ‘Viral Rebrander’ software

How to enter our clickbank id

How to save the re-branded ‘pdf’

And how to test the links inside the ‘pdf’

Video 6: Create Files For Distribution

In this video John shows us how to prepare the ‘pdf’ and software ready to be given away for people to promote.

The ‘pdf’ that we need to use is the ‘signed’ one that we created in Video 4. Before we include the rebrander software we should brand the software with our own affiliate link!

If one of our affiliates uses the software and then decides they like the program and decide to buy through our link, we can earn a commission. (I like the idea of that! )

OK getting back to it. This is one big week. 1500 words already!

Once we have branded the software we can then find the ‘Pdf Brand’ file that we need to include when distributing the report.

One thing we could do to help our affiliates is to also include a ‘How To Guide’ to show our affiliates how to actually brand the report with their own affiliate links. We should not assume that everyone will automatically know what to do.

(Boy can I relate to this!! I have heaps and heaps of rebrandable reports on my hard drive that I can rebrand with my affiliate link. I had no idea what to do until this weeks training! Now I can find all the reports and start giving them away!! )

Another idea with the free report is to take it all to the next level. We could get some graphics made, include some promotional material text such as emails and even a simple sales letter to the report. This could be used if people want to actually sell the report from their own websites.

We should try and include tools that will make it easier and more encouraging for the affiliates to either sell or give our mini ebook away.

Once we have completed our giveaway report John wants us to send it through to him so that he can have a look at it and possibly promote or sell it on ebay as well. (Go John! Although not sure if ‘Learning How To Spray Tan’ is your thing! )

(I have been a bit of a slacky here. I am still in the middle of writing my report!! So much to do, so little time! )

Video 7: Add Free Report To Blog

This particular video was presented by Danial Sumner. For the last few years Daniel has been one of John’s right hand men in charge of ‘Masterclass Support’, he is also the co-owner of PLR Monthly with Dave Nicholson. You can find out more about what Daniel is up to now by visiting his blog. (Click here is visit Daniel’s Blog: Daniel Sumner)

OK so back to it. In this video Daniel goes through the whole process of showing us how to add our free report to our blog.

The first thing Dan explains to us is what extensions we can use as downloadable files such as ‘pdf’ or ‘zip’ files, however a folder file is not downloadable!

If our report is just a ‘pdf’ file that we want to make available then we can leave the file as is, however if we want to include other files with the ‘pdf’ such as graphics etc, then we will need to place all the files into a folder and ‘zip’ them up.

When we have our files prepared, the next thing we need to do is create a folder that will become our websites downloads folder. We can call this folder ‘Downloads’ or if we are concerned about file stealing we can call it something else. Our downloadable files need to be placed into this folder ready for uploading.

(We really should already know how to do this from uploading our sales website, however going over the process again is not a bad thing! )

Daniel shows us:

How to make our files downloadable

How to create our downloads folder

How to upload our folder to our website space using ‘File Zilla’

How to check our files have been uploaded correctly

And how to determine the link address of our downloadable file

In the next part of the video Danial shows us how to incorporate the link to our downloadable free report into our auto responder series.

We are shown:

How to open our ‘Aweber’ list auto responder sequence

How to add the type needed into out ‘Thank You’ for subscribing email

And how to paste the report link into the email

Another thing that Daniel suggests is that we should give away reports regularly to our subscribers as a great way to constantly give value. These reports do not necessarily have to be content created by us.

We could find some master resell rights, resell rights or private label rights reports, audios, videos etc related to our niche and make them available for giveaway and download. Plus if we can re-brand the reports/products with affiliate links to bigger products we can earn a commission too!!

(I do plan on setting this up for my subscribers very soon! I have a lot of private label and master resell rights material that I have collected over the last 2 years, however first I need to actually go through the products before I start giving them away. I do not want to give away anything that I don’t think is relevant or of good quality. Another task to do! One day, One task at a time is my motto. I will get there eventually! )

The final suggestion Daniel has for us, is that we could create a specific ‘Subscribers Only’ page like a website page that our subscribers can access and take their downloads from.

(This is a good idea also! Another option is to create a password protected page on our blog!)

Week 32 Checklist:

Our checklist tasks for week 32 were:

Purchase the ‘Viral Pdf’ software

Create a resale rights or free report

Create re-brandable links within our report

Sign and brand our report and test all links work

create files ready for distribution

Organise graphics and extra promotional material to include

Upload our report to our blogs to be able to be downloaded for our subscribers

Continue posting to our blogs

Continue to visit the ‘Masterclass Forum’ and communicate with fellow students

Continue to visit fellow students, marketers and niche blogs/forums and post comments where appropriate

OK so that is Week 32 wrapped up. This was one big week of training! I hope you have made it to the end of this post! I just did a count. I have 9 more videos to summarise in total before the end of the training! Woo Hoo not long to go!

So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

This training program was the best decision I ever made. I would not be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for John. I can not recommend this program enough!

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John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Master Class Coaching Program Week 31!

Jacinta — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:44:52 +0000

Hello All,

Welcome to Week 31 of John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Training Masterclass Coaching Program.

Wow! It is already the last week of May. The month has just flown by on me and as you may know from reading a couple of my previous posts life has been a little crazy.

My 2 year old is now 3, we experienced a fire and for the last few weeks I have been really focusing on listing some products on ebay. I currently have 6 necklaces on there and hopefully I will be listing some more stuff soon. I have 2 sheds I need to go through full of tubs of stuff!!

If you want to check out my listings I have an ebay shop called “Jads Deals” (Click here: Jads Deals)

On a side note I still need to update my daily tasks posts, I haven’t written one since February!

Now before I get into this weeks training I just wanted to let you know I have some exciting new content I will be introducing to you very soon. On the 4th of May I had my first coaching call with John Thornhill. We spoke for an hour! I had some amazing “Ahaa’ moments and we discussed a number of different things that I want to pursue such as joint venturing with people, using helpdesk’s, email software and different levels of product creation.

The call gave me some clarity of where I am now and where I want to go. I will be making the call available to my subscribers for download very soon. I will keep you posted!

OK so enough waffling. I think it’s time to get on with this weeks training………

Internet Marketing Masterclass Week 31: The Warrior Forum

In this weeks training we were introduced to one of the most successful internet marketing forums on the internet called ‘The Warrior Forum”.

We were sent our usual welcome letter for the week, our checklist and we had only 1 video to download and watch.

Video 1: The Warrior Forum

In this video John talks about “The Warrior forum” and how being an active member of this forum/group could help with our internet business success.

According to John this forum is one of the largest, most popular and most successful forums on internet marketing and has been operating for quite a few years. Everything to do with internet marketing is discusses in this forum. Not only can it be great as a learning tool, but there are many many high profile marketers that visit and use this forum on a regular basis.

Some of the sections that John recommends for us to visit are ‘The main internet marketing discussion forum’ and ‘The copy writing forum’.

‘Internet marketing reviews and ratings’ is another section that is important for us to look at and become familiar with as well. The latest launches and product reviews can be found here.

Another section for us to visit is ‘The joint venture forum’. This part or the warrior forum is where we can find people that we could possibly joint venture with in the future.

And the final section that john recommends for us to pay close attention to is ‘The special offers section’. This is where we can find a lot of products and offers on special.

The Warrior Forum is one of the leading forums on ‘Internet Marketing’. There are quite a few forums out there, but this one is the big one! Apparently there can be over 3,000 people online in the forum at the same time. That is one popular forum!!!

At the moment I have joined the forum, (You can see my profile here: me!) however I have not been active in there. While I have been studying the last 18 months I have mainly been active in the ‘Masterclass Forum’, ‘John’s Online Training Forum’ and ‘The Thirty day Challenge Forum’.

If I allowed myself, I could get sidetracked and spend days inside the forums. There is so much information and content, plus the amazing people! I wish I had more time!

Week 31 Checklist:

Our checklist tasks for Week 31 were:

Visit The Warrior Forum and join up

Browse the sections of the forum, read some of the threads get to know our way around, read the rules and guidelines

Search the forum for topics we may be interested in

Continue to post to our blogs

Continue to visit the masterclass forum and communicate with fellow students

Continue to visit fellow students and marketers blogs and post comments where appropriate

Catch up on any tasks we have fallen behind on (I have a heap to do here! )

OK so that is week 31 wrapped up.

In next weeks training John introduces us to creating giveaway reports that can be branded with our affiliates’ affiliate links. We don’t have many weeks to go! Woo Hoo Happy Dance! I do hope you have been enjoying my training summaries as much as I have enjoyed writing them for you!

So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

P.S If you want to read more posts on my master class training, you will find them all listed on my masterclass training page. Click on the following link to get to that page: My Masterclass Training

P.P.S John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Masterclass Coaching may be closed at the moment. He has just started the new 2010 program and he only ever takes a limited amount of students at a time so as to dedicate himself to our learning, basically it is a first in first served situation.

This training program was the best decision I ever made. I would not be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for John. I can not recommend this program enough!

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John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Master Class Coaching Program Week 30!

Jacinta — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:41:41 +0000

Hello All,

Welcome to Week 30 of John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Training Masterclass Coaching Program.

6 Weeks of official training to go! Woo Hoo! Happy Dance Happy Dance! It is not long now.

Firstly I would like to thank everyone for commenting on my last post about the Fire I was involved in. (You can read that post by clicking here: Fire and Loss. )

All of your comments were very caring and thoughtful and I really do thank you for your kind words and compassion. It is amazing how I have not met most of you in person, yet I can feel your genuine sense of caring through your words. My last post was a very humbling experience.

However now it is time to get back into the swing of things and kick these training summaries in the butt so to speak!

So with out further comment lets begin with this weeks tasks…….

Internet Marketing Masterclass Week 30: All Things Twitter

As usual we were sent our welcome letter for the week, our checklist and we only had 1 video to download and watch to learn what tasks we needed to do for the week.

Video 1: All Things Twitter

This week John focused on introducing us to Twitter as a tool to generate traffic to our websites.

I have been using Twitter for just over a year now. So far I have just over 1,000 followers and I think I am following just over 1,000. I do try to tweet at least once a day and at the moment I am really enjoying posting motivational sayings that I have been finding.

At this stage I don’t believe I have used Twitter to its full potential however in saying that I haven’t learned how to just yet. That is why this weeks coaching is so good!

The bonus for this week was that we were given another freebie!! Woo Hoo Happy Dance Love the freebies!

We were given FREE access to Dave Nicholson’s “Tweet Dynamite”. This product normally sells for $97. Rather than John go through everything to do with Twitter, he convinced Dave to give us free access to his course instead.

Truthfully I haven’t gone through the training yet as I have been focusing on improving my websites etc, however I am hoping to do it over the next couple of weeks or so. I will keep you posted!

According to John, Dave will teach us how to set up everything on twitter almost on autopilot, plus teach us how to generate thousands of followers with potential traffic to our websites.

Summary

Like I said earlier I have been a member of Twitter for nearly 12 months, and I know I definitely have not used the service to its full potential. I have heard of people having incredible growth with their business from the use of twitter.

I think the best way to look at twitter is like doing a mass sms message. The only thing I do find confusing is how to follow people. For everyone that links and follows me I will link and follow them, however I don’t believe I follow them as I should.

With trying to create a business online and raising my 3 year old I really do not have the time to read everyone’s tweets! I wouldn’t get anything done!

I do understand the marketing concept of using twitter for business and promotion purposes and I do believe it is an important tool to use for online business development, however from a personal point of view I really do not have the time to tweet back very often or check out every tweet!

I am looking forward to going through Dave’s course as I am sure it will be an awesome one full of information and great training. Every product of Dave’s that I have experienced has always been full of content, information, education and well worth what he charges. He always over delivers!!

Week 30 Checklist:

Our checklist tasks for week 30 were:

Access our free copy of Dave Nicholson’s ‘Tweet Dynamite’

Try to start Dave’s course and complete as much as possible

Visit the masterclass forum and communicate with fellow students

Continue to post to our blogs

Continue to visit fellow students and marketers blogs and comment where appropriate

Continue to visit other niche blogs and forums and comment where appropriate

Continue to write and submit articles related to our niche

Write Dave a testimonial as a Thank-You for access to his product

OK so that is week 30 wrapped up.

So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

This training program was the best decision I ever made. I would not be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for John. I can not recommend this program enough!

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