Yesterday I got to meet with the Gold Coast members who have recently joined Stephen Pierce's coaching program too. I found out that I have been extremely lucky to have gotten the PRI$E system. They joined just a few weeks earlier than me and didn't receive it. Remember me mentioning that I had been frustrated with the delays but I felt that everything happened for a reason? Well, this is my proof.
By meeting with the others I got to share some ideas and a solution to a common problem we'd been experiencing AND I got so many ideas and tips from the others. They told me about solutions to problems that I hadn't even come across, saving me lots of time. (Thank you Karen Isitt, you are a treasure!)
What a valuable resource these meetings are. A place to share experiences and successes, get solutions to problems and brainstorm ideas.
To give an unbiased perspective of SMCC coaching, the biggest frustrations seem to be that it does take longer than the 30 minutes a day Stephen indicated and also getting support on problems. My take on this is that you spend a lot of time fiddling with the details but let's just get on with it, get it done and can always go back and perfect it later on. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to work. The second point about support on problems is honestly that people get caught up in one thing not working and waste lots of time and energy when they can be putting their focus on something else. Stephen had a rant on this at one of his training sessions. I wrote a post about this earlier - if you can't do something, focus on what you can do. Stephen's talk went into detail about he'd get frustrated with students hung up on one little thing and let that stop them taking action. He said what about the other 100 things you could be doing.
Yes, support isn't always as quick as we'd like - it might take a day or three if it's a weekend but there's always other parts of the project that can be worked on in the meantime.
During the Mastermind group, I also found that there are great sites just within our own community.
I've been most impressed by Christine & Neil Robin's site http://easymarketinggroup.com
They also have lots of great free resources on their site for internet marketing and personal development. Check it out!
Showing posts with label Passive Residual Income System Extreme PRISE Coaching program first impressions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passive Residual Income System Extreme PRISE Coaching program first impressions. Show all posts
Friday, August 10, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Day 5 - Market chosen & Passive Residual Income System Extreme set up in progress
"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do"
This saying of Stephen Pierce's is deceptively simple. It's been going around and around in my head for the last two days since my last update on the Smart Marketing Coaching Club. It's now day 5
When I was stalled on working on my project I was frustrated because the hosting company hasn't uploaded my new domain. Until then I have been so excited. After going through Stephen and Alicia's mindset and creativity modules, I finally chose a market (one I'm passionate about naturally) and found a great affiliate product to promote. One that Stephen himself has researched and endorsed.
I chose a domain name ($9.05) and set up the hosting ($9.95 a month). I also learned how to transfer the domain name to the hosting company which impresses me. Yes, I am very much a newbie.
I've been going through the new cd, Passive Residual Income System Extreme - PRI$E, (thank you again Roy Phay for your detailed Camtasia videos) and learning lots. Now I have a blog, installed & configured WordPress, installed PlugIns, (whatthe?!) Smart PPC and now I'm installing Smart Profit Feeds. As you can tell, I still don't know exactly why I'm doing some of these steps but I'm just faithfully following each one and it's really coming together. I even felt confident enough to upload files to the server and I installed a different blog template than the standard version. Wow, I'm really feeling like I know some of this technical stuff now.
Only problem is I can't see it!! Agh! I keep getting the message that it will take 24-48 hours to have the domain up.
So this is where Stephen's quote "Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do." Although I can't see for certain that everything is working fine I can keep going on with the steps and learning. Even if I have made a mistake and something has gone wrong and I have to redo things, I've still learned so much that will make it faster doing it next time. And I always planned on creating multiple sites so this is valuable experience for me.
This saying of Stephen Pierce's is deceptively simple. It's been going around and around in my head for the last two days since my last update on the Smart Marketing Coaching Club. It's now day 5
When I was stalled on working on my project I was frustrated because the hosting company hasn't uploaded my new domain. Until then I have been so excited. After going through Stephen and Alicia's mindset and creativity modules, I finally chose a market (one I'm passionate about naturally) and found a great affiliate product to promote. One that Stephen himself has researched and endorsed.
I chose a domain name ($9.05) and set up the hosting ($9.95 a month). I also learned how to transfer the domain name to the hosting company which impresses me. Yes, I am very much a newbie.
I've been going through the new cd, Passive Residual Income System Extreme - PRI$E, (thank you again Roy Phay for your detailed Camtasia videos) and learning lots. Now I have a blog, installed & configured WordPress, installed PlugIns, (whatthe?!) Smart PPC and now I'm installing Smart Profit Feeds. As you can tell, I still don't know exactly why I'm doing some of these steps but I'm just faithfully following each one and it's really coming together. I even felt confident enough to upload files to the server and I installed a different blog template than the standard version. Wow, I'm really feeling like I know some of this technical stuff now.
Only problem is I can't see it!! Agh! I keep getting the message that it will take 24-48 hours to have the domain up.
So this is where Stephen's quote "Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do." Although I can't see for certain that everything is working fine I can keep going on with the steps and learning. Even if I have made a mistake and something has gone wrong and I have to redo things, I've still learned so much that will make it faster doing it next time. And I always planned on creating multiple sites so this is valuable experience for me.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
PRISE Coaching program first impressions
It looks like I will be all set up ready to go from tomorrow. I can't wait!
I received a pack in the mail, a beautiful black leather compendium with a DVD and a cheap looking photocopied information.
PRISE - Passive Residual Income System Extreme
I'm currently still going through the DVD. It's got so much information on it & is perfect for newbies. Roy Phay, a man with a strong Singapore accent takes us through step by step the video tutorials (Camtasia) through the initial "Phase 1: Getting Ready" which includes how to set up a domain (Cheapcheapdomainnames.com), set up hosting (HostGator.com) etc. It's all done in great detail so even a complete technophobe would be able to follow it. I think it will be boring if you've already done it a few times though but the videos are quite short.
The focus initially seems to be on setting up a Blog. There's no real overview to give the big picture of what we're doing or why but I think that's very likely a deliberate decision by Stephen Pierce.
Phase 2 is the Installation stage where it goes through setting up Wordpress. My criticism here is thanks for showing me in detail how to do this but what is it and why am I doing this? Ok, I'm still a bit of a newbie - I have created my own website using website builder templates (thanks to GoDaddy.com's Website tonight). I'm slowly figuring out the benefits but I'm a great coachee and I'm just following instructions and not questioning anything or trying to improve on the system.
Stephen said to follow it like a recipe and that's what I'm doing.
Phase 3 is Set-Up and Roy Phay again patiently takes us through setting up PPC accounts, smart PPC (software provided by Stephen), setting up ClickBank account and Smart Profit Feeds. Then it gets into the more creative side which interests me - modifying the Wordpress templates and setting up Autoresponders.
There are still 3 Steps to Go:
Phase 4: Promotions - gathering and submitting articles, writing posts, promoting on blogs and forums, RSS Announcer & Social bookmarking),
Phase 5: Cash Injection System
Phase 6: Help
Now that I've gone through most of the tabs I'm going back to the first phase which is picking a market and a domain name. Still not sure what I'm going to focus on there.
My overall first impression of the PRISE system - Stephen's 'recipe' analogy seems very appropriate for how he's built this coaching system.
I would have liked a bit more of the bigger picture but I gather after watching the camtasia videos that we're being taught how to set up information sites, no single page sales letters sites for us. That's a bit different from what I was expecting because I gathered that Stephen was going to teach us exactly what he does and I haven't really seen any of his sites look just like blogs with ads everywhere. But hey, I have only just started and I'm not even on the main part of the coaching yet with the website access so a lot more will be revealed soon.
I received a pack in the mail, a beautiful black leather compendium with a DVD and a cheap looking photocopied information.
PRISE - Passive Residual Income System Extreme
I'm currently still going through the DVD. It's got so much information on it & is perfect for newbies. Roy Phay, a man with a strong Singapore accent takes us through step by step the video tutorials (Camtasia) through the initial "Phase 1: Getting Ready" which includes how to set up a domain (Cheapcheapdomainnames.com), set up hosting (HostGator.com) etc. It's all done in great detail so even a complete technophobe would be able to follow it. I think it will be boring if you've already done it a few times though but the videos are quite short.
The focus initially seems to be on setting up a Blog. There's no real overview to give the big picture of what we're doing or why but I think that's very likely a deliberate decision by Stephen Pierce.
Phase 2 is the Installation stage where it goes through setting up Wordpress. My criticism here is thanks for showing me in detail how to do this but what is it and why am I doing this? Ok, I'm still a bit of a newbie - I have created my own website using website builder templates (thanks to GoDaddy.com's Website tonight). I'm slowly figuring out the benefits but I'm a great coachee and I'm just following instructions and not questioning anything or trying to improve on the system.
Stephen said to follow it like a recipe and that's what I'm doing.
Phase 3 is Set-Up and Roy Phay again patiently takes us through setting up PPC accounts, smart PPC (software provided by Stephen), setting up ClickBank account and Smart Profit Feeds. Then it gets into the more creative side which interests me - modifying the Wordpress templates and setting up Autoresponders.
There are still 3 Steps to Go:
Phase 4: Promotions - gathering and submitting articles, writing posts, promoting on blogs and forums, RSS Announcer & Social bookmarking),
Phase 5: Cash Injection System
Phase 6: Help
Now that I've gone through most of the tabs I'm going back to the first phase which is picking a market and a domain name. Still not sure what I'm going to focus on there.
My overall first impression of the PRISE system - Stephen's 'recipe' analogy seems very appropriate for how he's built this coaching system.
I would have liked a bit more of the bigger picture but I gather after watching the camtasia videos that we're being taught how to set up information sites, no single page sales letters sites for us. That's a bit different from what I was expecting because I gathered that Stephen was going to teach us exactly what he does and I haven't really seen any of his sites look just like blogs with ads everywhere. But hey, I have only just started and I'm not even on the main part of the coaching yet with the website access so a lot more will be revealed soon.
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