Thirty Day Challenge

[padma]

Is there anyone here that has finished the challenge or worked through a majority of the content?

Personally, I am finding it hard to weed through all the lessons to get to the useful information and wondered if anyone that has gone through it all can point me to the best part of the info. So far, it has just been a lot of basics "setup" and zero teaching.

[nghs22]

too jam packed and not enough...do this, do that stuff. All jumbled together....

Although I guess I passed the challenge b/c I actually made about $10

[padma]

Yep, it is a great tool if you have the patience to sort through it all, but it could be better organized. However, I can't really complain since it is free and the ideas for firefox alone make it worthwhile.

[clanshrapnel]

just go through it to the end. you can do like 2 days in an hour or hour and a half... it's not so bad.

I could say skip through certain parts, but you might as well go through all of it since you might find certain things interesting or necessary. If you don't see it as important, then you can try breezing through that section until it's referenced later.

[padma]

One of the things I have found VERY valuable, is the teachings on setting up your browser and other web 2.0 tools. Very helpful for saving time.

[Driven]

Okay, I'm not seeing it anywhere in the book or on this site - what is the 30-day challenge?

[Caesar_X]

Okay, I'm not seeing it anywhere in the book or on this site - what is the 30-day challenge?

I wondered myself until I unleashed the magic of Google.

http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/

[EditorDude]

Is there anyone here that has finished the challenge or worked through a majority of the content?

Personally, I am finding it hard to weed through all the lessons to get to the useful information and wondered if anyone that has gone through it all can point me to the best part of the info. So far, it has just been a lot of basics "setup" and zero teaching.

Sounds to me like there's a potential muse in there somewhere. But I agree with you - in a similar spot myself. I suppose it's down to self discipline too.

[kamakiri]

I have listened to some of the content on that guy's site, and his voice drove me nuts. It turned me off to the message he was trying to get across.

That is one of the reasons I was asking about social networking sites on another post actually, because he kept talking about them, but to the extent that he sounded like a snake oil salesman.

[allisonr]

Hi All

I have completed the last two year's Thirty Day Challenges. It does take self discipline and there is a steep learning curve for those that are stone cold newbies to the internet, or the concept of creating a business online.

Thirty Day Challenge 2008 (http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com/challenge/537) will be starting August 1, with pre-season kicked off this week.

Doing it in a team will ensure you have a support group around you, and usually what you don't "get", someone in the team can help you out with.

If you love the internet, entrepreneurship, idea creating then I can recommend the learning the process that Ed Dale teaches (erm...his Australian accent sounds fine to me, but there again I am Australian :) ). Adapt it to your current business, or develop a new one, it works both ways.

Regards
Allison (http://www.allisonreynolds.com)

[Essence]

I have finished days 1-14 of the 2007 30 day challenge, and I'm burning through the rest before this year's (which I have already signed up for) starts.

The only downside to trying to solo the Challenge is that you reach a point, around day 14 (fancy that!) when you realize that you really have to have a team in order to get the search-engine-optimization that you need to stand out in your particular niche.

Speaking of which, if any of you are interested in doing the challenge "off schedule" with me, I'm totally game to give anyone the full Web 2.0 treatment in exchange for same (once I get my site up, of course.) ;)

[padma]

The more people bookmarking your sites the better, so I'd be willing to help you out. I'm in a group for this year's challenge, but social bookmarking doesn't take long. Send me a pm with your sites (when you have it/them) and I'll get to work.

Stumbleupon has been giving me about 600-1000 hits a day on one of my sites, which is incredible. Unfortunately, it isn't the best traffic. Still, bad traffic is better than no traffic :)

[webgal]

http://webgal.stumbleupon.com/

I could really use some new stumble buddies. So I could add both of you, too. Let me know your screen names so I can nudge your sites.

[TimW]

Like I need to join Just. One. More. Thing.

What does Stumble do? How is it different than Digg, Deli.cioc.us (or however it's spelled) or all those other things I just don't get?

TimW
Phoenix
Investor in Carrier Pigeon 2.0 technology

[padma]

Well, it takes longer to explain than to try it out, but I'll do my best.

Basically, you install a toolbar and setup preferences of things that interest you. When you browse the web you give a thumbs up or down, or just keep stumbling. You tag new sites similar to del.icio.us but when you add sites to your favorites, it brings more traffic than delicious does imo.

I am furyfitness.stumbleupon.com

the sites I could use for some action are:
runnerstrainingguide.com
furyfitness.com
runnersupplements.com

[Vacman]

I need to set this up too.

I've got the toolbar set up on another computer I have, but not on this one.

I've used Stumbleupon in the past but didn't get much results.

Maybe I was doing it incorrectly, or maybe my content isn't what stumble is looking for.

Any suggestions for making Stumble work effectively?

And I'll stumble all your sites when I get back to my other computer.

From what I've seen they're Stumble Worthy for sure :)

Edit: Hey could ya stumble mine too :) www.YummyFitness.com Thanks!

[padma]

I need to set this up too.

I've got the toolbar set up on another computer I have, but not on this one.

I've used Stumbleupon in the past but didn't get much results.

Maybe I was doing it incorrectly, or maybe my content isn't what stumble is looking for.

Any suggestions for making Stumble work effectively?

And I'll stumble all your sites when I get back to my other computer.

From what I've seen they're Stumble Worthy for sure :)

Edit: Hey could ya stumble mine too :) www.YummyFitness.com Thanks!

Gotcha! Done.

[Indyhouse]

This looks fun! I'm game to be part of a 4HWW group!!

[Vacman]

padma,

Woah! Thank you, what the heck did you do?!

All of a sudden I've got 75 visitors from Stumble.

I don't think I've ever even gotten 1 from Stumble before.

My traffic has only come from other sources.

When I stumble sites I just use the "thumbs up" then enter
a description, say "no adult" and then fit it in a category and submit.

Is that what you do too?

Or am I missing something?

Thanks! (I'd like to know if I'm doing this right before I stumble other's sites.)

[webgal]

I think it's the time of day. My knee arthritis page on my sports med site got almost a thousand over several days. 5:30 on monday or tuesday night is a great time.

I'll see if I can find you guys.

[webgal]

Tim- Stumble is like digg. I am only members of Propeller and stumble. Propeller actually gets a bunch of them. I really detest social bookmarking to be honest. But I like to have some friends on there to whom I'm loyal and will ask to review every once in a while.

I got almost all of yours padma. Thanks for clicking on mine.

http://sportsmedinfo.net

Click on some of the pages in this one if you would. They are already posted.

[padma]

Now that I've started to network through some of these sites (30DC and others), I'm starting to notice that a majority of them seem to be part of some type of "good old boy" club, where there is always some new "great product" just around the corner "please click my link to buy it from them."

Is this really what internet marketing has become, hyping the hype? Or are there other methods out there I am missing? I'd like to find some people out there that do it differently than "product launches" or massive email lists...if there are any?