I’m almost two weeks knee deep into the 30 Day Challenge - with the goal simply being to set up a site and make a sale of any product or service. In the 13 Lessons I’ve done so far, I’ve learned the following:
- It’s all about the basics: content (product) and distribution. The key to any good sales strategy. That’s a good thing.
- It’s going to take longer than 30 Days. Let’s be clear - some of the lesson take substantially longer than an hour, especially when you take into account the amount of writing that needs to happen.
- It’s not automated. Yes, you still have to do a lot of the groundwork yourself, and this project is both time and effort intensive. Again, not a bad thing.
- You will learn a hell of a lot. No, it’s not all presented perfectly and there’s room for improvement - but overall the price is right and the course is rock solid. I’m enjoying it.
Thinking about partaking in the 30 DC? A few words of advice:
- Do the preseason training. I didn’t, and I regret it.
- Spend a lot of time on Week 1. Don’t let time be an issue here - really understand the ins and outs of Market Samurai and keyword selection. I made a few mistakes here and am now paying the price. My initial theme keyword was not selected properly.
- Think of it as a marketing test. Don’t get hung up on making it perfect or you’ll never finish. Any lessons learned can be applied to your next product launch.
This week, we’re writing articles about our niche and distributing them to some great outlets: eZine Articles, Scrib’d, Squidoo and Hubspot to name a few. Once posted, we’re submitting the links to Traffic Bug and Market Samurai to create backlinks to my site/blog (fundogcollars.com) to build authority, page ranking, and search engine results. That in turn drives traffic.
Caution: This is really a time intensive process. And a bottleneck to having more than one or two blogs running at any one time. So I’m not sure about the scalability of this approach yet.
But overall, I’m very pleased with the progress and the amount of helpful info I’ve learned. Hey, if you type ‘fun dog collars’ into Google, I come up on page 2, result # 16. I was nowhere in the results last week. I think they call that progress.
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