should I mentor my ex-girlfriend in IM?

I agree with Michael also. From my perspective before you help her in anyway, you need to set up a few boundaries, ensure that she fully understands them and then set her up with a good program to start her on her way. If she is able to remain a good friend and starts to excel you could advise her in small doses. Warning: If you still have romantic feelings for her don't do it, it would really suck to help her become successful and see her move on. Good luck!

HAHA i like it, never miss an opportunity eh

Hi,

I say yes you should do it.

A few things might result:

She is really focused and starts making money. Maybe even more than you.

She is unfocused and can't make it happen. Just makes you look special.

Either way - you learn lots about yourself and will probably never ask this in a forum again - instead you will be giving advice from your experience - so everyone wins.

Go for it!

Best,
Donna

Hehe my thoughts to.

First question:

Why are you still friends with your ex-girlfriend?

Do you think that by helping her out it will make her want to date you again?

If so, I think you are wrong if that is your assumption. You would further hurt your chances by slowing going from lover status to mentor status.

I don't know you or your ex-GF, or how it is, but somehow I can see you being used later on.

I also second the notion of 'How is it going to help you?'

Do you think your ex-GF can bring anything to the table?

Not all breakups end due to the woman being a terrible harpy. Don't you have any female friends that you know for a fact you wouldn't be able to handle dating? Unfortunately, sometimes you don't figure that out until AFTER you've started dating them. Doesn't necessarily rule out friendship.

Your personal approach is up to you, but I would suggest the same as many others in this thread. Either get her to buy a step-by-step system (preferably something that shows measurable results at a reasonable pace, like One Week Marketing or Google Sniper) and tell her to take action on it and talk to you when she's got the ball rolling, or give her homework assignments to learn the basics.

Personally, I usually send people to Google Sniper and tell them to take a week, go through it, and write down any questions. Then spend week #2 finding answers to those questions, doesn't matter if the answer is wrong, I just want to get them into the habit of helping themselves before bugging me. Week #3 I usually take a day to sit down with them and go through stuff, and then tell them that week #4's goal is to read through it and understand the process on an intellectual level. Then I tell them to create 1 site a week, and get back to me when they get their first check.

Since I quit my job, I've gotten asked by 8 offline friends / family for help starting out. Here's the breakdown:

Week 1: 6 people remaining, 2 gone because they "couldn't get through the ebook"
Week 2: 4 people remaining, 2 gone because I told them I wasn't answering any questions until they had found answers themselves.
Week 3: 4 people remaining, no casualties because this is really more of a clarification session
Week 4: 2 people remaining, 1 leaves because IM is "too much work", another leaves because they "don't want to waste money on domain names unless they're definitely going to make money"

Of the 2 that made it through the testing phase, 1 is earning some nice cash right now and could probably get away with quitting his job if he really wanted to. The other one is my girlfriend, who asked me for a business model that didn't involve building websites, so I put her on Brad Gosse's Personality Cash system. So far so good

Anyway, you'll find that the cliche holds true, very few people actually take action with what they learn so make sure she's going to follow through before you invest your time.