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How Much Are You Making Online
March 27th, 2009 | 
Author: I do and have done quite a bit of one on one coaching and before I get started with a new client I have a list of things I ask them so I can assess what they need. When I get to the question ‘How Much Are You Making Online’ the person I am asking almost always seems to get uncomfortable. There seems to be a very large taboo over admitting to failure and/or ignorance, which is silly.
No one knows how to use/do something until the learn it.
No one knows success until they have achieved their failures.
Together with mentoring people to a place where they have a system that works for them to follow, I also teach them how to motivate themselves, which in turn makes them more productive. Out of the 18 students I have had, not including my current ones, 15 have gone on to making a full time living online, 2 have given up to go back to work full time and the last one has disappeared off the face of the planet.
I try to write a lot of tutorials and ’systems to follow’ type posts because I know that this is what helps my mentoring students. They are all like I was about 18 months ago, lost, but now they have purpose and have stopped spending on things they do not need or do not have he time right now to implement, which is also important.
Today two of my students, of the 18 above, have just finished their mentoring. One of them has come on so far that he has paid off about $20,000 in debt and is now earning enough to support his family without having to rely on credit (he has been my best student and I am very proud). He is capable of building (scaling up) his business as much as he wants now he can focus.
I did ask my students if any them would be happy to share their story ‘in public’, but they all declined. In a time where everyone is a guru and niches are stolen right from under you, everyone preferred to stay in the dark. One of them promised a video testimonial though, where they are balcked out and their voice is all scrambled, but she has never done something like this before, so has set off to learn how to do it.
So, as of today, I have two spots open for mentoring. This is the first time I have offered it on my site because normally I find students through forums and the like where they need help and I am available to provide it to them, but after one of my subscibers said she wanted to learn anything I could teach her I thought maybe someone I had not yet had the pleasure to meet online would be interested.
If you are interested please contact me using the form here, giving some details about where you are and what you are finding hard to overcome and we can go from there.
I do not charge ridiculous prices. My fees are based on the individual means and needs of my students and how much time you and I can both commit to it. Some people take longer than others to learn things while others take it in like sponges. We are all different.
Well, it’s Friday again. Thankfully the weather forecast is good, so I can take the kids to the park and let them out on their bikes so they can knacker themselves out. Having to stay in on a rainy weekend makes them go crazy … and me … lol. Have a good one and we’ll catch up next week.
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I Want To Learn About Link Building
John signed up at IMMembership.com yesterday and said he wanted to know more about link building, so I decided to answer him as fully as I can today.
Firstly before any sort of link building is done you need to have a website with content. This can also be an affiliate link redirect, but I would always use some form of content.
Now this man John used an e-mail that was from a domain he owned, so I went along to have a look. I wanted to see if I could get some background on him, but the site is just a fresh wordpress installation. I had a look using the way back machine as the domain is well over 4 years old, but there is nothing but a holding page to see.
There is something holding this man back from building a site and in most cases this is either that the person is chasing the next ‘greatest thing’ or they are worrying over building the best site in the world.
START TODAY. Get something up on the site, even if it a ‘I don’t know where to start, but I will’ kind of thing 
Now once you have something on your site you can start building links. Below is a list of how to do build links, in no particular order. You will no doubt have seen this list before, but if you don’t do them you will not get backlinks. People always seem to think there is something missing and 99.9% of the tilme there is … they do not take action.
1) Social bookmarking - use a keyword rich title, description and as many tags/keywords as you can. Varying your title and description will help too.
2) Article Marketing - Completely unique articles will do the best, but If you are no good at writing you can just write one unique article and spin/re-write it to be about 40% unique (although the more unique the better) and submit it to the article directories. You can check the uniqueness for free at Dupecop.
3) Submit your RSS feed to the RSS Directories - if you have a html or php or asp site and are not using a blogging platform like wordpress that gives you a feed automatically visit Dapper.net and get an rss feed.
4) Trackback - this is only relevant to wordpress users, but if you link to another wordpress users blog post and they have trackbacks enabled they will see the post you made the next time they log into their dashboard and can approve or not approve it like a comment. Most people approve these trackbacks giving you a relevant backlink.
Now this list of 4 ways is not in any way exhaustive. You can also comment on other people’s blogs and post in forums with a link in your signature to your site. Like I have said more than once the most important thing is to start and once you have a few links in forums and on other people’s blogs and in the social sites other people will start to link to you too, if your content is worth linking to of course
A great example is at the end of this post there is a link with the title ‘Related articles by Zemanta’. Zemanta is a firefox add on that integrates with your wordpress dashboard. It might integrate with blogger too, I’m not sure. Anyway the link below was a suggestion from them on related content to what I am writing about in this post. Now the guy who wrote the article on the link missed out any links to his website in his article which completely defeats the object of article writing, but it still proves my point. People CAN and WILL find your website and use your content if you put it out there.
So get to it. Create 10 links to your site every day in the hope to get 4 and after a month you could have as many as 300 backlinks meaning you would beat most of your competition out of the water.
Let me know what you do to get backlinks or if you have had success doing the above. I love to hear from you.
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Trackbacks And Time Wasted
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Today I lost over two hours worth of my precious working time trying to figure out why my trackback links were not showing up at anywhere in my posts.
I looked all around my Wordpress dashboard, I went to the Wordpress forums, I searched google, but no luck (well at least not at first). I found lots of information on trackbacks themselves … what are they, how do they work, how do they benefit you etc…, but nothing on how to get them to show up.
In your dashboard uder settings and discussion you just need to tick the box next to ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)’ and you should be set to go, but this did not work for me.
Finally someone responded to me on the Wordpress forum and asked me if a small piece of code was in my single.php. I looked and sure enough it was not there …….. aaaagggghhhh.
I added the snippet of code to my single.php where I wanted my trackback link to show, uploaded it and it worked first time. I was relieved, but frustrated at the amount of time it had taken me to fix it.
The theme I am using is from someone who has created over 50 themes, so I presumed his would be good and I liked the layout etc… I have not looked at his other themes in too much detail, but as I go through this one making my tweaks I notice more and more simple errors like having the closing </body> and </html> codes before the footer is called. This is bad news for people who have no knowledge of php at all, it looks more like mumbo jumbo that html, as they would find it much harder to add the code, let alone know where to add it.
I will ensure that all my themes and compliant with the necessary standards and are marked for people to be able to change things should they need/want to.
In case this is also a problem for you and your trackbacks are not showing in your theme, you need to add the following piece of code to your single.php where you want the trackback url to show up …
<a href=”<?php trackback_url(); ?>” rel=”trackback”>Trackback</a>
If for some reason you do not have a single.php please refer to the tutorial on ‘How To Create Missing Files For Your Wordpress Theme‘.
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