In this module #3 which Alex calls ‘Social Media Money’, Alex explains why it is important to set up a blog (an online diary) in the process of building traffic. It might not be comfortable for everyone to start writing a blog especially if it involves themselves. What Alex is telling us to do is use this coaching program and in particular write about the progress we are making toward becoming a successful Internet Marketer.

We should be relaxed and write openly about our journey how we start off as a newbie to internet marketer and the progress we make.  We need to come across as genuine person who people will come to like and trust.  Alex encourages us to make our blog posts conversational as if speaking to our best friend. In our blog we need to align ourselves with Alex so that gives us instant credibility.

Writing a blog about our activity actually makes us accountable and you also get instant feedback from the market.

What we need to do is add great value to our blog so that people will want to come back for more. They recognize that we have something to offer and they want to find out more.

The blog needs to have traffic i.e. people need to come to our blog. Once we have people coming to our blog we want to bring them in to our funnel, which first collects their names, so we can market to them later.

CHECKLIST

1. Use the Forum to get Familiar with Blogging

2. Setup Hosting and Install a Blog

3. Prepare a Plan of Attack for your Blog

4. Install the “Traffic Network Builder”

5. Add Google Analytics

The homework here does not look to much and I should be able to do this in time before the next module.

In all this session lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes. After a 10 minute break we went in to the question and answer session which lasted another 90 minutes. What with long days driving and these late sessions I find it difficult to stay awake during the question sessions. At least I will be able to replay the recording and go over things again. I know that what I write here is a fraction of what Alex is telling us and I just have time to scribble down the main points, but what I might decide to do at the end of this course is to expand these notes by going over the recordings again and compiling my own e-book to make available to anyone following my progress.

If you consider this informative and would like to have an e-book that goes into more detail, please let me know in your comment.

I will be reporting next on the homework from this module.

In the second webinar given by Alex Jeffreys, Alex gave another long webinar presentation lasting 2 hours 15 minutes on what was called ‘Profit Pulling Platform’.
Included in this mentoring program Alex is giving away a website designed to offer great value to anyone wanting to build a list of people off the internet to market to.
It is said; “the money is in the list”. List building becomes the core of your business as once you have a list of qualified people. You can then market to these people over and over again, by continuing to give the valuable information and build up trust.
This profit pulling platform is designed not only to be a way of building a list, but from each sale of the product on offer at a low price the student gets to keep 100%. You can see why this course is potentially such good value as the profit pulling platform will ultimately pay for the course.

Here is a summary or what was covered:

Module #2: Profit Pulling Platform
CHECKLIST

1. Build Your Profit Pulling Platforms
2. Set up Google Analytics
3. Set Your First List Building Target
4. You set the Timeline!

In addition to the main presentation Alex fronted another 2 hours and 20 minutes of questions.
Alex started at 23:00 BST and finished around 04:00 the following morning. Once again, Alex showed his commitment to the program by delivering good content and not holding back.
After a very long day on the road, it was difficult to keep my eyes open during the Questions and Answer session. I still did not chip in with a question this week, but then the other members of the group were asking all of the right questions and asking many of the questions I had thought about asking.

I will keep you posted with this week’s homework.

How did I get on with my homework after module #1?

Well it has been little bit of a struggle to get everything done and quite frankly. I am somewhat behind, but I think I can catch up. I have just got to find more free time.
The problem with this driving job is that I just do not know from day to day where I will be and how many miles I will do. Being on call any time of day or night can really take its toll.  This makes planning my day somewhat difficult and this is going to be my biggest obstacle and challenge in getting through this coaching program.
If I get too far behind schedule I plan take some holiday and use the days to make up for lost time. Creating a pledge was not too difficult. The pledge is a start; it can be modified later.

My Personal Pledge
Read Pledge on waking up (keep a copy in the van)
I will do everything Alex instructs me to do.
I will do a minimum of one hour daily of productive tasks 5 days a week
I will use a count-down timer to ensure this
Do my daily did sheet
I pledge to tythe a portion of all my internet income to good causes.
Plan tomorrow today
Read Pledge when going to bed

Initial Hosting setup:

This was a gain saving as I already have a hosting account.
I bought the domain name for this blog and changed the domain name server setting straight away.
One problem not foreseen which delayed the setting up of this blog was my hosting service needed to swap over to a new and better server. I lost time setting WordPress up and could not understand why I could not get it installed properly. The problems encountered were the very ones that gave reason for my hosting service to decide to scrap the old server and install a new one. After several hours lost I contacted the support team and that is when I learnt of the server problems that was causing me so much grief.

Organising Myself:
Somethings were easily achieved such as setting up a folder on my laptop to store all the files for this coaching material.
I bought note books for my Do and Did sheets and I ordered a count-down timer off Ebay and I should have that in about one weeks time.
I registered for my free mind mapping tool at www.mindmeister.com but haven’t done anything with it.

Planning and Monitoring:
If there is one section of the homework that I have not done it is this. The short–term plans and actions is covered in part by the Dos and Dids sheets but the 90-day long term goals and monthy and weekly need to be done.

Take Action:
The fact that I have done the above and not completed all my tasks has started the ball rolling and action has been taken. Obviously taking action is going to be continuous process if this program is to be seen through to the end in approximately another 7 to 8 weeks.