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Alex Jeffreys’ Announces Competition Winners For Coaching Students

Posted on 14. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.

After starting the coaching program at the end of November 2008, Alex Jeffreys set up a number of competitions to motivate and inspire some friendly competition amongst the students.  4 Competitions were set up in all, with the last of them ending on February 6th.  The competitions and winners were:

1. Most Traffic to Blog over a 2 week period: US$1000
   Jim Gallagher link to statistics here
   
2. Most Creative / Best Produced Video: US$1500
   Derrick Siu (That’s Me! - Woohoo!)  see videos below:
3. Most Traffic to Video: US$1500
   Tim Buttles - Direct Link to His Video Here
4. 1st Person to Get No.1 On Google for Search Term Alex Jeffreys: US$1000
   Gary Simpson -  For Video Proof click here
   

Congratulations to all the winners. . and I have to say I’m quite happy to have won the most creative / best produced video and the $1500 will come in very handy

In case you haven’t seen all the videos I’ve included them below:

Video 1 : Its Time To Shine in 2009 Starring Alex Jeffreys

Video 2: The Fortunate 500 - 300 / The Matrix Spoof:

Video 3 : Why Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO aka Monkey Boy Went Crazy And Left Microsoft!

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Blogging Progress Report Thursday 8th January 2008

Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.

Hi All,

Had a busy day today.

Here are the goals I Kicked today:

TRAFFIC GENERATION

• Sketched out my 2 ideas to generate traffic. . to be implemented in the next two weeks - I’ll reveal these when they are ready to be launched
• Left comments on about 10 blogs - One thing I have to improve is to devise a better way to keep track of these other than ticking them off on two different sheets. . I’m finding its taking me about 10 - 20minutes per blog visit and comment, so end up spending about 1-2 hours doing this.
• Submitted my site to Alexa - by the way, I checked out my Alexa Ranking a couple a days ago, and was blown away by my ranking - I’m in the top 1 Million Sites Baby!
  

CREATING CONTENT

• Wrote my Jan Goals Blog Entry
• Wrote this Entry
• Wrote My Preview for 3 Software Programs
• Getting my New Blog Design Ideas together

RESEARCH & STUDY

One the major frustrations of building the blog, is that there are SOOO many things I want to get done - I have so many ideas, but at the moment am limited by time and assistants (ie I have none at the moment - so I need to look into how I can get some help
- Anyway one of the things I’ve spent 2-3 hours doing today is evaluating the value of some software that should save time, improve my blog standing and make money -  I’ve found three that look very useful:

• Directory Submitter - Free & Paid Version - Just submitted to 10 directories tonight
• Article Submitter - Free & Paid Version
• Ninja Affiliate - Paid Version Only - wordpress plugin to make affiliate management much easier

In my next post I’ll give a quick preview

Oh.  .yeah.  .and still no Moolah :). . (but that’s all according to plan - see my earlier post

Derrick

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December 2008, First Progress Report

Posted on 03. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.

Ok. . I have been meaning to do this report a while ago, but now that a whole month has passed, I thought I would do a complete month report on what results I have achieved and how much time and money I have invested so far:

Web Traffic Statistics

So first up are the statistics: below is the google analytics for the month of December. Bear in mind this current Blog was only established on the 21st December (prior to that I was using my personal domain name) so really it is for the first 10 days and over christmas. Click on the image to open into a full size image:

Just over 100 Visits - So nothing amazing there (Yet) - and haven’t reached my initial target of 1000 visitors.

But what have I actually achieved in this time?

1. Got my head around wordpress and an understanding of how to set up a word press blog
2. Learnt about some of the best ways to get traffic and started using them.
3. Started to get to know some of the other students!

Capital Invested:

1. Alex Jeffreys‘ Coaching Program : US$497
2. Domain Names : US7.69
3. Aweber Autoresponder Account : US$19/Month
4. Screencapture Software US$89.00
5. WebHosting US$24.95

Total Costs Accrued : $637.64

Time Invested

Total Time :  87 Hours (Approximately 2 Weeks full time)

So what are the takeaways.  Looking at the time breakdown, I definitely probably shouldn’t have spent so much time working on the look and feel of the blog itself, and spent a bit more time on traffic generation strategies.  I think that would be the main takeaway, focus more on the things that will make the biggest impact on my blog.

Also I’ve been rather picky with the look of my site. . you may notice the site changing quite a bit as I find the right look for it, to the left is  a screen shot of how it looked before.  .any comments thoughts and suggestions would be most appreciated.  The reason i’ve changed from that theme, is because I was told by other students, they thought it looked too comical and not serious enough - what do you think?

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