You’ll have seen that the blog updates towards the end of 2008 were a bit irregular. I think I was suffering from a bit of burn out. I had 4 projects on the go, a house move to organise and as a result I wasn’t feeling very creative. I’ve pretty much taken the last 6 weeks off just spending an hour or two a day keeping things ticking over and working with my mentoring students and as a result I am back and the creative juices are flowing again.

My plans for the coming year are firming up nicely and I am focussing more on what I really enjoy, the coaching and forum aspects of my business. As a result I am doing one to one coaching here in Spain and building a massive update to the Income Academy forum. I am also creating a reasonable quality portable recording studio so that I can increase the quality of the videos I produce.

The First topic I want to cover on the blog this year is Twitter, I don’t think it’s a secret that I don’t particularly like Social networking sites. I never saw the point of MySpace and Facebook , If I haven’t talked to you for 10 years there is probably a good reason for it!

I did think the same was true of twitter but I am starting to see the light in fact so much so that I intent to ditch my underused mailing lists and concentrate on daily tweets instead. I think it makes sense most people use mailing lists to promote products, I think in the whole of last year I found 2 or 3 products worth promoting. On the other hand I daily find useful sites and tips.

By the time I got to write an email and send it out then I usually forgot about the stuff I’d found or I couldn’t fit all the tips into the email. To me switching to twitter makes sense. Obviously the first thing I need to do is to provide a good guide to using twitter to my subscribers so that they know how best to use it.. (I only found Tweetdeck myself a few days ago!) So If you can recommend a good twitter resource let me know.

If you have a twitter account you can follow me at http://twitter.com/m_j_thompson

Now that I am back and refreshed expect to read more of my rambling over the next few weeks

Over the past 10 days I have been reviewing all my old sites old tools and e-books i’ve bought. I try to do this once or twice a year and it always suprises me how valuable this excecise is. I’ll freely admit I make the same mistake that many people make, I get a great idea for a site then go ahead and build it but before i’ve got it as profitable as possible  I’ll have another idea and move on to another project.

These 2 to 3 weeks session where I review everything allows me to focus on the sites and get them profitable again. 2 sites I spent a day working on last week have already made me over $120 in the past 3 days .One of them was a domain I bought placed wordpress on and promptly forgot about it.

One week later it’s getting almost 40 visitors a day the sales alone would now make this site worth around $500 if I was to sell it. But whats even better is that I’ve built it in such a way that I can sell adverts in the form of review spots which rotate on the front page so as the traffic increases I can increase the charges for these. Without doing this review I would probably have left this site to expire.

What makes this whole process much easier is a free tool i’ve discovered called Bubbl.us this allows you to create a visual representation of your workload  . You can use it to plan sites or even use it to plan your work for the day.  I’ve been using it to plot the promotion I’ve been doing on each site. I was using whiteboards and spreadsheets for this but I usually forgot to put something on there.

I really do urge you to check it out and I’ve got a nice Gift for the best suggestion for using it so please post your comments below.

A few final notes today. Firstly if you are doing affiliate marketing how would you like to own a site that made over $5000 in the first 2 months? Or a site that makes $142 from 34 visitors before lunch? Chris Rempel the author of Confessions Of a Lazy Super Affiliate  has released a new VIP guide called The Conduit Method. The guide consists of 13 pages and a video there is no fluff and I’ll guarantee that you’ll get more information from it than most 100 page guides written by so called guru’s . It only costs $14.95 and is well worth the cost. You can read more about it by clicking the following link: The Conduit Method

Finally it’s my Birthday on July 1st and so to celebrate I’d though I’d open up another One to One mentoring Program. I usually only do this once every year as it takes up a lot of my time. Unlike other mentoring programs I am available to you via email or skype every day and there is no time limit on the mentoring. I still talk regularly with people I mentored 18 months ago! If you need a way to get motivated and really kick your earning up a gear then this is for you. As Ever I strive to keep the costs down so the cost will be $167 and will include various useful resources. Places are very limited as I find 5-10 people is the most that I can handle. If you are interested you can email at admin [at] income-academy.com  It would be helpful if you use the Subject mentoring . I’ll then send you more details

Until next time..stay lucky

Mark