Janet Williams on her way to Internet Marketing Success

One of the things I have learnt is that to earn money from the internet it is a good thing to have diversification of your business activities (otherwise known as having multiple sources of income streams). From time to time I will provide information about other possible ways of earning money out there.

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Alex suggested that we need to set goals  in three main areas.

1. Business. Ask yourself what do you want your business to achieve? (For example, build a list of a certain number, set up a joint membership site etc) What ever your goal is, it must be specific with numbers and times being attached and it should be reasonably realistic. I had difficulty with working out what are realistic expectations for me. And I have to be honest I still haven’t done it because until now (where I find myself several steps into the training program) that I have any real idea of what has to be done, and how it is to be done. Nevertheless I see very real value in what Alex suggests because essentially he is saying we need a business plan as would be expected for a conventional business. So my goal within a goal is to try to work out what is possible and set out how I am going to get there.

2. Entrepreneur. Ask yourself what you want your business, once established, to go beyond the actual day to day achievements. Do you want to do courses which will expand your abilities eg copywriting or email marketing. Once again I found myself confused and wasn’t able to proceed on this one. I do have more ideas now but I still haven’t got it all together.

3. Personal. What things do you want in your personal life that you will be able to achieve as a result of your business success? For instance you might want to have a holiday at a particular location, or buy a new TV. Find out how much each will cost and decide where in your plans that you will be able to afford them. I do have very strong ideas of what I want to spend my money on. Two of my sons live in the UK and I want to travel over there to see them. And I want to be able to work on my business while I am there.

Alex says that our lives need balance and we must know where we are going and how we intend to get there.

Unless we know what we want from life (our goals) I don’t think we can ever realistically expect to get anywhere which is really what Alex is talking about I think.

I feel that I have been running on the spot recently. I had heaps of trouble uploading a file but eventually the lovely HostGator live help fixed it for me, discovering in the process that WordPress had been configured incorrectly. I wish I had contacted them sooner as I wasted heaps of time. I also received great help from Julie Fletcher from the members forum on Alex’s website. Up until now I have been a rather reluctant user of forums but with Alex’s encouragement and advice I expect to change that behaviour from now on.

Back to the beginning.

In his first module Alex told us that it is not your good traits (things you are good at) that make you money on the internet, but it’s the things you are bad at which will hold you back. This really rang a bell with me because I tend to procrastinate, put things off until later until I get so overwhelmed with all that I have to do that I become completely immobilised!

And I do know from having read heaps on achieving what you want in life is that to do so you have to take ACTION!

Alex suggested that we need to become aware of the things that we do that are preventing us from making money. What are we doing which is wasting time? It could be that we are spending too much time on our emails, surfing the net, skyping with friends or what ever. It will be different for all of us.

Carefully examine the way we spend our time, make a list of what Alex calls our constraints and CHANGE!

I had a most frustrating day on Sunday trying to upload  a plugin. For those of you, like me, who aren’t sure what a plugin is, there are many complex definitions provided but put simply it is something which extends the capabilities of the software program  which is being used, in this case WordPress. The plugin which I was trying to install was the “Traffic Network Builder” provided to Alex Jeffreys’ students.

I used FileZilla to upload files to my webpage. What I had to do was to download the plugin, the using FileZilla, upload it to my website. It simply would not work. As we have been encouraged to do I went to the Marketing With Alex forum where all his students help and encourage one another. One student, whose name is Anna (I can’t find her post so that I can properly thank her), gave me very precise instructions.

But I couldn’t find the files she referred to….they just weren’t there!

To cut a very long story short, after further misadventures, and after a plea for help from Garry Parkes ( the administrator of the forum) I discovered that I had been trying to upload the plugin to the incorrect webpage. Then, I couldn’t remember what the username and password was so I engaged in a live chat with Hostgator. (Can I say to you these people are just so helpful and so polite, even when they are dealing with obviously brainstrained individuals like me).

Anyway, a happy outcome was achieved and I did a dance around the room when at last the plugin was installed.

Morals from the story for me anyway.

1. Thoroughly check the details of what I am doing.

2  I must not try to do unfamiliar tasks if I am in anyway tired. At least I need to go for a walk to clear the old head or have a cuppa (I am Australian)! (Cuppa means cup of tea here and it always makes me feel better. It isn’t wise for me to drink alcohol if I have more work to do even if it might anaesthetise the pain I am experiencing a bit.)

3  Keep a record of everything I do as I do it, ie passwords, procedures etc because even if I think I could never forget how to do what I have done, I know I probably will.

Alex Jeffreys advises in his first module that organisation is the key. There is much more about being organised that I want to share with you but first of all I had to get all of that off my chest!

I have learnt many things over the past 6 months or so. And like everyone else who is pursuing the same end I have also wasted a lot of time and money searching for a way to achieve my goals. I have experienced so much frustration and angst during this process you wouldn’t believe.

However I have this strong belief that the universe is looking after me and I have so much evidence that it is doing just that, as I am led from one thing to to the next (which is better or more useful than the former), I am sure I will achieve success eventually.

As I said yesterday, a few weeks ago I joined Alex Jeffreys coaching and in the fullness of time I will share with you the advice he has provided to me. So far I am just so impressed with his program.

As with many others I have subscribed to many web sites, all of which now regularly send me emails which provide information as well as offers of products for sale. I am a bit of a hoarder with a reluctance to throw anything away incase it might be of use someday. So it is with all the emails that come in!

Alex believes that one element of success is to organised and I will go into what he recommends there later. One thing he reckons that to read emails all day is really wasting lots of  time which can be used much more productively and I would have to agree with him. I have sat at my computer for too long opening and reading emails and going to new websites which offer something that looks that it might be worthwhile and joining up and getting even more emails!

So one thing I am now doing is allow myself only 10 minutes a day with my emails. I get up early to be at my shop by 6.30 and while I am having breakfast I sit at the computer and organise the emails that have come in overnight. I have folders for each source and I file each appropriately (without opening them) into the relevant folder. There are some that come in which I need to deal with, business, personal ones from my family and friends, and some miscellaneous others; these go into a folder called AAA (conveniently located at the top of the folders list) and during the day while I am at work I grab a minute here and there with my IPhone and respond.

Someday (after I finalise the sale of the shop) I will allot myself some time to go to my folders and throw out the useless and keep only those I can gain something from.

It wasn’t until Alex pointed out that we are constrained by non-productive activities that I realised how much time I was wasting!

Hello. My name is Janet Williams and I have just begun a new adventure!

About a year ago I was fortunate to attend a 3 day seminar hosted by Christopher Howard entitled “Breakthrough to Success” which proved to be a catalyst for me. Here I realised that dreams were achievable and I was inspired to go after what I had been dreaming of doing for some years…to have an internet business.

I want to make money online.  I want to have the flexibility of making money from my computer wherever I am. I want to save the money that I had been paying for rent and wages in my conventional business and spend it on myself instead. I want money to spend on things like travel, a new car, a house by the sea, a cottage in England where two of my sons live.

I have decided that my online business will make all of that possible.

Like many of you I spent too much money investigating internet entrepreneurs who offer the world and deliver very little if nothing. But because I am sure that the universe is looking after me, last November I discovered a group of internet marketers who I could relate to and who provided valuable information, assistance and support.  Recently with their help I set up my own website which is still being developed and hopefully will start making me money as soon as I do more work on it.

One of the staff members who set up and helps runs the group sent me an email several weeks ago recommending Alex Jeffreys’ coaching program and I subsequently joined up. His coaching is enhancing what I have already learnt and  taking me to a new level with my business. Already I know that if I act on what he suggests that I will be successful in this business and I find that very exciting.

I’m a bit behind with it all at the moment unfortunately. I still have my conventional business, the sale of which is being dragged out for so long you wouldn’t believe. Running that not only takes a great deal of time but also energy. Last weekend we lost our family dog who had been with us for 19 years and dealing with the difficulty of the emotions that brought has really slowed me down.

But today I am up and running again. I have set up my blog and now I have got my first post up so I feel I am now getting somewhere. One of the things Alex teaches that we have to be accountable in what we say we will do and a blog helps us to be accountable. So I have taken the first step and I will continue.

I am looking forward to sharing all the bits and pieces of my experiences in this adventure, both from the past and in the future.