One of the best decisions I made in 2012 was joining John Thornhill’s coaching program, Partnership to Success.

Getting yourself a mentor is one of the best ways to guarantee your success on line. You can learn by trial and error, or you can learn from someone who has been before you and worked it out. This is infinitely faster. Of course, if you want to carry on as a pioneer and “Do it my way”, go right ahead. On the other hand, you can learn from someone else and learn from their mistakes, which is a lot easier on your purse, time and patience, I’d say.

What do you get when you sign up with someone’s coaching program?

You get the mindset that succeeds.

You get the results much easier and quicker. You also get contacts and can build relationships. These people are not going to look at you blankly and tell you are wasting your time, it can’t be done, you don’t have what it takes, or or or…whatever negative that gets thrown your way and makes you doubt yourself, doubt whether it’s worth it, if it’s just a pipe dream and wishful thinking.

What you get is a chance to connect with a group of like minded people heading in a similar direction and it’s worth it for that.

When you find out that they stayed up late, struggled to work through their own barriers,  which can be different for each one, and they made it through to success, you know they’ve been where you are now and they know how it feels and they know what they did to get through it and out the other side.

Yes, I’d say it was the best decision I made in 2012 and I can say that 2013 will be a better year for me and I will have company on the way, which makes it even better.

On Wednesday, we had another live training webinar with John Thorhill as members of his Partnership to Success Program.

John is just back from a sailing vacation on the Norfolk Broads – and that was the first point of his lesson by actual demonstration. While he’d been away, his business continued to operate to promote and sell products and make income. He showed us the value of automating as many aspects of your business as possible and the power it generates. He also discovered the value of the connections he’s made and the importance of co0operation and teamwork.

While John was away, I was still able to use his support desk, to handle an issue I had. His support desk is abley manned by one of his former students, so she knows how his program work. She is a product of his training who has also developed her own internet businesses.  Providing good support to your customers is vital if you want to continue a successful business that delivers good value.  That, in turn, develops  good word of mouth. Having someone trustworthy to turn this over to is essential. So for us on John’s program was an insight in to the mindset that goes with success and a live demonstration of how to do things the right way.

Just out of curiosity, I looked up another internet marketer whose list I used to be on. He also launched a training program. I’m not going to name names, but I had my reservations so I never took him up on it at the time. Well, looking into now, there were plenty of comments on a forum about lack of support: emails not answered, poor contact details, lack of follow up leading to requests for refunds. All on the first page of Google! Not even hard to find. Just goes to show how important your support is and how quickly it can impact on your business.  Poor word of mouth spread like like a wild fire

It speaks well for John’s approach, his programs and services that he has loyal students who continue to work with him and want to remain in contact with him. Obviously they learned information of value and weren’t disappointed with his training. I like that he doesn’t disconnect from the students of his coaching programs when their time is up. He empowers them. He doesn’t criticise his students and or refer to them negatively.

Just like tennis great, Andy Murray benefited from his coaching with Ivan Lendl, and won two Olympic medals and a Grand Slam this summer, Partnership to Success is an opportunity for mentoring from someone who is a winner in the internet marketing game. Next time John offers the Partnership to Success, take the opportunity. You won’t regret it.