Hello

"Social Media Money" is the first module where we will be starting to learn how to drive traffic. Alex stressed that if anyone skips this module then 90% will underachieve.

But first a great incentive was offered to get us to get things rolling. A competition to see who could get the most traffic to our blogs by the 14th of August 2009 in which Alex would pay $1000 to the winner from his own pocket. Talk about getting people motivated who else would do that?

Now obviously by the time you read this the competition is over, but we are actually still awaiting the winner to be announced and I will try and share this when they become available.

The rules where as follows;

• You must put on your blog how your driving traffic.
  
• Must install google analytics not only so  it can be seen where the traffic is coming, but to show your statistics for the 2 week period.

Now I have been making some efforts, but I never entered, again because of the problems I had, but let me assure you I am going to be hitting this hard throughout the next coming weeks and will share my results.

Alex touched on what was talked about in the last coaching module basically to leave comments on other fellow student blogs and also other blogs with high PR’s.
I will post more info on this in the coming weeks!!

Blogging Might Sound Like Hard Work But Its Not!!!

• 80% of your efforts will drive 20% of your traffic.
• 20% of your efforts will drive 80% of your traffic.

Its all about trying to find and monitor what least effort your making which brings the highest amount of traffic. 

KEYWORDS: These should be implemeted into your blog posts even if it means taking an extra 5m for your posts. Alex doesn’t do any keyword research when he blogs, but remeber his business is already built up he has active readers by the thousands. I promise I will try and get some videos or posts up about how to do keyword research. Its on my to do list.

TRAFFIC METHODS: Ok I plan to put up a category dedicated to this so you can see what I am doing to drive traffic to this blog, but in the meantime heres the best ways to drive traffic, suggested from the man himself;

• Posting on other blogs.
• Give aways (Free products).
• Once you have a list you can drive to new blog posts.
• Twitter. This is new to me but will take the dive in due course.
• You Tube. Heard about this before so will be taking steps to get a video on it (em,  eventually a few, quite a few, lol).
• Review what other blogs, related to driving traffic are doing to drive traffic.
• Your own methods if you know any (I might but they could be the same as whats in the next coaching modules, will wait and see whats to come before going into these).

That about wraps it up for this module again I’ll keep you updated on what methods I am using to drive traffic as when I started Alex program my visitors where 0. So hopefully when the traffic comes in I can show you my google analytics account.

"Remember All The Big Guns Started With Zero Traffic. The Hardest & Most Effort From Driving Traffic Comes When Your Starting Out,  After That It Should Be On Autopilot"

I would love to hear your best ways to drive traffic to your website!!!

Please as always feel free to share this is your space too  !! 
Until next time, Graeme!

Hi

In this module "Marketing Mafia Money" I’ve got to say what a name I thought dodgy things wur going to be taught .  I was thinking we might have been given "books" to collect money for Tony Soprano!! Thankfully I was wrong.

The importance of having a Blog was the main topic for this module. Why most people find blog posts (writing your own content) quite daunting. I must say when I  first created this blog these words couldn’t have been truer and probably to a certain degree I still do find it slightly scary, but it becomes easier with every post.

Alex hit home about how blogs are a great place to make yourself accountable for everything you do online in if you document it on your blog then it should make YOU TAKE ACTION. This makes perfect sense and I never really thought of it that way.

I couldn’t believe it when he said how he could create ebooks just by the comments his readers posted and wur talking ebooks which have made him multiple thousands of dollars WOW!. Imagine being able to do that, unreal, lol.

There are 3 types of people in this world:

1. People who don’t learn from their mistakes.
2. People who do learn from their mistakes.
3. People who learn from others mistakes.

I would like to think 2 & 3 apply to me!!. This is why students of Ales’s program have access to a forum with over 500 students in it with all levels of internet marketing experience and let me tell you some of th guys & girls in there are out of this world.

Ok so whats the marketing mafia all about? Well its a brilliant tool which was developed by a great internet marketer called Dave Nicholson. If you look on the home page of my blog you’ll see a category called "Alex Jeffrey’s Coaching IM Superstars". This is basically a list of the coaching students which randomises when you refresh the page. BIG DEAL you say, well it is a big deal because what this allows all of us to do is visit each others blogs and leave comments. Think about it 500 students leave a comment on each blog. Not only is it building backlinks to your own blog its helping each student to get content via comments and also get your comment noticed by people outside the community. Because all 500 of us will eventually be going outwith the community to get traffic WOW (again,lol). Basically we should own a piece of the net.

AND wur not even into the Traffic modules yet!!

What I find with a lot of Mr Jeffrey’s stuff theres a lot of common sense and simple stuff which you don’t really expect. I have never witnessed this with any other programs I have done, but I like it & if it makes me money so much the better. I really can’t see how it can’t.

Until Next Time…

Please feel free to leave your thoughts… 

Ok so I am a bit behind putting this information up as it was a few weeks ago. Things have just been so busy with me trying to get my blog up and running, things have also been a bit hectic at my day job and I am also trying to get an office set up for myself in my spare room!!

But anyways the main "focus", , yes "focus" can’t say that word now without doing it in a welsh accent as Alex always says it & its ringing in my head, lol. Ok so this time the main concept was that we have to get a product out there on the web for a number of reasons;

• To Build A List!
• To Make Money!
• To Get Known & Gather A Fan Base!

Kindly Alex has gave all the students a ebook which is brandable, meaning our own names, website will be implemented into it hence we introduce Viral Marketing on to our skill set. This will be given away free, yes I said free, but this is what will build our list.

So;

1. We have an ebook which will be given away free!!
2. The ebook will be Viral!!

But theres more we can also make money directly from this ebook as theres an upsell. What this means is when the person fills in their name and e-mail address they will be taken to an upsell page. This is a better version of the original product which they can buy. If they choose not to buy then they still get their free ebook and we get their name for out list. 

Lastly Alex has set the goal for all the coaching students to get a list of 1500 people. With a list this size anyone should be able to bring in $1500 per month, because 1 person on your list should equal $1 per month.

"Winning Means Being Unafraid To Lose", Robert Kiyosaki

Since Alex keeps going on about us coaching students creating our piece of the internet and to post on each others blogs this is what I plan to do now so I already have some people added into a folder shown below, but will be adding more blogs into it as I come across it.

So if you haven’t done it yet it would be good if you create a folder ( I called mine AJs Coaching Students Blogs) in your favourites in whatever web browser you use and add every blog in as you come across them that way it makes it so asy just to go through each one and leave a comment if you wish.

Hi If you read my bio you will know that I initially set this blog up when I was in John Thornhill’ s coaching program, but I never really done anything with it content wise so I just reinstalled it which wiped any posts I had.

So this means I am starting fresh on this blog !!

Now the first thing you want to do online is to establish a name for yourself and theres no better way to do it than creating a blog.

This blog was set up with the hosting company which I use, D9 hosting. I found they offered excellent value as you can host as many websites as you wish, also they have a ton of video tutorials to walk you through the whole process of setting up your website and there support is outstanding. 

Here are a few hosting companies you may wish to consider;

D9Hosting 
(from $7.95 per month)

Host Gator
(from $4.95 per month)

1and1
(from $3.99 per month + 3 months free)  

If possible you want to get pay for your own hosting for your blog. The reason for this is because you own your blog and it can never be shut down as long as you are doing nothing illegal. 

Imagine using a free blog such as blogger and you had built your online business on this over many years and one day you try to log in and your blogs gone because they shut you down, well this does happen so if you have the cash and remember our number one aim is to build an online business so expect to invest a little money in initial set up. Using your own hosting also lets your name or company name only to be used in your domain name meaning you are only advertising yourself.

If you used blogger and you wanted the name of your blog to be your own name then lets say your name was John Smith then your domain name would have to be something like http://www.johnsmith.blogspot.com opposed to the self hosting option where it would be http://www.johnsmith.com

If you ask me the self hosting option is alot better looking as your not associated with another companies name. Think about it… Do you think big companies such as Mcdonalds, or IBM would take the 1st option, they wouldn’t !!

As you can see I have used my name graeme ashe as my domain name.

So the next thing to do is purchase your domain name I purchased mine from 1and1 , but if you have signed up for hosting you usually get the first one free. If not here are some recommended ones;

Then all you want to do is point the domain name to your hosting servers. Its a real easy process your hosting provider should be able to help you do this, if not give me a shout I’ll be happy to help !!

Until next time…….

Graeme