Week 3: Finally Done With Training!

Week 3: Finally Done With Training!

After two weeks of video training I am finally done with the set-up and scale up steps of Aspire. I can tell you it's not difficult to do the training whatsoever. You just watch the video, read the overview, and complete a study guide of what you learned.

Well that plus whatever work your coach gives you. Drew has us watch additional videos, fill out some extra forms, and goes on a daily check in call to review what we learned at each step.

But I am STILL not at the point where I can begin making money...well I can, but the coaches don't recommend it yet.

You see there's still one more step I have to take with Drew, that's the business planning step. Basically we'll be having a one-on-one meeting where we talk about my goals (something you delve very deeply into in later steps), marketing budget, and a game plan to how you can achieve your goals around your budget.

On top of all of that I still have to receive my final coach, that would be my training/traffic coach. S/he is the person who will guide me through all of the sources of traffic and see which one I will be most successful with. Now me personally, I always thought you just post ads through every traffic source and that'll get you leads...Turns out not to be the case.

First there's A LOT of ways to get traffic. We're talking Solo Ads (paid ads where you are paying for traffic to your site), Blogs like this one, video marketing, social media marketing, banner ads, Google Adwords, Bing Ads, and so much more. No way you are going to succeed if you try to get ads on every one of them. That's why my coaches have told me to pick one and master it. I'm leaning more towards Solo Ads, Email Marketing Ads, or Facebook Ads.

Anywho that's all I have for now. I know it's not my best writing and there's no pictures of my progress so far...I'll be editing this tomorrow and adding more information to it. But it is 11PM, I just got home from class, and looking forward to hitting my bed and enjoying this snow day we have tomorrow!

I'll see you all next week!

Week 2: Working My Way Through Training

Okay, so I had to sign an NDA form from Digital Altitude so I may not be able to go into 100% detail about what I've learned. But I am still going in detail about the process so far.

Currently I finished my start-up steps (steps 1-6) and am now on my set-up steps. These are supposedly the rest of the steps which should lead me to where I can finally start making money.

On top of these new steps that I am on I also have a new coach, Drew. He is a 7 figure income earner from Australia and he is taking me throughout the rest of my steps. He has a completely different method of coaching from my start up coach Ryan. With Ryan, he would unlock two steps at a time for me and we would go over both steps over the phone. Drew on the other hand wants me to take things slower. He only unlocks one step at a time, fill out a form discussing what I learned at a given step, has me listen to the daily calls that DA has every morning, then we go through a group workshop via video chat where we all discussed what we learned at out given steps. At this rate, I'll be done with these steps in eight days (I have eight steps left after my group call later today). This would mean that my two week $1 trial will be over and my $37 monthly membership would begin. I was told by my previous coach to stay on that level since I would not be doing any marketing at the moment.

On top of all that I decided to upgrade from the Ascend business program to Rise. Yes, that means I just went to a program that costs $2,000. I chose to do this for the extra training (that you get access to right away) and because I was able to get the base package for free ($597 retail price). I didn't pay it with my hard earned dollar though. I am leveraging OPM (Other People's Money) to fund this. Now because the other DA products are very expensive (we're talkin 3k-28k) I'll hold off until I am able to start generating income. My coaches may tell me it's a bad idea. Because If I start marketing under Rise, then anyone who I bring in while I am on Rise will be passed over to my sponsor once they go through the next levels (even if I upgrade before them). That's cool with me because many people don't make it to those levels that fast, and I rather make sure I am making money before I spend so much.

DA's Base Homepage

DA's Rise Homepage

There's one more very interesting thing. Since I've started DA, I've gotten friend requests and messages on Facebook from other online marketers. Not because they are trying to sell me on something, but because they were looking to expand their network and find other like minded people who were also trying to make money online.

Who only knows what is going to happen next. Currently I am still under the rags section of Rags to Riches, but the good thing about being at the bottom is that there is nowhere else to go but up!

"Live Like You're Rich, Hustle Like You're Poor"