Day 4 Sunday 22 April 2012 tasks involve editing theme files then FTP uploading them.

Today’s videos go into great detail explaining how to do things for absolute beginners. I spent more time going through the motions of checking out the training – but nothing new for me, so I was able to carry out all the actual tasks in a few minutes.

Starting to get technical

John recommended downloading and installing Filezilla to FTP files. Filezilla is a great program but my preference is to use Firebug integrated into Firefox as an “add-on”.

The longest and most tedious job today was editing 21 files to add my Google ID – but even that only took a few minutes.

Although I went through the exercise of checking out the new themes, without the graphics, the themes supplied have no graphic header at all (unlike the video examples) – so after checking everything worked, I reverted to my original default wordpress theme for now.

Update: In the process of working through day 5 tasks, I discovered that the Prosense Blue theme I planned to use was the only one of the 3 supplied themes to have a header graphic image missing! Just my luck!
But if you choose to use either the Prosense or Prosense-grey theme on day 4 – you shouldn’t have a problem.

Of course there is no problem if you want to use own graphics with the Prosense-blue theme.

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 10 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 21 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

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

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

Day 3 Saturday 21 April 2012 tasks involve creating 5 blog posts, registering with Google Adsense and ordering blog graphics.

Most of my time and effort today has been spent creating, editing and re-editing blog posts – taking almost 3 hours.

Off to work

I’ve definitely wasted a good portion of this time looking for affiliate links created some time ago. Plus I need to improve my writing skills and cut down on the number of silly typos needing to be corrected.

I’ve not yet ordered any blog graphics – wanting to spend more time thinking about what I want to focus on – my Internet Marketing software products or wherever John plans to lead me. Doesn’t take much to get me prevaricating!

Luckily I already have an Adsense account – so nothing to do there.

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 10 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)
• 200 minutes watching videos and doing the days work

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

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

Now that I’ve spent quite a bit of time on my blog, I’ve exported a copy of the content – to make sure I don’t lose it!

I’m off to London with my wife this evening – where our internet has been down for a few days. So it may be a day or two before I am able to update this blog

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.