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Here we are, the 1st day of the month. I know I have a busy month ahead so let’s get right into it.

I want to first of all thank Dan Thompson for all the help he has given me creating this blog. I actually taught myself a lesson last week. ‘Instead of going round in circles with a task you are not familiar with seek someone who knows what they are doing so you don’t waste your life away’. So thanks again Dan.

I am going to tell you why I decided to do ‘A month in the life of John Thornhill’

The main reason is to build my business. Creating this blog will see me create another income stream. The more income streams I create the more money I earn. I’m not ashamed to say that what I do this month will ultimately earn me more money.

Secondly, I want to show everyone that there is no real secret to making money online. It’s mostly about taking action, and a lot of it.

Thirdly, I like to help others, I am a firm believer that the more you help others the more you are rewarded. I really think this is the key to a lot of internet marketer’s success. I know this blog will help a lot of people and by helping others I am ultimately helping myself.

Over the next 31 days you will hopefully see me:-

• Launch 2 brand new products.

• Create numerous new websites.

• Add about 10 new eBooks to my eBay inventory.

• Promote about 5-10 products

• Submit about 4-8 articles to the article directories.

• Work on my existing websites.

• Write my newsletter.

• Outsource most of my work.

• Seek new JV partners.

• And a lot lot more.

I would also encourage others to help when they can by adding comments after each post I write if it will help others. I don’t mind the odd link to products but please don’t blatantly promote without helping first.

So with that out of the way let’s get started.

What I Did Today.

I Paid My Affiliates.

The 1st day of the month for me is affiliate payout day. Today I paid all my affiliates all monies owed from all my websites for the month of September 2007. This is done like clockwork on the 1st of each month. I owe a huge part of my success to my affiliates so I always pay out on time.

The lesson here is treat your affiliates like gold. Look after them and they will look after you.

However, treat them like dirt and your business will suffer. I know this from personal experience as I have (and still am) been owed substantial amounts of money for promoting other marketers products on more than one occasion.

The bottom line is I will never promote anything they put their name behind again so who suffers in the long run?

I Launched a Blog.

Yes, this blog has just added another income stream to my business. In fact when I announced this blog on Friday I found my earnings increased by over 500%. This was simply because of the links down the right hand side of the page.

So although blogging is new to me I can highly recommend it.

I Contacted 2 Copywriters.

I currently have 2 products in the early stages of creation that I hope to launch before the end of the month. Although I don’t usually work on 2 new products at the same time one is just about complete. More on this over the coming days.

I Contacted Dave Guindon.

I have been in touch with Dave Guindon today. This was in regards to one of his products ‘Dave’s Online Videos’. I have been meaning to promote this product for months as it’s a quality product so I basically asked Dave if he would set me up a discount page for my subscribers and he agreed. If you want to see the page created click here.

Creating a subscriber discount page not only increases sales but it also shows I am working to get the best deal I can for my subscribers. Any long time subscriber of mine will know I strive to get them a lot of discounts. I plan to promote this product to my subscribers on Friday. More on this and the tactics I use as it happens.

That’s all I did today, as its Monday I need to wind into the week but I will be busy tomorrow as you will see

Until tomorrow.

John