I'd no sooner posted my last post than I received an e mail message from an internet marketer. I went to read the article she'd written and it was about having so much information in your brain that it literally hurt to try to sort it out. So she proceeded to create a visual image of "draining" you brain, then said in effect, quit trying so hard.
I had reached an impasse on my Container Herb Gardening marketing and proceeded to follow her advise. Today I found a product I wanted to sell and have written 3 of the 10 articles she recommended that are related to my chosen item. I guess draining my brain really did help, but right now my eyes feel like somebody is poking their fingers into them so I'm going to quit for the day. I'll let you know if this little experiment works or not. It'll probably take a couple of weeks or months.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Keyword Confusion
Once again my brain is suffering information overload. I'm still kind of following the 30 day challenge, but Market Samurai kept freezing my computer, so I had to quit using it. Still there's much information to be learned on the days I can bear to listen to the droning uuuuhhs and drawn out words or try to understand the British accents. No offense intended to the British, but I'm a Southern USA person and I have a hard time with it.
I've found several other websites. One of them is 30 minute back links by Michelle MacPhearson. It's a video where she shows exactly how to research key words and keep refining them until you find one that you can be competitive in. About the time she was getting to how to establish back links my browser shut down! I don't know if this is a test to see how persistent I can be or if I'm just not ready to learn this key word business yet. I have learned quite a bit from various places and have rewritten several of my articles. They seem to be doing a little better, but I've still not hit the jackpot.
I finished what I could remember of the things I'd heard about my Mother's side of the family history and sent it to my daughter who is keeping up with and researching our genealogy. She was very appreciative since my mother died before she was old enough to remember her. Now I'm working on my Father's side. I have to put a disclaimer on all his stories because he was such a grand spinner of yarns I never knew what was true and what was a yarn based on a smidgen fact. I'm glad she asked me to do this. I find myself smiling or outright laughing at some of the memories. It feels good.
I'm finished for the day. Now for a long soak in the tub. Maybe everything I read and heard today will miraculously come together and make sense in the steam.
I've found several other websites. One of them is 30 minute back links by Michelle MacPhearson. It's a video where she shows exactly how to research key words and keep refining them until you find one that you can be competitive in. About the time she was getting to how to establish back links my browser shut down! I don't know if this is a test to see how persistent I can be or if I'm just not ready to learn this key word business yet. I have learned quite a bit from various places and have rewritten several of my articles. They seem to be doing a little better, but I've still not hit the jackpot.
I finished what I could remember of the things I'd heard about my Mother's side of the family history and sent it to my daughter who is keeping up with and researching our genealogy. She was very appreciative since my mother died before she was old enough to remember her. Now I'm working on my Father's side. I have to put a disclaimer on all his stories because he was such a grand spinner of yarns I never knew what was true and what was a yarn based on a smidgen fact. I'm glad she asked me to do this. I find myself smiling or outright laughing at some of the memories. It feels good.
I'm finished for the day. Now for a long soak in the tub. Maybe everything I read and heard today will miraculously come together and make sense in the steam.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Intricacies of The Human Brain
As I've continued to watch 30 day challenge videos, study web page optimization on my own and write as much family history as I can remember, I've been amazed by the intricacies of the human brain.
For instance, did you know the brain doesn't store memories chronologically, or categorically? NO. It stores them by association. I've known this for a long time, but it's one of the little facts that I've remembered as I've been studying and writing. As I was studying the free SEO training at Web CEO, there were some little tidbits of information that I knew, but couldn't associate with anything else I knew. As I studied I kept thinking "OH that's how that works. . .and this is how I could use it!" If I can't see where something I'm studying is related to what I want to do at the moment, it just gets lost and my brain eventually files it in the misc. file til there's something to associate it with.
The same thing happened with the family history my daughter asked me to write. I sat down to write what I thought would be a couple of pages of short sentences about the stories passed down from previous generations. I've got five pages now and I'm still not finished. As I write one story, I remember something in my lifetime that I haven't thought of in years, and I know if I don't write that down right now It will escape and may not be remembered again for years, but what I remember of my lifetime is associated with what was happening in my life at the time I heard the story told. So what I've written of the family history so far is a rambling dissertation that will have to be sorted out and arranged chronologically later.
And now I'm not only rambling, I'm writing run on sentences and that's not good. Time to get off here and eat some lunch.
For instance, did you know the brain doesn't store memories chronologically, or categorically? NO. It stores them by association. I've known this for a long time, but it's one of the little facts that I've remembered as I've been studying and writing. As I was studying the free SEO training at Web CEO, there were some little tidbits of information that I knew, but couldn't associate with anything else I knew. As I studied I kept thinking "OH that's how that works. . .and this is how I could use it!" If I can't see where something I'm studying is related to what I want to do at the moment, it just gets lost and my brain eventually files it in the misc. file til there's something to associate it with.
The same thing happened with the family history my daughter asked me to write. I sat down to write what I thought would be a couple of pages of short sentences about the stories passed down from previous generations. I've got five pages now and I'm still not finished. As I write one story, I remember something in my lifetime that I haven't thought of in years, and I know if I don't write that down right now It will escape and may not be remembered again for years, but what I remember of my lifetime is associated with what was happening in my life at the time I heard the story told. So what I've written of the family history so far is a rambling dissertation that will have to be sorted out and arranged chronologically later.
And now I'm not only rambling, I'm writing run on sentences and that's not good. Time to get off here and eat some lunch.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Catching Up
I haven't been on the computer for very long for several days. My eye's been giving me fits (recent cataract surgery)and I just can't look at the screen very long.
I tried to keep up with the 30 day challenge videos, but they didn't update until today. There's a great new way to post your updates to all your social networking sites, blogs etc. It's called posterous. All you do is e mail your site url and description to them and set your account up to tell it where to post all your new updates.
I also learned about Google Read. It's a great way to gather information and review it to get ideas for new articles, or you can post other articles directly to your blog using posterous. That way if you don't have time to write a blog post, your blog still has new content. Of course you leave in all the links to the original site.
I've been looking over Hub pages. That was one of the places that was suggested to post articles relating to your website and of course put links to your website, but I wanted to surf around the site myself before I followed the advise given in the 30 day challenge video. There's a lot of ways to monetize your Hub, and I see no reason to forgo that. I've nearly got everything together to post an article there.
I received a new writing challenge today. My youngest daughter is the family genealogist. She has managed to find facts and data concerning our family back several generations, but asked me to write out some stories my parents told about growing up. They were few and far between, and mostly negative stories about how their parents raised them, but my daughter feels that they will be priceless additions as insight into they way life on the frontier was, and how it affected some people. I will try to write them as objectively as possible.
No, they won't be made public. They will contain the real names of my family and will be for family records only, at least for another generation or two.
It's been a long day and I haven't accomplished much, but I'm ready to get off the computer for now. Dr. visit today revealed the eye is healing as it should, but it's still bothering me some.
I tried to keep up with the 30 day challenge videos, but they didn't update until today. There's a great new way to post your updates to all your social networking sites, blogs etc. It's called posterous. All you do is e mail your site url and description to them and set your account up to tell it where to post all your new updates.
I also learned about Google Read. It's a great way to gather information and review it to get ideas for new articles, or you can post other articles directly to your blog using posterous. That way if you don't have time to write a blog post, your blog still has new content. Of course you leave in all the links to the original site.
I've been looking over Hub pages. That was one of the places that was suggested to post articles relating to your website and of course put links to your website, but I wanted to surf around the site myself before I followed the advise given in the 30 day challenge video. There's a lot of ways to monetize your Hub, and I see no reason to forgo that. I've nearly got everything together to post an article there.
I received a new writing challenge today. My youngest daughter is the family genealogist. She has managed to find facts and data concerning our family back several generations, but asked me to write out some stories my parents told about growing up. They were few and far between, and mostly negative stories about how their parents raised them, but my daughter feels that they will be priceless additions as insight into they way life on the frontier was, and how it affected some people. I will try to write them as objectively as possible.
No, they won't be made public. They will contain the real names of my family and will be for family records only, at least for another generation or two.
It's been a long day and I haven't accomplished much, but I'm ready to get off the computer for now. Dr. visit today revealed the eye is healing as it should, but it's still bothering me some.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
What? No Bloopers Today?
Today was fairly simple. I didn't get anything done on 30 day challenge yesterday. I watched the videos today about checking your stats in Market Samurai and publishing an article from Market Samurai to your website, then submitting it to Traffic Bug, all very streamlined and time saving? I didn't make any bloopers, but Market Samurai kept freezing up on me, so I wrote my next page "Herb Gardens" for my website and uploaded it manually. Traffic Bug is still ignoring me, so I'm not getting a lot of traffic.
I checked my Google analytics account and found that while most of my traffic was coming from the articles I've submitted else where, and this blog I am beginning to get a small amount of traffic from google.
I went back to the 30 day challenge site and watched today's videos. Nothing new there. LOL They were about how to create a blogger blog and link to your website. I honestly don't know how she managed to make the first video 13 minutes long. Setting up blogger is the easiest thing I've ever done and I've set up 5 blogs on blogger so far.
Somewhere in the midst of all this I went off chasing a wild hare, you know, that subject that just pops into your head out of the blue and you know you've just got to write an article on it. I pulled some articles for research, added some of my own knowledge, then decided I'd better check eHow to see how many articles on the subject were already there. OK, so one blooper, check first before you write the article. Anyway while I was checking every way I could possibly think to phrase the title and finding they were already taken, firefox decided to freeze my computer. Uh. . .two bloopers? I didn't save my article. I can only stand so much in one day. Good night all.
I checked my Google analytics account and found that while most of my traffic was coming from the articles I've submitted else where, and this blog I am beginning to get a small amount of traffic from google.
I went back to the 30 day challenge site and watched today's videos. Nothing new there. LOL They were about how to create a blogger blog and link to your website. I honestly don't know how she managed to make the first video 13 minutes long. Setting up blogger is the easiest thing I've ever done and I've set up 5 blogs on blogger so far.
Somewhere in the midst of all this I went off chasing a wild hare, you know, that subject that just pops into your head out of the blue and you know you've just got to write an article on it. I pulled some articles for research, added some of my own knowledge, then decided I'd better check eHow to see how many articles on the subject were already there. OK, so one blooper, check first before you write the article. Anyway while I was checking every way I could possibly think to phrase the title and finding they were already taken, firefox decided to freeze my computer. Uh. . .two bloopers? I didn't save my article. I can only stand so much in one day. Good night all.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Could I Possibly Make Any More Mistakes on. . .
such simple directions? I got my article, "Planning Your Container Herb Garden"for Scribd written today. I went back and watched the video just to make sure I remembered all the key steps to get it uploaded and published. OOOPS. First mistake. I'd typed my article in Word Perfect which doesn't save as a .doc file, so I had to copy and paste it into Google Docs. Then I linked my keywords to my site, saved it as a Word document and uploaded it. One of the links didn't work! It had a typo in it. I went back and corrected the Google Doc, and saved it as text which of course didn't upload. I think all in all I deleted that document 3 times before I got it into Scribd as a readable document with clickable links. I spent a lot of time doing something that shouldn't have taken but a few minutes because I was so nervous and wanted it done perfect. I don't know why new sites and programs put me in such a tizzy. I got it done anyway. I haven't gotten one written for Ezine Articles yet.
I watched today's video and a light bulb came on. Today's lesson is about making Squidoo lenses which I've been doing for quite a while now. I have an RSS feed module in most of my lenses, but I only had excerpts from my blogs showing. Google likes new content and updated sites, so by putting your RSS feed showing your latest blog entry in your Squidoo lens, you have fresh content every time you write a blog! Talk about automation! What an a haa! moment. Especially since my lenses all relate to one of my blogs or another.
Well I'm not quite so uptight today as I was yesterday. Maybe I'll go watch TV and pet my cat for a while before I go to bed tonight.
I watched today's video and a light bulb came on. Today's lesson is about making Squidoo lenses which I've been doing for quite a while now. I have an RSS feed module in most of my lenses, but I only had excerpts from my blogs showing. Google likes new content and updated sites, so by putting your RSS feed showing your latest blog entry in your Squidoo lens, you have fresh content every time you write a blog! Talk about automation! What an a haa! moment. Especially since my lenses all relate to one of my blogs or another.
Well I'm not quite so uptight today as I was yesterday. Maybe I'll go watch TV and pet my cat for a while before I go to bed tonight.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Information Overload!
I've finally caught up watching all the videos on the 30 day challenge, and now I'm brain dead. Or maybe just experiencing information overload. I realized I've been going at this challenge as if it were a sprint instead of a marathon. Gotta slow down and process all the information I've gained so far.
Still no luck getting into Traffic Bug, and my domain is still parked, but I have realized that my efforts can be enhanced manually without the technology, just not as quickly. I was greatly encouraged to find that my site was indexed by Google in less than a week. I've had some articles take two to three weeks. To see if your site has been indexed you just type "site:the exact name of your URL" in the Google search box. If the site hasn't been indexed you'll get a "no sites matching your search" message. If it has you'll get a "1 site found" message.
Today I learned of a couple of sites to submit an article about your website. They are Scribd and EZine Articles. Full instructions for signing up and getting the most "bang for your buck" were given. One thing that stands out in my mind is that in signing up for Scribd you should use your website name as your user name to give you one more reference to your site. The articles you write for these sites must be original and if you copy and paste anything it must be in quotation marks and the author must be credited.
Both of these sites screen new articles manually before they're published, so it can take from 2 to 10 days before it goes live. Of course, no plagiarism or even copying and pasting from your own articles on other sites is allowed. This must be original content relating to your site. Be sure to read the TOS and FAQ before submitting articles to make sure they fall within acceptable parameters.
I know my subject matter forward and backward, so I thought I'd just sit down and whip out a couple of articles. I opened the word processor program and my brain went totally blank. I searched through the recesses of my mind, but found only a labyrinth of hallways with locked doors on either side. My sense of direction is weak to nonexistent so I got lost. Fortunately my faithful old cat found me and led me out with a meow, a purrrr, and a head butt to the chin. . .she was hungry!
Then is when I knew I had to slow down. I don't know how much I'll get done tomorrow. I'm mentally exhausted. I didn't realize I was taking this so seriously. I just wanted to learn something and that's not usually a great big problem.
Still no luck getting into Traffic Bug, and my domain is still parked, but I have realized that my efforts can be enhanced manually without the technology, just not as quickly. I was greatly encouraged to find that my site was indexed by Google in less than a week. I've had some articles take two to three weeks. To see if your site has been indexed you just type "site:the exact name of your URL" in the Google search box. If the site hasn't been indexed you'll get a "no sites matching your search" message. If it has you'll get a "1 site found" message.
Today I learned of a couple of sites to submit an article about your website. They are Scribd and EZine Articles. Full instructions for signing up and getting the most "bang for your buck" were given. One thing that stands out in my mind is that in signing up for Scribd you should use your website name as your user name to give you one more reference to your site. The articles you write for these sites must be original and if you copy and paste anything it must be in quotation marks and the author must be credited.
Both of these sites screen new articles manually before they're published, so it can take from 2 to 10 days before it goes live. Of course, no plagiarism or even copying and pasting from your own articles on other sites is allowed. This must be original content relating to your site. Be sure to read the TOS and FAQ before submitting articles to make sure they fall within acceptable parameters.
I know my subject matter forward and backward, so I thought I'd just sit down and whip out a couple of articles. I opened the word processor program and my brain went totally blank. I searched through the recesses of my mind, but found only a labyrinth of hallways with locked doors on either side. My sense of direction is weak to nonexistent so I got lost. Fortunately my faithful old cat found me and led me out with a meow, a purrrr, and a head butt to the chin. . .she was hungry!
Then is when I knew I had to slow down. I don't know how much I'll get done tomorrow. I'm mentally exhausted. I didn't realize I was taking this so seriously. I just wanted to learn something and that's not usually a great big problem.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Is Fate Trying To Tell Me Something?
I began watching the videos for day 8 of the 30 day challenge and was really excited about another kewl widget we get to use free for a 40 day trial if we're members of 30 day challenge. It's called traffic bug and it automatically submits your site to all the main search engines and article directories. I was really enthused about using this new toy, so I went to the site as directed and signed up. The video said it should take 3 to 5 minutes to get the confirmation e mail and then you could configure your traffic bug.
Well, that was about 7 hours ago and I still haven't received a confirmation e mail. I went back and registered again, thinking maybe I didn't really push the button. . .just thought I did. I was told I'd already registered and had to wait for the confirmation e mail and if I didn't receive it after 24 hours I could register again.
I did learn a little more about how the search engines rank your page and what it takes to get ranked, along with some ideas to manually submit a site to different places that will provide backlinks to it. The day wasn't a total waste, but I'm disappointed.
I worked a little on my weebly site (see yesterday's post)and started an herb gardening blog on it. I'll expand the site little by little as time and inspiration permits. One little word about Weebly if you're thinking of using it, if you ever open it in the site editor, you have to publish it again whether you change anything or not. If you don't you'll get a message that says this site hasn't been published. If it's your site publish it. Hmmm I guess today wasn't a total bust. I did learn a few things.
For now I'm getting off the computer and going back to the beads. I need comfort activity!
Well, that was about 7 hours ago and I still haven't received a confirmation e mail. I went back and registered again, thinking maybe I didn't really push the button. . .just thought I did. I was told I'd already registered and had to wait for the confirmation e mail and if I didn't receive it after 24 hours I could register again.
I did learn a little more about how the search engines rank your page and what it takes to get ranked, along with some ideas to manually submit a site to different places that will provide backlinks to it. The day wasn't a total waste, but I'm disappointed.
I worked a little on my weebly site (see yesterday's post)and started an herb gardening blog on it. I'll expand the site little by little as time and inspiration permits. One little word about Weebly if you're thinking of using it, if you ever open it in the site editor, you have to publish it again whether you change anything or not. If you don't you'll get a message that says this site hasn't been published. If it's your site publish it. Hmmm I guess today wasn't a total bust. I did learn a few things.
For now I'm getting off the computer and going back to the beads. I need comfort activity!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Oh! Thaaat's Why I Was Obsessing Over. . .
buying a domain and hosting service! My 30 day challenge is at a stand still! My domain shows as being parked and the only way I can access my hosting service is through an e mail link which takes me to a page that tells me I paid them. Period.
Of course WPDirect won't work unless it can access the domain, so here I sit. Market Samurai works though. I'm still watching videos and trying to put everything into action that I can. Hopefully my domain will come live before the challenge is over. In the meantime I'm trying to implement a little of what I've learned on a free weebly website, Container Herb Gardening. We'll see how that goes. Building the site's going pretty slow because I'm a little slow catching on to the workings of new sites even when they're simple. You wouldn't believe how long it took me to get the hang of blogspot. Then there's the fact that the weather's changing and my eyes are driving me nuts. Can't stare at a computer screen for very long at a time.
I got this blog set up on Google Analytics yesterday and was totally blown away today when I checked and found it had been visited 10 times! It was more of a personal journal, so it's not tweeted, blog rolled or anything. Thanks for reading.
Of course WPDirect won't work unless it can access the domain, so here I sit. Market Samurai works though. I'm still watching videos and trying to put everything into action that I can. Hopefully my domain will come live before the challenge is over. In the meantime I'm trying to implement a little of what I've learned on a free weebly website, Container Herb Gardening. We'll see how that goes. Building the site's going pretty slow because I'm a little slow catching on to the workings of new sites even when they're simple. You wouldn't believe how long it took me to get the hang of blogspot. Then there's the fact that the weather's changing and my eyes are driving me nuts. Can't stare at a computer screen for very long at a time.
I got this blog set up on Google Analytics yesterday and was totally blown away today when I checked and found it had been visited 10 times! It was more of a personal journal, so it's not tweeted, blog rolled or anything. Thanks for reading.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Frustration Abounds
This thirty day challenge is kicking my ****. I said yesterday WPDirect would be the host, but I misunderstood. I obsessed half the morning over paying for hosting and a domain name. Finally I realized I don't obsess over buying beads for a piece of jewelry that I have no guarantee will sell, so why am I worried about this??? Fear of the unknown. Gotta let the fear go and just fake it til I make it.
So I registered for domain and hosting. Then I went back to the research, collected 3 pages of information, started writing my article and realized these people didn't know any more about the subject than I did. I wrote my own article, checked it for key words and tried to log in and upload it to WPDirect. Got an error message. My domain didn't exist!
I went back over the video again and again thinking I'd entered the information wrong. I went back to the hosting site and everything looked like it should be working. Finally about 4:30 I got an email from the hosting site that I needed to call to verify my account information???? What? I've never heard of having to verify information for hosting by phone. I called, was told that there was a glitch in their system and they needed personal verification. My first payment was refunded and I had to go to the site and pay the second invoice. By then I think I was half bald, so I gave up on the challenge, which is becoming more and more challenging every day, and decided I'm only one day behind now. I can make it up. Now I'm goin' to bed!
So I registered for domain and hosting. Then I went back to the research, collected 3 pages of information, started writing my article and realized these people didn't know any more about the subject than I did. I wrote my own article, checked it for key words and tried to log in and upload it to WPDirect. Got an error message. My domain didn't exist!
I went back over the video again and again thinking I'd entered the information wrong. I went back to the hosting site and everything looked like it should be working. Finally about 4:30 I got an email from the hosting site that I needed to call to verify my account information???? What? I've never heard of having to verify information for hosting by phone. I called, was told that there was a glitch in their system and they needed personal verification. My first payment was refunded and I had to go to the site and pay the second invoice. By then I think I was half bald, so I gave up on the challenge, which is becoming more and more challenging every day, and decided I'm only one day behind now. I can make it up. Now I'm goin' to bed!
Thursday, August 6, 2009
I May Be In Over My Head
I've watched the videos through day 5 and started on day 6. I'm beginning to get a sense of how this is supposed to work but the problem I'm having is finding a niche or micro niche I'm interested in that isn't completely saturated - one key word search returned so many sites it froze Market Samurai - or has no market value. Gotta sleep on that one.
Day 5 we finally got to something I'm familiar with. Finding content. It's so much easier with Market Samurai! If I make it through this challenge with the potential to really make some money I'm buying the program.
WPDirect is providing free hosting through the challenge, but I'll have to buy a domain name. I found one source that is $10.69 a month. Another one is less, but you have to buy hosting from them too.
Summary: I'm almost caught up on watching the videos, but I haven't done the homework. Still looking for a niche.
Day 5 we finally got to something I'm familiar with. Finding content. It's so much easier with Market Samurai! If I make it through this challenge with the potential to really make some money I'm buying the program.
WPDirect is providing free hosting through the challenge, but I'll have to buy a domain name. I found one source that is $10.69 a month. Another one is less, but you have to buy hosting from them too.
Summary: I'm almost caught up on watching the videos, but I haven't done the homework. Still looking for a niche.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Sorting it All Out
I've been through day 2 and day 3 of the Thirty Day Challenge today - twice. I'm still trying to get it all sorted out.
We get use of Market Samurai free during the challenge. This is really a cool tool for narrowing down key words and determining if you're going to be able to compete in the current market. It's great. If I'd quit leaving out steps it would work better. I tried it out for key words on my Bead Stitch Library that I'm writing and if I did it right, there's a market, traffic, possible conversions and the competition doesn't look all that stiff.
To summarize what I've learned: Most people pick a product then try to sell it. The best order of the process is
1. Market Research
2. Traffic
3. Conversion
4. Products
My head is still spinning over the market research. I'm trying find a micro niche in a market I'm interested in. I must be doing something wrong. My searches keep coming up with the same key words when I try to go from market to niche to micro niche. I have to go back through the videos again and see what I'm doing wrong. Thirty Day Challenge? It may take me sixty days to get through it at the rate I'm going.
We get use of Market Samurai free during the challenge. This is really a cool tool for narrowing down key words and determining if you're going to be able to compete in the current market. It's great. If I'd quit leaving out steps it would work better. I tried it out for key words on my Bead Stitch Library that I'm writing and if I did it right, there's a market, traffic, possible conversions and the competition doesn't look all that stiff.
To summarize what I've learned: Most people pick a product then try to sell it. The best order of the process is
1. Market Research
2. Traffic
3. Conversion
4. Products
My head is still spinning over the market research. I'm trying find a micro niche in a market I'm interested in. I must be doing something wrong. My searches keep coming up with the same key words when I try to go from market to niche to micro niche. I have to go back through the videos again and see what I'm doing wrong. Thirty Day Challenge? It may take me sixty days to get through it at the rate I'm going.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
I've Accepted the Challenge. Let the Game Begin
I've been trying to learn to drive more traffic to my articles, websites and blogs for a couple of years now. It's been very slow going. I seem to be learning at a snails pace, so this year I decided to take Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge.
I'm starting 4 days late, so I'm behind the rest of the "class", but the lessons are all on You Tube so I can view them whenever I want to and hopefully catch up, or just finish late. The lessons will still be there.
I'll be blogging about my thoughts as I go through this challenge, as brainstorming is part of the process, and if I blog it, I'll have a reference to go back and review.
The first day is about the order in which you go about choosing a niche and how important it is to go through the process in the proper order to insure success. Today I'm supposed to be choosing a micro niche. I'm pretty sure what my niche is going to be, but now I need to narrow it way down to one item within that niche, so I guess I'd better get busy brainstorming. UH. . .don't I need a brain for that? I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
I'm starting 4 days late, so I'm behind the rest of the "class", but the lessons are all on You Tube so I can view them whenever I want to and hopefully catch up, or just finish late. The lessons will still be there.
I'll be blogging about my thoughts as I go through this challenge, as brainstorming is part of the process, and if I blog it, I'll have a reference to go back and review.
The first day is about the order in which you go about choosing a niche and how important it is to go through the process in the proper order to insure success. Today I'm supposed to be choosing a micro niche. I'm pretty sure what my niche is going to be, but now I need to narrow it way down to one item within that niche, so I guess I'd better get busy brainstorming. UH. . .don't I need a brain for that? I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
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