Some fascinating discussion going on there. Thanks for sharing
- Lisa
Your welcome, Buff, Lisa. I was wondering how interested others would be. I think that the content is ok, but really the main reason I did it was to help the 30DC community spirit.
- Tim Brennan
You and Maria have done a nice job there Tim - thank you.
- Isha (Marysia)
We were there nearly 3 and a half hours. Then Enzo & I stopped off at Liverpool Street Station and gassed further for another hour or so. A very enjoyable meet-up and I look forward to many more.
- Isha (Marysia)
Here's some more info about this video - "5 of us had a meetup at the good old British Museum in London's West End. We chatted for 3 hours about all sorts related to the Thirty Day Challenge. The experience interesting and encouraging. Towards the end of the meetup, we decided to stage a bit of chat for the camera. I shot about 17 minutes which I've spit into 2 parts. As you can see the...
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- Tim Brennan
Despite the video camera being very close to the action, the audio it picked up was not good at all. It picked up loads of background hubbub which drowned out the conversation. The iRiver audio quality was twice as good. "
- Tim Brennan
In case anyone's wondering where the 5th person is, Maria's holding the camera & a great job she's done too.
- Isha (Marysia)
Nice video Tim. Looking forward to the next meet up.
- Enzo Vullo
I never knew there was a meet up in London. Would like to join you for the next one. Where do you post the info? I don't check FF much but will keep an eye out now.
- MayC
Good heavens, did you all notice that we now have 2,999 subscribers to this room? I recall having joined in Jan 09 when we were about 2000 strong. Time sure flies :-) Whoever the lucky 3000th subscriber is, WELCOME! and feel free to introduce yourself.
Its Official!! Firefox 3.5 is the official public version. Downloaded, Installed. Lets see what this puppy can do :)
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
from Bookmarklet
Great time saver tool: http://www.enounce.com Gang, if like me, you would rather be taking action to realize your goals, than watching guru videos or audios, then this is a real life-saver. Speeds up videos and audio and saves tons of time. Enjoy :-)
Thanks, I always speed up vids and audio I listen to in Windows Media and it annoys me that I cannot do it in Flash or YouTube.
- Greg
Thanks being able to slow down a video to capture particular settings will be very useful for following along during tutorials
- Groobers
from BuddyFeed
It looks like it might be Windows only?
- Isha (Marysia)
Make a collection of your Firefox add-0ns, Share your collection,Sync your collection, You can even make a comment about an add-0n in your collection
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
from Bookmarklet
Tsudo, I used to use All-in-one gestures, but have switched to FireGestures, largely due to it being more stable. You might want to compare. Also, NoScript is missing from your collection and covers the functionality provided by Flashblock.
- Tanath
I'll try FireGestures. NoScript drives me nuts. I keep it disabled because it requires too much work to keep the web working the way I want. I prefer using only Flashblock
- Keith - @tsudo
It may require a little more effort, but that's the price of security, which is sorely needed on Windows. Most sites work fine with JS disabled, and allowing a site either temporarily or permanently is only 2 clicks away. Also, you generally only need to enable a site once, then you're good to go. It's worthwhile in the long run. Flashblock does the job for flash, but NoScript covers Java too, which is a bigger risk & annoyance.
- Tanath
I agree that convenience is always at odds with security but in this instance it wasn't worth the hassle.
- Keith - @tsudo
You don't think preventative measures (ie., a couple clicks here & there after the initial spree) are worthwhile? Preventative measures save time in the long run.
- Tanath
Just enjoyed listening to the latest podcast, interesting guy some of the stuff he shared sounded a bit dodgy at first but when you started talking and explaining the reasoning behind the methods it didn't sound as bad. As usual enjoyed your pearls of wisdom at the end :)
- Groobers
Did everyone see this post on the Market Samurai Blog (by Brent) talking about a great resource provided by the one the only Isha? I don't know about you lot but when there's something weird or I just don't understand something I know one person I can always turn to for help especially with Market Samurai and that's Isha. Thank You so much for all your help within these walls ~G
- Groobers
from Bookmarklet
Thank you very much Groobers - you're v welcome :)
- Isha (Marysia)
I will definitely be trying out this tutorial and creating an Action to use on all my photos, great tutorial
- Groobers
from Bookmarklet
It's a great tutorial and now I have as an action all ready to go when I need it, thanks to the digital photograph school site. I don't take great pictures so I love to try and correct them with photoshop (maybe I should get round to learning the correct way to use my camera, one of these days:) anyway here's my before and after http://ff.im/34CAj. Would love to see other peoples before and afters if they feel like sharing them ~G
- Groobers
That's a very nice before & after Groobers. I'm more of a snapshotter myself; my forte is composition. I use Picassa and Gimp to crop, enhance etc, but more for my own pleasure than anything else. It's had to take a back seat the last few months :(
- Isha (Marysia)
Sweet mother of.... Ed, you keep dropping pearls of wisdom like these, and I will even forgive you for mankini posing without chest waxing http://www.danraine.com/fancy-p... Seriously, thank you for being REAL and inspiring us.
- Ritesh Lal
I'm at the bottom of the tree and I'm getting Rooted! :( LOL
- Art Y.
Is Ed some kind of God? He blesses his followers and magic happens! Ok let me explain. Just a week ago, I bought a domain name, put up a home page with opt-in and optimized it for a keyphrase. All other pages of the site are dummy pages with content like "Lorem Ipsum blah blah..." I didn't even bookmark or write ANY other content for the site yet
I was planning to start working on this site next week. So imagine my surprise, when aweber starts sending me emails that people are signing up from my homepage! I was like, WTF! So I decided to investigate where are people finding out my site from, since I had done no publicity, submissions, bookmarking etc. And then I discover my site is ranking #9 on its own. Man, if this doesn't tell you that even half baked 30DC practices work, then what will! Unbelievable :-) I can't wait to see my competition being demolished when I bring out the big guns from Imm Edge and start applying those tricks here :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Hmm, finally had to put in an autoresponder email telling my subscribers that the site is not open yet, and is still in test mode etc. :-)
- Ritesh Lal
sounds like a very pleasent surprise :)
- Chris Linseman
Thats fantastic - looks like you've found a great keyword and seems you've got persuasive writing down too! Best of luck to ya!
- Elizabeth
You are awesome! I haven't been able to rank on page one for any of my sites so far. =( There was one, but it took me months, and not minutes. =P The conclusion is, my keyword research skills need more fine tuning... Would you happen to have any advice Ritesh for choosing easy keywords that can get you ranked on page one in a day or two?
- Art Y.
Don't be disheartend Art Y. The first project I did during 30DC 2008, took me 2 months. And then I found out that I had messed up differentiating between phrase and broad match traffic (this was early days of Mkt Sam, with no PBR data). So now even though my first site ranks #1-3 depending on google's mood, I still barely get 30 visitors/day :-( Well, live and learn :-). NO real secrets...
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- Ritesh Lal
Thanks Liz! Hey Chris, looks like you made it safely back to England after all the drunk debauchery at Mass Control in San Diego. Great to see you in this FF room. Chime in and keep us posted whenever you can :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Thanks for the advice Ritesh =) Hmm... actually to be honest, I've been... targeting keywords with SEOC less than 5000, and still can't really manage to rank as fast as most people do... Considering that the SEOC is so low, and the Competition module is mostly made up of greens and yellows, there must be something more to keyword selection than this that I haven't really grasped yet.....
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- Art Y.
Hmmm, looks like there could be more to it than just keyword research here. If you feel comfortable sharing your keyphrase with me, I will be happy to take a look at your site and MS numbers together with you over a Skype session. I am far from being an expert, so take it for what it's worth. My skype id is lal.ritesh and I live in California GMT-8 timezone.
- Ritesh Lal
Steal This Niche, a video blog series demonstrating keyword seo analysis using Market Samurai. Thank you Michelle Macphearson! - http://www.michellemacphearson.com/tag...
"In the “Steal This Niche” series you’ll learn how to do niche research by watching as I do it - and at the end of the video, you’re welcome to STEAL THIS NICHE and build your site around it."
- Sam Katakouzinos
from Bookmarklet
Ed, can you please update the Thirty Day Challenge homepage so that we can point our friends at where to go to learn about & sign up to the new preseason? Thanks in advance!
Woah - it is VERY fiddly to set up though. Still not quite managed it.
- James Ward
Ed, okay, now I have a facebook profile and a new fan page (no un-friending backlash as of yet). Do I feed everything into the fan page and let it update my profile status or let it dual update my profile and my page? Is there any disadvantage to having ping.fm update my page and then my profile?
- Wendy Merritt
I just wanted to share that I just made $18, my first sale, using trialpay.com. If you haven't heard of it, and you have a product, it's definitely worth checking out. My trialpay offer page is currently converting at 12% (of course, that will drop). Just a thought to those of you interested!
Lauren, first sale is always a beautiful moment. Congratulations! Keep the momentum going and post here soon with news of your first $1000 in the bank :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Hi Lauren - could you explain what trial pay is and how you incorporate it into your business to make money. I just went to the site and don't really understand the concept. Thanks!
- Elizabeth
Congrats! May you have many more =) I've heard about it, cause WPD uses it, but I've never looked into it before. Will try! || @Elizabeth If I'm not mistaken, customers can sign up for free offers, for which Trialpay pays you. So customers are indirectly buying your product by signing up for free trials. Though, I think there are paid trials too
- Art Y.
It's kind of like using your product as an incentive for CPA offers, except that they usually pay around $15 or so. (You can adjust how much you'll accept for your product.) So instead of selling your product, you give it away for free and in return TrialPay pays you for the person who completed one of their offers.
- Lauren
Thanks for explanation Lauren - was this covered in 30dc+ or something you found on your own? curious minds et al :-)
- Elizabeth
Just finished watching the 3 30dc 2009 Planning videos all looks very exciting for 2009 but I must draw the line at Pepsi Max sorry I'm a diet coke girl meself :)
Me Too - Will have at least 5000 recruits this year Check out the Video I made for my new website promoting 2009 30DC http://is.gd/t2FM Bring your Tissues, it's emotional ;-p
- Kenneth Hamilton
Hi everyone! Long time no see. I'll try to make it =)
- Art Y.
Hey gang made me 1st dollar on the zillionDC oops I mean the 30DC ha. Amazon just informed me that I made $3.57 waahooooo Think I sold a health care product. First it breaks the ice and 2nd every millionaire always starts with his first dollar.
This post was emailed to me which has never happened before. Anybody know anything about that (why it was emailed to me)(has ff ever emailed you anything before)
- Russ
Greg to answer your question I think the post says it all (zillion...) but with a straight face let me say that I do believe it can be done in 30 days in fact even less (depending on I don't know what)(how much you impliment the stuff I guess)
- Russ
Russ when I got my 1st $s I too called it the zillion DC - I think there are quite a few of us around :D
- Isha (Marysia)
Ahh- I remember it well...already looking to this years! Looks like it involves twitter? Do hope so, I love anything minimalist & simple! Using twitter loads!Thats y I dont get to FF so much now...
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