It’s been awhile that I mentioned John’s Masterclass. I’ve just been too busy implementing everything he’s taught us, talking the IM Mentors class, and working a full-time job. So, here’s my update:

In Week 3 we registered with Adsense, added new themes to our blog, added Adsense to the themes, and uploaded them. Sounds real easy, doesn’t it? It is if you know what you’re doing! However, John does make it easy with his step-by-step instructions – otherwise I might still be at it! And as homework, we are still checking out other well-known blogs and posting to our own.

In Week 4 we learned how to upload header and footer graphics to the blog  to make it more our own; how to resize banners, and how to back up our blog data (very important, that one!).  Some of this is easy, but again, the step-by-step instructions really do help a lot!

Week 5 taught us how to to remove Adsense and how to add video to our blog. It also showed us how to replace Adsense with banners, how to add CB Ad Rotator, and how to edit and add sidebar widgets. Now we are at a point where we learn things that make the blog unique (other than the posts). We can decide what goes on and what doesn’t! That’s much more my style!

It got really interesting in Week 6 (List Building Campaign)! We created an Aweber account, registered as Masterclass affiliate, got the affiliate link, and created our first list! Then we loaded the campain, downloaded and uploaded opt-in templates, and added the opt-in code to the blog. Without the explicit directions from John, I’d have been completely lost and confused! Thanks, John!

Week 7 was the first webinar, teaching us about advanced blogging tactics. This class taught us a lot about Clickbank and Clickbank affiliates, as well as plugins, keywords, and blog content. And we finally get to enter the Forum! Yeah! The webinar also covered Dave Nicholson and his Total Web Traffic course.

In Weeks 8 and 9 we are getting down to business! This is the preparation to creating our own product. This is the part I’ve been anticipating and dreading at the same time! You have to make lists about things you’re good at, things you like, etc. Then you have to narrow it down to your niche selection. After that you have to research the subjects to see if they make money (Clickbank is a very good place to help you with that).  Another good place to help with the product selection is the Masterclass forum. Once you have selected a niche, you start your research.

Week 10: Haven’t gotten to that yet. I’m still working on the niche selection and research.

While we’re doing all of that, we are still posting to our blogs, checking out classmates’ blogs, and leave comments. I don’t know about anyone else, but it keeps me pretty darn busy (and out of trouble).

See ya next time!