Just a quicky post to steer you in the direction of Gary Simpson´s blog.  He has a poll running at the moment for anyone who want´s to cast their vote, to show wether you are a ¨Happy Pappy¨ or a ¨Hater Tater¨ . I gather the poll was brought about because Gary holds the positions 1 and two on the first page Google for the phrase ¨Alex Jeffreys Brainstorming¨.

The really stupid thing is that another phrase ¨Alex Jeffreys scams¨ sends Gary most of the traffic as, go figure that one !?!

Anyway to cut a long story short, all you Alex lovers go to Gary´s site and show a bit of love to our Alex. Gary has even given us an incentive to cast our votes by turning                       ¨no follow¨ off for all comments made. All you have to do is link to the post with the words ¨Alex Jeffreys¨.

If you have seen Gary´s blog morphing over the last few days then you better believe it´s a good idea to get a little link love from Gary, because his site will soon be taking off like a rocket, I for one am going to go  for the ride, holding on real tight !

The video below is my entrant into the competition that Alex spoke about in the last webcast. I had such a laugh editing all the bloopers out of the video, then I thought to myself why not leave them in at the end so you can all have a giggle at my many mistakes !

I hope you enjoy what you see.

Please feel free to leave comment on whether or not you like my attempts, all comment equally received good or bad  =O)

This post will be one of those heart on sleeve moments.  I am looking at the clock in my office and it´s telling me that I should have been in bed five and a half hours ago, the time is 4.50  am..

It´s not that I don´t need to sleep, I do, I´m feeling totally drained.

Alex Jeffrey´s sent me an email about an hour ago saying that it was very important and that I should to go to his blog, so I did.  He has made his first video of 2009 in which he talks about his plans for the year ahead.  I watched the video intently as he describes how he intends to go away on holiday, and whilst he´s away from all the stress of his normal working environment he will make his plans for 2009 in which he will blast his way to a million dollar turnover for the year.

As I watched this video it hit me like a sledgehammer, what the hell was I doing watching a video of Alex at 4.30am !!

We all have busy lives and have to fit things around work and all the other mundane tasks that life throws  at us  but, what am I doing still awake at 4.30am. The reason I´m sat here at stupid o´clock in the morning is because the forward planning that I had laid out for myself at the beginning of this year SUCKS like a big one !!

The comment that I left on Alex´s blog was that I would love to position myself as a male version of Maria Andros, minus the earring =O) and that I would love to reach a target of $7000 a month by the end of this year. There will be as much chance of finding a snowball in hell of attaining that goal  if I don´t get my act together, and quick. As we all know any one can be a busy fool.

On so many occasions during this course I have nodded in all the right place when  Alex spoke to us about planning ahead, what a chump I´ve been. I had noticed from my previous visits to  Gary Simpson´s blog that he has a free Ebook about time management, needless to say I now have a copy that I will use diligently.

Later today I plan to get a couple of tattoos on my behind with the phrases KOTOBOT (keeping on top of being on top) and on the other cheek,  Fail to plan,plan to fail !!

Sorry to ramble but it´s now 5am..

Wow, I´ve just come off from the fifth webcast with Alex Jeffreys and tonight he had a guest speaker.

The lady in question was non other than Maria Andros aka The video Marketing Queen. She had me spellbound as she spoke of her meteoric rise in the video marketing niche.

In the space of 10 months she went from zero the well  over $100k ! just by harnessing the power of video.  She spoke with utter passion about her career, in fact I would say that her passion even rivals that of our very own Alex.

I cannot believe the amount of information she delivered tonight,quite incredible. The main platform that Maria uses for her own video promotion is YouTube, and she imparted  to us some very useful tips for producing  our own videos.

For example being authentic and don´t try and  bluff your viewers. I think for a lot of people this is common sense, but I can understand perfectly what she means. The time I have seen sales pitches that are so cheesy and so obviously a hard sell even though the presenter is trying not to come over as selling to you, yea right. You know the type of sales pitch that you normally see on the late night. shopping channel

The one main truism that I heard tonight is that as consumers we are not stupid. The days of the hard sell are well and truly dead.

Slightly off topic, but still quite relevant was an email that I received from Michael Cheney. I laughed so much at this video because Michael got the idea that Maria was talking about tonight totally pegged.

He sang a version of Hallelujah but changed lyrics to fit in a product he was promoting, total genius

The whole point is though, that as a consumer I would be far more inclined to buy the product from Michael rather than anyone else because he made me laugh ! A very simple concept but oh so powerful.

Tonight when Alex had his turn to talk, he told us of an amazing competition that he was running with a total prize fund of $3000, does this guy over deliver or what !!

For the competition we have to produce a video and promote it on Youtube. The most original video will win $1500 and the video that atracts the most traffic will also win $1500. Needles to say I am going to try my hardest to get somwhere in both categories. So wish me luck and on the with the filming, is that my cue now Mr Demille !!