As many people have heard, Alex Jeffrey’s has come out with his new book “The Guru’s Nightmare”.  It was just released today.

It’s about 8 PM here in Sale Lake and I’m about half way through it right now.

I thought I’d take a few minutes and make a quick post on what I think of it so far.

If you didn’t get your free copy yet,

Click Here To Download It

Alex is all about giving away valuable information to his readers. He genuinely cares that you succeed.

That is one of the reasons I signed up for his coaching program in June 2009.

Alex is the real deal. He doesn’t fill you full of hype and sales pitches.

In the Guru’s Nightmare he shares information that the normal guru’s would never think about giving away for free.

Guru’s probably think he’s gone mad crazy, but he hasn’t. He wants you to succeed with your online business.

If you’re not familiar with him, he’s written several free ebooks, such as the Guru’s Dream and Newbie’s Nightmare and now,

“The Guru’s Nightmare”.

He has been running his own coaching program for the last two years, teaching hundreds of students.

This year Alex is on track to having a million dollar year, so he knows what he is doing.

He has spent a lot of time this last year studying his students, to figure out what was holding those back that struggled and what the successful students were doing to have such great successes.

Several of Alex’s students have been able to quit their day jobs, and there’s many more on track to do so as well.

Well, I’m going to get back to reading before it gets too late.

I definitely recommend you get your copy too. There’s nothing for sale in it, no affiliate links.

He wrote this book to TEACH you.

Most ebooks don’t give you the full picture, only pieces of the picture. He doesn’t want you to only have the pieces.

Click Here To Download The Guru’s Nightmare

Night all and take care,

Heidi

Now that you have you blog or site set up now it’s time to start focusing on website traffic promotion. To make money online you have to have traffic. The more traffic visiting your site the more money you can make.

7 Simple Methods of Website Traffic Promotion

1. Forums

A great way of driving traffic to your blog is by posting in forums. You want to ask questions, answer other peoples questions, interact and engage with people. You don’t want to sell anything, just try to be a resource to others. The more value you provide to others the more likely they will become interested in you and visit your website. There are a ton of forums online, just search for your keyword with the word forum in Google.

2. Articles

Writing articles is an effective method of website traffic promotion. Many articles directories rank high in the search engines, so if you do your keyword research right you can generate a flood of traffic to your site. Another method would be to have your articles point to a squeeze page for them to opt into your email list.

3. BlogCatalog

Register at BlogCatalog. This is a great place to locate other people and sites in your niche. You can visit their blogs, leave comments and tap into their traffic. Find out who your competition is and even find contacts to do business with and JV partners.

4.  Press Releases

Press releases can also be a huge method of website traffic promotion. They can generate a ton of traffic if done right. You don’t want to be salesy in your press release. Write it in third person as if someone else was doing a write up on your site. Press releases can get you into Yahoo News. This will make you look like an authority figure to your readers.

5. Giveaways

You can drive traffic to your site and build your subscriber list by joining JV Giveaway Events. All you need is a short report that is about 5 to 15 pages. Either write your own short report or find a PLR ebook you can use. Usually unique ebooks will bring in more subscribers, but either way works.

6. Video Marketing

Did you know that about 52% of traffic comes from video? Create a video based on one keyword or multiple keywords. Then sign up for TrafficGeyser.com. When you upload it to TrafficGeyser you can submit your video 14 different video websites.

7. Blog Commenting

Drive traffic to your website through blog commenting. This is quite similar to forum posting because you want to provide value to the blogger. You don’t want to just post “Nice website” or “great tips” on hundreds of blogs. By adding value and making the time to write a good comment you can attract the attention of their other blog readers causing them to click through your link and visit your website.

Money starts with traffic. If you start following these website traffic promotion methods you will see your visitors increase. The more time you spend on these methods the better results you will see.

If you haven’t had a chance yet to read through “List Building With Alex” then I recommend that you do. Alex leads you through step by step how he built his email list up into the thousands.

If you have read it then you already know that he recommends joining JV Giveaways to quickly build your list.

What Is A JV Giveaway?

A JV Giveaway is where a bunch of internet marketers submit free gifts for members to download. Then members can download these gifts at no cost, all they have to do is sign up for your email list.

There is no charge for you to participate. The only requirement is that you promote the giveaway. Usually the more members and contributors you refer to the giveaway the higher your free gift will rank.

These giveaway events generally last about 1 to 2 weeks.

I had never heard of JV Giveaways until I read Alex’s free report. Now that I’ve learned a little bit about them I’m finding that these giveaways are being held quite often.

Not only are they great for marketers that want to build their lists, but they are also a great place to stock up on all kinds of free internet marketing reports, software and all kinds of things for free.

You can use these gifts for your own personal use or you can use some of them to provide value to your own readers.

Here are a list of some upcoming Joint Venture Giveaway events. Check them out, like I said, there is no cost to join.

Permanent Giveaway 2010

>> Member Sign Up <<

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

7 Dollar Giveaway (April 1st – 15th)

>> Member Sign Up <<

Audio Video Giveaway 2010 Event (March 20 – April 10th)

>> Member Sign Up <<

The Huge-Giveaway (April 16-30th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

A Whopper of a Giveaway (April 10th-20th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

No Name Giveaway (April 12th – 26th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

How-To Giveaway (April 30th – May 30th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

But, Heidi, I don’t know how to set everything up …

Believe me, if I can do it, you can do it. It took me a little while to figure everything out, but now that I know what I’m doing I can set up my squeeze page, optin and thank you page fairly quickly. Of course, they may not be the best, but you don’t need to be perfect.

You want to build a list, right? Then sign up for a giveaway now. You will learn as you go.

If you want to learn more about what JV Giveaway’s are and everything you need to know about setting up your own gift, here is a free ebook by Jerry Iannucci that explains everything in great detail.

>> Click Here To Get Your Free Copy Of JV Giveaway Tactics <<

Here is some of what you will learn:

• How JV Giveaway Events Work
• How To Create Your Gift
• How To Create A Lead Capture Page
• How To Create A One Time Offer
• and much more!

I hope this post helps some of you get started that haven’t already. This is a learning process, but you learn as you take action.

I’ll see you at the next Giveaway!

Take Care – Heidi

One of the first methods of driving traffic I have learned is commenting on other peoples blogs.  I had always thought of blog commenting as a way to build backlinks to your website, which is a benefit, however if done right it can really help drive more visitors to your blog.

Here is the theory Alex Jeffreys teaches behind it.

Oil Rig Hopping

The internet is like the ocean.

If you were go tuna fishing where would you go? Would you go straight for the shallow waters or the deep part of the sea? Where would you get the most fish?

Some of the best tuna fishing in the world is located around man made oil rigs. An oil rig turns into a man made reef.

Algae grows beneath these man made oil structures. Because of the algae, clams start to build up all around it.  Little fish are then attracted because they eat clams. Then larger fish come to eat on the little fish. Then even larger fish come to eat on the bigger fish and then eventually you have sharks coming to eat on the even bigger fish.

By leaving comments on other blogs you are attracting all of those fish back to your blog.

If you are in the internet marketing niche, a great resource to finding great blogs is http://www.winningtheweb.com. You can get a list of the top internet marketing blogs from this website. These are sites that have LOADS of fish just waiting to swim over to your blog. You can also just do a simple google search for blogs in your niche.

Please remember that the key is not necessarily to post on as many blogs as you can, but to leave thought out, quality comments. The better your comments are the more likely it will attract visitors.

I struggled with this at first, just because I have hard time figuring out what to say. The more blog comments I have left though, the easier it gets.

Be sure to read the bloggers post. Don’t just leave a canned comment that you would leave on a hundred different blogs. Many people do this. I know this because most of them go straight to my spam filter. Some of these comments amaze me too, especially the ones that have absolutely nothing to do with what my blog is about.

If you find it difficult, take a couple quick notes while you are reading the blogger’s post. Find something that you can relate to. Maybe they mentioned something you have had experience with. Maybe you agree or disagree with something they have said. It’s ok if you disagree, just be sure you leave your opinion in a respectful manner.

The more blog comments you leave the faster you will get at it. Then yes, you do want to leave as many comments as you can to get more and more traffic. Just make sure they are always quality.

I know this works! I have left comments on some of the blogs I found in Winning the Web. My Google Analytics shows that I have had some visitors from these blogs, so they would have had to have found me through my blog comment.

I just wanted to do a quick post about what I plan on doing in the next couple of weeks and where I am at as of right now.

Although list building is my key focus, I am learning about different traffic generating methods in Alex’s course.

Some of the traffic methods we have learned about so far include blog commenting, social media and video marketing.

I will be posting about each method as I work through them.

Just to show where I am at right now, here is a snapshot of my Google Analytics page for this blog for the month of February.

This is my traffic for February 1 – 10, 2010.

My lifetime blog stats are as follows:

950 Visits
1929 Pageviews
2.03 page/visit
64.43 % bounce rate
3.10 average time on site
70.63% new visits

Yes, I know, not too impressive. LOL

I originally started my blog back in July, 2009 and have done a little here and there, but now I am actually taking action on everything I am learning through Alex Jeffrey’s training.  Right now I’m getting about 5-15 visitors a day, but I plan to see that increase over the coming weeks. I’ll let you know everything that I am doing to build the traffic I generate.

Through out the first couple modules of Alex Jeffrey’s training he emphasizes over and over again that your main focus and effort should be on building your list.

Did you know that they say that each person on your email list equals about $1 a month?

Imagine that, just a list of 3000 to 4000 email subscribers and I can kick the day job to the curb.

Of course, it starts slow.

You won’t have 2000 subscribers overnight.

They will join, 1 by 1 by 1.

Alex says that you will start small, but need to THINK BIG.

Not only do you want a list, but you want a warm list. Not a cold list. As you build your list you should first focus on building relationships with your readers. The more value you provide them the more likely they will read your emails and buy something from you in the future.

You can send them tips, helpful links, videos, free ebooks. There are all kinds of things you can do. Just make sure what your are sending them is of value.

Show them that you are there to help them and that you want to see them succeed.

The more you build relationships and the more value you provide them the more they will trust you. Your readers will start to look forward to your next emails.

There are 4 Steps to Your Readers:

Suspects

Prospects

Customers

Clients

You turn your suspects into prospects by giving them free, valuable information.

Then you start to build you relationships with them. Let them get to know you. Let them start to like you and then they will start trusting you.

Then you can start turning them into customers.

Alex overlooked list building for years. Now he has a list well over 23,000 subscribers. It is probably even loads higher than that now.

There is no time than the present to start. Don’t wait 2 years down the road thinking I’ll get to it later. Now is the time to start.

I actually starting learning about internet marketing about 1-2 years ago. I told myself I wasn’t advanced enough to learn how to build a list. Now I know that was complete nonsense.

I highly recommend you download “List Building With Alex”. He leads you through how he built his list into the thousands. It also includes a 12 step guide to starting your own list. You’ll get some great tips and resources to get you going in no time. Oh ya, and it’s totally free. Check out my right side bar to download it.

As I said in my last post I am starting at square one and going back through the training modules for Alex Jeffreys coaching program. I let my day time job overwhelm me for a while there and stopped my internet marking efforts. I decided the best thing to do is to start over, re-listen to all of my training, take lots of notes and start blogging.

The first module is all about planning and keeping on top of your business. You have to have a plan. I won’t go into detail on this module since I posted about them early on. Here they are if you missed them:

Every Successful Online Business Starts With A Plan

K.O.T.O.B.O.T – huh?

Alex’s second module goes into setting up a sales funnel or what he calls a profit pulling platform.

A profit pulling platform is a series of webpages that become your sales funnel. This funnel will have multiple ways to make you money.

Here is an example below of what a profit pulling platform would look like:

You start by sending traffic to your squeeze page. When they get to your squeeze page they only have two options. 1) enter their name and email to get the free ebook, or 2) close the page. (of course, we all hope for number 1!)

Once they opt into your mailing list you send them to the download page where they will be made an offer, or up-sell. They can either choose to take the upsell or download your free ebook.

If you make money on the up-sell, great, but if not, that is ok too. Alex emphasizes that THE MOST IMPORTANT thing is building your mailing list.

Also, your free ebook will have mater resale rights so that it can be given away freely. Since it is full of links back to your website you can create even more traffic.

A website alone won’t make money. You can’t just throw up a website and expect to start rolling in the cash. You need to have the business behind the website. You have to have faith in the system.

Man, it has been a long time since I have posted anything. No… I didn’t drop off the side of the earth, although it felt like it for awhile there.

I was about  3/4 of the way through Alex Jeffreys training program when my day job picked up. Unfortunately, they decided they needed to realign positions and made some HUGE layoffs. Yes, as everyone tells me, I’m one of the lucky ones that I was not laid off. The only thing is that everyone that stayed had to take on a ton of extra responsibilities.

I had to take on some extra accounts, at least until they figured out who was going to be doing what after the layoffs. From about September through November I was so extremely stressed at work I was pretty much a vegetable when I got home.

I don’t think I have ever been so stressed out. It seemed that everything, everyday was urgent and I was constantly rushing to get this done, to get this done, to get this done. Then I got a laptop so I could work from home if needed… Well, that just meant I was checking emails the second I got up in the morning and then everynight before going to sleep. It seemed like I lived, breathed and dreamed about my work. I was so stressed that it felt like my heart was racing 24/7.

You would think that would motivate me even more to get my online business growing, but I was just so exhausted from it all. Things have started to calm down a little, but I’m struggling with getting back into the swing of things with my online work. I’m back to feeling overwhelmed because there are so many things I feel like I should be working on.

So what am I doing now? Well, I am going to go back through all of my training from Alex Jeffreys course and start from square one.

My boyfriend and I started a new workout program as of the New Year and I signed up to be an affiliate for the program. I thought, what better product to blog about and promote than one I’m going through myself. One, it will force me to be accountable and I’ll have plenty to share on my blog because I’ll be experiencing it from start to finish. I’m going to use what I learn from Alex Jeffreys course to get it set up, drive traffic to it and build a list.

Now more than ever I want to do internet marketing full time. I don’t ever want to get as stressed as I was during those few months at my day job. It seriously drained the life out me and I was really unhappy. I even thought about finding a new job, but this is what I really want to do. It would be silly to start out at a new job. What I need to do is really focus on my online business so that I can quit the 9 – 5 routine completely.

Anyhow, I plan to post more regularly again so you should see more of me from here on out.

I would LOVE to hear how other people manage their online businesses with full time jobs.

Please leave a comment and share how you re-focus yourself after getting home from an exhausting day?

I received an email from Alex Jeffreys about something HUGE Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham are doing. Alex doesn’t recommend anything, especially to his coaching students.

He only recommends something if he truly believes it will benefit our online businesses. After reading his email I decided I had to check it out. He was right, this is going to be huge.

So here’s the deal:

Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham, have been quietly working for the past year putting together a one-of-a-kind “Brain Trust-Interactive” expert panel interview series for entrepreneurs.

This mega-gathering is called The League of Extraordinary Minds, and it’s entire focus is to bring together a collection of the world’s finest, leading-edged business experts on highly specialized subjects to help entrepreneurs like you attain more success and bigger profits.

These legendary men and women excel at seeing business building avenues, options and possibilities that virtually no one else in their field of business specialization perceives.

And now, they’re handing all these secrets to you….. FOR FREE!

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You’ll virtually sit at the feet of the masters as they reveal their most closely held secrets for building billion-dollar business empires.

I’m talking about the world’s preeminent expert on business innovations and optimization…

I’m talking about the absolute brightest consultative sales expert the world has ever seen…

I’m talking about not one, but two On-line Marketing Hall-of-Fame caliber legends…

I’m talking about the roving editor of INC Magazine…

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But you need to hurry. Because registration is extremely limited, and Rich and Jay only have a handful of complimentary seats left to give out…

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See you inside…

Heidi

In module one of Alex Jeffrey’s coaching program we focused on “forward to basics”. It was all about planning and organization for your online business. We learned the importance of planning ahead your days, weeks and months. Alex taught us to use the task management tools that he personally uses with his online business.

K.O.T.O.B.O.T

What on earth is K.O.T.O.B.O.T?

KEEP ON TOP OF BEING ON TOP

You shouldn’t just have a plan, but you need to keep on top of your plan. You need to K.O.T.O.B.O.T your online business. Alex originally learned to do this with his own personal finances. Then when he saw the results he realized he could apply this to his online business.  During the first year of incorporating K.O.T.O.B.O.T into his own online business he made $115,000. He created a plan, planned ahead and kept on top of his plan.

Alex says that “An idiot with a plan will always beat a genius without a plan”.

How do you keep on top of your plan? Please leave a comment on what works for you, what doesn’t work or what you plan to do to keep on top of your plan.