In the day five video, Russell shows a couple of books and then shows the exact same books recorded on CD. If you know Russell’s background, this may not seem like a big deal as he is a self-professed marketing material junkie, but I can attest to it first hand that different packaging sells.

I recently picked up an e-book called The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. It was handy to read the book at work on my lunch, but then I got busy and didn’t have time to read so I got the audio version. When I was at home, I didn’t want to sit around and listen to the audio file so went out and bought the actual printed book version. No wonder Ferriss only works for hours a week…people like me are paying his bills!

So the point of Russell’s lesson for the day was that you can release a book (or an e-book), you can record an audio file of yourself reading the book, you can make a video about the book, or you could even hold a seminar teaching the book’s contents.

Speaking of books, I know of some great books and cruising. You work hard and you deserve a vacation… the best value for your money when vacationing is cruising. Don’t be a chump and pay too much for your cruise…go buy my books and save money, time and aggravation on your cruise vacation

Mike

I think there’s one major flaw in this so far… what if someone has no niche chosen nor do they have any idea what niche to choose?

I haven’t been participating myself at this point, as I’ve been doing a little research into keyword research and niche selection.

Before we continue on to day five and six, let’s go back and recap the days we’ve covered so far:
Day 1 – watch welcome video, download desktop mentor, join 90 day challenge, study content.
Day 2 – monetize your ideas
Day 3 – 3 rules: always ask first, create an outline, what’s your big idea?
Day 4 – collect questions and write an outline

Well, there it is so far. Stay tuned for day five and we’ll see where that takes us!

Mike

Day three homework: as stated above; join forums and post away!

Pretty easy day three. Guess what’s next? You know it man! Day four.

Mike

Day 2 – Monetize your ideas

Russell referred to a book called Don’t dig for gold by Sam Breman. Sam was California’s first millionaire who bought all of the shovels in town when everyone else was panning for gold. Where do you think they went when they needed shovels to dig up their treasures? You got it…Sam Breman’s shop.

3 Rules

1- Always ask first…what do people want?
2 – Create an outline from Ask campaign questions.
3- What is your big idea? What’s unique about it?

Day 2 Apprentice homework: read the resources, Make an Ask campaign, make a squeeze page in Wheeby or another HTML program.

That’s all for now…see you on day three.

Mike
http://www.cruisevacationparadise.com

For the 30 challenge, we’re supposed to :
1) List our goals
2) Create a vision board
3) Create a mission statement

We’re also supposed to take before photos of what we’d like to change (broken old crappy car, more time with family, leave job etc.) and then we work the materials Russell provides for 90 days.

Then we take an after photo, and write a 1000 word essay of how we have changed internally in the past 90 days. Next we submit our website(s) and proof of income during the last 90 days. After this, a winnder and 5 finalists will be chosen.

So far, it doesn’t look as structured as it was made out to be but there is definitely TONS of good info here and if it does nothing but keep people moving forward taking action…then it’s well worth the price of shipping if you ask me!

When you first setup desktop mentor it asks you to pick a time to receive your next module. Mine is set for 9:00pm so we’ll see what happens tomorrow. For now, I’ve got 41 pdf’s to read….better get at it.

Mike
http://www.cruisevacationparadise.com

Anyway, quick ticket to customerhelpdesk.org and I now have access.

The first thing you see when you log in is a welcome video from Russell that explains the program and the 90 Day challenge. At the end of the 90 challenge, Russell will be giving someone a free 2 year lease on a brand new Corvette. Last time it was a Hummer and it was won by big time marketing dude, Mike Filsaime. Think you can out market ol’ Mike? Click my banner and get a kit on the way to show us what you’re made of then!

So the first page has the welcome video as step #1, Downloading a small app called “Desktop Mentor” as step #2, Joining the 90 day challenge as step #3, and Studying the content listed as step #4.

When you click on the 90 Day Challenge part, you get a pdf to download as well as a video explaining the 90-day Challenege…

I figured I’d take a quick look in the Marketing/Business development folder. It contains no less than 41 pdf files on a broad range of topics from customer support to SEO to direct mail marketing.

I also installed the Desktop Mentor application. Next is to go back, watch the quickstart video from apprentice level 1 section and fire up the first desktop mentor session.

Looks like I’m going to get right into this thing for 27 days or so and see what it is made of. Better subscribe to this so youcan be kept updated. Updates will now follow daily.

I’ll report back after I’ve watched the quickstart video and 1st mentor session. If you’re bored in the meantime, go on over to http://www.cruisevacationparadise.com and buy 1 or more of my exciting Cruiseship Tips books. You deserve a vacation…you might as well save some money and planning aggravation!

Mike

www.cruisevacationparadise.com

The full review will begin Monday, April 21st.

Stay tuned!

mike

Stay tuned for updates!

Mike