Day 2 Friday 20 April 2012 tasks involve registering with clickbank and setting up a blog.

Creating Links

Although I’m pretty familiar with wordpress, I wanted to follow John’s instructions and needed to spend a bit longer watching the videos – in particular those for deleting and setting up new links.

I already had a clickbank account, Akismet API, and a number of affiliate product links – so this saved me some time, probably 30 to 45 minutes.

One change I did make setting up my blog was the custom permalinks.
Instead of %postname% I used %postname%-%post_id%.html.

This allows me to have multiple posts with the same title and adding ‘.html’ makes the url look like a normal web page.

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 10 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 32 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 20 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 45 minutes watching video and doing the days work

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

• 20 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 57 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 30 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 70 minutes watching video and doing the days work

A couple of years ago I bought some software that allows me to create custom wordpress themes from easy to use selection menu’s – great fexibilty but a few limitations.

So a couple of weeks ago I bought 3 great new premium wordpress themes with developers rights for just $10 as a WSO – so plan to learn how to use these when I have time.

I also installed the wp-recaptcha plugin to help further reduce spam comments.

Finally I imported some standard pages I keep for all my blogs:

• About
• Contact
• Disclaimer and Disclosure
• Privacy Policy
• Terms and Conditions

Maybe John will later recommend something different – but for now I wanted to include these on my site that already contains affiliate links, and I want to stay on the right side of the law and keep Google happy.

I was very pleasantly surprised to discover the format of John’s training – videos plus worksheet telling me exactly what to do and how to do it.

Time to get started

To make the most of the course, I decided to make sure I at least listened to ALL of the training material.

But I value my time very highly so wanted to focus on learning anything new and making sure I don’t miss details or tips to do things I think I know already about.

The training videos have been broken down into bite sized chunks – each one about 2 to 8 minutes long – which is great.

So I decided on an initial plan of action:

1. Extract MP3 audio files for my iPod from the training videos – I used the free version of AoA audio extractor
2. Listen to part of the days training in my ‘free’ time – usually when walking to my sports centre for some exercise or a swim and sauna.
3. Make notes of training and watch videos for anything I don’t understand or know how to do
4. Do it
5. Complete activitiy sheets each day

Day 1 Thursday 19 April 2012 tasks involve getting a domain plus hosting and setting up an email address.

I already had hosting accounts and an unused domain with my name – Steve Mackay – hosted with a free account – that started displaying ads so my jobs for the day were:

1. Change my domain nameservers to my justhost web hosting account – 5 minutes
2. Set up an email account admin@stevemackay.com – I’d never done this the way John recommended before – so this took about 20 minutes

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 10 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 23 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 10 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 25 minutes watching video and doing the days work

John recommended using D9 for hosting. Maybe if I’d started out using them I wouldn’t have had so many problems – but my experience is that things can and do go wrong with hosting.

So I always buy my domains and hosting from separate companies. That way if any hosting problems arise, I can quickly and easily edit any domain nameserver settings to get a site up and running with a different hosting company.

Finally I added the newly created email account to my blackberry – to help me check how activity on my site progresses.

Every day I get about a hundred emails in an account I use for signing up to email lists.

How many of these emails I read changes with my mood and inclination as well as how much time I have – but typically I only actually open and maybe read one or two a day,

Although I have had useful information from Richard in the past I don’t always open his emails – so something in the title of this email must have caught my eye.

The content of his email then did their job of making me bother to click on a link to John’s offer – then it was down to John’s sales copy.

Here’s the email Richard sent:

Title: (CLOSING Forever) … From ZERO to PROFIT in 31 days

Hey, I just got an email from John letting me know the doors are closing in a few hours time and his 31 day coaching will be gone FOREVER.

Richard’s Link to John Thornhill’s One Month Mentorship WSO offer

John has not only made millions online, but he’s also helped countless other people find success on the internet too. Now he’s giving access to his best selling coaching program that helped those same people, but now he’s offering it with a massive 90% discount.

This will take you by the hand and show you EXACTLY what to do in order to go from ZERO to PROFIT in just 31 days. John is someone I know personally and this has to be one of the highest value offers I’ve seen, and I know you’re going to love it too…

But you have to hurry … Because this is such a limited discount, John is closing this down in just a few hours. My advice is get in now before the price goes back up (…even at full price it’s a great value product, but act now and you save over 90%)

Check it out here while you can:

Richard’s Link to John Thornhill’s One Month Mentorship WSO offer

Talk soon!

Richard

P.S. Don’t worry if you don’t have the time to do this at the moment, your 31 days of training does not have to be intense and back to back.

You can spread your 31 days out if you need to but if you want in you need to act now before he closes the door.

Richard’s Link to John Thornhill’s One Month Mentorship WSO offer