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!

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.

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.