Important – What do we tell the children?

Or more importantly what should we be teaching our young people?

You may have seen the comments on Gary Simpson’s blog about both the educational system and also whether we are teaching our young people the things that they need to know to survive and flourish as they grow.

This was partly prompted by a comment that my daughter Lizzie left on Gazz-Man’s blog about the motivational moments video he had produced (go and take a look if you haven’t seen it yet!).

Lizzie has been following my journey with Alex Jeffreys with interest and has started her own blog. Initially it was a free one where she had to have adverts, but now I have bought her own domain name and sorted out hosting for her. Do have a look at http://lizziedickinson.com (there is also a link to her blog under ‘Blog Links’ on the sidebar) and leave her a message.

The upshot of this comment and Gazz-Man’s replies including:

and:

is that I have been thinking about this issue of helping our young people.

Both Garry Parkes and Denis Caron have children in the same age bracket who want to follow their parents and have their own blogs.

In general the responses have been to encourage them to do so, but with the proviso of some overseeing by us as responsible adults. In this way we can teach them the things they really need to learn.

So what I would like to ask you all is:

Do you think it is a good idea to allow our children to follow us in what we are doing and to have their own blog?

What do you think we should be teaching them, both on and off line that is not taught at school?

Do you think it would be a good idea to have a junior community supported or encouraged by the adults in initally the F500, but could be further extended? Are there enough young people interested?

I had been thinking about a niche of my own and am still definitely thinking down another line. I had started drafting another post about that, but I felt that this was even more important at the moment.

As many of you know I teach at a Further Education College with students of 16+. Many of them come in with poor literacy and numeracy skills as well as often non existent study skills. It is my job to help these young people to learn these skills which will help them in their daily life as adults.

The more I have thought about this over the weekend, the more I have been wondering if this is the route I should take at the moment, to be someone who could oversee the development of our young people whilst they learn alongside us.

Perhaps they could have their own version of Garry Parkes’ excellent Profit Pulling Newsletter with articles written both by them and by adults to help them on this road including information on how to balance a cheque book etc.

What do you think? I would really love to have your opinions about whether you think this is something we should be doing and if it is possible to do.

I haven’t really thought it through fully yet, so your ideas would be really useful to me.

I felt the need to post this whilst the issue was still fairly recent. However I do apologise that I will not be able to answer you for a couple of days as I shall be going to the Midlands early tomorrow and will be without internet access (unless I can sneak off somewhere!).

We moved my elderly aunt into a sheltered flat near to us last August and I shall be spending the next couple of days with my sisters sorting out the house ready for sale. It has been a big job already and we are hoping to complete it soon.

However I really hope that when I return there will be lots of comments and my email box will be overflowing with your replies and thoughts.

Our children are our future. Many of us, including me, have taken this course so that we can be at home more with our children, whilst earning enough to allow us to live more easily. We really cannot afford to ignore them and their whole education as they grow.

Thank you for your help.

Alex Jeffreys video competition – my first ever video!

I’ve done it!

After several days and hours of trying to get my head around making a video for Alex’s competition I’ve finally produced something. It’s not perfect by any means, but I have got it going!

My first attempt was far too wordy and long winded – even I got bored watching it! Lizzie told me so too!

So I cut out most of what I had said and tried to make it punchier.

I’ve got lots to learn like I think the microphone was too close and some of the page changes might be too quick, but I didn’t want to lose the viewers’ interest.

I’d be really grateful if you could let me know what you think about it.

By the way all the photos are my own except for the 2 obvious ones.

I just felt that it was important to show what is important to me and why I am taking this journey.

A couple of months ago I would never have thought that I would be doing this so I’m mighty glad of that kick up the backside that I have been given to get this done.

And thanks for all your encouraging remarks on my previous post about getting it going. I appreciate them all.

Perhaps now I can go and have a look at some of the other videos.

I know that Garry Parkes has a list of some of those that he has already found and Gaielle has made a more complete listing of them here.

Once I’ve got that sorted out I can resume my blog hopping both inside and outside this group – I have been a bit remiss of late!

I look forward to your candid and constructive comments on my first attempt.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIt6MOANq0

Profit Pulling Project Newsletter Issue 2

Well it has arrived…

Garry Parkes has published the second edition of his Profit Pulling Newsletter and once again he (and his fellow contributors) have come up trumps. Check out his post about it at http://garryparkes.com/profit-pulling-project/profit-pulling-project-issue-2-live/

The great thing about this newsletter is that it is pulling together so much of the wealth of information that has been passed between all the students on Alex Jeffreys’ mentoring programme.

When I left a comment on Garry’s blog about this latest offering I said that I felt it was like having a multi- course banquet every day because there is so much in the way of great information and helpful suggestions and I just feel that I cannot take it in all at once.

But the great thing about this is that I know that I can go over to Garry’s site and he has not only these newsletters which distill the information for both newbies and experienced marketers in a helpful format, but also many useful resources.

In this issue there is information about getting onto your website through your cpanel, getting your email and uploading files.

Coleen Cook has written the first of a series of articles about ‘How to write Copy that will sell every time’. This first part is: Using an “Ad Campaign Measurement Sheet” to Measure your Success and suggests a way in which you can keep a record of how well your advertising is doing. A useful way of both making and saving money.

Bobby Winchell has written an article on Google Adwords: A Clever Testing Strategy which will help you when testing out a new campaign or niche to avoid the ‘Google slap’.

Gary Simpson aka ‘Gazz-Man’ writes in his usual no-nonsense style about not being an ‘excusiologist’. He is very forthright about the importance of getting on and doing something; about not wasting time. His outspoken style is excellent when it comes to getting you doing something and not making excuses.

Gary has an excellent style and I enjoy interacting on his blog with both him and other Alex Jeffreys’ students. I have also learnt a great deal from him and others on his site so do have a look at his blog by clicking on the link on the right of this post. He has some information that he will be bringing to us shortly through some special outside talent. I am really looking forward to that.

If you don’t want to be an excusiologist and want to move forward in your own journey to being a successful online marketer then you need to read this newletter and also the first issue that was published a couple of weeks ago. You can also sign up for future issues so do go to http://garryparkes.com/.

You owe it to yourself and your future.

I’m catching up – slowly!

Well I spent quite a bit of yesterday working on both my blog and my profit pulling platform, though I still don’t have the latter on my front page – can anyone give me a hand with that please?  (I have it in testforvideo but can’t seem to get a small box on my front page).

I also managed to buy our Christmas tree yesterday and my daughter did most of the decorating, so at least we are starting to feel Christmassy in our home.  I’ve just got to do the cake, the cards, the rest of the presents and the food shopping as well as a good tidy up before we have visitors…  All I want to do is get on with this online journey, but I know that home life still has to go on.

Anyway, I’ve been reading around the blogs again to get more helpful information and I’ve found that Garry Parkes is leading the way again by getting ready to send out a regular weekly newsletter to help all the students of Alex Jeffreys get in on the branding.  He really has some great ideas that man – where does he get the time from to do it all?!

Anyway, if you haven’t already looked at it go and check out his post at http://garryparkes.com/alex-jeffreys/get-a-slice-of-the-1-million-up-for-grabs/ it is definitely worth getting in on this so that we can all help one another .  I’m sure that you want to be in Garry’s book too.

Now I need to carry on doing what I can to catch up and I’ll visit as many blogs as I can and add you to my list, so please leave me a comment and I’ll add you on.

Thanks!

Hilary