Module 1 – Forward To Basics
The first webinar to start off Alex Jeffrey’s Marketing With Alex 2.0 was called “Forward To Basics”. Yes, forward not back to basics.
This was great stuff from Alex and he had our attention from start to finish – and the finish was after 4+ hours, not the advertised 2 hours!
Talk about over delivering.
The basics are the basics of business rather than the basics of internet marketing.
He emphasized that organization is the key to greater productivity and better results.
He also gave a lot of sound advice about how to go about this which included:
- only check your emails twice a day (touched a nerve with a lot of us there!
- stop surfing!
- tidy your desk (I definitely need to do this)
- “go to work” i.e. close the door to your “office” and remove all distractions
- work to a schedule – for example in 1 hour sessions, then take a break- and so on.Use a timer for this.
- only drink water.
This is sound advice but perhaps more importantly he stated that you need to “manage” your business from the start and have a structured business.
In order to do this we need to start the following and plan ahead:
- create 3 plans – a business plan, an entrepreneur plan and a personal plan.
- create a 1-year plan.
- create a 90-day plan.
- create a 4-week plan
- create a 1-week plan
- create a daily plan and plan tomorrow today.
- also write a daily “did” sheet to see what you have done and keep you on track.
- get focussed on one thing only not many things as the chance of success is better
- take action
This is all good advice and I for one needed it as I am sure many other people do. So, a lot of time wasted before but now it is time to get organized.
I hope you find this advice useful as well.
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Hi Dave,
Just a quick few lines to say hi, how you doing? I am a new member on the course. Getting some great tips and loads of info. Alex really is an inspiration. Can you tell me how you put the Ad in the top right of your Blog? I can sort the text, its the picture I cant sort!
I do find your style very clear and easy to read. Nice one.
Good Luck.
Regards Steve.
Hi Steve,
Thanks for your mail. Inspiring indeed but a lot of work to do! Phew! I guess some of the guys came to the course with much more experience.
The list building Ad had me tearing my hair out for a few days until I stumbled onto Matt Wolfe’s blog (http://matthewwolfe.com/) and signed
up (free) to his “Wordpress Classroom”.
There he has a number of videos showing you how to do things connected with Wordpress. One of them is called “Add an Opt-in Box to your Sidebar”
and this will answer your question more effectively than I can. Basically, you input the picture via AWeber.
I had to play around a bit with the size in order to fit it into my sidebar but it was OK
in the end.
Hope this helps, if not contact me again.
Good Luck!
Regards,
Dave
Good looking website!! Lots of nice content. I am a student of Alex’s Jeffreys in his current 2.0 class. Keep up the good work!
Lee
Lee´s last blog ..Day starts with struggles, but, ends with success!
Hi Lee,
Thanks for the comments. I just returned the favor on your site.
Talk to you later.
Regards,
Dave