Hi folks, in today’s update I have a few things to cover, so please bear with me.

Recently my mind has been COMPLETELY blown by the amount I have had to do.

I’ve had preparations for my baby’s arrival, which should be any day now; work on my WSO which I will re-release today or tomorrow, depending on how my connection behaves; trying to think of a video for Barry Wells’ challenge, which is where the apology comes in. I am waaaaay too late for the challenge. I just had a total mind fog and I couldn’t think of anything to do a video about.

I had some great news the other day and I couldn’t be happier.

Kathy Dobson (http://kathydobson.com) recently ran a competition where she was looking for suggestions for a tagline for her soon to be redesigned blog.

I came up with a couple of attempts I felt summed her, and what she is attempting to accomplish, up.

As you can probably tell from the title of the post, I won! I am chuffed to bits with the result.

The prize was a licensed copy of Camtasia and Snagit (which I used for the above shot), a $348 value which works out to $43.50 per word!

Hi folks,

In today’s post I want to give huge congratulations to Internet Marketing’s hardest working wee elf, Sally Neill.

I met Sally as many of us did, through Alex Jeffreys’ coaching program; although I didn’t actually meet her until I bumped into her at a petrol station earlier this year!

When we first ‘met’ her she was working a day job behind a desk and in the evening, juggling her time between her young daughter and aggressive blog hopping and ebook writing.

I think this should serve as great inspiration to anyone who feels they just don’t have time to make this ‘Internet marketing’ thing work.

David meets John

Last Thursday I was privileged to be invited to John Thornhill’s office for the day.

It involved a very early start as I had to leave at 6.30am for the drive to Sunderland but I knew it would be worth it. After all, I have driven the length of Britain to attend seminars and I enjoy driving so this would be easy.

It took just over 3 hours to get there, with my trusty Sat-Nav guiding me in the last few miles, arriving at 10am, a few minutes before john arrived as it happens.
Obviously this didn’t give him much time to get the red carpet out but I didn’t mind at all.

How is marketing like magic?

I don’t mean to suggest that marketing IS magic.

Here’s what I mean.

I have always had an interest in magic. You know, card tricks,
coins, that sort of thing.

And one of my favourite places to hang out was Tam Shepherd’s Magic
Shop in Glasgow, owned by Roy Walton who is a world renowned card
expert.
Not only is he a very interesting and well informed man, he also
demonstrates new tricks and techniques that have been released. I
loved to watch that and would usually end up buying.

Poor neglected blog!

Ok, first of all, I must start by kicking myself in the butt for not posting anything here since February. A lot has happened but no excuses.

I feel like I have been running around a lot looking after things during my wee wife’s pregnancy. She is doing great but is tired a lot which I can understand.

So what have I been doing with my business?

A lot actually.

After weeks of planning I finally recorded my first interview.
My victim was traffic champion and all round nice person, Sally Neill.

When I first asked her she had not yet won the competition and I had just read her blog post
about her David Walker interview. I think she said yes out of sympathy but hey, if it works…

Actually, I wonder if you could get a great sales letter that would get sales by sympathy? Maybe not.

Anyway, After Sally said yes, the long preparation began. Here were my steps.

How I built an instant membership Site

Even a child could do this!

Ok, as part of my goal plan, I committed myself to building (or rather having built for me)
at least 3 membership sites.

My last post announced the arrival of the first of these sites

http://contentgoldclub.com

However, I have had several requests from fellow marketers asking how I built the site,
the scripts I used, who writes the content, etc.

So, for the benefit of anyone who wants their own membership site, here are the steps I took.

OK in a mad flurry of activity I have taken action on several of Alex’s suggestions.

First, I am driving traffic like mad to Alex’s traffic training site using Twitter.

I have set up some automated tweets directing people to his site. I do, however keep up my normal tweets as I don’t want to be accused of spamming.

The unfortunate thing about Twitter is that you get loads of clicks but very few sales.
To date I have 685 clicks and no sales. Not to worry though:-)

OK, so you’ve set up your website, posted a few posts on your blog and visited others’ blogs. You’ve made the commitment to yourself that this time you’re going to be a success and you’re raring to go.

With all this enthusiasm and time on the keyboard, you can’t fail. You will succeed. Follow the plan and you will achieve your dreams.

But now you fall into the trap. If you haven’t already, keep reading. It may happen to you and it’s important that you recognise it when it happens. How you handle the ‘trap’ will mean the difference between success and possible failure. This is the ‘trap’ that has stopped me in all my previous attempts to succeed.