It’s been a few days since my last update on July 28th about taking risks for big success. On August 1st, I found few of my blogger and forum friends joint so-called 30 Day Challenge program. It’s well known as Internet Marketing Training program to make you a success Internet Marketers. It’s a free training with the usage of their proprietary software.
Initially, I was not interested. So I did not take the challenge in 2008. I know it’s an very intense training that you have to learn so many thing in 30 days and make real money in 30 days. Why I decided to join?
While my wife in Hong Kong for personal event, I have about 25 days to work solo and get my stuff done without any excuses not to. I really only have 25 days to get all my to-do list finished. There is always things coming up that takes away my time.
My current update:
- I haven’t really got chance to dig into stock to invest. I am watching the stock goes up and down in the past few days and can’t really punch the $ into it.
- The blog network I built for my main projects seems all got Google Indexed. I can see that Google is coming to crawl the site. That’s a good start.
- This blog is back in the PR game. Sent a letter to Google webmaster for re-consider for page ranking. It does works. Now I got PR3 back. There is no more garbage links on this site.
- The first few days on 30DC has taken most of my time to play with their software. Now I can see some benefit by using their software. So I went in and update the main keywords for my project. Hopefully it will gain some organic search engine traffic as well.
After reading a great story about a self-made millionaire on one of the Millionaire forums, I definitely see myself on the same path as the one who made his way up at age 28. Only I am much older. All his hard working pays off in few years. The question is how I can duplicate his success with my own.
Now it’s on Day 5 of the 30DC. It is leading me to where I am not going to. Becoming Internet Marketing experts using article, affiliate programs and so on is not my option. No. That’s too much works for me to make too little money. How are you going to make $20M in 5 years by selling someone else products? No way! You need to have your own products. You need to be the drive, not the passenger.
I am not saying 30DC won’t work for people. Everyone is different. If your goal is to make good extra money (maybe $30K/year), you can definitely do it with the program. However, you may end up creating so many Squidoo lenses, Hubpages and posting so many automated articles to flood the Internet and kill yourself doing that over and over. If you stop, your cash flow stop. That’s no entrepreneur!
To be honest, I already know a lot of stuff in the process to make a web site and optimize web pages, but it took me a lot of time to watching the videos and practice. I decided to lead the training video on to my iPhone and only watch that at Gym. It will save me 2 hours of time to do something more productive.
So I am back on my feet to get my project moving forward. I can see the main keywords have jumped 40% in search engine traffic. I am on the right track. The real challenge goes on. I really need to focus on getting the billing done. Time is ticking!
Here are things I can do to help to focus on my project:
- Stop checking Google AdSense revenue. It eats up my time. I will check once a month from now on.
- No TV
- Exercise 2 hours everyday
- 2 Meals a day – I already lost two pounds in the past week.
My real challenges:
- Time management. Without doing all the stuff wasting time. I should have enough time to focus on my project. If I sleep 6 hours, 2 hours for exercise, and 2 hours for eating lunch, dinner and breakfast, I should still have 14 hours a day to focus on my work. Why can’t I write one piece of code in the past whole week? I need to manage my time better.
- Outsource. I have to invest on Internet Marketing and Sales pitch. There is no way to get a great products out without good marketing strategies. Going to post a local job on Craigslist to see if anyone is willing to take my challenge and turn it into cash.
I have completed the 20087 and 2008 30 Day Challenges and can say as a fact that you are not being taught affiliate marketing.
Ed uses affiliate products as a means of proving that people will spend money BEFORE you go to the time and expense of producing your own product. It’s part of the market testing product.
Please complete more than 5 days of lessons before shotting your mouth off as an authority. The less informed may think you know what you’re talking about.
I wish you well with the rest of the challenge.
Twitter: TerenceChang
says:
@Mike:
Thank you for visiting my blog. You may be right. I have not finished 1/3 of the challenges. I know someone will find my post and ask me to shot up!
As I said, I kind of like the tools that help me identify some of the weakest point of my existing site, but I can tell the whole thing may work for some people, but may also not work for everyone. I actually plan to buy the software license for on going use.
Since you already complete 2007 and 2008. It will be nice to hear where you stand now. So I can share with my readers who may also join the 30 Day Challenge next time. Or you can direct me to your post or anyone’s post about their success story.
Thanks again!
I’ve also started to dabble in affiliate marketing as a proof of concept before trying to create my own product – is this the generally accepted way of doing things?
I completed the thirty day challenge last year – it was a rollercoaster but I learnt loads and I can safely say, i wasn’t the same person by the time i had gone through it all. Some great training, and this year, with some of the additions – already this is proving to be another great year. Good luck with it.