The Alex Jeffreys live coaching course has now come to a close, after 2 months of intensive and highly charged training. Many of the students have become well established in their businesses and the rest are well on the way.

The experience has been life-changing to say the least. Alex is such an inspiration! He encouraged us all to push outside our comfort zone and to also understand that there will be times when we fail. He calls it "failing forward". Like learning to ride a bike, when you fall off you don’t just give up. You just pick yourself up, dust yourself off,  get back on and try again. It’s the only way to learn. The time will come when you can ride like it’s second nature (Look Mum, no hands!)

In the real world, success doesn’t happen overnight. Alex Jeffreys was once a newbie with absolutely no experience in internet marketing. He admits to failing many times. He went to seminars, asked questions, aligned himself with experts, took risks and never gave up. In his first year online he made $100,000 and in the second year he reached $600,000. His target for this year is one million and he’ll probably exceed that.

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Advice for newbies

If you are an absolute newbie seriously considering starting an online business, it can be a very steep learning curve. While some will learn quite quickly, others will struggle with overwhelming confusion and some will simply give up.

On the internet there are a million and one irresistable distractions that will take you off on tangents and a shipload of ebooks and "clever" programs you will be tempted to buy. There will be a host of hyped-up emails flooding your inbox, telling you to buy this and try that or make money while you sleep. You may find that you are spending your money on stuff that either you’ll never use or doesn’t live up to its promises.

It’s so easy to get caught up in all this stuff. We’ve all done it. I’ve spent thousands of dollars myself and had nothing to show for it.

The best way to start is to follow a plan and take it at your own pace. There are ways to establish an online business with very little investment, if you know how. Alex Jeffreys’ coaching has taught me more in a few weeks than I learned in the previous 18 months.

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A large part of my time is spent on investigating the many ways of getting traffic (visitors) to my blog. It is an ongoing challenge for every internet marketer, regardless of the niche.

I have been reading articles at ezinearticles.com, joining forums, reading & adding comments to other high-ranking blogs. I’ve been posting my video on video sites and commenting on high-ranking YouTube videos. I’ve joined Twitter and several social media sites. Generally, I’ve spent a lot of my week trying to encourage people to visit my blog. I even submitted an article that was published in an e-zine.

I looked into a number of traffic exchanges, but concluded that for all the time and effort involved, it would only bring reluctant visitors, who are only in it to advertise their own message, for free. One really needs to stand out in the crowd, to grab anyone’s attention. They may not be the kind of people I should be targeting.

So I had to stand back and take a look at what I have to offer to my visitors. As I re-read my blog, and watched my video (for the Alex Jeffreys Video Competition) the message of "wanting to help people" came through loud and clear. (I’m pleased, because that was my initial intention.) So I’ll continue to encourage and help newbies if I can.

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