I’m guessing that you have been subjected to the same bombardment as I have over the last few days if you are working in the IM space. John Carlton and Jeff Johnson releasing stuff at about the same time and for the same amount of cash: $1997 if I remember correctly.

I looked at these courses and I listened and read everything about them (losing a load of time in the process) and decided that I absolutely needed both of them – and that I absolutely should NOT spend any money on them at all. Now, I know I’m a sucker for good sales copy and let’s face it, John C is the master of all that stuff anyway, but I think I have finally grown a spine 🙂

I looked at the 2 grand I’d need to buy each package and then compared it to the Sick Submitter at $20 a month and realised that I could be building some links of my own for many, many years before I’d have spent the same as just one of these courses. I know I’m going to need them eventually, but I just have to get some basic stuff right first.

So, no more course buying…it’s time to turn what I own already into money!

Earnings for the last few days have been around $1 a day in Adsense, so no big growth there, but I have put up a good number of new sites and am working on a littlee seasonal project too.

I’ve spent the last week with a new employee from the Philippines (not literally, you understand). She’s a good example of why you should just keep calm when looking for someone over there. I mailed her some months back while I was looking for new workers and while her English is excellent, she was just not available at the time.

I sent her a quick “hope it all works out, let me know if anything changes” mail and lo and behold, she mailed me back a couple of weeks ago and we are seeing how she gets on.

I haven’t really written about my ideas around outsourcing very much, so I’ll put that in a post this week sometime. If you want to look way back in the blog, you’ll also see that I went off to John Jonas’ outsource retreat in the Philippines in March – which is where some of my opinions were formed.

I’ll write more, but for now here’s a quick summary of the last little while in earnings (about 11 days back!)

Adsense earnings: $3.75
Amazon UK: $4.12
Amazon US: $2.73

A couple of nice value clicks in Adsense really helped….now all I need to do is to get rid of my MFA nemesis and get a few more visitors.