I wasn't going to do any work on Christmas day but when my wife got me a Flip Video Mino, which is exactly what I wanted, I had to give it a test run. For those of you who are wondering, a Flip Video is a little bigger than a cell phone and will record about an hour of video.

It has a little usb connector that flips out when you press a button. You plug it into your computer and can upload videos directly to YouTube, MySpace, or AOL. How cool is that? You'll have to excuse the video. I didn't realize that it was on at first and I had it zoomed in when I made the recording.

Today my fellow students and I had a 7 hour brainstorming session with our new mentor Alex Jeffreys. I had some prior commitments and figured that I would just have to listen to the replay when it gets posted in the members area. The session started at 2:00pm and I didn't get home until 6:00. I logged into the webinar and it was still going on.

I have to give Alex credit. He kept going until almost 9:00pm. Seven hours of answering students questions and he stayed energetic and inspiring til the end. Considering the measley $497 I spent on this coaching program. Alex has already over delivered and we have only just begun. I have been trying to make money online now for a little over 3 years so I am one of his more advanced students.

I know how to set up hosting, auto responders, websites, and am good at most of the "techie" stuff that really hinders newbies. Alex has designed his coaching program to take a complete nube and turn them into a successful information marketer. Because of this some parts of the first 4 modules have been a tad redundant but only on the technical side. The methodology behind the marketing has really opened my eyes in some instances.

I am lucky because the implementation has been easy for me because of my experience. This has however, enabled me to help a lot of my fellow students that are struggling with the set up of their blog and their "profit pulling platform".

What is really cool though, is that the very first module has been the biggest help for me. The first module was all about planning and being productive. Don't confuse being busy with being productive. I was working hard and kept myself very busy, but I wasn't getting very much accomplished. Alex was very wise to pick this topic for the first module. So many people waste time by checking emails and responding to IM's.

I have a year plan, a 90 day plan, a monthly plan, and a weekly plan, although these are constantly changing because of the tasks that Alex assigns us with each module. The use of a daily schedule and a "Daily Did Sheet" has made the biggest impact on my productivity. The Daily Did Sheet is an actual list of what you accomplished versus what your To do List said you should do.

Comparing the 2 will let you identify the distractions that are keeping you from accomplishing the desired results. It's like having an accountability buddy, only you hold yourself accountable.

I just finished my 2 week trial of "Google Wealth Maker" and I have to report that I will not be continuing my member ship, especially at $77 per month. If you are an internet marketer, I am sure that you have heard about this product. First of all, let me say that the sales page is pretty mis-leading in that the product doesn't really have that much to do with Google. The software is an auto poster for Twitter that creates "tweets" from Google news based on your keywords.

The software does not create the Twitter accounts automaticallly, which it should for $77 a month. The "tweets" are often off topic and not always coherent. There is an option to set up your own tweets but that kind of defeats the purpose of automation. The only value that I see with this software is the back links that it can build. The problem is that because you have to create the accounts manually, you might as well use a tool like Web 2.0 Submitter.

I use Bookmarking Demon which was a one time payment of $97. It does more than Google Wealthmaker ever thought about. It will auto create accounts and lets you rotate the information in your submissions to give it a "natural" look. The crappy tweets that Googlw Wealthmaker created looked anything but natural. It reminds me of the programs that create adsense sites that are basically unreadable gibberish to the human eye but very appealing to the search engines.

I do not recommend Google Wealthmaker at all. There are quite a few programs out there that $77 a month could be spent on you would reap much greater rewards. One that comes to mind is The Authority Site Center by Jack Humphrey. If you are gonna lay out that kind of cash every month, make sure you are getting your money's worth.