Teams are worthless….


So I’m in the process of forming “The greatest team of Internet Marketers you’ve never heard of” knowing full well that most teams are worthless.

What makes the US Women’s Soccer team so great is that they need each other. They each have a unique set of talents. Unlike the Memphis Grizzlies whose only talent is whining.

In Internet Marketing teams, everyone is so focused on their own personal success that the point of forming the team is lost.

In a recent post on Sean Marler’s blog, he spoke about his mastermind group. What makes his group successful is the fact they all come from different industries, different backgrounds and different perspectives.

The goal of building my team is to pull together marketers with different experiences and different backgrounds. There are 1,000’s of ways to make money on the internet and it is impossible to be an expert in all of them, however a great team will have experts with various specialties.

What are your talents? What are you interested in learning? You don’t have to be an expert but you must be committed to learning. I don’t have time to study every method but together we can master them all.

Think critically~

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The Greatest Team You’ve Never Heard Of…..

Have you seen the Nike ads for the US Women’s Soccer team? I love ‘em!They are fun, entertaining and they peaked my interest. What makes them so great?! Well, curiosity got the best of me and Nike is right…. they ARE the Greatest Team You’ve Never Heard Of!

In their 22 games last season, and didn’t lose a single game. They scored 57 points throughout the season while only giving up 10!

The greatest part is that 20 different players each contributed to those wins and there is no superstar. They are truly a TEAM!

During the 30 Day Challenge we were encouraged to form teams. Most teams fizzled out because each team member became so involved in their own projects that there was little time for participating in team activities. Sharing ideas, giving love and general inspirational support was minimal.

So I’m starting a new team…. The Greatest Internet Marketers You’ve Never Heard Of. That’s right, a team of dedicated, highly motivated internet marketers who are focused on success.

This is not a pee-wee football team where everyone gets to play. If you want to join the team you must be able to demonstrate you commitment to the team and it’s success. I will be starting a Facebook group for the team but it will be invite only.

To be considered you must email me at mike_mosby@yahoo.com for more information. You can also PM me on the 30 Day Challenge forum or the Immediate Edge forum.

I know what you are thinking, why do I care about joining this team?

I will be sharing new ideas about successful internet marketing with my team. We will share lesson’s learned and grow our niches together. Right now I have one niche that converts a sale EVERYDAY! I have another niche that generated 80 visitors in its first day online.

I have developed 3 unique marketing strategies that will fit almost any niche! I don’t want to share this information with the world because it will dilute my success however I do want to help those who are committed to making it work.

I’m appalled at some of the 30 Day challenger sites I’ve seen. They took Ed’s valuable advice and produced CRAP! Now we have all suffered thanks to Tumblr gate, the squidoo and hubpages slap. That will NOT happen to my strategies. I just won’t let it!

So if you are committed to success then email me now!

How does a sale every single day sound to you?

~Think critically

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Backlink Building

Here’s a quick note:Did you know that links on Myspace pages are counted by both Google and Yahoo? The Myspace pages only have a PR of 2 but think about the ability to generate a large amount of backlinks in a short period of time…..

Think Critically….

Mike

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The aftermath…

So the Thirty Day Challenge is over but the journey still continues.Hopefully like me, you’ve been monitoring your site and tracking your stats.

Hopefully unlike me, you’ve been updating your site regularly. I haven’t added many new posts but I have gotten my ezine article accepted, submitted to a few other article sites, solicited backlinks and analyzed my competition. So I haven’t been TOTALLY lazy.

I really wanted to sit back and evaluate how the site was doing in order to determine if I needed to cut bait and try again.

Let’s look:

50-70 page views a day (with 40-50 of those being unique visitors)
12-15 Clickthrough to my affiliates page
1 in 50 purchase affiliate product

*This data is based on about 10 days of data (would be 20 if it wasn’t for my almost fatal link error)

Those numbers look pretty good to me. With about a months worth of effort I think I can get up to 150-200 unique visitors a day. The question then becomes my clickthrough rate. Atleast 50% of my visitors should be seeing my affiliates page because that is what they came to my site looking for. A solution. Why aren’t they going there?!

Let’s do an experiment. Maybe the TDC Tracker Url “locatereview” is throwing them off. It is a bit awkward considering I don’t talk about reviewing any thing so lets try TinyUrls.

I also switched around some of the posts to help drive traffic to my affiliate.

Now it’s back to tracking. Let’s see how these changes effect the stats. Hopefully there will be an increased click through rate. My goal is to have at least 25 people seeing my affiliate page which should result in a sale every other day. Then I will focus on increasing the number of visitors and my Google rank.

How are your stats?

Think critically~

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Happy Labor Day

I hope you are having a wonderful Labor Day.

I’m taking the weekend to reflect on the challenge and develop some new ideas.

I just wanted to share with you a neat article I found on the Time Magazine site… 50 Best Websites of 2007. I recommend you check out all of the websites on the list to see how they could fit into the Thirty Day Challenge marketing techniques.

Enjoy!

I’m an idiot!

I’ve had about 130 people click on my affiliate link on my niche page and no sales.I was a bit frustrated but remained determine. I wanted to focus on getting a high ranking in Google so I could confirm traffic rates before passing judgment.

Well today I decided to do a little tweaking to the site and I accidently clicked my affiliate link and saw a 404 Not Found error!

How could this be? Is my affiliate down? Did the TDC tracker screw up?

I never checked the link when I set up TDC Tracker so the link pointed to a page that didn’t exist.

2 days of potential sales…. gone!

Test, Test,and then Test some more….

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My content experiment failed?!

Absolutely nothing has happened!And I couldn’t be happier :)

So far in my test of content hosting platforms nothing has happened. Google has not indexed any of the 8 pages I have set up.

Let me explain. I am spamming! I created 8 identical sites on 8 seperate content hosts. The idea was to see which one got indexed first and highest.

I know this is spam but it is just research. I plan to take down 7 of the 8 pages once the experiment is done.

It’s been almost 48 hours and nothing. Not a single one has been indexed. And it’s GREAT! I didn’t give any of them social love because I didn’t want that to sway the results. Which made me wonder:

Obviously something about “giving love” told Google to check our sites, somehow social love let Google know that we’ve updated our content. But what is it?

Google uses a Spider to crawl around the internet checking webpages for content. The spider reads the page and stores all the important information about your site in a database. When you do a search, Google goes into that database to find webpages with those keywords and returns them to you in order of relevance.

So if you notice the fluctuations in your rankings it is probably because the Spider found that a page that used to be #100 just updated its content and is now more relevant than your page so it slips that page a head of yours in the ranking.

If we could control that spider, we could control the WORLD! Okay, maybe just Google but think about how powerful that would be. Well that is exactly what we did! By social posting, the Spider would find our social post, crawl it (follow the links) and end up at our content page, notice that it has been updated, then update the database. So the next time you searched for your keyword, you saw that you moved up a bit in the rankings.

Brilliant!

I have to run but there is obviously more to come. If you are thinking critically you should be asking yourself: is there one form of social posting that is more powerful than another? Why did Ed tell us to add content EVERYDAY? Can you get the spider to check your site everyday? How often do you need to “love” a site?

Answers are coming!

Think critically~

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Let the experiment begin!

Before I crack into my second niche, I want to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes I made with the first one.

The first step is finding the perfect hosting platform for my content. I need to find the next TUMBLR.Ed Dale is not going to tell us what it is, and rightfully so. That just means I have to find it.

In case you forgot, here is the list: (thanks Mike Mindel)

Spread the Text Love

I left off the video and article sites. I want my main content page to be a destination site that is updated frequently so visitors have a reason to come back.

So let’s analyze these bad boys:

I chose to look at PageRank, Y! Links, Alexa rating and google results for “free blog”

Since we know that Google loves TUMBLR, we’ll use TUMBLR as the benchmark. Tumblr comes in at 12 with a modest page rank of 6, 71,700 links and an Alexa rating between 3-360 (the Alexa ranking changed every time I clicked the Go button).

So we set a baseline of page rank of 6, 50,000 links and Alexa rating under 100.
*Blogger was ruled out because it is already very popular among thirty day challengers

The finalists are:
Wikispaces
Bravenet
GooglePages
Wordpress
Livejournal
Blog
Blogsome
Squarespaces

So this test is very unscientific test. I have no reason to believe that any of the criteria listed above will correspond with a high Google ranking for your content page.

What I do know is that I don’t have the time to test all 25 sites individually so I needed to narrow down the list. Now I can test these sites to find out which one is the most powerful.

Stay tuned for more…..

Think Critically~

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BIG GUNS!

I used to be the platoon leader of a scout platoon in the United States Army. We were equipped with two .50 caliber machine guns, two MK-19 automatic grenade launchers and two TOW missile launchers.

That’s right, tank killing, widow making, game changing MISSILE LAUNCHERS.Thankfully I never had to use them in combat. However, I always had them locked, cocked and ready to rock because you never know when the battle might get to a point where you need to pull out the big guns!

Internet Marketing is like a battle, there is a lot less at stake but it is a battle none-the-less. So having a strong arsenal is very important. So far Ed and Dan have given us some great weapons to use in our quest to reach #1 in google ranking. And yesterday they unleashed the big gun!

Google Alerts have just become my big gun.

Backlinks are a very powerful Web 1.0 technique. In order to achieve and maintain a high ranking in Google you MUST have backlinks to authority sites. The Day 27 training did a very good job of explaining how to do this. It is a slow, tedious process compared to what we’ve learned so far but it is extremely powerful.

It hit me today when I checked my Google Alerts and I saw a Yahoo!Answers question about my niche! I quickly responded to the question with my link attached as a resource…..BAM! A backlink from yahoo! Talk about powerful.

I set my alerts to update me as soon as a question is posted so I can be one of the first responses. So not only am I getting backlinks, I’m generating traffic because everyone who comes after me will see my link. Be cautious though, just like any other Web 2.0 technology, you must participate in the community. I don’t just answer questions about my niche and drop my link in. I answer questions about anything and everything. I even answer niche questions without linking.

I’m not there just to pimp my site, I’m an active member of a fun community.

Look out #1, here I come and I’m packing some serious heat!

Think critically~

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Who needs special sauce?

The forum is buzzing with talk about the “Special Sauce” decision.

What if McDonald’s announced that for the next 30 days they were going to give-away Big Mac’s for FREE, with one catch. No special sauce.That’s right, 2 all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun absolutely FREE for 30 Days!

What do you think would happen? They would have to change the sign out front to “Over 1 Trillion Served” That’s right, people would be standing in line for hours to get their FREE Big Mac. McDonald’s would Super Size the country!

Then why do people feel like the Thirty Day Challenge, packed with valuable internet marketing lessons that are 100% FREE, should come with “special sauce.”

How DARE you look a gift horse in the mouth. I don’t know about you but teeth or no teeth, I’m riding this heaven-sent beast of burden into the Internet Marketing history books!

I must admit I’m a bit disappointed by the decision not to share the “special sauce” but who am I to complain. I’ve learned more in the last 27 days about IM than I could have in 6 months on my own.

So my plan (because you know I have one) is to make my own special sauce. That’s right, I’ve got a bottle of Thousand Island dressing up my sleeve. I have to verify that it works so it will take me a few days but I think I have a good idea of some of the ingredients in the special sauce.

Thanks to Ed Dale, Dan Raine and the gang for everything they’ve taught us thus far. Keep up the great work and beware the Mosby special recipe!

Think critically~

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