I Must Be Crazy 5

Crazy to go on

Now I was a member of Mind Protein.  And the work really began.

They gave me access to a site filled with video tutorials, e-products to buy, and tools to use as I build my empire.  With each video came a week's worth of homework.  I had to write blogs and articles, have a product to sell, create videos of my own, research the competition, strategize to beat the competition, and watch other videos.

Remember, all I wanted was to create a website and write a book to tell my story.

The very first week's tutorials were about hiring help.  I was already over my head.  I didn't know what I'd be hiring help for.  They gave me websites and e-companies to use to find my help.  I put that on the back-burner and moved on.

Then Mind Protein gave me access to their research and website builder tools.  I needed to research keywords and build sites that would expand on my original idea and ultimately lead people to my main website.  In the meantime I needed to learn about why I needed keywords, how the internet worked and how people would ultimately find me.

I had to create a newsletter, learn how to copy and edit other peoples websites - a tool I've yet to use -  define my niche and find affiliate products related to my niche, understand and create accounts with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and any other social networking site I wanted.  I had to write articles and submit them to several ezine sites, write blogs, publish my book, create an ad for it, write other articles.  I was supposed to hire other people to write my articles for me, but when I tried, I found it easier to write them myself than wait for an article to come back to me, edit and make changes, send it back for rewriting, and still not get the message that I was trying to relay in the article. 

One of the things that was, and still is, required of me is to set up an account with Google Optimizer to compare different versions of my websites to see which people went to the most.  It took so much time and energy to create one website, I couldn't imagine coming up with different versions just for the fun of it, so that is something else on the back burner.

Oy.  And that was the first month.  And I had to do all of this while working to pay the bills. 

I have to make contacts, study my competition, study other websites, watch more videos and create more websites.  By now I'm supposed to have ten sites that are optimized to attract thousands of people. I actually have 3 websites and four domain names still unpublished.  I've written articles and had them accepted on four different ezine sites, and a fifth is under consideration.  I'm creating Facebook pages for two of my sites, and yes, I did have to hire help for that.  He's a nice kid in London, the Facebook capital of the world.  We are working on the contacts.  I've made a video to go with the free e-book that I also hired someone to write for me to advertise my newsletter.  My first week's lesson actually came in handy.  The book,  How to Live a Rewarding and Positive Life, is pretty good.  I wish I could write as well.

I've got 24 weeks of training modules to go through, and three months into this venture I'm proud to announce I've finished 7 of them. 

And I finally published my book!  It's called, Raise Your Vibration, Be Happy to be Earthbound.  After some fruitless effort trying to publish it with Clickbank.com, a highly respected but complicated source of e-products, I finally gave up and went to Amazon.  I've written a sales page for the book and posted it on two of my sites, started a pretty good newsletter, if I say so myself, and have lots of ideas for more articles.  It turns out I'm chock-full of usable information. 

Was the price of the project worth it?  Will all of my work pay off?

We'll see.  I'm still creating, working my pants off, and learning how to do more.  I'm still waiting for my first sales.  I'm still waiting to see if anyone likes what I've been doing.  I'm still waiting to see if I can become a good marketer.

In the meantime I hope I'm doing some good, helping some people out, showing them a way to improve their lives.  But no matter what happens in the future, I'll be toiling away at my vision: teaching people that it's possible to be positive and happy in a world full of negativity.

My next blog will reveal my constantly evolving already established projects, and some ideas I have for new projects.  It's exciting!  At least for me.