Category: Thirty Day Challenge

Thirty Day Challenge

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 6 - Publishing A Blog

Blogs are a great way for new people to internet marketing to get a site up and running and easily add content without having to know HTML. Search engines love blogs as they come well configured right out of the box. Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms available and as it is free [...]

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 5 - Getting Some Content

To promote your affiliate product(s) you will need to create content about your niche(s). This allows us to write blog posts and submit articles which will then be indexed by the search engines and hopefully result in some traffic. Today introduces a new feature of Market Samurai which will locate content related to your keywords [...]

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 4 - Finding Stuff To Sell And Test

Before going full throttle on your chosen markets the next step is to test the market to ensure the market is actually spending money. You don’t want to go through the whole process of the 30 day challenge just to find that your market aren’t going to buy your products.
Ed’s method to test a market [...]

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 3 - Competition Analysis

Today a new feature has been added to the Market Samurai tool which allows you to do some further analysis of the competition for your keywords. If you read my review of the tool you would have noted that one of the drawbacks were the fact it only gave you the exact match competition in [...]

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 2 - Keyword Research

I think Ed would have probably spent more time on discovering ideas for niche markets if it wasn’t for the new tool he is so excited about. So today is all about Market Samurai a new tool for keyword research which is still not released to the general public. 30 Day Challenger’s get access to [...]

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 1 - Discover Your Niche Market

Nothing particularly groundbreaking taught today just a well used, proven and reliable method for uncovering a virtually unlimited number of niche markets using Amazon www.amazon.com
Today’s Videos
What To Expect In The Thirty Day Challenge
Ed talks about how crucial it is to research your market before promoting or creating a product. In fact the product comes last [...]

It’s 30 Day Challenge Time Again!

Yep, it’s that time of the year where Ed Dale and Dan Raine go all out with the 30 day challenge 2008 to teach you the latest techniques on starting your own business or promoting your existing business. Starting with how to uncover niche markets, keyword research, traffic generation methods and finding or creating products [...]

Day 20: The Finale

Even though I am only up to posting day 20 the actual 30 day challenge wraps up today as it is the end of the month, I have other projects online so haven’t been able to keep up as well as I hoped. Unfortunately I don’t think I will be in the hall of fame [...]

Day 19: Google Alerts and Link Building

Robert from the 30DC team created a nice little video about how to use Google alerts www.google.com/alerts. Once again this is quite a well known technique for keeping up to date with new content indexed in Google related to whichever niche you are interested in. By setting up rules/filters in your email system you can [...]

Day 18: No Special Sauce

Throughout the whole thirty day challenge Ed has been mentioning his “special sauce” which was going to virtually guarantee top placements in Google if we had chosen our niche phrases as instructed. Unfortunately the special sauce should now be called the secret sauce as Ed has decided not to reveal it in the 30 day [...]

Day 17: An Update On My Progress

I seem to have finally shaken the bizarre flu/bug thing that I have had for the last week and over the last couple of days I have been re evaluating my thirty day challenge project, lets just say I am taking a bit of a short cut. The whole idea of the 30 Day [...]

Day 16: Life after Tumblr

Nothing particularly surprising today from Ed and he basically went over what I thought he would as mentioned in my day 15 post. I have decided I am going to use a combination of EzineArticles and Squidoo to test my niche phrases from now on, so here is how I came to my decision.
EzineArticles [...]

Day 15: Why Tumblr?

I know a lot of people are wondering is it over now that Tumblr is out of the game, and why Tumblr, why can’t I use Blogger, Squidoo, HubPages or Wordpress? Well first of all no, it is definitely not all over and secondly yes you can use any of the many web 2.0 blogging [...]

Day 14: A Slight Hitch in the Road

Well talk about from one extreme to the next! First of all I haven’t posted in three days because I came down with the flu on Friday so I have been having a bit of a break from the computer, not the best timing as the 30 day challenge was just starting to reach full [...]

Day 13: Creating Content - Building Blogs

Well we finally got to find out what web 2.0 blogging system Ed Dale and the team recommend and it turned out to be www.tumblr.com. Personally I hadn’t even heard of Tumblr up until a few days ago when I was watching one of Ed’s videos and he was browsing the Google search result pages [...]