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 for making my $10 in 30 days using the techniques taught by Ed however I have learned a great deal and do have faith that this stuff works.

There have been a lot of people who have made their $10 in the 30 days and congratulations to them. I know it sounds pretty obvious but finding the right niche is absolutely crucial.

Reasons for me failing are mainly lack of time and the fact I have picked a niche which has no affiliate products. I am going to build a community type site and have my own info product created.

Last Friday Ed declared that if anyone made their $10 by the end of the weekend they would go into a competition to be flown to Australia to meet Ed and the team. On hearing this I thought I would go back to the beginning and start again and see what I could come up with.

About the same time Ed also declared that someone in the 30DC made $7,000 and in fact will have made closer to $20,000. It turned out they were an affiliate for a real estate company or some sort of luxury good. I did a bit of research and found a new niche to promote and put up some pages on one of the recommended content platforms did some social bookmarking however didn’t, and still haven’t, been indexed.

So today I tried a different platform with some new content and some more bookmarking so will see how that one goes.

Going back to the guy who has made close to $20,000 I do have a slight gripe to make with Ed and some people will think I am just being envious which I can assure you I am not. I am extremely happy for the person who has obviously worked hard and deserves the success they are receiving.

My gripe is the fact that Ed is claiming that this person has achieved this result solely from using the techniques taught in the 30DC. Well this is actually incorrect and the person even confirmed this in a post in the 30DC forum. I just want to point out that this is my understanding from what I have heard and read and may not be entirely accurate.

Firstly this person was promoting his own site which at one stage was on the first page of Google I believe about 2 years ago. So as the site is an aged site and already ranked before the 30DC then surely that alone rules it out.

Secondly the phrases he was targeting were far more competitive than what is recommended, I think he said 1 million competing pages which using the 30DC techniques alone with a new site would be virtually impossible to compete with.

Thirdly as he had his own site and domain he had already spent money and the whole idea is not to spend any money at all.
So I have to say I was a little surprised that Ed and Dan counted this as being part of the 30DC. After all the 30DC is aimed at newbies showing them a way to make money without having to spend any and starting from scratch. Using this guy as an example of what can be achieved by following the 30DC in my opinion is a little off. I can understand Ed being excited at teaching this guy a few techniques which were obviously what was needed to give his site the boost that it needed and I also think this is great however there were clearly other factors which influenced his success.

So my point is I think it is unfair to use this case as evidence to tell newbies that by following the 30DC you have the potential to make $7,000+ and I really hope Ed doesn’t keep referring back to this particular case as it just doesn’t sit right with me. I don’t know if anyone else feels this way and it would be great to hear your comments.