I bought John Thornhill’s WSO Domination training package a couple of months ago as a downsell One Time Offer along with his One Month Mentor program.

By the way WSO stands for Warrior Special Offer.

The package consists of:

• 29 videos almost 3 hours in total – the shortest only 1 minute, the longest over 15 minutes
• 9 pdf’s varying in length between 1 and 7 pages – 35 pages in total

Now that my Header Magic has been thoroughly tested and is ready to sell I plan on following John’s advice and offer it as a WSO.

Over the year’s I have learnt how to do most things online – including the techie stuff – so I wasn’t expecting a problem – but boy, am I glad I did decide to buy WSO Domination and check it out yesterday.
Why? Well I didn’t know just how much I didn’t know about launching a WSO until I took the time to check out John’s training program.
I like John style of training – showing and explaining how to do things in plenty of detail using short videos and pdf files I can print out.

It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday and I’ve been burning the midnight oil recently working on my software – so I thought I would dust off my Archos MP4 player and sit outside by the sea to watch WSO Domination and learn in a relaxed, productive state of mind.

First problem – the videos are an unusual size 700 x 526 – and not the 640 x 480 I knew was needed to play on my small Archos MP4 player – a gadget I haven’t used since having to travel each day by train a few years ago.
No problem – I powered up my trusty copy of Camtasia Studio and started converting them to 640 x 480 MP4s

Camtasia is pretty slow rendering new videos, but after converting 4, I downloaded them to my Archos only to discover it wouldn’t play that particular format of MP4!
I was pretty mad when I first paid $300 to buy the Archos MP4 player and found out that it wouldn’t actually play vidoes without forking out another 20 Euros for an encoder – and I certainly didn’t plan on paying them another 20 Euros to play a different format of MP4’s.

So back to Camtasia to change the settings to produce WMF format video.
Maybe I’m mad – but I spent the best part of 3 hours using my laptop and desktop to convert all 29 videos to 640 x 480 WMF format and download them to my Archos.

Was it worth it? Well I think so. I managed to watch half a dozen videos late last night whilst waiting at the station for my wife’s train to arrive from London.
Nowadays I seem to be a pretty slow learner. Most of the time I think I understand new things, but really need to watch or listen several times to fully understand them. Having copies of the videos on an MP4 player means I can watch and rewatch them whenever I have a few minutes of spare time – so the information eventually seeps into by brain.

I also printed each of the PDF’s – because I usually find reading these is a much quicker way for me to learn.
Just one complaint – they have no headers, footers or page numbers – so I got them into a bit of a muddle before sorting them out and stapling them together.

Today is another sunny day, my wife has a day off and I am all set to watch and rewatch the WSO Domination aideos until I really understand exactly what I need to do to launch my software.

So if you are planning to launch your first WSO anytime soon – I can hight recomment investing in John’s WSO Domination training package – it has already saved me a ton of wasted time getting started on my first WSO.

Yesterday, I finally decided to do something to stop the emails I was getting for a https://caninefriendsforlife.com/wp WordPress site I hadn’t touched for almost 2 years!

Imagine my surprise when I found 9,860 pending comments – despite having Akismet and WP-reCAPTCHA activated.
I quickly found that WordPress would only let me bulk move comments to trash a page at a time.
And my server flagged a ‘string too long’ if I set pages to more than 150 pending comments – so this would take a very long time – particularly as it was taking 30-40 seconds to move 150 comments to trash where I could delete them

So then I decided to give the ‘Check for Spam’ button a try.
This started to work – but was obviously going to take a long time – so I left it running while I got on doing some real work.

About an hour later, I checked to find and error message displayed – but all of the pending comments had been moved to trash.
And the delete trash button worked fine.

This morning I was surprised to find email still arriving – but for a slightly different version of the blog at https://caninefriendsforlife.com/blog

And when I logged into wordpress for this blog found almost 30,000 pending comments!
This blog didn’t have Akistmet or WP-reCAPTCHA activated – so although not perfect they clearly do something to help.
Anyway I decided I needed to find a better way of deleting these pending comments – and found agreat little plugin – Delete pending WordPress comments

This little plugin worked a treat deleting all 30,000 comments in seconds.
And it obviously did it’s job properly because the size of exported backup file shrunk from 43Mb to less than 1Mb

The only irritation with this plugin was that you have to type in “I am sure I want to delete all pending comments and realize this can’t be undone” to get it to work – quite a mouthful.
The pluging delevoper, Nicolas Kuttler, explains this on his site but unfortunately has locked out copying this text.
And copy and pasting the text from the plugin just wouldn’t work.
It only worked when I typed all of the text by had – a bit tediuos.

Anyway this time wasting lesson reminded me why I have drastically reduced the number of website I manage from over 600 to about 50 – and even that is too many.

A couple of months ago I paid just $27 for John Thornhills ‘One Month Mentor’ training course.
Well worth the price – and as a bonus John offered a mastermind mentoring session for small groups where he would help and answer any questions.

Well last night, my session with John finally arrived.
I expected about 10 people would be on the call – after all John had sold 100’s of copies of his ‘One Month mentor’ course.
So I reckoned I would be lucky to get 5 minutes of John’s time and attention.

What really surprised me was that only a few people were on the call – so I was lucky enough to get all of John’s time and attention for over 20 minutes! How lucky was I?

What I wanted to quiz John about was the best way to market my software – and here are his recommendations:

• Set up as WSO at a starting price of $5 to $7 maybe increasing to $9
• Don’t bother with Clickbank for now
• Avoid warriorplus – too many people have had Paypal accounts shut down
• Use JVzoo as a payment processor
• Don’t get hung up on copy protection – check out his blog comment
• OK to keep a separate sales page at headermagic.com with price $27 to $47
• Consider offering white label software as PLR upsell for $27
• Add bonuses to offer

John also answered a number of things I was unsure about:

• You can’t split test WSO – only buy separate one at $40 a pop
• Don’t just start with one product – but get others out there – maybe one a week
• Make use of his WSO domination course – that I bought as an upsell, but haven’t used yet

Since the call, I have been trying to clarify a real business plan.
I’ve discovere the real problem with making money online is not about a lack of how to do things but rather not knowing what to do and spend time on.

Like all software developers, I constantly ‘waste’ time improving my products – because I am always thinking up new ideas – but this doesn’t help bring in $ to pay the bills!
So now I’ve been refining my processes so that I can start releasing new software products at regular intervals and build some marketing momentum – because creating a working product is very definitely only half the job.

Thanks again for your help John