As I’ve already mentioned in another post, running a business “on-line” is new to me, so I invested in getting the knowledge I needed and since November 2008, I have been on a Coaching Program with Alex Jeffreys, who lives in Cardiff, Wales.
He has been coached by one of the big names in on-line in Internet Business, Rich Schefren.

Monday February 16th, was our last official Coaching Webinar, so it was time to decided where to go from here …. ????

For me, I realised that the choice of “what to do now” was staring me in the face, but I didn’t really decide until last nights Webinar with Alex.

• I have over 14 years experience in Internet Business, that I normally use to help people use the Internet for their business.
• I’ve been learning Internet Marketing since then also and I already run my own successful Internet Business Consultancy at www.InternetMarketingClinic.ie
• I have a Trainer Skills Certificate, from the Irish Institute of Training & Development and I’m a Microsoft Master Instructor, the highest level of certification available from Microsoft™, for Microsoft Office™.
• I stay up-to-date with the many changes in Internet Business
• I really enjoy helping people.

So I already know how to teach people …..

I have something worthwhile to teach …

and I like helping people.

So as I mentioned at the start of this post, I decided to do is start my own Internet Business Coaching / Mentoring Program, to show people what they need to do to build their Internet Business, or build their existing business on the Internet, using “How To” videos and a weekly Coaching call or on-line webinars.

This is not the same type of Coaching Alex does, so it’s not a copy cat, it’s the niche that I have found exists.

I’m know working on how to do structure the Coaching Program so that members can get a return on their investment quickly and I expect to have the final details within a week or so.

So if you are interested in my Internet Business Coaching program, check out the link below.

Thanks,

Eoin

Update Note: The Internet Business Coaching / Mentoring program is now open.

The Internet makes this easy and here the first step you need to take … find out if people are looking for what you have to offer.

I had to break the video into two parts to upload it to Youtube, so here is the second part.

The next video will be about doing Market Research to find out if people will pay for the information you have to offer.

I’ve already mentioned some of the first things you need to do to get started with your online business, but it’s now time to take a look at what is going to make the money?

What are people going to willingly … even happily, give you money for?

Take a look at this video to see some basic steps to finding out.

In my next post, I will show you how to see if people want this information.

Before I did it, I e-mailed everyone (I think) that was on the Blogroll and informed them of my decision. I received many replies to that e-mail, wanting to know why I decided to do it and why I didn’t just use a “No Follow” PlugIn for the Blog.

This post is to explain why.

Why I removed the Alex Jeffreys students Blogroll

I  decided to remove the blogroll when I realised there was no SEO benefit and when Alex revealed that our blogs are supposed to be Stand Alone and not a group.
Why bring people to your site, so they can go to another students site?

From my experience and the feedback I’ve received from the SEO experts I rely on for up to date information, the only way we would have had a major problem with Google, is if we had tried to put a few 100 links on it.

If we had been able to keep the number of links low, and because we clearly marked our Blogrolls, Alex Jeffreys Students, I would expect that any investigation would have seen that we were not trying to deliberately do anything wrong.

In that situation, the most Google would probably do is give no “credit” for the backlink.

I don’t know this for a fact, but it’s the best I could come up with, as we wouldn’t know for sure unless Google decided to take action.
‘NoFollowup’

I don’t agree with a blanket ‘NoFollowup’ policy, if I decide to link to a site in my blogroll, I want the site to get any benefit it can from the link. The same way that I would like to get the benefit of any backlink to my Blog

There is a built-in No Follow to the parts of Wordpress that I want a No Follow on and I’m happy with that.

Backlinks

One Way Backlinks are links to your web site or blog from another web site, blog, Search Engine, etc. That your web site or Blog does not link back to.

One Way Backlinks to a website are the strongest links you can get, especially if the link is from an authority site.

Two way linking, I link to you, you link to me, are of little value, so I actually want one way backlinks to my site.

So our Blogroll links wouldn’t be worth a lot, as they were two way links.

That’s it, it was a business decision, nothing personal.

Eoin