July 17, 2008 By 1 Comment

Ed Dale Mankini – Part Trez

After yesterday’s post about being the fly on the back of cows trying to swim past piranhas maybe it’s for the best I am swinging back to the Ed Dale Mankini thing.

Like a smoldering fire, there has been an explosion with the addition of a little extra oxygen as new players came into the fray from the outside. There goes the testing platform where I was pitting my PR0 blog against PR5+ social media type sites. I am serious when I say I am testing stuff. I really am!

I just put up a new blog on my favourite niche free hosted blogging platform. Last year I discovered it during the Thirty Day Challenge and was overjoyed to see the blogs I created ranking VERY quickly with NO social bookmarking. Let’s see if Google still loves them as much as they did a year or so ago (p.s. I still have two blogs on there that are rating great traffic and I have been terribly lax in updating …. for 6 months on one LOL!).

Let’s see how that blog goes, if it does well on Ed Dale Mankini then I will do a review on the platform and share it around.

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June 23, 2008 By 4 Comments

Scratch That Niche Itch

I remember, two years ago, while working through the Thirty Day Challenge, trying to get my head around how to brainstorm niches. My mind would immediately rate whatever I thought up as “a goer” or “not a goer” or “stupid”. I wasn’t very successful.

In the years in between I have developed an exercise to get my mind thinking in niche search terms.

Disclaimer: This is my personal way of working up niche ideas and may not work for you (if you think in different ways to me). Also, if you use any of the search terms I use here you will probably be fighting with a gazillion others who read the blog as well.

My Niche Brain Exercise Method

I set a day a “Niche Day” (as in Have A Niche Day!)

Tools: pen, paper

Time: 24 hours

From the minute I wake up I do a sense inventory. What do I see, hear, smell, touch + taste? I then continue that during the day.

To “see” niches you need to be hyper-aware of your surroundings. On Niche Day you are going to be a giant sponge absorbing everything that is around you, from the mundane to the out-of-the-ordinary. Let’s look at a few entries from my Niche Day yesterday

Hour 1

Mmmm warm doona

Shower – need hot water

Need breakfast, hungry

Get ready for Work

And so it goes on…very basic yeah?

Now break down the activities into items that you are using

doona, duvet, sheets, pillows, wardrobe, carpet, dressing gown, slippers, pyjamas, nightie, chest of drawers

hot water heater, towels, soap, shampoo, conditioner, exfoliate, shower head, tiles, steam, soap scum

breakfast foods, diet, carbohydrates, balanced diet, fruit, coffee, tea, milk

hairstyle, hair dryer, makeup, jewellry, corporate clothing,  work shoes, dry cleaning, laptop bag, cell phone…..

And it goes on. A whole lot of things that your eyes normally travel over, but don’t really notice .

I went on to do the next part of the chunking down process and came up with some viable ideas, but at this stage I will not race ahead of the thirty day challenge teachings for 2008.

So get out there and start noticing things!

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May 16, 2008 By 2 Comments

Defending The Indefensible

Sometimes i KNOW I am wasting my time. It is usually when I am commenting on blogs or in forums about certain issues.

Take this year’s Thirty Day Challenge.

Now I know what it is and what it isn’t. I know that it will be automatically, in the minds of many trigger the SCAM button. Why?

  • people evangelise about it
  • it involves making money
  • evangelising + making money = MLM
  • everything on the internet is a scam
  • it’s free, it has to end up costing something

I am all for people being naturally cautious. Everyone should be responsible for their actions. I am naturally cautious, but I funnel that into finding out about the opportunity first before making any form of decision.

I guess for some it is easier to dismiss something out of hand than go research, even if it is potentially beneficial.

So no more time wasting! Say my piece, get in and then get out. It is not benefiting me one iota getting into an argument on the internetz

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May 14, 2008 By 4 Comments

My Blatant Spam Thirty Day Challenge Request

I am being totally up front here I want YOU to use my code to sign up for this year’s Thirty Day Challenge.

If you have ever thought about learning how to bring traffic to your current sites, make money from the internet, or just understand what things like Google AdSense are all about then join this FREE learning opportunity.

http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com/challenge/537

No scam, no spam, and you can ask me anything at any time if you have signed up through my link.

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