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Bit of a crazy post this, but bear with me…

Ok, so how did playing a Wii Boxing Game at the weekend help me with my online business.

Well…

I injured my shoulder, to be all technical, I have a Rotator Cuff Injury and it’s PURE AGONY.

I am clock watching until the time comes for another painkiller and some Ibuprofen, plus I stink of Deep Heat spray too!

Hey Everyone,

This blog post is just a quick update on what I have been doing.

AND ME MOANING AS PER USUAL…

I have officially retired from blog hopping… for now.

Shock, horror right?

I know, I know.

But I really need to concentrate my efforts elsewhere for now.

It’s kinda sad, I loved my blog hopping…

But needs must, and I need to focus elsewhere.

So this week (I have a week off work) I have been writing my first ebook.

See the nice shiny image above?

Hey Folks,

I am just off a skype call to my newest buddy, Jaycee of JanetChandler.Com.

Now I know I should be writing blog posts about my time spent at the Internet Millionaires summit but…

Jaycee is writing it all up in a report so I figured it would be kinda silly me doing the same thing right?

My Notes Were Full Of Doodles Anyway…

Plus I am sure her notes are wayyyyyy better than mine, I am a terrible doodler, especially when my mind starts to wander and I am not concentrating properly.

I never met Alex Jeffreys through his coaching program, I met Alex many years ago when he contacted me.

I was running a successful online business based around showing people how to make money selling ebooks on eBay and one day I got an email from Alex.

The email asked if I would promote Alex’s Easy Profit Auctions membership.

I took a look, the membership was great and I started to promote it and they rest they say is history.

The relationships you build online can have a massive effect on your own online business, it can often be a deciding factor in whether or not your business becomes a success.

So today I am going to talk about the importance of planning and building online relationships…

One day, in the not so distant future, the Alex Jeffreys coaching will come to an end for me and my fellow students.

Alex Jeffreys will not be babysitting us forever.

What will happen to you and your business then?

Have your ever cried about your online business?

Seriously, I will admit I have cried.

Quite a few times actually, and recently was 5 minutes ago.

I tend to cry more from frustration than anything, I hate not knowing how to do “stuff” and it gets me so hot under the collar at times I could scream.

Today, was a particularly stressful day, nothing seemed to be going right from the minute I got out my bed.

That and a few other factors cause me to let it all out.

Like I said I cried about 5 minutes ago, all because of a blog post I read.

Now don’t be rolling your eyes and saying here we go, Sally’s is one of those crazy women who cries at the drop of a hat, because I don’t actually.

It takes quite a build up before the steam comes out my ears.

Even Alex Jeffreys Cries.

If you are a student of Alex Jeffreys you will know he has cried, many times about his online business.

Ok, so I know this blog post title is kinda back to front.

The normal saying would be “it’s just business it’s nothing personal”.

Well as part my coaching with Alex Jeffreys, I had to create 3 plans.

Business

Entrepreneur

Personal

Now Alex said in the call that your Personal Plan should be much bigger than the other two and thank god for that!

My personal plan is now MASSIVE.

My daughter Jade even got in on the act and decided she wanted her own plan.

Sally, Sally, Sally do you never learn!

That’s exactly what I said to myself as I was sitting in front of my computer dutifully entering my blog rss details into a list of blog submission websites that I found here:

List Of RSS Blog Directories

Once I finished working through that list I was going to tackle this beauty:

Free Web Directories

The reason I was doing such mundane, boring tasks was to win a competition.

A competition to win a $2000 blog revamp.

Over the last few days (as well as doing the above) I have been registering at new forums, submitting articles, creating back links, joining giveaway events, trying out safe lists, hub pages, squidoo lenses, traffic exchanges and much more.

I have been trying to drive as much traffic as possible to my blog in order to win the competition.

But it dawned on me that I was wasting a HUGE amount of my time.

Alex keeps drilling into his students to remember time = money.

Well I have certainly wasted a lot of my productive time chasing traffic to win this competition.

My to do lists have not been touched since I started these traffic generation techniques.

I have been extremely tired and VERY bored.

In the back of my mind I knew I should be doing other, more productive tasks, and I should have listened to myself.

But no, I had to soldier on with a dream of winning a $2000 blog…

This week I want to talk to you about the latest business tool I am trying to master… brain dumping.

You see, I am currently going through a coaching program with Alex Jeffreys and he is helping me to revamp my business skills.

So far I have started doing to do lists, timed productivity, daily did sheets, created a business plan, a personal plan, an entrepreneur plan and the my current method is brain dumping.

To be honest, I wouldn’t say I like doing any of these tasks.

I know they will help in my quest for online success again, but before now I have never been a person for setting goals and reaching targets, I find this sort of work tedious.

I also find it time consuming too, at first I thought my time could be better spent.

But I am slowly coming round to the idea as I can see how clear my target is, I know exactly where I am heading and how I aim to get there.

So back to brain dumping, I am finding it useful so I just thought I would share the technique with you too.

Below you can see my own personal brain dumps:

That’s for ONE DAY.

I have been working online for many years now and over that time I have discovered a common trait amongst people who can’t seem to make money online.

It seems so many people run around like headless chickens and never really get anything productive done.

There are two main causes of  “headless chicken syndrome“.

1. Information Overload.

2. No Direction.

Both of these causes feed off each other, but if you can cut off the supply to one, you can ultimately kill off the other and free yourself of the “headless chicken syndrome” forever.

It’s tough and it takes practice, but it can be done.

Let’s look at the first point, information overload…

Hey Everyone,

Hands up whose email inbox has took a pounding this week?

I know mine has!

Promotional email after promotional email.

It seems to be a week for launches of new FREE products.

As you know I disappeared off the Internet Marketing scene for a while so on my return I signed up to a few mailing lists for a quick catch up.

It seems that FREE is the new way to sell, with free / greatly reduced cost trial memberships coming in a close second.

I don’t have a problem with getting stuff for free, heck I love it!

And I think trial memberships are the greatest thing a membership site owner can offer you too.

I love to have a look around and test run a membership before I buy.

But it seems there is a new generation of marketers online, the freebie givers.

Now of course we all know it’s easier to give something away for free rather than sell something.

But when I am continually sent emails with freebie after freebie after freebie it starts to wear a bit thin.

The initial excitement of getting a free report is wearing off fast.

Don’t get me wrong, I love to get free stuff of high value, I honestly do.

But most of these offers are so blatantly just a ploy for instant commissions it’s becoming irritating.

I was recently signed up to receive a newsletter from a guy online (I wont name him) but all he does it send me links to download his “friends” latest free report.

This guy must be the most popular guy in the world he has so many “friends”.

Almost every second day I am sent another email with another freebie.

There has never been any sign of the promised newsletter with outstanding content I signed up for.

If I had signed up for every freebie offer he sent me so far, I would now be on another 18 other marketers mailing lists in just under 3 weeks.

Now there is a recipe for information overload if ever I seen one.