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I don’t promote many products to my mailing list. I usually just promote free stuff that will give my subscribers value. It’s usually free eBooks, free videos tutorials, free apps, and things like that. Well Mike Filsaime is relaunching his amazing product called The 7 Figure Code. He’s actually giving it away for free.

I decided that I would try my hand at promoting a launch. This is the first time I’ve ever done it before. I had no idea how my list would respond. I figured it would be good because Mike is giving away a free video to check out immediately. I never imagined that I would end up in the top 10 for generating leads!

He posted today the leaders that are promoting the product… I managed to top a bunch of really big name players. I’m really excited about this. I had no idea that my list was capable of actually being a “player” in the launch game.

Anyway, just wanted to make a quick post because I’m excited.

So one question that I get asked frequently is how I learned what I know about online marketing. Well, I didn’t go at it alone. I had a mentor. I owe a lot of what I know to a guy named Alex Jeffreys. He was the guy who I was able to talk to, get advice from, and ask questions from. He really helped me get to where I am today.

I just learned yesterday that Alex is giving away a free internet marketing course. I thought he was crazy (Especially since I paid him over $1,000 to learn from him). The stuff he teaches is pretty damn good. You can really learn a lot from him.

Check Out The Course Here

One thing Alex is going to tell you is that you need to have a blog in place. I pretty much consider myself an expert on blogging and I thought that, as a bonus, if you sign up and pay to be coached by Alex, I’ll give you free access to the Wordpress Classroom for life. It has helped so many people get a blog up and running and profitable, I guarantee it will help you get your blog to where it needs to be. In fact, many of the people that are currently coached by him refer to the Wordpress tutorials that I created to get their blog off the ground.

Within his coaching, You will also learn that you need to build a mailing list. He gives you some great coaching on exactly how to do this and he even gives out some products that you can give away to build your list. These products have earned him and some of his students thousands of dollars! If you sign up to be coached by him, I’ll throw in free access to my upcoming program, The List Building Classroom. This is a $47 per month program that is going to walk you through a whole bunch of little known list building tricks. Get coaching from Alex, and it’s yours free as a bonus. This is set to launch in the coming weeks and you will be one of the first to get access before it even launches.

Check out his program. You won’t regret it. I know I didn’t! AND if you buy coaching from him, you’ll get lifetime access to the Wordpress Classroom AND lifetime access to the upcoming membership site, The List Building Classroom. You can’t lose! You are getting hundreds of dollars worth of bonuses for jumping on board right away. Spots are limited though. I can only offer this crazy bonus package to the first 20 people who take me up on this offer. So sign up, shoot me an e-mail, and I will take care of the rest.

Grab your spot (and your bonuses) now!

So I have stumbled across quite a few amazing blog posts lately that have been really helpful. I thought it would be a good idea to round them up and point them out. Have a look at some of these links. I guarantee that you won’t be disappointed and that you will learn a lot!

Probably The Most Comprehensive List of Traffic Sources – This is a massive blog post with 21 places to generate boatloads of traffic. I thought I knew about most of the traffic generation techniques that were out there… Man, this article really proved me wrong. There is a ton of great stuff here!

59 Things You Should Be Doing But Probably Aren’t – This blog post is well over a year old but it is a great round up of all of the things you should be doing in your internet marketing business but probably aren’t. There is some amazing advice here!

Here are 3 plugins to boost your Wordpress SEO – Phil Morgan put together a short and sweet list of Wordpress plugins that will help your blog get to the top of the search engines.

12 Essential Security Tips For Wordpress – Well this sort of ties in with my little mishap from last week. Here is a list of things that you should be doing to make sure that your blog is safe and secure.

How To Position Yourself as an Expert – This is very relevant if you are in to blogs or mailing lists. You need to give people a reason to want to listen to you.

That’s my round up of awesome blog posts. I’ll be doing these periodically. What do you think? Do you like the idea of me pointing out some great posts?

So I woke up this morning and jumped over to my blog. I noticed that my theme was still installed and that I could still log in to my dashboard but that there were no posts on my front page. All I saw was a “Page Not Found” error. I logged in to my dashboard and saw that every single post and page that I have ever created had been deleted. I have no idea how this happened but everything was gone. The database that held all of the information on my blog had apparently crashed. I freaked out a little bit and then remembered that I had taken some actions to safeguard against situations like this. I spent about 5 minutes reloading my last backup and everything was back to normal again. I may have lost one or two comments that may have come in over night but, for the most part, it’s like it had never happened.

It is scary because if I hadn’t have taken a few certain actions a few weeks ago, I would have been unable to recover my blog. I figured that there are probably a lot of bloggers out there that may not know how to backup their blog or how to recover their blog from a backup. It is really scary because your blog CAN go down at any time for no apparent reason whatsoever! Read this post and maybe you can put yourself in a situation where a database crash is nothing more than a 5 minute fix.

The very first thing that you should do is download and install the WP-DB-Backup plugin for wordpress. It’s a free plugin and can usually be searched for and installed from directly inside your Wordpress Dashboard. Get that installed today. Once it’s installed set it up to backup daily and send you an e-mail with the backup. By doing this, you can jump back to any point in time and recover all the information that crashed. If you don’t update very frequently, you can also opt to backup weekly. I prefer daily because I know I can restore comments from the previous day as well.

Now… If your blog ever goes down and you have been doing a good job of backing it up, here is how you restore your blog.

1. Login in to your CPanel account and scroll down until you find phpMyAdmin

2. Find the database that your blog is installed on. The backup files that are sent to you from WP-DB-Backup will share the same name as the database you need to recover. So if you are unsure of which database to open, refer to the filename of your backup file.

3. Click on the tab that says import at the top of the new screen that just opened.

4. Click on “choose file” and find the backup file that you are going to use to restore your blog.

That should do it. Your blog should be back in all of its glory. Having a database failure can be extremely scary! Fortunately, if you take the right precautions from the beginning, it can be a very quick and painless fix. If you only have one plugin installed for your blog, make sure that it is a backup plugin. It will save you someday!

Please feel free to make comments. Have you had your blog crash? Do you have any questions about making sure you are protected against your blog crashing?

I want to know what questions you have about list building? I am working on a new guide all about how to build a list fast. I built a list from 0 to 1,500 in about 8 weeks and tons of people have asked how I’ve done it. I created an e-mail series about how I’ve done it below but now I want to know what other questions you have.

Ask me anything so that I can share my?philosophy?on the question.

Ask things like how do I retain the list that I have, what do I write about, how often do I write, what subject lines work best, etc. I want to know what sort of things people want to know most about list building so that I can share what has worked for me.

They say that you can make $1 per subscriber per month. I’ve found that I have averaged closer to $1.50 per subscriber.

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