A week (and a bit longer) in review

I thought I would give you an update on what’s been going on not just this week but the last few weeks. Frankly it’s been a very busy but a productive time. In fact I am writing this at Heathrow Terminal 4 and continuing onboard the plane whilst flying, on my flight to Doha, Qatar, more on that later.

We planned a surprise party for my wife who has become a Head Teacher. She has always wanted to be a teacher since she was a child and now has achieved this great accomplishment. I’m so proud of her. I took her away for the weekend so that we were out of the way. The rest of the family, kids and teaching staff put our elaborate surprise party plan into action.

When we returned on Sunday I just drove into the school playground into a horse shoe shape of family, friends and colleagues. She was sooooo shocked, it was amazing. With all this going on I decided not to publish a blog so I could concentrate fully on the surprise. I did a speech which went down well as did her manager and her sister. Food was enjoyed and mingling with guest was the order of the day. She said “I don’t think this surprise can ever be improved on”. I’ll have to get my thinking cap on.

Continuing to work from home, well my Dads home. His health is not the best, dementia is progressing and he is becoming weaker and slower. He can’t stand or walk alone. He has trouble swallowing and now we have to purée his food. Unfortunately he has forgotten our names but he knows who we are. It’s sad but we know it’s not intentional. It’s heartbreaking seeing your parents degrade like this. I wish I could keep my parents in their prime but that’s is not a possibility. Allah knows best.

On the TikTok front, views are growing and I am now at 1,395 followers and 22.4k likes. Thank you all for being part of the journey. I lost a few followers then gained a few followers this week. I guess that’s just part of the journey. Soon I’ll be adding my first facebook lead ad to this to start another stream of subscribers and build my email list.

Email sequence

I have been trying to complete my email sequence for what feels like months. So many things got in the way. I saw a video from Dean’s training about doing tasks that add value to your business. We spend too much time on other things. Do things that directly contribute to your business growing. What will make it happen? do that.

If you don’t know what an email sequence is, it’s an automated set of emails that are set to be sent at fixed times and days over a period of time. This particular sequence is for my up upcoming facebook lead ad. When someone responds to my ad to get my free ebook which I wrote myself. It’s called ‘Mastering the 5 dos and 5 don’ts of affiliate marketing’. If you want a copy subscribe to my free email newsletter here and request one by replying to one of the email you get and I’ll directly send it to you. You will also get 2 free mini trainings from Dean when you sign up to the newsletter.

Do you struggle with affiliate marketing, what to do and how? What do all these terms mean etc. if so, I am here to shed light on them, just ask me by replying to any email after subscribing. I will get back to you as soon as possible.

So, I have 9 emails in my sequence. Each one has a different theme or topic. The aim of them are;

1. Teach a skill/increase knowledge of the reader
2. Tell a story or teach a lesson
3. Allow them to get to know me, and me them when they reply

At this early stage they are not familiar with you so this sequence takes them on that journey. They get the ebook and I get them on my email list to build a relationship with them, like minded people.

I competed all 9, 4 were approved and the last 5 have small tweaks and changes to make. Like the subject lines need to be more punchy. There is too much text in some places, need to involve the reader in more. Better hooks and questions at the beginning they can identify with.

This is what I plan to work on in the evenings whilst in the hotel. I have given myself a week to completed the edits AND publish the facebook lead ad.

LinkTree got a chop

In the Q&A this week Dean reviewed our content. I asked him to look at my TikTok comments as they seem to have a lot of bot responses, like automated spam. Can’t really do much about that.

What he did notice was that my linkTree page which is a link in all my social media had too many options on them. They can be directed to my blog, my newsletter sign up, TikTok, instagram, YouTube, Quora and facebook! That is too much right? It’s confusing to the reader. So Dean suggested removing all except, the blog and newsletter because that where I want people to go.

So I did that, you can see the before and after here

Before

After

I’ll let you know what happens, if anything.

Skool, modules 3 and 4

You know all about Skool as I did a 2 part series on it. I’m, progressing well through the new training modules. I am on module 2 and modules 3 and 4 have been unlocked now so even more great content to learn. Also, I am pleased to report that I am on top of the leaderboard in Skool with around 320 points. You get points for each like of your content or comment. It shows high engagement within the group.

I hear that this training, community and online business in ANY niche will be going public sometime in the near future. Are you interested in that?  Do you want to learn how to build an online business in any niche? Let me know in the comments if you want to be the first to know about it. Or email me directly.

I will only be telling people that have subscribed to my email newsletter as I know they are serious about creating a business and are ready to do something about it. Don’t miss an opportunity to change your life for the better.

Dean’s coaching partner event

We also had a 1/4ly internet profits partner event. It’s a half day thing on zoom. It consisted of 3 case studies i.e. Dean, Sophie and Glenn (our coaching team) telling their whole journey of how they discovered affiliate marketing,  their struggles, first sales and business growth. All three are doing this full time so it does work. We then broke out in to rooms to discuss key learnings from each case study. Great session and an opportunity to meet fellow affiliate marketers.

New job

So, the biggest thing this week was starting my new contract with a client in Doha, Qatar. A great opportunity for me and I would dare say my dream job. I get to travel, work on amazing projects and help the client improve their processes.

I will be travelling frequently so I am writing this blog as we speak on the table of an A380 on its way to Qatar. It’s also a taste of the lifestyle I wish to build with the affiliate marketing business I am building. Being able to live like this on your own terms with your family when you want is extremely powerful.

Do you wish to create a life like that? Tell me about what you have tried and what you want to do?

So, that’s the busy week or two just gone. Being busy is good, it’s exciting but remember to concentrate on value added activities.

Next week I’ll start talking to you more about the affiliate system itself. I’ve been working with it for the last seven months and it’s truly amazing. I’m gonna start introducing it to you section by section. This is currently only available to Dean’s coaching certified partners. At the moment it is not available to the general public, but I hear this may change soon in the future like I said above. The beauty of this system is that it’s not just about affiliate marketing in the making money online but this system can help you build a business for you to make money online in any niche. It could be gardening, cooking, Health and fitness, relationships, DIY, travelling, cars, travel anything. Imagine that.

Please let me know in the comments any thoughts on what you’ve read here and what you think you’ve learnt and what you think you’ll start to do different. What will you stop doing now and what will you start doing? I’d love to hear from you, so please do leave comments below.

Thank you for reading, I hope it helped you in some way. You are only a few steps behind me!

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Atif

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