What A Twit......

Yup, I'm feeling like quite the Twit. I've added about 50 new twitters to my following list. Whew! I look forward to Ed telling us of how twitter will be beneficial to us from a marketing standpoint. I like that it can boost traffic to my site, potentially. I'm seeing the hope but waiting for the fog to clear. Feel free to add me to your twitter list, if you like.

Loading up the day 3 video. Was late in coming due to the server bog but I'm sure it will be worth the wait. I never fail to learn something valuable every time I listen to Ed speak. I get excited just knowing it's loading. Grandma always wanted to know before we went to bed... "what did you learn today?" Every day is a learning experience. And every day is a memory waiting to be made - strive to make each one something worth savoring later on.

I also worked on updating my dog breed related cafepress store. Let's see if I can't also do double duty and get that going well as we go along in the challenge. I hope to implement the marketing aspects as we go along. A form of 'practice'. Seriously, I've had this store for over a year now and it's really doing nothing despite my hard work on the graphics. Let's see what the TDC secrets will do to spark my traffic. :) And maybe even my income!

In addition to adding several contacts to my Twitter list, I also worked on adding more Skype contacts. I've got over 50 contacts now. :)

Day 3 - Too Much Of A Good Thing

Yup, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. We will be waiting on Ed's instructions for Day 3 of our challenge until tomorrow likely due to such a large crowd of fans beating down his door to get in on this golden opportunity. Another server will be added and we will be ready to once again, rock n roll!

I didn't let this get me down though. I used my day to further research niche's, make new contacts/friends on Skype who are also participating in the TDC and worked on boosting the search engine optimization of my website that showcases my coonhounds (they don't call me showpup for nothing). Wanna see? C'mon.. humor me! http://www.ironwoodkennel.com

I also find my hands full in caring for an orphan boston terrier puppy of my Mom's while she is out of town at a dog show. (she got a blue ribbon at yesterday's show!!) Since I have dogs who are currently nursing puppies, we had hoped this youngster could get some fresh doggie milk. Have you ever tried to milk a dog? ROTF!! drip-drop-drip... no thanks. I used to have about 50 head of dairy goats (I showed nationally) and there is no way in God's green earth that I can milk a darn dog. LOL So feeding this little girl with a syringe. She's only 5 oz. - can't put her in with a coonhound litter that are now 2-3 lbs a piece. She nearly died right after birth so wish us the best in seeing her through.

Now, I'm going to see if I can make sense of Fire Fox add on called session manager. Low on sleep and white matter cells right now so no guarantees I can come close to grasping the info right now but I'm going to give it a good gung-ho try.

This $1,000 propane bill I just got in the mail should serve as sufficient inspiration... *sigh*

Day 2 - Lucky Number 7

Day 2 of the challenge and things are warming up.

In today's podcast, Ed instructed us to pick 7 niche ideas. No more, no less. We are told the reason for this number will be explained later.

I have many more ideas than 7 so I'll have to figure that out. Seems I have many that would fit into one topic or another so perhaps I'll do that. Looks like I have more sub-niches than niches.
One of them is a topic Ed says he will take a baseball bat after us if we even think of using it. uh-oh!

Then Ed went on to show us 4 of his favorite places to hunt for niche's.

• Ebaypulse.com
• technorati.com
• google groups
• Google Trends
• Yahoo

You'll have to join the TDC in order to learn all the tips and pointers he made on the best way to do these things. If you're interested enough to read my blog, you should really join us at www.thirtydaychallenge.com and gather up all the tasty tid-bits Ed Dale is handing FREELY out to everyone who joins. No strings attached!

Even though I have more than 7 niche ideas, I'm heading over to see what I can find. If you're going to take the challenge, you need to follow all the steps one by one so that's what I'm going to do. :)

Pep Rally was Today

Met up with 3 of my team members on Skype today.

We are planning to meet up for an official team meeting on Thursday - the day after the challenge officially kicks off.

I guess this means that will be our official Pep Rally, too. ;-) But it was nice getting this team truly underway. Now I'm off to inform the other two members of the team who weren't with us on Skype today.

Pimping The Forum

Today Ed Dale turned his focus on teaching us to get the most out of the 30 Day Challenge Forum site. So I spent some time tweaking it. I don't spend too much time reading a lot there. I'm pretty picky there. I found out the hard way last year that you can become much to easily distracted by the many suggestions of others and it can really eat up your time.

I'm going to concentrate on what Ed and Dan have to teach us.

I'm also trying to bring our team closer together. I've proposed that we have a weekly meeting via Skype chat. Last year, I was not on a strong team and it's my goal that this year will be different.
Through support of one another, I want to see that all of us make it through this 30 days and get the most out of it that each of us can. Such a fantastic resource that Ed and Dan are offering us. This can be life changing and I'm super thankful to them for this chance.

I am setting up a Google Notebook page where our team can have our links all listed and each of us can then view it and use Digg and Stumble to help each other out. And it makes for good practice in using these tools that Ed has taught us about.

Enhancing Firefox

What a full day!
On top of trying to launch myself into the 30 Day Challenge, I'm also lovingly tending to some newborn puppies. My husband, John, and I raise, train and show Coonhounds (Redbone and English varieties). John is a 3rd generation coonhound fancier. This year we really outdid ourselves and are caring for not one but THREE litters of coonhounds. Two litters born the same day - 7/11 (shown to the right here) and one just born 7/18. I'm very busy with them but I'm here to prove even those of us with very little time (or sleep!) to spare can successfully complete the 30DC.


Today Ed Dale instructed us - via his explicit video teaching style - to download various add on's we would soon be finding useful to us during the challenge. The browser of choice he's asked us to use is Firefox. I won't list all the ad on's here. If you want to learn all the details and goodies, you will need to join us for the challenge. :) www.thirtydaychallenge.com

I also made sure to visit the blogs other participants are doing for the 30 day challenge so I could stumble and digg and just keep up with how they are all doing. Love their blogs! I have the Google Feedreader which makes checking out the blogs SO much easier. I love it. Ed Dale has asked us to download another reader so I will be doing that as well. Who knows, maybe I'll like that one better...