Steve Mackay

Wondering if this is going to work for me?

I recently purchased John Thornhills One Month Mentor training program – and aim to publish my day by day progress following the course.

Initially I’ll report how much time I’m spending each day plus running totals.

Later I hope to add details of traffic and any income generated from the site.

Please leave a comment if you find this helpful – or want want me to record anything extra as the course progresses.

Day 18 Sunday 6 May 2012 suggests tools for editing HTML web pages with a sample sales letter template.

John uses Microsoft’s Expression Web for editing HTML – available for 60 day trial then $149 for the professional version or $599 for the Ultimate edition.

After providing a quick review of using Expression Web, John went though an example of editing a Sales Page HTML

HTML Template for editing

document

Alternatives are NVu, Kompozer and PageBreeze – all available as free versions.

I sometimes use SeaMonkey’s HTML editor – this is an updated version of Mozilla’s editor before they went separate ways to create Firefox.

Clever as all these HTML editors are they sometimes go wrong in weird ways – moving code you might have carefully edited.
So I have found it essential to also use text editor Notepad++ that recognises formatting of lots of different types of documents -  including HTML and php.
It formats your text in meaningful colours – and even has a feature that allows you to upload to a server via FTP, making online code testing a breeze.
By the way Notepad++, is a free software program.

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 3 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 17 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 5 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 25 minutes watching videos and doing the days work including blog posts
• 0 minutes sorting out technology problems

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

• 116 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 250 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 297 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 1119 minutes watching video and doing the days work
• 195 minutes sorting out technology problems

No progress yet on being 21 hours behind and needing to spend about $178 to get up to date for one product.

Day 17 Saturday 5 May 2012 provides ideas for adding value to my new product.

Adding Audio

Suggestions to add value include adding audio, video, worksheets and checklists.

John also explains how to create audio and video as well as suggesting tools to use.
Some are free others, like Camtasia Studio, cost $299 or £230.50 (about $370) if you live in the UK.

Luckily I already have all of these tools and know how to use them – so nothing much for me to do today.

If you are just starting out, this is very useful information about the tools you need – something that took me a long time to discover.

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 5 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 17 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 5 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 17 minutes watching videos and doing the days work including blog posts
• 0 minutes sorting out technology problems

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

• 113 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 233 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 292 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 1094 minutes watching video and doing the days work
• 195 minutes sorting out technology problems

I’m still around 21 hours behind and also need to spend about $178 to get up to date for one product.

Additional spending on tools such as Camtasia Studio and a headset cost around another $350 – but these are ‘tools of the trade’ for working online and not just for the creation and marketing of one product.