5-Star Ebook Diary

When it comes to doing something you are not familiar with, and you believe you are going to be doing it for a while, do you have someone you can learn from?

Think about it. When you start a new job, yea, you may have the skills and qualifications to DO the job, but do you know HOW the work is done in the new company? How do you learn? You have a coach, or a co-worker that shows you the nuances of the tasks that you do on a daily basis.

Internet Marketing is no different and most of the people I come across on a daily basis in the forums that I frequent are looking for help. What do I sell? How do I build a website? Where should I advertise?

Do you have the answers to those questions? I certainly don’t have the answers to all of the questions that are buzzing around in my head still–and that is after over a year of trying to make this IM thing a go.

The things that I do know–you need a coach–possibly a mentor and it’s a great idea if you have a partner. Not a business partner, but someone you can throw ideas off of and ask questions of. Someone who won’t think that your idea sucks, or if it does, will tell you. An accountability partner, if you will.

Do you have any of these? Probably the toughest to reach out and ask for is a coach or mentor, someone who is willing to show you how to do things and do them correctly. Someone who has been there and done that and you can learn from their mistakes.

My mentor/coach right now is a person who has been in the ebook business for a few years now and knows how and what to do to make it a success and I am willing to let you have access to him too. You see, he is willing to take on anyone who will make a commitment to putting in some hard work and seeing results. His name?

John Thornhill.

You can get in touch with him here

Back to the accountability partner–do you have one of those? Maybe not someone you pick up the phone and call on a regular basis, but someone you have regular contact with and lay out your plans for the week so that you are made ‘accountable’ for your actions.

I have one of those also. Her name is Peggy. She is an Internet Marketer also.

We exchange emails several times weekly and give each other ‘check lists’ of what we want to accomplish during the week. Then typically on Monday morning, we ‘check in’ and update each other on what we got accomplished and what we wished we had gotten done, and sometimes whine or complain about why we didn’t get our list done (oh, that would be me doing that most times ).

Since her and I decided to partner together, I must say that I get more done because I know that I have to ‘check in’ and be accountable for what I had on my to do list.

Back to my mentor…..since John has been making a living selling ebooks for several years now, and I am basically trying to follow in his footsteps, I am awaiting his ideas on the fallout from the ebay ban on digitally downloadable products.

Just an fyi on ebooks added….I have added some more to the site and you can find them here. I am also in the process of changing the home page a bit due to the ebay changes. I am not entirely certain, but I believe that the methods described in some of the ebay books that are on my site are not going to be accurate come April 1.

Stay tuned……

Until next time,

Here’s to your success

Ron