Actually is was more 10 days and looks to stretch into next week. it was so busy that I am writing this at 1 am on Sunday morning when any self respecting Internet Marketer should be partying with z list celebrities and footballers wives.

So why was my week so busy? Well I decided to do a major update of the WordPress Goldmine front end. Sales Pages are so 2009! So I’ve created a new blog style front end and added features like a weekly round up video and relevant articles. Got some more ideas but they can wait a while until I finish off the other projects I am working on.

Another project I completed last week was something I have had in my mind to do for a few months but never got around to it finally I decided to just work as many hours as I could last week on it and get it live. Thanks to clickbank who approved it in 18 hours , a veritable record, it used to take a week Video Creation Mastery went live last week.

The idea behind the course is simple,  I make most of my affiliate income from short videos that either demonstrate how products work or do reviews of products. I drive traffic to some of my sites by creating videos and linking from them.  I get top page rankings in Google by creating short videos.  see the common thread there… Videos work.

I’ve had 5 minute videos earn me $5000 in the space of a weekend and one video and 4 page report has generated about $500 on average every month since September 2007 (Over $18000 in total) and none of them actually did any selling they just showed a solution to a problem and demonstrated that the product could provide the solution.

So the course is all about how to create simple sales videos that sell, but we also look at advanced techniques like green screen video.  The unique selling point of the site at the moment is that you can get lifetime membership for  a one time payment and  videos are constantly added and updated every week . Obviously when there are 50-100 videos in there it will be converted to a subscription style site. At present there are 20 or so videos, articles and interviews that should be up to 30 next week when the latest ones are uploaded.

As if that wasn’t enough It was suggested that I could create an affiliate training course and teach people how to promote Clickbank products … Good idea , like I don’t have enough work to do

So I spent today designing a 7 day course that will teach you how to sell products of all types but in particular Clickbank and Amazon products. This is going live on Monday and will run for the next 7 days.  Each days videos will be between 10 and 20 minutes and will cover specific subjects.

If you’d like to take part please sign up at;  http://videocreationmastery.com/affiliates/ there should be a signup form at the top of the page. (if it doesn’t appear then just refresh the page)  All I ask is that if you take the course and find it useful you consider promoting  http://videocreationmastery.com

Roll on normality…..but it is a bit boring compared to a week like the one I had

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Ask any classroom of children who discovered America and the majority will probably say Christopher Columbus. However one thing is certain of all the people who may be credited with it Columbus’s claim is the least valid. Young Chris was a total failure, 4 times he left Spain To find a way to India and China and failed 4 times. On one occasion he was returned to Spain in chains. In fact his greatest success seems to be that his sailors managed to introduce Small pox to the West Indies and syphilis to Europe.

But none of that really matters despite being an abject failure he should still be a role model to us all. He never gave up and when people said , you can’t sail west wards around the world he said, “Just watch me try”.

One of the new members in the Forum inspired this blog post, she said that she’d been trying to make it at IM for a long while but as soon as she had researched a topic and decided to start (I’m Paraphrasing here) she’d read a Forum post which said xxx doesn’t work and she’d give up and look for something new.

I am sure some of you can relate to some of that, the over analysis of a method or the hoards of people who say XXX doesn’t work. Some forums are full of crap like that. I regularly go to the warrior forum and every day I see people write total bull and write it as if it’s fact. The trouble is some people actually believe them and if you point out what the say is wrong you risk getting flamed and banned.

Generally I find there are 2 types of people in IM Those that actually knuckle down and work day after day at making an income and those that study and analyse and find reasons not to work. I’ll give you one guess who earns more!

Go and get that spirit of Columbus get out there and do something today.

In last weeks podcast I challenged everyone who listened to it to outsource 1 task that day, even if it was only getting 10 backlinks from Fiverr.com for $5 (if you haven’t checked it out yet do so!). So today i am going to issue another challenge…

If you are one of the people who over analyses things, today buy a domain and add a blog to it. It doesn’t matter what the blog is about don’t even bother doing any keyword research just find a keyword based domain and build a blog.

Finally a small gift for you: I’ve dramatically up dated my “Quick and Easy Site Promotion” Guide you can get it for free from http://automatedsitepromotion.com/guide/ nothing to subscribe to just download it.

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AS ever I welcome your comments

When I sat down to write this post I had a number of topics I was thinking of covering.

Murphys Law:- Why You have a network error that takes your sites down 5 minutes after sending an email to 7000 people… it only took 26 hours to fix!

Marketing Morons:- The people who have come up with a “loophole that guarantees you a 10 google position”… hmmm ok that “loophole” been one of the keystones of the system we teach in The WordPress Goldmine forum for 2 years. On top of that it’s not a loophole just commonsense. But then I don’t suppose you can sell anything based on commonsense.

However I decided to stick with something positive and touch on what I talked about in a recent email that I sent out the difference between dreams and goals.

Do you have a dream that drives you? I think most people do, a nice home, a fast car and great lifestyle etc . The problem with dreams is that they tend to always stay just that a fantasy, unless you do something about it. The something you have to do is to take your dream and turn it into a set of goals.

Goals are achievealbe and dreams are just a notion you have of something you want. Once you convert your Dream to a goal you can then work out the method to achieve the goal.

You will be very suprised at just how easy those dreams are to attain once you convert them to goals. It might take a while to actually get your dream but it will happen.

Here are some examples:

Dream : I want a BMW x6

Goal : I will generate an extra $600 a month to pay for the leasing costs on an X6

Daily Target: $20

Method: Write 2 articles a day and generate an extra 1 clickbank sale each day

Dream: I want a Villa overlooking the sea.

Goal: I want to generate $6000 per month to pay for a $1,000,000 mortgage (or you could rent)

Target $200 per day ($8.33 per hour)

Method: I will build a network of 50 adsense sites averaging $4 a day

The next step is the hardest for most people…actually doing it.

The key to this is to surround yourself with positive people who are actually working towards their goals and sharing the sucesses and most importantly not dwelling on setbacks. If you go into forums where there are loads of people being negative then leave, don’t let their negativity and neurosis hold you back.

If you can honestly answer yes to these 3 questions then you are just a few steps away from success.

1. Do you really want to succeed?

2. Are you really prepared to work

3. Will you really Focus on Your goals and not give up?

If you answered yes to those 3 questions you are welcome to download my Report called “I can”. There nothing to subscribe to , no hoops to jump through. It was originally released in 2008 but I gave it a quick update recently. http://mjthompson.net/ICan/

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WordPress Goldmine is now a forum based format that gives members the opportunity to have their questions and problems answered quickly and more importantly correctly. I had several people ask me why they should pay for a forum when there are free forums available such as the warrior forum and digitalpoint. The answer to that is simple…

Everyone who joins WordPress Goldmine share a common goal ..to create an online income. They have decided to do something about it unlike many of the people who frequent free forums they want to succeed. The problem with free forums is that a lot of the people are very negative and take great pleasure in spreading incorrect information and starting arguements. If you want an environment conducive to learning then choose a forum with a fee.

You really can’t believe much of what you hear in free forums, hardly a day goes past that someone doesn’t start a question to me with…My friend has been told that….. invariably what they have been told is half thruths and speculation.

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