Much of the time, since starting this site, it’s felt like I was fumbling around in a kind of fog. Sometimes I seemed to be clearly following a process, such as when I was looking for an outsourcer or doing the 5cft challenge. But much of the time it’s felt like I was over complicating things by signing up for new courses or products whilst trying to get my Critical Focus Time blocks done.

Yesterday, I completed the 5 Day Traffic Blitz and felt pretty exhausted after sending in my report and after a full on couple of weeks. So I was happy to go to the cafe, with no work to finish, and just do a couple of crossword and soduku puzzles.

Now, it feels like time to stand back, take a couple of days break and plan for the next phase.

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Having dabbled with a few different approaches since March I’ve now reached a point where I feel I can blend them together and I’ve come up with a system which I hope will work for me. I’m much clearer on the way I want to go about things and what I do/don’t enjoy doing.

I have a plan which I want to start on Monday and follow for the next 4 weeks but first I thought it would be useful to take stock of what I’ve discovered so far and where I stand on the various products/approaches I’ve tried out and I’ll be posting about these over the next few days.

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With regard this Internet Marketing Coaching site . . .

. . . I had a 1:1 mentoring session with Ed today and, beforehand, was a bit stumped as to what I would talk to him about. When I checked my stats I was particularly pleased to see that I was now at positions 2 and 4 for my main keywords so was happy that I had something positive to report.

However, Ed wasn’t particularly impressed since this is a Market Leadership site and I was reminded again, that it’s not position that’s important but traffic. It’s easy to forget that. So, most of the mentoring was around the Market Leadership stuff.

Not thinking about Search Engine Optimization on a site is quite difficult for me because I’ve been following the SEO approach for a number of years. I will continue to do that elsewhere in my business of course, just not here.

Given that, I need to be posting more frequently about what’s important to me and worrying less about keywords etc.

To illustrate the point, despite doing well in Google I am still only getting an average of 13 unique visitors a day and, if this wasn’t a Market Leadership type site, I’d be ditching it at this point since the traffic potential from an SEO approach is way too small.

So, one part of my 4 week plan will be to post here, each week day. I’ve done that before on my previous blog and found it to be quite a challenge so I shall be experimenting with the best way to achieve this. Also, I’m not sure how much personal stuff to include without turning people off.

But there’s only one way to find out so here’s another opportunity to fail in the field and not in my head!

If there’s anything you’re curious about or would like me to write about just ask. (Note to self – check if contact form works!)

Since this site, is a Market Leadership one it should be all about expressing my opinions in the market. So ask away . . .

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