Treadmill Woes – Part 2

by Jay Wilson Jr.

Man have I been busy these last few weeks. I have wanted to get part two out to you ASAP, but have been pressed for time. So rather than rush to post this, I wanted to wait until I had the time to sit down and write this post in detail. I’m coming to you straight from my heart with this post. There will be no links to click or courses to buy. Just the simple truth of what I did to get off the treadmill. If you take to heart and apply what you are about to read, you will see results. You may not go about things exactly as I have, as you and your business are different from me and mine. However there are certain underlying principles that are universal and apply to us all. If you haven’t read part one yet I recommend that you do that now, before reading this post. With that said let’s dive in…

Once you have buckled down and started following your guru – I found this to be the hard part – the work starts. I found this to be hard at first because my guru would say something or demonstrate how he was making money online, I’d try the same thing and would fall flat on my face! Seemingly over and over again. One thing that made it easier for me is having a supportive spouse. You may not be so lucky, none the less you have to find the discipline within yourself to stick with it and make it work.

I’ve found discipline or the lack thereof I should say to have been one of the biggest stumbling blocks in my business. I was a very focused person, but I lacked the discipline to keep that laser focus on one thing until it was mastered. As a result I spent over a year spinning my wheels. My hope is that by reading this post you won’t have to go through the same mess I did. If you can afford a coach I highly
recommend that you get one! I have seen the biggest gains in the shortest periods of time by working with a coach. Magic seems to take place when you have a coach guiding you.

You may not be able to afford a coach at this time. I know that for quite some time I was in the same boat. If you have the cash to hire a coach, contact your guru and find out if they would be willing to coach you. If you feel  that you can’t afford a coach keep reading  to learn what I did to overcome the lack of cash. You will be able to use these strategies to get a coach. First off identify who you want to coach you, then start to get to know them. Most likely if you are in love with this gurus teachings like I was with my guru, you may be interacting with them anyway. Maybe via email, or by commenting on their blog regularly, twitter etc…

Keep interacting with your guru, you need to start building a relationship with them. Also by consistently interacting with your guru it shows a level of commitment and seriousness. Most people want success about as much as you do – but they are not willing to make it happen. They will not become disciplined, nor will they consciously focus on much more than making sure they keep their job. However you are willing to make it happen, I can safely say that much without knowing anything about you simply because you have spent your time reading this far. Most people stopped reading a few paragraphs ago once they realized that there was nothing free here nor any rah-rah make you feel good about your lazy self type wording ;)

Contact your guru and ask for help. Ask for coaching, if the price is outside of your range say so, and pose a alternative deal. Like maybe instead of 497 a month for six months, how about if I pay 200 a month and write 10 500 word articles a week and submit for you etc. I don’t know your skill set, but you have something to offer – even if you think you don’t. You do I promise. I used to think that I didn’t have anything to offer to anyone, what a load of rubbish. We all have something to offer that will be of value to someone else. So in my case I would never offer to write 10 articles a week for someone because I hate to do lots of writing! Matter of fact my dislike for writing is why I don’t post more often to this blog, lol. However this is where discipline comes in, which is why I make myself sit down and write these posts. I worked for my first guru for a year free of charge in exchange for coaching. I still had a full time job mind you. And was busting my tail providing a lot of free labor in my spare time. However the insights I gained by having a coach were in valuable to me. (at the same time I was providing free labor – I was getting free coaching which is really awesome, my guru was giving of his time. So don’t take that last statement to be me bitching, cuz I ain’t ;) I would not be where I am in my business today were it not for my coaches…

At this point I have had more than one coach. But I started with one  you should  start with one, then get another as you need etc. For me my first coach taught me how to make money online plain and simple so that I could quit my job. The coach I have today is teaching me how to create a 7 figure business. My coach has several 7 figure businesses both on and offline. I wasn’t ready for the level of coaching I am receiving today 3 years ago, when I first started looking for a coach/mentor. So know that you will have many coaches and mentors throughout your business life. I plan to have coaches and mentors for the rest of my life. I actually want to get to the point where I have a coach/mentor for every major area of my life.

I have a spiritual coach(I call him my pastor), and a business coach. However think about all the other  areas of your life where you could excel with proper guidance. Without the guidance of a coach you have learn from trial and error which is the slow and painful route. I’ve done it before – Trust me you don’t want to go that route! Ok I think you get the point you need a coach – I’m not available for hire. I didn’t write this post to attempt to get more coaching clients or anything like that if the thought crossed your mind. I’m just telling you the simple truth of what I did to get off the tread mill.

So on to other things that I found to be quite helpful…

Mastermind groups… In my option master mind groups are right up there with coaching. Coaching would come first though then master mind groups if I had to list them. If you have the opportunity to form or join a high level master mind group do so! It is amazing what you learn from your peers as well as how quickly you can move forward when you have others to bounce your ideas off of. X number of minds are better than one. When you are in a mastermind group you can avoid common pitfalls by learning from the experiences of the others in the group. You may even be so lucky as to find a partner for a lucrative project in a master mind group. Which leads to my next thought…

Get out there are start meeting other marketers, go to offline events. If you can’t afford to go to a offline event right now that is ok. I didn’t start out having the cash to travel to offline events myself. But many IM forums are free to join, so I’d recommend that you start meeting people in the forums. However be careful to minimize the amount of time you spend in any forum. I’d say no more than 30 minutes a day. Forums can suck a lot of your time, if you aren’t careful you’ll look back and see that 4 hours flew by and all you have to show for it is a few witty posts that you made,  or a bunch of great marketing ideas you gleaned as you read post after post. Either way that isn’t good. So no more than 30 minutes a day…

Wow, yet again this post is turning out longer than expected. I may have to push out part three. What do you think? For now I’m gona wrap it up here!

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Treadmill woes… Part One

by Jay Wilson Jr.

I remember vividly when I reached a point in my business where I was working hard yet seemingly getting ZERO results. If you find yourself in a similar position then read on to find out how I was able to move forward to where I am today…

We all know what a treadmill is…

You stand there and run in place. You can get a great workout on a treadmill, your heart rate goes up, your lungs start burning, legs feel like they are made of rubber. You can almost feel the weight melting away from your body…

Yet despite all your hard work you are in the exact same spot as when you started…

While it might be fine to stay in the same spot on the treadmill when working out at the gym, it’s not quite so good when you feel like your business is on the treadmill! You’ve been out submitting links, writing articles, trying to build a list, you may have even gone out and purchased a home study course or coaching program for $1997.00+ bucks…

Yet, despite all your efforts your business is in the exact same spot as when you started. You’ve been working hard, busting your ass. Only difference is now you have burned through some cash and a lot of time that may have been better spent elsewhere. Obviously, you must be doing something wrong (or so you tell yourself) because this is working for everyone else…

So it’s not the product or system that you are following. I mean the system is proven to work, it just hasn’t worked for you yet. Nor did any of the other stuff you tried. What is the problem??? Why does this stuff work for other marketers, but not for you…

The guy who needs it most, the guy who needs to quit his job, or pay off some debt. Here’s what I discovered after being on the treadmill for nearly my entire first two years in IM. (that’s about 720 days of frustration, but who’s keeping count ;)

You can’t follow everyone at the same time. At least I couldn’t, and I can only speak from my view point. In this post you are going to find out how I was able to make it far enough with IM to quit my job and then go on to get an office outside of my house. It’s from that very office that I am now writing this post…

HOW I BROKE LOSE AND MADE MY MOVE

First I followed the advice of one marketer that I gelled well with. Everyone else was just a distraction, so I unsubscribed from their lists, stayed focused and got busy…

I did this for about six months. I was only on one list during that period. Within this period I was able to replace the income that I was making on my job, quit my job and do IM full time. If you are wondering who the marketer was I followed it was Eric Louviere from www.JobCrusher.com I was (and still am) a member of JC…

I buckled down and started applying what was being taught in the program. Eric and the JC team have other products outside of JC, but I stayed away from them. I only followed the advice coming from within the JC training. I tell you this so that you too can stay on track…

Follow one guy, until you reach your destination…

You may begin to follow the advice given out in course A from the marketer of your choice. While following that advice, your marketer may come out with another product. Stay away from anything new, until you have mastered what you started. Finish course A, when you are happy with the results you have…

Then and only then should you consider buying something else…

The tip I just gave you is worth potentially millions of future dollars to you if you understand the power of what I just explained…

KEEP THE END GOAL IN FRONT OF YOU AT ALL TIMES

For me the end goal was cash. More than anything cash is what I had to have to quit my job. Bottom line. No cash from my IM business, then no quitting my job. However I was always sucked in buying stuff that promised easy riches. Even above that, at heart I am a tech guy. I love all things tech. I would buy products just to see how something was done. Just to get the knowledge because I wanted, no I HAD to know the secret. It took me a while, but I reached a point where I asked myself one simple question before I purchased a product. If the answer to this question was no, I’d move on. 99% of the time the answer is a big fat NO. I learned this question from my friends Justin and Chaunna Brookes – here’s my version of it:

Do I need to buy X right now in order to complete my current project?

If the answer is no you don’t buy, plain and simple. After I started asking myself this simple question I realized that the majority of the stuff I purchased had no bearing on anything I was work on. It was always something that I would use in the future…

Or in a distant project, or even to complement a current project (that I was working on) or it was just plain cool! As marketers we are all looking for the edge, so it’s VERY easy to get caught in the hype. You have brilliant guys like Kern and Walker teaching us how to make our market buy stuff. You have to be really focused on not buying unnecessary stuff in order to make it. ONLY buy what you must have right now to bring your project to completion.

I didn’t set out to write a book, I just wanted to write a short post ;) but at this point this post is starting to reach the length of a short report. So I’m going to wrap it up. Look for part two of this post in a week or so…

Jay

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WordPress is one of the most popular platforms on the net today. People use WordPress for everything, from blogs to full fledged sites… that look nothing like a blog… In fact some sites look so much like static HTML pages that you’d never be able to tell that they were Word Press sites by looking at them. You’d have to peek at the source code to figure it out…

http://media.jaywilsonjr.com.s3.amazonaws.com/videos/blog/wlm.flv

As I’m sure you’ve noticed of late there has been a lot of buzz about blogs, and WordPress in general. One thing that I keep seeing over and over is membership sites powered by WordPress. It used to be quite difficult and expensive to have a full fledged membership created period… let alone one powered by WordPress…

You would have to patch together a number of plugin’s, widgets and custom code just to get a working framework. Not to even talk about having a custom theme created for your membership site. However this has all changed with the introduction of the Wish List Member Plugin for WordPress…

All you do is upload wish list member into your plugin’s folder, then log into your WP admin panel activate the plugin and you’re about done! The interface for WISH List Member is straight forward, and to the point. It was obviously designed with the non-technical marketer in mind…

Once you have activated the features you want on your membership site you are done! You may be thinking wait a minute Jay, that can’t be all? Yes friend that is all there is to it. Literally the guy who created this plugin was wishing for something like this. After searching high and low, he linked up with a genius programmer and had it created…

As you guessed that is where the name Wish List Member came from… Straight from his wish list! Here’s a few of the things that the creator had on his wish list:

  • A way to easily turn wp into a membership site
  • The ability to drip content, to the members so that you could load all the content upfront and forget about it – Yet it appears to your members that you are continually adding fresh, new content on a regular basis
  • It had to link in with your shopping cart – PayPal, One Shopping Cart, whatever you were using. This way once someone paid they would automatically be given access to your membership site, however if they canceled, or didn’t make a payment their account would automatically be suspended – without you having to go in to do anything.
  • Unlimited membership levels & super flexible membership options. Maybe you want to have a free membership site, perhaps a trial or paid membership OR a combination of all three – Wish List does this all… and then some…
  • Multi-Level access…
  • TOTAL content protection – No worries of your members giving out links to your paid content. No one will be able to access the content you lock behind this powerful plugin.

This is just a short list of the benefits that I discovered using Wish List member. Using this amazing plugin your entire membership site can be powered by WordPress, in a matter of minutes! You can learn more about Wish List Member by clicking the button below… Be sure to check out the videos they have, you get to see everything in action, live!

If you have had any experience dealing with WordPress and membership sites let me know. If you have any questions post them below. I have been using Wish List Member for over year now, I love it! I will answer your questions based off of my personal experience with the plugin! Once you get your membership site set up, come back here and post a link so we can see it!

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I’m going to give you a sneak peek inside my business, and allow you to see what’s rolling out in the next 30 days. Here we go:

JaysTechVideos.com – This membership site will be a collection of powerful step by step video tutorials. If you are a visual learner like me this resource will be a goldmine for you. In addition to showing you how I make money online, I’ll be showing you how [click to continue…]

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I do Tech work on the side for various marketers. I’m going to show you how I make an easy $50.00 bucks, and how you can do the same if you’d like….

I perform many tasks, but one of the easiest is upgrading someones blog from one version of WP to the next. Some people are not into the tech stuff at all, they just like to blog, or market. These people are our perfect customers. I charge 50 bucks to upgrade a WP blog. If you are thinking “Jay I’m glad that YOU know how to do that tech stuff, but I don’t!”  it’s cool… [click to continue…]

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Daily blog posts?!?

by Jay Wilson Jr.

Yes the rumors are true…

I will be adding content to this blog on a daily basis. What do you want to read about? I have lots of ideas in terms of what I could write about, but I want to know what you want to read!

Whether you want to find out what I do on a day to day basis, as a full time work from home marketer. (though that will be changing soon, I have leased some office space and move in on May 1st) Maybe you want to know about the nuts and bolts of something…

How do you come up with ideas for your blog posts?

As I sit here looking around my home office I see a lot of stuff that I’m going to sell… ebay here I come, lol. It’s amazing how much stuff I have picked up in the last year…

Anyways look for a informative and possibly entertaining post from me on tomorrow. In the mean time I need you to answer at least one (both would be great if you have the time!) question:

1. What do you want to read?
2. How do you decide what you are going to post about?

Until tomorrow,

Jay Wilson Jr.

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Hi!

I want your thoughts, what do you think of the new look?

What did you think of the video? Header? Overall loo?

Post your thoughts below…

Jay :)

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Time to pick a new blog theme…

Choices Choices Choices…

If you have or can recommend a great theme, please let me know about it. I will be checking out all the themes you recommend during my search for a new theme. In the mean time I’m going to poke about and look at a few blogs to see what I like…

I’m most likely going to end up custimizing whatever theme I end up with any way…

While I search for themes, I reccon I can go ahead and start uploading all the plugins I use.

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts,

Jay Wilson Jr.

PS Can you also let me know about any plugin’s that you find cool, or really usefull? Thanks!

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I made a BIG boo boo! :(

by Jay Wilson Jr.

I deleated my database for this blog…

Over two years worth of quality content, gone with the click of a mouse button.

For me to say that I’m unhappy atm is a HUGE understatement! I’ll be a starting
from scratch. I have backups of everyone of my sites except this one which sits
in a different hosting account than the others….

needless to say from here out I will make regular backups of this site…

Look for a new theme and new posts over the coming days…

GRRR!!!

Jay

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