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

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?

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.

A large part of Alex Jeffrey’s first module is about planning. One of my first posts talked a lot about setting your goals and creating your plans. What you want to have done in 90 days, a year, a month, etc.

The next step to that is your daily plans and beyond your daily plans, what is holding you back and keeping you from getting your daily tasks done each day. What are your constraints? You can write lists all day, but if you never accomplish the important things it is worthless.

Everyone has different constraints that are keeping them from building a successful online business. You know what you want to get done, but do you actually do it? Are you making progress? Are you spending your time on the right things?

Alex recommends doing a daily did sheet for 2 weeks. Write down everything that you do during the time you have planned to work on your online business. Not what you want to do, what you actually did.

After two weeks you should be able to see what your biggest constraints are. For some it may be checking email constantly, reading about all the new internet marketing offers, checking your affiliate stats, getting on facebook, spending too much time on twitter or even just surfing the web.

Are you actually doing productive work that will make a difference in your online business?

Once you know what is holding you back you can start working to eliminate those constraints.

What are my constraints? Where do I start…

Day Job Stress

This isn’t actually something I “do” during the time I plan to work on my online business, but it effects the amount of time I put into it. My day time job has been so stressful that I am mentally exhausted when I get home. No matter how much I want to work on my online business in the evenings I have had a really hard time mustering up the brainpower to get anything truly productive done. Some days I leave work so stressed that all I want to do is crash.

As far as eliminating this constraint I’m not 100% sure. I know I need to try to leave work at work and some how rejuvenate myself. If anyone has some advice in this area I would love to hear it! Please leave a comment and let me know. Ultimately, building my online business to the point where I can leave the day job would be the best solution. Of course, most of us don’t have that option at first. It’s something you have to work towards. I need the energy now work on my business after my day job so that someday I can work at home full time.

Facebook, or to be more specific Farmville … and Farm Town

Ok, I know, I’m a nerd, but I like building my farm on Facebook and slightly embarrassed to admit it. I don’t know what it is, but I like planting, harvesting, building my money up and then spending it on fancy benches, haystacks and windmills. And it isn’t just one farm, I have two. Yes, two. You would think one would be enough. It’s a daily commitment too because if you don’t harvest your fields in time they wilt! I know that I waste way too much time on this. The farming madness has got to stop. If anything, I need to commit to not opening it up until I have completed all my online work.

Dixie

Yes, my dog Dixie. This is Dixie on the right. We have a few pets at home, but Dixie, well, she’s pretty high maintenance. I love her to death, but she can be a hand full.

When I get home from work all attention has to be on her. The second I sit down at the computer she starts growling, barking, woofing or any other sound she can think of to get my attention. She’ll bring me her toys for me to throw and then woof until I literally stop what I’m doing and only play with her. I have tried just throwing it while working, but she’s on to me. She doesn’t stop growling until I actually leave the computer. I feel bad because I know she just wants to play, but I can’t “play” all night long, like she seems to think! It’s hard to keep my focus when she’s constantly bringing me her toys.

What I plan to do about it? Well, I think when I get home I need to spend a good chunk of time playing and wear her out before I get on the computer.

I could list more, but I’ll stop there.

So what are your constraints? Make yourself a commitment to write a daily did sheet for two weeks, or one week even. You may not even realize what you spend most of your time on.

Find out what they are, eliminate them and start spending your time on the tasks that will make the most impact on your online business.