Iām going to be applying my Quality Assurance/Software Delivery background to my goals and milestones. Feel free to ask any questions, Iād be happy to help. In fact, if anyone is interested, we can start our own āscrumā team and reach common goals together!
Over this journey, Iāll be sharing some knowledge and how Iām applying it, posting my results as I go.
The point of the process below is to exterminate the bugs as close to its creation as possible. The longer a bug lasts, the more expensive it. The cost of business not done on that ad, the cost of fixing the bug, the cost of not learning upfront and learning the lesson later.
Test Driven Development (TDD):
Simplicity is key.
Create a test based on other successful user stories. One case - one hop link for example, that somebody else has done and have shared their results over a given time frame that you can work off of.
Now youāre going to run the initial test and do exactly like they did, hopefully getting similar results. This is your control.
Now change one thing that you think might improve upon with the original test. Something you learned, something someone else did that you thought was cool. It doesnāt have to be perfect, that will come later.
Run that test and try to get it to meet or exceed the previous test.
The final step is clean up. This is where the polishing happens. Is the polishing even another iteration? Does it impact your numbers?
This is whatās known as a āunit testā and what you iterate over. In software, this is Level 1 (of maybe 4 Levels) of testing and where most of the testing is done.
There IS a Level 0 testing. And thatās the 1-on-1 coaching, or Xtreme Programming, as we call it. Itās when a QA person is reviewing the programmerās code as theyāre writing it, virtually eliminating the bug in the same moment it was created. Itās the fastest way to learn and takes the most courage - and also the most investment.
Fail fast and fail often, they say. You get to your end goal faster by driving the learning curve using processes like these!
Things are going great! I really enjoyed your live training this past week - canāt wait for the next one! I downloaded Thrive, but I havenāt had a chance to play with it yet (or BlueHost or Clickbank or Wordpress).
So, this week, Iām going to study the ārecipeā and make my first batch. I think I have all the ingredients now, but I donāt know my process or my parts very well, which is fun. Iām enjoying learning all of this and I canāt wait to have some good eureka moments.
Iām planning on spending at least 12 hours this week on this project, so Iām sure Iāll make some good headway.
Wow! It is great to see you putting your experience to work here! I wish you the best of luck, and remember to use the tutorials, which provide step-by-step instructions
I did get stuck with Week Two stuff on Sunday - I had a Bluehost domain already and I wanted to add a subdomain for my affiliate marketing projects. I got that set up on Bluehost just fine. My issue is that I donāt know how to get Wordpress to work on my subdomain stuff instead of my main page. Looking forward to talking to my new mentor soon (this morning? afternoon?) and getting squared up with that and on to the fast track!
I did Thrive instead of ClickFunnels (for now - a bit cheaper). So create a Thrive account. Download Thrive (must be on any local machine/VM youāre using, otherwise, the landing page feature mentioned below wonāt be there, even after youāve installed Thrive).
Install Thrive plug-in (Architect) on Bluehost --> WordPress.
Browse to the zip folder you downloaded in Step 5d.
Publish --> Public.
Done!
More tutorials can be found using Super Affiliate Support (https://support.johncrestani.com/), which is how I got it done (between Week 2 videos, Live Training and the Thrive tutorial).
My next step is that I need to call Bluehost about moving my subdomain to a different account and off my personal account. Apparently, Bluehost isnāt great with one account/ two separate domains, so Iāll just create two accounts with separate domains instead.
Continuing along with drop shipping, here is my Seller ID and my first 5 items!
I started off with the lowest limit - $500/5 items, but I followed Davinās tutorial on calling in to the support line. Donāt go through raising limits prompt - although the support person now gets another guy on who is probably one of those limit guysā¦and no pressing zeros anymore, I just said āgeneralā for the type of help prompts.
Both support people were very helpful and courteous. My limit got raised to the highest for brand new beginner accounts - $25,000/500 items!
Iāve been trying to keep track of my hours since starting on this journey. I signed up for this program on February 3, 2020 and it is now the 23rd. In 20 days, Iāve spent 62 hours learning and applying all this knowledge, not including time spent at work listening to Inner Circle recordings and live training webinars while Iām at work. I wonāt always have time like this (yesterday I worked 12 hours on thisā¦), but Iām using the momentum and free time Iāve got while Iāve got it. And Iām loving it!!
Got some of the business side done last night! LLC and Paydex (business credit score, lines of credit stuff) in the works.
If you can get this started BEFORE paying for coaching, that would be the best. Really, get it started as soon as possible. Iām using Prime Consulting Services (backed by John).
The first sale is complete! No buyer feedback, but itās been delivered!
Also, I got my DUNS number to start building the foundation for business credit - usually it takes up to 30 days, but I got mine the following day!
45 listings so far, 50 tonight - this week has been a little slow with progress due to St. Patrickās Day coming up and I have Irish fiddle gigs Iām rehearsing for. After St. Paddyās, Iāll be back on the roll.
AND this weekend, Iām getting my student pilotās license registered! Here comes the dream!
Iāve had a scammer try to get me, a significant portion of my eBay items have been out of stock, other items have increased their prices significantly, some itemsā shippinng (Amazon) has increased to a month delivery time, so Iām started keeping better track of my items, takes time. Once I get to 100 active listings, iāll dive into software automation on that - till then, motivational suffering.
Still picking a niche. Why is this hard??
Once I get the niche, Iāll get the drop ship website going. Iāll figure this out today! (my week 2 niche idea is not inspiring meā¦the thing that does inspire me doesnāt have a lot of of drop shipping programs, even though it would be a worthwhile niche otherwise - but I got plans for it on the affiliate side!).
Meanwhile, I definitely want to do the affiliate contest @IlyaG I already figured out what I want to do, just need to finish the drop ship action items first, so hopefully this weekend.
