Day 9 Friday 27 April 2012 tasks complete the niche selection process and involved lots of research.

This has been the longest days work so far.

The objective is simple – research each of yesterday’s 20 chosen topics to pick one – but to do this properly takes a lot of time and effort.

John acknowledged niche selection is tough and encouraged us to raise a ticket with his support desk if we got stuck.

Summary of time spent for the day:

Searching for my niche

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

The busiest days work so far!

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

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

Today’s work takes the total time invested to almost 23 hours – averaging two and a half hours a day.

If you download the video files each day then you’ve probably already discovered that the file “open_me_to_play_video.html” in folder titled “2_choose_your_niche” displays a web page with links but doesn’t play the video.

You can click the MP4 file “2_choose_your_niche.mp4” to play the video file or download an edited version of  “open_me_to_play_video.html” that I have renamed “open_me_to_play_video_corrected.html” by right clicking here then saving the file.

You need to make sure this file is saved in the directory containing the MP4 video file.

If you simply click the link abouve or a copy not saved to the correct folder, it will not display correctly.

Day 8 Thursday 26 April 2012 tasks involve identifying possible niches that interest me, I enjoy doing and could make money from.

John has broken the niche selection process into eight steps – and each of these can take as much or little time as you care to invest.

Starting to get confused

This is the first set of tasks that have started to confuse me.
I thought I knew the niches I am interested in – but are they the wrong niches for me to make the $ I would like?
Or am I just not doing the things I should be doing in my chosen niches?

I decided that today’s tasks could have a considerable impact on my success – so in the end I spent a considerable time going through each of the eight steps to produce lists of 10 core topics that interest me plus another 10 money making topics.

Summary of time spent for the day:

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

A busy days work!

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

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

Day 7 Wednesday 25 April 2012 training covered how to replace Google Adsense ad units with either affiliate banner ads or clickbank ads using ‘Clickbank Ad Rotator’.

The basic process of replacing Adsense Ad units with alternative banner ads is quite simple.

Show me how to earn the money!

John explained these advertising sources are great alternatives to Google Adsense for monetizing any website – particularly if you are unable to get an account.

Personally I much prefer to use affiliate links because they can bring higher income than adsense.

Anyway, back to todays training.
Editing wordpress code is almost exactly the same process carried out yesterday – but instead of simply deleting Adsense Ad unit code, it gets replaced by code from either an affiliate product banner or clickbank.

So most of the ‘work’ is finding affiliate products rather than editing code, which really is just a copy and paste process.

For now I’ve simply replaced a couple of Adsense Ad units with affiliate links.

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 5 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 13 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 5 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 30 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:

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

When I set up this blog, I also added Google Analytics  so that I can track progress of visitors, pages they view, clicks and bounce rates.

Yesterday Analytics showed 4 additional visitors for the first time – from the UK, USA, India and Slovakia – all sent from Warrior Forum. Progress!