I’m a big fat cheater

August 16, 2007 Filed Under: 30 Day Challenge, Internet Marketing

It’s true… I cheated.

I couldn’t help myself. I am easily excited and I love this challenge! Combine that with my ADD and I’m screwed. I think about this stuff constantly and I’m always trying to learn more.

So one day I was poking around the internet and a link to a page with the first 11 days of content from last year’s 30 Day Challenge. I posted that link in my twitter and on here but I guess it went under the radar.

While it is unfortunately not the complete challenge, I was able to get some ideas from it. I’ll get to those later.

While watching one of the current challenge videos I noticed something interesting…… Ed’s “Free Speed Reading” website. I googled “Free speed reading” and lo and behold, there it was. freespeedreading.tumblr.com

There was very little information to be gained from the site itself but I googled “freespeedreading.tumblr.com” to see how Ed was promoting the site using the various Web 2.0 applications he’s been teaching us to use.

So I quickly created my niche website and used the articles I had written as posts. I tried to replicate what Ed had done with “freespeadreading.tumblr.com”. I used the idea of running a Google Adwords ad for 24 hours to test the traffic and conversion rates.

Long story short I made my first $44. That’s right, I DID IT! I actually made money marketing a product online. I knew it could be done but I wasn’t sure if I could do it. Well I did and it feels great.

15 days ago, I could barely spell Internet Marketing and I didn’t even know my niche market existed. Today I’m the proud owner of what I hope is an entertaining and informative blog and an official internet entrepreneur.

The old saying is definitely true in this case…. If I can do it, you can too!