This other day I was on a webinar with my coach, mentor, and friend, Alex Jeffreys. He was telling me about the upcoming launch of his new ebook, "Newbies Nightmare". This is some what of an inside joke for myself and fellow students of Alex's first coaching program.

Alex coined the phrase during one of our coaching sessions a few months back. Those few months almost seem like years now. It seems like a long time because I have made such huge advances with my online business.

Now I am not a newbie per say as I have made some money online. Over the last 3 -4 years I have taught myself a lot about SEO and social media. I can set up a website or blog without too much trouble and have a pretty good knowledge of how to put the bits and pieces together for a marketing campaign.

Some of my fellow students were not so lucky and I remember that when I first started trying to do all of these things it was a nightmare for me as well. What I found was that even though I knew how to do a lot of these things there was still a very big hurdle for me.

That hurdle was uncertainty. I had read so many ebooks and bought so many products that promised to be that "blueprint" that would take you to riches, but it was all just generalized crap that left out some very important aspects of creating an online business.

I had tried so many things that brought mediocre or no results. I decided to go to some live events and rub shoulders with the people who are making it big on the Internet. I quickly discovered a couple recurring themes that kept popping up in conversations.

I made it a point to approach some of the big "guru types" and try to pick their brains a little. They all asked me one or both of these questions.

• Are you building a list?
• Who is your mentor?

Now while I was kind of half heartedly building a list, I had not considered a mentor. Well, let me re-phrase that. I knew that I couldn't afford a mentor.

Actually, the truth of the matter is that considering the time and effort that I had spent over the last few years, I couldn't afford not to have a mentor. This still didn't change the fact that I was looking at several thousand dollars to secure the advice of one of the big gurus.

It was not possible for me at the time so I put it at the top of my priority list and started to squirrel away money to make it happen some time in the future. Well, as luck would have it, I got an email from Mike Filsaime one day. This is a common occurrence seeing as I am on his email list.

He was going on and on about one of his students, Alex Jeffreys, and how Alex was opening his first ever coaching program. I clicked on the link and was taken to a video. I sat and listened to Alex and was immediately taken in by his obvious passion for Internet marketing.

By the time he got to the end of the video I was actually a little depressed. The reason I was depressed is because I really liked this guy and he sounded like he was offering exactly what I wanted. The problem was that I just knew he was going to drop the big price tag here in a few seconds as the video was winding down.

I almost fell out of my chair reaching for my mouse when he said that he was only going to charge $497. Now I am not one to jump into anything. I quickly went to Google and started doing some due diligence. I had heard the name a few times but had never read or used one of his products.

When I was looking around, I saw something that was very different. Most of the stuff that he had produced, he gave away for free. I ran across his latest report, Guru's Dream, downloaded it and read it. I then went back to the sales page and signed up.

Turns out, that was the best decision that I have made in a long time. The seven training modules along with the un-announced bonus modules, which included webinars with people like Maria Andros and Andrew Fox, have changed the way I do business on the Internet and have increased my profitability.

Alex also showed me how to increase my productivity by planning and setting goals. I work a 40 hour job and have a family that takes up most of my time. The time I spend on my Internet business needs to be super productive. Alex showed me how to concentrate on the things that make me money and avoid the time "wasters" like email, Skype, and doing things I'm not qualified to do.

The webinar was this past Friday night. It got me thinking about all the things that I learned and the changes that I have made to my business plan over the last 6 months. I have been revisiting some of the modules and also looking through the journal that I keep.

I am really amazed at how different things are for me now. Before Alex Jefferys coaching program, I was just about ready to give up on the whole Internet marketing thing. My wife  was pressuring me to do so and I couldn't argue with her anymore. I had spent a lot of money trying this and trying that and really not making any significant progress.

The coaching program was going to be the last chance. If I couldn't make it work with the aide of someone who "really" knew how to make money online then that was going to be it. I am so glad that I gave it one last shot.

The first module was about planning and goal setting. On new year's day I made on comment on Garry Parkes blog and listed my goals for 2009. My main personal goal was to take my family on a vacation to Venezuela. My wife is from there and she hasn't been home in 5 years.

Well, this coming Monday morning, we get on a plane headed for Caracas. The plane tickets and the two thousand dollars fun money are compliments of my online business. The fact of the matter is that since joining Alex Jeffreys coaching program, I have made more money online than I did the previous 3 years put together.

I am telling you this because Alex is going to be giving away his new ebook "Newbies Nightmare". He will also be launching his new coaching program in the next couple weeks. I have decided to go through my student journal and share what I did over the last 6 months to turn my online business around.

I will make a series of blog posts over the next 5 or 6 days that will relate the techniques and strategies that Alex taught me and how they ultimately changed the profitability of my business and my life. So stay tuned. I am going to reveal some killer stuff over the next few days.