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An Extremely Productive 4.5 Hours…Here’s Why

Jay (Jason Van Orden) 6 Comments

I had a 4.5 hour flight last night from New York City to Salt Lake City. More on why in a second. But first I wanted to talk about why that 4.5 hours was extremely productive. In that time I:

  • Wrote and outline and plan for the eight modules of my upcoming podcasting course
  • Planned the launch marketing sequence for my new podcasting course
  • Planned the bonuses for my new podcasting course
  • Made a list of tasks that need to be done to create the bonuses
  • Made a list of tasks to send to three different VAs
  • Watched one episode of Law & Order SVU on my iPod

Why was I so focused? I wasn’t sitting at my computer. As an internet entrepreneur, it’s hard sometimes to imagine working WITHOUT your computer in front of you. All I had was a pen and a yellow pad. I was forced to sit and think and plan. There weren’t any internet distractions or temptations to do busy/tech work. Try stepping away from the computer and see what happens.

So now I’m in Salt Lake City at Sterling’s place (he has a great view of the valley). We’re having a meeting today to plan the upcoming course (Codename: The Internet Business Mastery Blueprint). We’re going to sit down for an extensive planning session.

Here’s what we know so far:

  • Most people want an A to Z course including a getting started guide.
  • Many people wanted us to work with them live to go through the process. We obviously we can’t do this all the time or with too many people, but we’re considering having a live one-time online course that will have a limited enrollment. If you want a chance of getting in on this, sign up for the early notification list now.
  • We are trying to keep it to six modules, but there is just to much we want to put it so it might be seven.

Now, time to get down to work. Where’s my yellow pad?

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Rick Osborn

I’m curious about how your course would compare to the ones listed on your on your Million Dollar resources page? I’m currently listening to episode 26 (“The Secret Mindset” episode) and at one point Sterling mentions “The Insider Secrets…” program and how important that course was in his evolution into being an infopreneur, but later in the episode he warns against those courses that promise you’ll be making $2000 a day. However, the sales letter for the Insider Secrets seems to be promising just that. How is your course going to be different? Also, if I wanted to get started today, what would be a worthwhile investment or if I’ve made it to episode 26 do I even a course? You’ve made it clear that you need to act quickly, but are there fundamental building blocks that could be learned now that might help avoid the pitfalls of moving too quickly?

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Hi Jason,

Paper and pen? Heh, wait till you find yourself a UMPC, that should put you back on the “always on” mode, LOL!

Seriously, episode 26 was good. Like Rick, I also had that question of contradictions between the sales letter I received and the message of the episode. How does one who’s a beginner at this sort of business exercise due diligence when sorting the truly legitimate courses from the run-off-the-mills ones?

All in all, keep ‘em podcasts coming! ^^

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It’s amazing how we become super focused when we have just a pen and paper! I really believe it’s because in situations like being on a plane, in a waiting room of some sort, or away from our normal environment, we tend to not let the normal distractions divert our attention. More accurately, the normal distractions aren’t there anymore! Its just you, the pen, and the paper.

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@Rick,

As a general note I don’t buy into the ‘make $2000 a day in the first week’ type sales letters, but the one that I did use to make a real business was the Insider Secrets program.

Our program is going to be more of a focus on using Web 2.0 social media to drive traffic as well as some of the ‘classic’ ways that are in most programs. Jay and I have yet to see a program that discusses all the current ways to ride the web 2.0 mega wave!

@Gabby,

Well, one way is to type the ‘gurus’ name into google and add complaints after it. The key is to look for a massive amount of negative ‘net talk’ on forums and around the web. A little negative press isn’t so bad as usually that is just the competitors bad mouthing the guru or course, but if it is a LOT, I would watch out. I am working on a site to do Amazon style reviews of top programs and let the community do the reviews themselves. You can see that site at: homebusinesscoursereviews.com. I just started the site for the exact purpose of letting ‘us’ the community have our say! There are a lot of FAKE review sites that simply say EVERY other guru is terrible and just buy our course, but my site will be all about the communities reviews, check it out.

Sterling

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Hi Sterling,

Thanks for the reply. You’re so right with this, it even has a name in fact: scab marketing. It’s not that difficult to populate negative reviews of everyone else’s courses but their own (even the legitimate ones), so the task of doing due diligence becomes difficult for the newcomer.

Very nice site! Bookmarked!

Gabs

Gabs

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A fine example of why the pen is sometimes mightier than the laptop!

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