Hi all, firstly a big apology for the time between posts.

I think everybody within the student body will agree with me that these post-course weeks have been extremely hard work, but at the same time extremely exciting times.  Since the end of the course I have been looking at various methods of communicating with members of my list on a different level than the bog standard text e-mail.  I signed up to a fantastic service run by Jive Systems.  Basically Jive Systems have come up with a video e-mailing system that as far as I am concerned is the bees knees.  I have done a lot of research in this particular medium because as a lot of you know I am very interested in  video communication.  In my research I have found that there are lots of companies offering video e-mailing but I discovered the price of these programmes to be quite prohibitive inasmuch as they would set you a figure based on how many e-mails you would send out per month and beyond this you would be charged a tariff based on each extra e-mail sent.  The beauty of Jive Systems  is that there are no extra charges, you have one fixed monthly payment and it doesn´t matter how large your list becomes.  As you can probably tell I am really excited about this product as I am becoming more and more comfortable talking to the camera and I do feel that it is a far nicer way to communicate with the people on my list and one of the other fabulous points about this system is the fact that within each of the 40 templates they have to offer you are able to include live links to wherever you point your customers.  Be that a link to your blog, a video, a pdf or in fact anything.

I have joined virtually every giveaway event that has been advertised at the moment.  I am really pleased to say that they are actually working for me.  My list is growing daily.  It is quite incredible how much work you can actually fit into a 16 hour day! (not every day but nearly. Ha.Ha.)  Inbetween outside commitments and the need to give this business the input that it needs to grow, I find my once burgeoning social calendar has taken a nose dive, but it´s all good.  Apart from producing videos for Clickbank products, I have been beavering away at my own first product launch for the IM niche.  (My Journey So Far – Version 12!!).

I feel really bad for not getting round to see any of my fellow students blogs but even as well as I manage my time, I am just finding at the moment that extra hour to do this is just beyond me at the moment, so my apologies to all but I promise I will be visiting again as soon as everything starts to calm down.

Hi all, 

 I can’t help but notice that people seem to have stopped visiting each other’s blogs and leaving comments. This student area has nearly become a ghost town. I would hazard a guess that this is a knee jerk reaction to the ‘end’ of the course. I confess I am as guilty as the next, time being at such a premium.

Even though we have known that this day would come I think it has crept up on us.  We have been concentrating on doing our homework, trying to build a list, etc. and time has just got away from us.

 Now everyone seems to be head down and beavering away for their dear life to make sure they have everything under their control before they have to fly the next, so to speak.

 I do hope that the students still see value in having a supportive group around them.  I for one do not want to lose touch with the many people who have helped me along the way.

 With there being such a diverse level of expertise among the students, I know that should anybody have a problem, somebody else has had to face that selfsame problem and overcome it.The way they overcame the problem is surely of great interest to others.

Now more than ever we need each other, so don’t lose touch.

Hi all,

Well tonight was the last of the main webcasts that I and my fellow students had from Alex Jeffrey´s, and what a superb send off he gave us. Tonights call was basically a recap of what we have been taught over the past few months, with a few more gems added for good measure. One of the things that has struck a major chord with me over the period of this course is the amount of effort that Alex has put in, and even though this was the last official webcast he told us that there are going to be a number of special brain storming sessions along with other special guest speakers.

I think any of us as a group of students would be hard pushed to have found such a giving man anywhere else..

Alex pointed out there are going to be students who run with the information that he has given us and there will be others who come along at their own pace, at the moment I feel as though I´m in a backward three legged race blindfolded.

The reason I am feeling that way is because I don´t think my future will be solely based within the IM niche.  My interests take me more towards the video marketing of other niche products, as well as video commercial production.  I have in the pipeline my first product which is a video tutorial series for boat owners wanting to maintain their own boats, as you will realise this is an indication of my meaning when I mentioned not staying solely within the IM marketing niche, although I do have an up and coming product for the IM niche, so watch this space =O).

 I am so very grateful to have been fortunate enough to have been part of this programme as I am sure the rest of the students will agree, Alex has gone completly over and above what would normally be expected of a mentor.  He has armed us with a wealth of information which, if used correctly, will enable us to achieve success.

Another point Alex raised on Tuesday´s call, was the fact that the IM niche is a fantastic proving ground for honing your marketing skills.  If you can make it here you can make it anywhere.  

Looking back over the last three months I am staggered at the all the new information my brain has absorbed, it´s only when you stand back and take stock of your situation that you come to appreciate the fact that we have all come on so far in such a short space of time.  

I want to wish all the other students for very very best of luck in their future endeavours wherever that my be.

This is a very short tutorial video in response to a question raised by Gary Simpson on how to upload videos to YouYube and Viddler. The other question that Gary raised was to do with spam commenting, unfortunatly there is no real way to stop the “spammers” for the time being on YouTube, although I have read that they do take the problem of spamming very seriously and are in the process of looking at a captcha system that may deter this practise.

You basicaly have on of two choices you turn off the comment tab completely or you have to keep tabs on your individual accounts and delete any offending comments that appear, a bit of a problem though if you are running multiple accounts !

Anyway please find the tutorial video below, my apologies to Gary though, unfortunatly I could not obtain very good photos of his “girl” I had to make do with low res thumbnails but, I think he will be happy enough.