Thirty day Internet Marketing Challenge 2008

As you all know I have been actively seeking to learn and "master" internet marketing.

I have purchased several systems.

Read several books.

Spent hours and hours online seeking this special knowledge.

I came across something that I think is truly amazing. Ed Dale is doing his fourth year of ThirtyDayChallenge and the amazing thing about this is it is 100% free.

ENTIRELY

He even mentioned that all the tools you will need for this "challenge" will be free as well.

I joined today and already went through the first day of preseason.

Needless to say I have learned of several free tools that I have never heard of that so far, are impressing me.

I am using a new browser recommended by Ed Dale, called Flock.

So far I am impressed with the speed of this browser but it has only been a few hours.

We'll see how it goes!

And oh yeah!!! For the Thirty Day Challenge Ed Dale stresses teams tremendously.

There is a forum within this challenge to form teams and discuss the content.

I really love this aspect. I know I will get a lot further a lot faster with some supportive people by my side.

I have heard quite a few really good things from people who have taken the challenge in past years.

I am excited!

Namaste,
Tiffany

The Next Two Weeks!

I just wanted to say "Hi" to everyone and give a little update.

I have decided to go with SBI for my website hosting.

So I know I set a goal intitially of June but that is not going to happen as you can all tell. I have had and still have several events and between school and work it just became very overwhelming. I should have known that from the beginning but I always tend to think I could take on anything.

I am however only taking one class this summer and do not have any events planned for June or July.

Meaning...... I plan on really working on my site and learning internet marketing those two months.

Tomorrow I will be attending "Never Work Again". It's a seminar that is supposed to teach several different passive income methods. I have heard mixed opinions about this seminar, but I will give my honest opinion after I attend.

Then next thursday I am flying to Salt Lake City, UT for my business convention! Go Zrii! www.livefree2008.com. I finally get to meet my business partner and spend the week with a good friend Heidi.

By the way Zrii just came out in a very popular magazine!

Well that is my mini update! Stick around for some good stuff coming this way!!

:o)

Namaste,
Tiffany

Catching up!

So it looks like life has taken me in several different directions. I am however still committed to learning internet marketing.

Right now I have been reading a book called "Hypnotic Writing", I forgot who its by and its in my car( I will add it on later). The more I learn about internet marketing the more I realize that copywriting is "one of the main ingredients"!!!!!

I love the style of Hypnotic Writing because his techniques are using "Love" as the drive to buy products, not Pain like the majority of marketers.

Also I think I am going to change the name of this blog, if I am able to! I will still be going over internet marketing but this blog has been about my growth in all areas of my life so far, so I would like to properly name it.

2008 is definitely going to be a year of dramatic growth for me and dramatic changes ( I feel it).

My relationships is like night and day from just six months ago. I never thought you could be more in love with someone after two years. I always thought that "in love" feeling starts fading. And I can only see it growing!!! The most amazing thing is he is growing right along side me. I am so lucky to have him, but I am starting to see how lucky we are to have each other. A partnership I am very grateful for!

I am sending my son to a skate camp for the summer! www.skatecamp.org

I am nervous because he is my baby, they will be jumping off cliffs, riding, skating into a lake, producing videos, learning how to start a fire in nature, producing a magazine and so much more. It is costing me, I have to work an entire week to pay for a week of him being there!!! But I know it will result in such growth and him coming into himself. I think he will be more self reliant and confident with himself afterwards. Plus I know he will have a blast.

I invest a lot into myself (which I believe is the best investment ANYONE can make), so investing into his growth is just as good! I am SOOOOO excited for him!

I have two big events this month alone!!! Next week is Never Work Again, with Peak Potentials. Then I have my Zrii convention the week after. Deepak Chopra will be there and I get to spend a few days with a team member and finally get to meet my business partner! My website is www.lifefree2008.com if you're curious about it.

I have one more year of school left!!! Then I will have my B.S. in Business Entrepreneurship!

But I think the biggest thing is through all of this, my life gets better and better. The more I work on myself, the better things get not only in my physical world but my "inner world". Meaning the way I deal with things and see things is just better! My moods are more stable and they slowly elevate as I grow.

I am coming into myself! I am starting to really express myself. I sing in front of my boyfriend now! I know that doesn't sound like much but me singing and dancing without alcohol is like asking a private shy person who is very reserved to go be the life of a party (without alcohol).

I guess in general I just feel more comfortable about being me. I don't take it as personal when people don't like me and I care less and less of what people think of me. Not feeling a need to pretend or hold back. It is a great feeling to just be me and stand by who I am, without all that other "haze" surrounding it.

Like I will always say I have so much more to learn and grow. The "positive" journey has just began! Thank you to all who is taking part of it! :o)

Namaste,
Tiffany

Train the trainer experience!

Its been a while!!!

After Train the Trainer, everything in my life was very "backed up". I had to catch up on school, work, spend time with my son, boyfriend, etc..

Sorry it took so long for me to write about it!

I have been to several of Peak Potentials programs and will be attending several more. But this one was by far the most intense for me. I knew it was going to be.

The first Time I attended Millionaire Mind Intensive, I knew out of all their programs I wanted to attend "The enlightened warrior camp" and "Train the Trainer."

I signed up for Enlightened Warrior (I will be attending it this August) but I didn't even consider signing up for Train the Trainer. When I realized at the Life Directions workshop that I didn't sign up for TT1(Train the Trainer) because it scared the "jeepers" out of me, I decided to sign up before my head could get in the way. So that is how I got to TT1.

Now I see why it scared me. I was completely out of my comfort zone the entire time. No one seemed as scared as I did one of the nights. I don't want to give too much away but we had some "fun" nights. Singing, dancing, letting go and just enjoying life. Well one time during these events I just cried. I couldn't help it, I was so scared but I did it anyways. I don't know how I got on that stage (like I said I am trying not to give too much away) or how I lasted up there, and to be honest it is still a haze to me. But I did it!!!!

I seem to be much more aware of when I care what people think of me and also aware of my hesitations to be myself. They offer Train the Trainer 2 and would love to go, and I plan to in the future but I would like to attend warrior camp first and work on myself a little more before I go to TT2. I did have a huge revelation (which is why I love Peak potentials so much, they seem to be good at this) at TT1. I realized I am a very serious girl and its hard for me to lighten up and just enjoy life.

Sadness, frowning, anger, etc.. are easy for me to express and feel. But I feel embarrassed to smile and be happy, almost like it is wrong. Logically I know this its not wrong to feel good or happy but there is something that really scares me and holds me back from expressing and experiencing positive emotions. This is such a huge realization for me. I can now work on trying to laugh, smile, enjoy, and have fun more often. The first step to anything is knowing exists in the first place. Because of TT1, I am already 10 steps ahead of where I was with this.

I will lighten up and just enjoy life and have fun!!!!!

I can definitely feel the difference already!

OH YEAH!!!!!! I almost forgot.. Peak potentials teaches you a way of "training" (speaking in front of others) that keeps your audience engaged at ALL times. They have very unique ways of teaching it as well. All I must say is that when I did my final presentation, my body and mind automatically did things that they taught us without even thinking about it? Can anyone say "That is awesome!"? :o)

The environment at peak potentials trainers is always very supportive and compassionate. I have met the most amazing people at their events. This time people were passing around a list of numbers and names for support groups. We have already connected through a yahoo group. This is absolutely amazing!!!!

I will talk more about it TT1 later. I am actually off to another three day workshop but not for peak potentials!!!! I am really excited about watching someone else speak. As Rob (The Trainer at TT1) mentioned we will all notice everything a speaker does or DOESN'T DO after TT1!! :o) I might be screaming by the end of this workshop "Please, Let Me At Least High Five Someone!" :o)

We'll catch up soon! I miss writing!!!


Namaste,
Tiffany

Playing with the cam! Recent Pic!

This picture is of my son and I. It is the most recent picture I have of myself.

I am off to the gym and then time to get ready to leave for the seminar tomorrow.

I must say that as I learn more and more about internet marketing I discover there is more and more to learn. I know I need to get my page up and running soon if I am going to be able to learn most of the other things especially by my goal date.

I can see there still is a study amount of readers, I would really love to hear your comments!

Love,
Tiffany

HELLO!~~~

I am getting more and more excited. Although I don't have my site up yet because I need to get a little more clear about some of the content, it all is coming together.

I leave monday to go to an intensive seminar called "Train the Trainer" by T.Harv Eker. He wrote the book Secrets of a Millionaire Mind And conducts well known seminars that help change your financial blueprint and set you up for success. Those events are called Millionaire Mind Intensive.

The seminar I am attending is to help with public speaking, conducting my own seminars and stuff along those lines. Pretty much engaging an audience and doing so comfortably and confidently. I love seminars! But this seminar actually creates the most fear in me because I don't know about you guys but just thinking about public speaking makes me nervous.

I will be updating everyone on that when I get back.

Maybe friday or saturday I will be able to get my website up. We'll see! :o) I have been very busy, exercising, homework, work, etc.. But as my energy level keeps rising I know I will have more free time and "motivated" time to dedicate to learning internet marketing.


I did however learn something new today. There is something they call linking, it is one technique they use for SEO (search engine optimization). There is a list of sites you can submit your website url to that MAY help increase traffic to your site.

Bottom line is the more links you have on the web linking back to your website, the more the search engines will like your page! So if you have friends with websites or any other means to get your link onto someone's page, I highly suggest you do that!

It is time for bed now.

Good night,
Tiffany

Excited!!!

I had an appointment with my spiritual coach today. I had decided to talk to her about my challenge of learning internet marketing.

I explained how in order to start learning I must find a niche market so I have a product to market, etc.... And she said why search for what others are looking for, why not build a site and learn to market it with ANYTHING that had to do with what I have a passion for.

Remember when I wrote about the keyword search and how i was disappointed with the results? I had did a search on one of my biggest passions and I did not recieve a desirable result. From what I can tell (remember I am no expert), this particuliar passion (I will tell you what it is soon) did not have a significant amount of searchs. Meaning not very many people were interests in the niche (not a big market).

So I went on to the next thing and never looked back! The last few days this topic has been coming up for me over and over again and I couldn't stop thinking about it. However, I never reconsidered it because there wasn't a significant market for it.

Well....... I am going to go for it!!! I would rather have fun learn to market something I have my heart in, then trying to market something that I don't care for just because it appears to have a huge demand.

I know I have mentioned before that I love growth, self development, etc... Well what I love the most is those "aha" moments. Now what are those "aha" moments?

"Aha" moments or epiphanies are moments of clarity, when you see something from a clear new perspective for the first time, when the blind fold is removed in a certain way, etc...

I LOVE THAT FEELING AND WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO HELP OTHERS EXPERIENCE THAT WONDERFUL FEELING.

Call it what you want. From pushing past fears, removing the haze, achieving clarity, removing negative beliefs, removing the blind fold, increasing awareness, being more conscious, etc..

I don't know how I will market it or what way I will word it, but it sure is what I will be focusing on!

I am excited.

Although I don't know what contents my site will have on it or what I will be selling or promoting in order for me to see if it is successful, all I know is it feels SOOOOO right!

If you are looking for a niche market, I highly recommend not just jumping on to a keyword search tool, trying to find what everyone is looking for. What are YOU looking for? Follow your heart and then use the tool to refine what resignates with you!

By the way, it turned out my spiritual coach is very familiar with internet marketing, something along the lines of internet marketing is what she did prior to her "heart" work! :O) She even recommended a site builder that is much cheaper than the one I was previously looking at. Her website is www.laurabonilla.com.

Lots of love,
Tiffany

Lagging BUT........

I know I haven't been quite on top of it as I would like to be. However, I have been exercising the last three days which was one of the things I had said I wanted to make sure I do.

I can already feel the difference in my energy level. Today I got up and instead of lounging around as I would normally do and slowly wake up. I jumped out of bed with a list of stuff that I wanted to do. I cleaned up a bit, did some laundry, took my son to his grandpa's and then went to the gym.

I have to work tonight so I don't think I will be able to spend anytime on internet marketing, but I have been reading the book "101 ways to promote your business" at work when it is slow. I also have an idea of what direction I am headed in with a product.

I can see I have an average of 20 readers a day already, I would like to encourage everyone to please leave comments. Be open and honest, a simple hi, a suggestion, yell at me when I am slacking... Whatever!!!

It would really motivate me to be more connected with my readers. And I would love hear what things you guys want to learn or would like to see!!!

If you would like to be updated everytime I post a new blog, click the link on the top right that says subscribe reader. You can choose your options of how you are notified.

I look forward to making some real progress real soon and for those of you along for the ride, I promise this will be a learning and inspirational experience!

Namaste,
Tiffany

Internet marketing workshops, seminars, etc..

This is more of a request for information or suggestions.

I have done several searches looking for a workshop or course on internet marketing in my area(anywhere in california). However most that show up have past already. I can't seem to find anything that will be coming up other than next weekend which I have a public speaking seminar already scheduled.

There has to be more out there!! I will even travel outside the state if i have to.

To begin I was looking for a workshop/seminar that would be for a newbie. A one to three day seminar would be ideal. If I have to travel far it would have to be in June.

If I find anything I will post them here for others to be able to gain from it as well.

I will post again later today,
Tiffany

Slight Disappointment!

I am kind of disappointed right now.

I invested quite a bit of time using a program called BeBiz to do some keyword research and came up extremely empty handed. I assumed the tool at BeBiz was going to analyze my results just like WordTracker does and unfortunately I was wrong.

I took a lot of time to enter a lot of my interests and do some research about them in that system. It's not that big of a deal, but now I have to go to WordTracker and purchase another keyword search tool and learn that tool (hopefully it won't take too long).

I will let you know how that goes.

I did see a slight trend in some of the searches that pertain to my interests.

If this takes too much more time, without getting a product I will just pick something for the purpose of learning internet marketing!

I have also been thinking about building a free site and just offering information for now. I could still track how many visitors visit my site, only all of the paid marketing strategies will have to be learned at a lose.

I will decide what I am going to do by tomorrow!

Good night,
Tiffany

Keywords! Interests, Passions.

I did this work yesterday but didn't have time to post it in a blog.

So here it is.

First I wrote a list of all my interests, passions, stuff I enjoy learning about, things people would come to me for advice for, etc.. These are all good ways to find a market that would keep your interest and focus. I know I will definitely need that!

Here is a shortened list, I don't want to bore you! I omitted anything that I find irrelevent, like spending time with loved ones, etc..

Growing
Progression
Learning
Human Behavior
New Experiences
New Relationships
The mind
The brain
New outlooks/perspectives
Spirituality
Energy
Quantum Physics
Metaphysics
Pushing past self limitations
increasing Awareness or being conscious
Pushing past fear
Internet marketing
Financial freedom
Increasing strength
Increasing love
Increasing inner peace
Increasing quality of my life and others
Self improvement
Personal development
Roller skating
Dynamics of relationships
Rising to full potential
Life
Recognizing subconscious habits and patterns
The law of attraction
Discipline
Investment
Real-estate
The thought process
Angels

Ok I will stop there. My next step is to find action words from all of these interests. I have began to search for action words for these interests and passions, however I have noticed most seem to be action words already.

Now I have to find problems within these interests. I have posted on some group forums that have some of these interests, asking them what problems they encounter with these things.

I tried to come up with a few myself but still come up with very general terms. Such as:
Fear and Doubt
Lack of Focus
Lack of Dedication

My challenge now is to come up with a problem people face within one of some of these interests. Example what problems or issues do people face when they try to grow or progress in life? I am hoping the results from the group forums will help me out a bit in this area.

I will post my findings and then I will have to use a keyword tool to see which phrases/problems will be a good market.
Good Market = A lot of searches for those keywords without a lot of websites already serving that niche market.

Wish me luck,
Tiffany

Learning some more!

I purchased a book called "101 ways to promote your website". If anyone plans on learning along with me, this book might be a good idea. However, I will try and clearly explain everything as much as possible.

I would like to add to our list of things we will learn.

RSS (Real Simple Syndication)
Viral marketing
Landing Pages
Affiliate Marketing

I have been reading a bit on RSS feed. It is that button that you see on the top right of this blog, that says subscribe. What this will allow you to do is subscribe to this blog so that any time an update is posted you will be notified. There are also many other methods. For instance I could subscribe my myspace page to this blog through RSS feed. So everytime I post a new blog, My myspace page will also show the new blog post. This is getting a little more complex. You can learn about the multiple ways of using RSS Feed at www.feedburner.com. For now I am going to keep it simple.

I decided before we go on any further we need to find a product to promote. This will be our test dummy so to speak because we need to have a product to build a website about and to advertise. I would love for this product or idea we plan on promoting, to be something aligned with my interests. I am very passionate about growth and reaching our full potential (happiness, peace, etc.) as humans. We can learn everyday of our lives and not get close to learning everything there is to learn.

I also have a fascination with the mind and psychology, something along these lines would be ideal.

So to start we must come up with a problem that needs to be solved, then a way to solve that problem. Then we can do some keyword searches on the topics and see what is best.

I plan on having a list of possible problems tomorrow!

Good night,
Tiffany

The Beginning

I have been thinking a little about how I will measure whether or not I reach my goal. I believe the best way to measure it would be different for each task.



Example Email marketing:

In order for this to work I must first have a database of people to email. Then to measure whether I have successfully learned email marketing, I would have to measure the percentage of response compared to the amount of emails that go out, etc.. I could be wrong and way off but we will figure it all out as we go.



So for now I believe I will set a goal date of June 30th. By this date in order to say I successfully learned internet marketing (or at least begun to), I will need to be successful in each area, I mentioned in the last blog. plus I am adding one more.



1. Finding a niche market

2. Building a successful website

3. SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

4. Video Marketing

5. PPC (Pay Per Click)

6. AdSense

7. Email Marketing

8. Ezine's

9. Anything else that comes up.

I believe that is the order in which I will be focusing on them, but I am sure things might change as we go along.

I am in the process of setting up an account with BeBiz, which is like WordTracker. These are Keyword search tools, that help find what people are searching for on search engines and maybe not getting a lot of results. Meaning the competition is low in that market.

If anyone would like me to discuss that more, let me know. I don't know how well I could explain it but if someone else needs clarification on it, then I am not explaining it well and probably means I need to become more clear on it myself.

I really would like to find some more time to dedicate to this and a little bit more of a direction to go in.

I work the next three nights and start my spring quarter for school this week so its going to take a lot of focus and dedication in order to accomplish this goal. That is why i am committing myself to writing here EVERY SINGLE day.

I have a few seminars coming up in April and May, so I don't know how I am going to work out writing here everyday but its a must. I might not have time to do any work (one seminar is monday thru friday 9a.m. to 11p.m. and is an hour away from my home) but I will at least write about my experiences there and what I learned.

I would also like to make sure I get to the gym at least three times a week. My energy level is much higher when I am exercising on a regular basis and my sleep is much better as well. I really feel that it will directly impact how much I can get done.

See you tomorrow,

Tiffany

Intro

Hello Everyone,

My name is Tiffany and I am determined to learn internet marketing. I am a 27 year old mother in southern california. While trying to build a business online, I discovered how complex and vast the world of internet marketing is. I have purchased internet marketing systems, site building systems, affiliate programs, and educational programs all in effort to try and learn internet marketing quickly, with no progress. I have searched for seminars and workshops in my area that teach internet marketing, as well as internships or mentors. So because there doesn't appear to be anything close to me at this time and no system has yet taught me in the in's and out's of internet marketing, I begin this journey knowing nothing, not even were to start! So this blog is my starting point.

I am giving myself a goal of 3 months. Now the question comes with internet marketing how will I measure whether or not I have learned it and learned it correctly? How will I measure whether I reached my goal or not and exactly what are the specifics of my goal? Since there are numerous ways to market online and since I don't even have anything to market yet, these questions will be something I will have to think about.

Things I will tackle:
1. Building a successful website
2. Video marketing
3. Email marketing
4. PPC (pay per click)
5. SEO (search engine optimization)
6. Adsense
7. Ezines
8. Anything else that crosses my path

In the next few days I plan on getting my webcam set up so that I can show you guys what I am doing and how to do things when I learn them. I will also become very clear about how I will measure whether I have reached my goal of learning internet marketing with in 3 months. I need a starting point and where to go from here. And I would also like to talk more about myself so that everyone may know where I am coming from and a little more about who this woman is that is trying to learn internet marketing!

I have a woman who will be mentoring me along this journey. She attempted to raise 2.75 million dollars in 90 days online. She didn't reach her goal in time to purchase the land in which she was raising the money for, however she did raise a substantial amount and I am sure she learned a thing or two along the way! Her name is Cath Wood, I will put her website on here as soon as I learn how to add links! :o)

If you anyone would like to contact me for any reason, you may do so at TiffanyZrii@gmail.com until I create a new gmail account.

I look forward to taking this journey and hopefully helping some of you learn a thing or two along the way, as well!

Sincerely,
Tiffany