Well, on to lesson 9 and I am getting my post count up on my “forum” project.  You see, Tony has us visiting forums in our niche to create a presence in an attempt to become a perceived expert.  Kind of dodgy for me as I will never feel an expert on anything but changing diapers (I have had 9 kids).

After all, one could get philosophical and drone on about how article marketing is dying (no it’s not BTW) or the best way to sprinkle long tail keywords in content to please the human eye and the search engines,  blah blah blah

Back to being an “expert” on forums.  If from your own personal knowledge, not a guess or some imaginary blather, you can give real solid help, then do it.

I have to get over the fact that so many folks on the forums are groupies (sorry gang) and hang out for the kick of it like students at the local pub.  Most of what goes on is jabber but once in a while you have a guy in the corner quietly adding to the conversation and generally being a great guy.  He’s the one folks will remember later as the guy who made a tiny difference.  that maybe sparked something in someone else.

There are times to just hang out but for now I need to make my time count so I visit the forums to see if some new gal or guy is beggin for help and try to add by two cents.

Thanks, Tony Shepherd, for the great lesson on forum visiting.  This quiet wallflower will begin to take part to see if I can help someone else on the same road.

P.S. if you are wondering if I am making ann money from my projects, the honest answer is no.  BUT that is not due to the lack of help in Tony’s course – but my own busy life.  I have faithfully done the lessons and only just got my Clickbank product approved (yes!)  So now, I can say I am ready to proceed.  Sales letter is up at http://imtradesecrets.info for all to see.  I will have all the links checked and be live soon.

As promised, I am going to record my progress here on the Internet Marketing Kickstart Course.  I won’t go into specific details as to what is in each lesson, per se, simply because Tony and Sara do a better job of explaining than I do.  So I won’t reinvent the wheel, as they say.

But I will tell you that instead of getting one lesson a week I have gotten 5 in the past two weeks!!

Week 1 is a general overview and picture of things to come just to get the creative juices flowing.  Even they say that those of us who are familiar with Internet Marketing can get going sooner than, say, a total newbie which I found to be the case with me.

The Week 2 lesson helped me to get a good idea of what to focus my niche on and for the first time I have a very really confidence to attack my plan.  The smaller steps and guidance were/are just the very thing I needed to see this thing through.

A surprise bonus report came  a few days later.  Worth the price of the course just by itself.  “How to make your report outsell the competition!!!”  Folks, it just doesn’t get any simpler and more straight forward than this!

What I did was to buy some really awesome PLR, as they advised.  I did some tweaking and reformatting so it is ready to “go public” ASAP.

By now I am putting my plan into action and while waiting for the next lessons I kind of get a jump on it by subscribing to Aweber and preparing my autoresponder series.   Then came lesson 3 AND 4!!

Do you want to know the one thing that made all the difference in my own business so far?  it’s this:

TAKE ACTION!

Stop planning and analyzing and just do it.  Get it done and fix it later.  Now some of you perfectionists are squeamish on that one.  I know I was.  But here is the sound reasoning behind it.

The sooner you get your product done “good enough” and then published, the sooner you will know if you have a winner or a dud.  Believe me, if it is done “good enough” your customers will let you know how you can add to or “fix” your product.  If something isn’t clear or thoroughly explained, they will let you know and you now can “update” your product which makes it even more valuable. But f it is a dud, then you will know not to spend anymore time on it.

Well, I am getting on with it – how about you?  See you next week when I tell you how I am coming with the next lesson #5!

Take a look at the Internet Marketing Kickstart Course here.

Have you been floundering in your online business, not knowing where to go… what to do?  Yes?  Well, so have I.  True confessions time.  I have been in the IM game for over two years now.  I call them my “learning” years.  I dabbled and designed and sold a few things.  But never really got a good ripping start.

At the same time, I had been eyeing Tony Shepherd’s and Sara Brown’s Internet Marketing Kickstart Course.  But I put off joining as I thought, “I know what to do; I just need to do it!”  So, I didn’t join.  But then I didn’t “just do it, either”.

I finally knew what I had to do.  You see, even we creative entrepreneurial types need a mentor – someone who will direct you and advise.  And I knew  Tony and Sara would do just that.

I “joined” over two weeks ago and have never regretted it!!  It was just the “kickstart” I needed.  Already I have gone through the first 4 lessons and am chomping at the bit to get on with the next ones.  This is nothing but solid gold.

So, I thought I would record my progress here for anyone else who is thinking about trying out the Course. Just look for the category to see what I have been doing.

For you totally new to Internet Marketing, a resounding YES you will never regret your choice.  I have participated in a half dozen courses and webinars before and, well, Tony and Sara’s course is the most user friendly.  I would not hesitate to recommend it if you are new and want to see progress on a regular steady pace.

But if you are like me, and really need that kick in the pants, this is perfect.  While many of the lessons are stuff we already know, the simple progressive layout offers the nudge and guidelines I needed.

Yes, I am a Tony and Sara fan but for good reason.  They are “real” – no false fronts with them.  Head on over to the Internet Marketing Kickstart Course and meet them today!