A Good Rant – Just Do It!

This is a post made by Martin Avis of www.kickstartdaily.com which is one of the better, FREE honest newsletters out there .
This post makes a lot of sense to me to I thought I would put it up here

“There was a thread on the Warrior Forum recently where a guy was
selling his process for making money online. It cost $7. I was
amazed at the number of people who demanded proof before they
would consider ‘investing’ such a huge sum.

There were many nasty comments – coming pretty close to calling
the guy a fraud. Yet the people baying for blood hadn’t bought
his product. They didn’t know if be was a fraud or a saint, but
because he dared to offer them a money making strategy – and
wanted their money (a whole $7) in return – their daggers were in
his back. And his front.

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Last week I watched a video by successful internet marketer, Lee McIntyre.

For those that don’t know him he is someone who has come quickly from nowhere to great success in a very short time ($100,000+ per month).

Needless to say, when he speaks I listen.

The title of the video was “How To Make Your First $1000 Even if You Have No List or Products”.

What made this video interesting was that at first Lee gave the standard (good) advice, which is that if you want to build a sustainable business and make serious money you need to create and sell your own products.

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How To Get Life Back On Track

As you may know I am a student of Alex Jeffrey’s Coaching.

There are plenty of active students on the members’ forum but in the last few weeks the forum has gone quiet, and further to that, people do not seem to be posting on their blogs quite so often.

I assumed that they were all away busy creating products, getting traffic, making money etc, and I wondered what my problem was, as I had more or less come to a halt.

There is always a reason of course for inactivity, ranging from family business, illness, prior commitments or to just plain “hitting the wall”.

That was me last week – a lot of family commitments, a bit of illness and a complete lack of focus.

However, our mentor Alex Jeffreys has surfaced again after his wedding and honeymoon to tell us how unfocused he became, how many distractions he has had during that period – and so on.

Then he told us what he was doing about it

Since then other people have also mentioned their distractions, their illnesses, “hitting the wall” or just good old plain procrastination!

So, what is the point of all this?

Internet Marketing is for the most part a lonely business.

We sit hunched over our computers, in our own little worlds, possibly thinking when it all goes wrong that this only happens to me.
But now we find out that not only are we the only ones affected, but that even successful marketers can have similar problems, just like anybody else.

The point is, don’t beat yourself up for losing focus, having a spot of procrastination, having to commit to your families but just get past it, take a break, have that family time, or whatever is best for you, and then get going again. This is not a race.

Success is about attitude.

There are basically two types of people in this business.
First there are the ones who cave in under pressure and eventually just give up, and then there are those that pick themselves up every time it all goes wrong and just get going again – and again.

These are the successful marketers.

So, take action. Give it your best effort. Keep chipping away and make progress bit by bit.
You are not alone and if you are stuck – ask for help! Get life back on track!

You do not need to be a member of the Alex Jeffrey’s Coaching Forum to do this. You can ask for help in many of the online forums relating to your niche or the Warrior Forum where you will always find someone to help.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Churchill

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How To Backup Your WordPress Blog

I am sure that most marketers are aware that it makes sense to backup your computer.

Anyone who has stared at the BSOD, otherwise known as the Blue Screen Of Death, will know all about that sinking feeling that you get when you realize you may well have lost everything on your computer.

If it is not lost then it could be if you have to reload your operating system.

I have had that sinking feeling twice on two different computers so you may well understand that I like to backup. Lesson hard learned!

Problems can occur for any number of reasons from system failures to hacking so it makes sense to backup your blog as well where you may have lots of content which has taken you a lot of hard work, a lot of time, some frustration and so on.

I have been researching the options available so I can start taking backups regularly and get some peace of mind.

There seems to be three main options and these are:

  • the built-in Export feature on WordPress
  • WordPress backup plugin
  • manual database backup

Option 1 is quick and easy and shouldn’t present any problems however there are limitations:

  • will only backup users, posts, comments and categories
  • will not backup links
  • is limited to 64MB upload limit

You can do this by going to your blog admin, then go to “Tools” and click on “Export”. You will then be taken to an “Export” page.

There all you have to do is click on “Download Export File”. You will then be taken to your normal pop-up where you can open or save file.

Save file to  your Desktop or any other place that is convenient to you.

Option 2 is a downloadable plugin which will backup your entire site not just the database, can schedule backups and can also email the backup to you.

Limitations are:

  • you can only restore manually using something similiar to PHPMyAdmin as there is no restore function in WordPress
  • a greater learning curve

NB. at the time of writing this there are some compatibility issues with the latest WordPress update (2.8.1) which I am sure will be fixed soon.


Option 3 is a manual backup and would probably be more suitable to people who are comfortable with PHPMyAdmin via CPanel.

Not really for inexperienced people.

Having said that I came across an excellent video which may encourage you to have a look at manual backups. It is about upgrading your WordPress blog but has a lot of excellent advice about backing up your blog first.

Well, that is the results of my research into backing up a WordPress blog.

I hope it helps and I would welcome any comments which improve on this or otherwise.
Good luck!

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Alex Jeffrey’s “Marketing With Alex”

Like many people I have been trying to start an online business. I have been trying for a year now and although I have some affiliate sites up I am not making a lot of progress.

I have also spent too much money buying the “latest and greatest” from the “gurus” and I now suffer from what is known as information overload. Does all this sound familiar?

However, there are a few pearls of wisdom I have learned along the way.

1) Don’t try to reinvent the wheel – follow success.

2) Get a mentor – all successful marketers have or have had a mentor.

3) Focus on one thing at a time

… and much more.

Alex Jeffreys came to my attention some time back, I watched the first coaching mentoring program which sounded like hell of a ride, and decided I had found my mentor. When the next mentoring program was announced I joined as soon as I could.

Last week I began my first coaching session with Alex Jeffrey’s “Marketing With Alex”.

The live coaching call started at midnight my time (GMT+1) so it was a question of keeping focussed as he went

through the module. I started to lose focus just after 3:00am as the two hour call was still in full flow!

Alex is definitely thorough and he stayed answering questions until everyone had had their say or queries were answered.

Thankfully, the call was recorded and within the next few days a recording of the call, the Powerpoint slides from the presentation, MP3 Audio and a module checklist was made available to the members. I’m sure students from some of the other parts of the world who couldn’t take part are grateful for that.

I know I am.

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