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Newbie Nightmare Report

Alex Jeffrey’s has just announced his intention to release a report that will cut through the bullshit and help any newbie to become profitable.

Following on from his coaching program Alex uncovered the one main problem that was holding all of his students back from becoming successful.

He fixed this problem for his coaching students, enabling them to find success. Alex then formulated a plan to help people, no matter their background or experience, to make money on the internet.

Alex say’s that he has recently been given information that has changed everything. He has completely revised what he was going to teach people. And he is going to share that information for free when he publishes his Newbies Nightmare report.

Alex say’s his game changing report is going to give you the simple solution to your problems and enable you to make money.

You can get this information in his free report when it is published by watching his video and leaving a comment at his website.

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Are you building your list?

If you are then great!

If not, are you participating in giveaway events?

You should be!  The secrets out, it’s a great list building strategy.

I get a steady trickle of subscribers to my list via my free list building ebook on this blog (if that includes you, thankyou for joining, I have some good things planned for the future).

But now my list is growing at a steady pace, all thanks to giveaway events. And it’s really easy to get involved.

What You Need

1. Something to give away, if you don’t have your own gift you can use some PLR that you have giveaway rights to;
2. An auto responder service;
3. A domain name;
4. A hosting account;
5. A simple squeeze page;
6. A simple thank you page;
7. The knowledge to link them all together.

And that’s really all you need, except of course some giveaway events to participate in.

How To Set It Up

To begin, you will select a suitable gift, and then you will set up an auto-responder list-name and Web-form. I use a new list-name for each gift product so that I know what my subscribers are interested in.

Include the re-direct URL on the confirmed opt-in set up to send your subscribers to your thank you page.

Create your web form and enter the appropriate code into your squeeze page. Set up your thankyou page with the gift name and download link. You don’t need to do anything elaborate for your pages, they only need to be very basic and simple.

Once you have all of that you just need to assemble a folder containing all of the files for your giveaway offering including an image, squeeze and thank-you pages, .pdf file etc. for your gift.

You then FTP the folder and files up to your hosting account into the public html folder.

Test It

Check that your gift and pages are set up correctly by entering your URL’s into your browser to see that they open as they should. If so, then you are all set to enter your gift into a giveaway event.

You will need to sign up as a contributor to the giveaway and enter your gift details. This will include the relevant URL’s, an image of your gift, the title and a short description. You then submit your gift for approval.

Once completed, you can use the same gift over and over on multiple giveaway events. This makes it really easy to do giveaways as you will probably only need to change a few words for each new event.

Some Good Events

These are some events that are just setting up that you could contribute to:

Friday The 13th Giveaway

The Big Fat Giveaway

The 100% Giveaway

It is free to join but you have the option to upgrade to a paid contributor. This has the added benefit that you get extra points that are required to rank and move your gift closer to the top of the list making it more likely to be selected.

You can also contribute additional gifts instead of just one and you can earn commission when people that you refer sign up and spend money to upgrade or buy any of the offers.

I hope that this has been helpful and you now can go on to participate in a giveaway event. And if you do, I am sure you will be pleased with the results.

If you need any further help, or you just want to ask a question or leave a comment, please do so and I will do my best to get your questions answered. I wish you luck with it. Happy list building!

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Alex Jeffrey’s Coaching – The Final Module

The final Alex Jeffrey Coaching Program Module took place last night. Alex’s coaching has come to its formal conclusion, but it’s not the end.

Alex intends to continue holding training calls and webinars for his students. He plans to hold brainstorming sessions and webinars with expert guests. Already penciled in are Rich Schefren, Mike Filsaime and others.

So, although the formal modules are now complete, there is a whole lot more good stuff to come.

The Fortunate 500

The students of Alex, that’s a group of some 500, came to be known as the Fortunate 500. We received some high quality coaching from Alex and we count ourselves fortunate to have been able to take advantage of this opportunity.

Back in November, we set out to build our individual businesses. The aim was to set up an Internet Marketing business and in doing so to develop and implement skills that we can carry forward and use in any niche that we may choose in the future. Skills that can also be used offline to great benefit.

With such a large group the level of experience and skills amongst the students was wide ranging, as you would expect. There were complete novices and some very experienced marketers, and everything in between.

While for some of the students it was a steep learning curve, some came into the program well prepared. Some already had an established blog and other websites that were able to use to good effect.

Many of the students had a high level of knowledge and they were able to put this to good use helping others as well as building their own blogs. The novices were helped along by both each other and these more experienced students.

In fact, whatever the problem, one of the students was usually able to resolve it. Sometimes, requests for help brought forward a multitude of different solutions for the same issue, very helpful and enlightening.

You Need A Plan

Some students clearly came prepared with a plan of how to best make the most of the opportunity before them. This was evident right from the start and they are the ones who have achieved the most over the past several weeks.

Those who have formulated their goals and developed a plan with good organization and time management have also done well.

Some are able to devote all their time to this process while others have many demands on their time, with full time jobs and young families to care for. Of necessity they have to take a longer term view, but it can be done. These people have earned my respect for their determination and commitment.

Overall, Alex has empowered us to devise and implement our own plan. In doing so we have had to gain, develop and use our knowledge, skills and experience to carry us forward. Alex has encouraged and motivated us, coaxing us out of our comfort zones so that we can fully implement our plans. And having done so, we are well placed to go forward with our own businesses in whichever direction we choose.

Time To Reflect

As Alex himself said, when we look back to where we were in November and reflect on how far we have come, the amount of ground that we have covered is staggering. In doing so we can all justifiably feel proud of our respective achievements whilst at the same time, identifying our most and least successful areas so that we can leverage our future efforts and propel ourselves on to bigger and better things.

The Way Forward

For me, I intend to continue with this blog and I will continue to build my Internet Marketing Business. I have many ideas that I would like to implement in the future. For now, I have one project that requires the bulk of my time and commitment and it is the key to moving forward with my plan.

I would also like to improve this blog, maybe with a new theme and some graphics but that will depend on the time that I have available. For now it is a fairly plain and functional theme which is fine as it’s the information that counts, not the look of the cover, in my humble opinion.

I would like to end this post at this point by giving a big THANK YOU to all of my fellow students. Many have helped me either directly or indirectly. And hopefully, I have been of some help in return.

But most of all, I would like to thank Alex Jeffrey for all of his efforts in making this excellent coaching program such an enjoyable and beneficial experience.

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We had two interesting coaching sessions with Alex Jeffrey this week.

Alex returned from his holiday in the USA to give his students what he called his “Triple Threat Affiliate” coaching session on Monday. Once again, Alex covered a lot of ground in a short space of time.

In many ways it was a consolidation session. Having had some hands on experience, it was agreed that now would be a good time to re-assess where we are and review our goals for the next 90 days.

Organization and planning are key features of running our internet businesses. Alex related the story of how a friend and colleague, who he met at a seminar in the USA last year, was stuck and wanted advice from Alex. He perceived Alex to be a more advanced marketer than he was. Alex gave him some advice and encouragement.

Last week they met again by coincidence. This guy has applied himself to the development of his business and has overtaken Alex, at least in terms of money earned.

The keys to his progress seem to have been identifying and avoiding the obstacles that held him back, focused 90 minute work sessions, journaling, working smarter not harder.

Business is basically simple but we make it harder and more complicated than it needs to be.

Alex walked us through how he manages an email marketing campaign and showed us how we can learn and improve our efforts. List building is a key factor in the long term success of any business and methods of building and managing our subscriber lists were discussed.

The second session on Tuesday was a JV that Alex is participating in with Glen Dietzel. This was basically a promotion for a highly regarded rapid business acceleration program. During the seminar, some interesting information was covered. Whilst I took a lot of notes I had to take an important telephone call so I missed some of the information. There is a good review of the session over at fellow student Stephen Bray’s Blog.

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I’ve finally managed to get my first video completed and online. It may not be a work of art but this is new territory for me, so I’m delighted to have completed this.

The original purpose for producing a video was to participate in the Alex Jeffrey Coaching Video Competition. I will be the first to say that this video has no chance in the competition.

Some of Alex’s students have produced some very creative video’s and even if mine was good enough to compete it has been published too late in the game.

But, in a way, I have won because I never would have done this if it wasn’t for my Alex Jeffrey Coaching. I have pushed through a boundary. And now I have begun, I will take this forward and learn the skills to create more and better video’s.

For me, this is about learning the process, not the quality of the product. It’s a case of “just do it” and get it out there! Discovering how to create it, how to upload it and how to post it to my blog.

I have taken the easy route with this first attempt and used Animoto. If you don’t know what Animoto is, it’s an online system that makes it really easy to produce a video and makes it more interesting than a simple slide show.

I will be more adventurous next time and ultimately will create some training video’s to help people learn how to build their own businesses.

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Regular visitors will recall from a previous post that I am intending to produce a video for the competition Alex Jeffrey has arranged for his students.

So far I have not had sufficient time available to give it a decent shot. I have been in the process of putting my house on the market which has taken up a lot of my free time.

That and working full time has taken me away from my business to some degree. I’m not complaining, that’s just how it is. You have to get on with life as well as building an internet marketing business.

But it has meant that I have not been posting as often as I would like and I have not had enough time to devote to various projects like writing an ebook that I have planned.

But I will get around to it all soon.

On the whole though, I continue to make progress. Failing forward as Alex put’s it.

For example, I was on the first page or Google for the term Alex Jeffrey for a brief while, then I slipped to page two. I remained there for some time until I started tinkering with things to try and increase my position and traffic.

I tried experimenting with my title tag but I should have left it as it was. I lost ground, traffic took a big (make that massive!) nose dive.  When I restored it to the previous version things returned to normal (phew!).

Then I decided to add some more plugins. I had several in mind so I went ahead and installed them. Big mistake. I completely lost my sidebar, I assume because of a conflict. I hastily set about uninstalling them all again and was very relieved to see things restored to normal.

There are a few lessons to be learned from this.

Firstly, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Secondly, only make one change at a time. Installing multiple plugins all at once is not a good idea.

I usually test things out on a spare Wordpress site that I have, but I neglected to do that this time.  It pays to test first in ways that will not be detrimental to the main site.

I guess that I was in too much of a hurry to make up for lack of time.

I have slipped down to page seven at the time of writing. Now, having learned my lesson, I have to get moving forward again.

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Google is well known to be the leading search engine. They have the lion’s share of internet search traffic. At about 60% to 70% compared to their nearest rival Yahoo with around 20%.

Interestingly for the future, Google are predicted to add a further 1 to 2 billion searches per month with searches increasing from current levels of 4.5-6 billon searches per month range, to around 6-9 billion searches per month range by the end of 2009. Yahoo and MSN are predicted to stay flat.

This bodes well for the future but how can you claim your share of that traffic?

Whether your website is Internet Marketing related or for non-business use, getting to the coveted number one position on the organic search engine results pages (or SERP’s as they are known) is your goal. If you are successful, you can expect a high volume of free targeted traffic for your given search phrase.

So how do we go about achieving this?

A little understanding about the way Google works is helpful.

Google evaluates websites using a secret algorithm. This determines the relevance of a website, page or post to the specific topic and compares it to other similar, related websites. The website with the highest quality and relevance gets the higher position in the SERP’s.

Google has achieved its success by providing the searching public with the most relevant results that match their search criteria.  Consequently, more people choose Google as their search engine of choice.

So, if you are to be successful with your websites and blogs, you have to make your pages and posts relevant for your visitors. You have to provide unique content that is on topic and relevant using the right keywords and key phrases.

At the same time you should be wary of over doing it and “keyword stuffing” as this can be detected by the search engine spiders and result in your site being penalized. Stuffing your content with keywords will also make it difficult to read by your human visitors and this would be self-defeating.

You should also provide a well optimized website or blog with a good structure using valid code. A good well optimized theme, sitemaps, Google Analytics (or similar) and Google Webmaster Tools, all help in this regard. Incoming links also play an important role, but the more relevant and natural they are the better. 

Now it must be mentioned that there are ways to fool the search engines using so called “black hat” techniques. Some people achieve some success with these methods but it is usually short lived. There is also a risk of the website being de-listed or banned if and when Google identifies these practices.

This is clearly stated in the Google Webmaster Guidelines.  Google will protect the integrity of their search results as their success depends upon it. And you can be sure that the algorithm will continue to evolve to combat any potential abuse.

If you want to build a solid web presence or business for the future, you should stay away from black hat tactics and stick to ethical white hat techniques. Be yourself and produce natural content and you won’t go far wrong.

You can read more about statistics for search engine market share.

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Have you heard the news about the Twitter client Twhirl?  The next generation Twhirl looks and sounds fantastic.

There are a host of new features with many more planned. For example:

• Record video and reply to your friends from Twhirl.
• Active conversations and user search on Seesmic are supported.
• You can automatically post your messages from Twhirl to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Wordpress and a host of other services with the integrated ping.fm.
• You can see when other people are talking about you.
• Pick any topic in near real-time, set up a tabbed search so that you can get on with something else and return later to get the latest updates on subjects that interests you.
• Set optional notifications to get alerts while you are busy working.
• Twhirl allows you to shorten your URL’s and now you can track who clicks on them and see where they come from.

This is your opportunity to get the new features in advance. The new Twhirl has just been released in preview.

They are looking for people to review the new client now and asking for feedback. So you can make your comments and requests for new features known.

Check out the blog post by Loic Le Meur  to find out how you can get it.

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Have you heard the news? There’s a storm brewing between Twitter and Squidoo!

It’s a viral storm that you should know about.

Imagine how useful it would be if you could ask your Twitter followers questions and get responses delivered to a page you set up.

Well now you can combine the power of Squidoo and Twitter and get those answers.

Squidoo has launched TWTTRSTRM an application that allows you to get feedback from your twitter followers and organise their responses in an archive page on Squidoo.

With one click your followers can respond and tweet their answers to your question.

But even better, this can also be seen and used by the followers of your followers. This can turn into a viral storm as their followers can also see it in turn. That’s why they named it to represent TWITTER STORM.

When the storm subsides and the dust has settled, the results remain on record for posterity (or at least as long as you keep the page).

The TWTTRSTRM response page on Squidoo also supports the normal additional content such as Video, Photographs, RSS feeds, Links etc. And being Squidoo, every page is capable of generating revenue ether for charity or for the page creator, if that option is selected.

So, how could you use TWTTRSTRM ? What are the burning questions that you would like instant answers to?

Check it out: TWTTRSTRM 

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Alex Jeffrey has given his students a competition with a prize of $1000 up for grabs by the first student to get to position nuber one on Google for the term Alex Jeffrey.

This competition is hotting up with a number of Alex Jeffrey students getting close. Several of Alex’s students blogs are appearing on the first few pages with at least one on page one.

Who will win?

We will have to wait and see. But win or loose, everyone who takes part will benefit.

Alex Jeffrey will undoubtedly benefit from this added activity surrounding the Alex Jeffrey brand.

And so too will Alex Jeffrey students gain benefit from the exercise. Not only is it highly motivating but they will learn skills that they can use to promote their blogs in the search engines. Skills that will stand them in good stead in the future.

The Alex Jeffrey Google Competition is a win win situation for all involved.

But one lucky student will walk away with $1000.

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