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Groobers
Had fun following along with a tutorial recently on how to create a twitter background
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Nice one Groobers! - Art Y.
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What's in Your Wallet? (via http://friendfeed.com/groober...) from a girl who before the 30DC was shall we say Technology Challenged Cheers ~G
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That is beautiful :) - Isha (Marysia)
Does this mean you broke down and got one? - Elizabeth
It's an ipod touch Elizabeth and I absolutely love it, my family think I am an absolute nutter because everywhere I go it's plugged into my ears (information fun and soon the 30DC 2009 lessons will be on it) ~ now thanks one class little device - Groobers
I'm jealous! I need to make some more bucks with this stuff before I get the approval to purchase one of those babies! Enjoy! - Elizabeth
Isha (Marysia)
Anyone tried this? I'm thinking of getting it but would love any comments and feedback first http://dirkscrazyweek.com/9... (Edit: see further below for the link to the free version)
Tried what? - Lisa
Yep, Lisa, I just had a sillybilly moment :D - Isha (Marysia)
LOL. I jumped in too quick. No, I've not tried this - Lisa
You didn't jump in too quick Lisa - I'd totally forgotten to put the link in :D - Isha (Marysia)
Can't imagine 5 dollars will be too badly spent - Graham Hunt
Not bothered about the money Graham - just wondered if anyone has found it any good, or if it'd be a waste of time - that sort of thing. I've now found the free version http://wp-saleslettertheme.com/ and http://www.webwire.com/ViewPre... ;) - Isha (Marysia)
Great theme :) - Jorge Blanco
Thanks for the links Marysia. Definitely a good find. I must say though, while I understand the power of the squeeze page and the sales letter page I can't help but be a little tired of them. Whenever I see them I automatically feel like I am being sold to instead of being informed. These type of pages are seeming so cliche to me. Anyone else? What's the alternative? - Elizabeth
I so agree with you Elizabeth. At least with this theme I don't have to turn it into one of those awful long rambling things. - Isha (Marysia)
The power of the sales page is the power of focus. The more things you have on-screen the more ways the viewer can get distracted. Sales pages control the flow and focus on one thing. It doesn't have to be a 3 foot long letter, it could be a video, a collection of pictures, an appropriate quote. It's your choice. The power of this template is that you can get rid of all the noise and express your message loud and clear ;) - Jorge Blanco
Good points Jorge - thanks. - Isha (Marysia)
Lauren
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!
Yay! Congratulations! May the success continue. 8-) - LJF Wolffe
Thank you very much, LJF Wolffe! I hope so. :-P - Lauren
Fabulous! congratulations - wishing you many more sales!!! - Elizabeth
Positive energies all around!! :o) - Aline Ohannessian
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
Woohoo - congratulations Lauren! - Isha (Marysia)
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
Congratulations Lauren! - Chris Linseman
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
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Kenneth Hamilton
Made this video Originally for My Health Care Recruiting Site http://www.youtube.com/watch... But have decided to use it for this years 30DC 2009 Recruiting (Hope to gather 5000 New Challengers). Please Check it out. Any Feedback would be appreciated. I am on Twitter @abenefit4u2
Made this video Originally for My Health Care Recruiting Site http://is.gd/t2FM But have decided to use it for this years 30DC 2009 Recruiting (Hope to gather 5000 New Challengers).  Please Check it out.  Any Feedback would be appreciated.  I am on Twitter @abenefit4u2
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This was adapted from another spiritual invitation, The words have been changed and video/music is original. I thank Ed & 30DC+ for teaching me how to do this from scratch (even though I used SlideShare & Camtasia) - Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth, how can I contact you ? - Greg
That is effing brilliant - dugg & stumbled!! - Isha (Marysia)
and a friend has added it to Reddit. - Isha (Marysia)
Greg
WP Direct v Wordpress ? How hard would it be to set up a WP Blog for SEO Optim and auto content (via FriendFeed) etc like WP Direct ? I'm a novice in terms of coding.
Just about the same..just different learning process.You can do a lot more to your site by doing it yourself - Brian McClure
heres a wpd blog http://mcclurecentral.com/water-p... a wp blog http://youth-baseball-bats.you... even finished with it - Brian McClure
Wordpress + all-in-one SEO plugin. Piece of cake. - Rich
I thought that WPD had Latent Semantic Indexing which normal WP blogs didn't have? I don't know what that is though... =S - Art Y.
Thanks for the advice guys. Hey Sean why do you say use wp-omatic "with care" ? - Greg
good share greg - JuneM
I'm with Art Y., curious to know more about "Latent Semantic Indexing." Can anyone explain it to me? - Jeremy Weiss
LSI uses word associations to help search engines know more accurately what a page is about. In other words it means that the search engines index commonly associated groups of words in a document. SEOs refer to these same groups of words as “Long Tail Searches”. The majority of searches consist of three or more words strung together - Colossal Marketing™
ron, thanks for the explanation. i appreciate it! - Jeremy Weiss
No prob. It is much deeper than that, but thats the sweet and short of it :~) - Colossal Marketing™
Art Y.
Hi all! After looking at my Wordpress files and folders, and how they are arranged. I just realized that it's very very easy for people to hack your account, or steal your blog's info, including plugin info. So found a few WP security tips and plugins: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag... || http://bit.ly/18blpD
Thanks Art. I can't believe how many ppl just ignore protecting their sites when possible. Also how many ignore the various policies they should have on their sites too - Colossal Marketing™
yeah thats why "wordpress security" seems to be a business in and of itself - TrafficBug
Jennifer Aderhold
checking out twitter on my new blackberry. Finally in the 21st century. Yeah!
I just got a blackberry too and am feeling just like you. I don't mind waiting anymore - I can catch up anywhere :-) - Elizabeth
Groobers
Updated Welcome - Thank You for joining the Create It room
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Just received an e-card wishing me Happy New Year and I thought that's a bit early, but once again I have to thank the Thirty Day Challenge, I have friends all over the world now - Cosmic!
Yip! Friends in Australia and New Zealand already in new year, still 8 hours to go here and another 7/8 hours after that for USA. The world's become quite small. Let's just say happy and prosperous 2009! - Frans
Happy new year to all Aussies and Kiwis & peeps in the far east! I really don't think it's fair that you get all the good stuff first, like new year & christmas and weekends! Anyhoo what's 2009 like - is it a good year? - Isha (Marysia)
5.5 hourse to go in my Country :) - Mitja MG
Wendy Merritt
Hooray! I changed my niche, reworked my WordPress theme and made my first $$ a whopping $.58...I am beside myself with excitement! 30DC is working! I am now ranked 6th on Google (I got bumped from #5 because of Michelle Obama!) Thanks 30DC!
The best part is that you were brave enough to take the rework step. Now you can be confident about letting the numbers guide you! - Kim Baillie
Rinse and repeat Wendy! Well done. The first income is the most stubborn. You've opened the floodgates now! ;) - Rob Cooke
Thank you for your kind words and encouragment :) My daughter and I already have a blog idea to do together...EXCITING! - Wendy Merritt from twhirl
Groobers
Like the Thirty Day Challenge Room picture - are you at a wedding?
There's a picture now? Great! Very official by the way :) - Jorge Blanco
Following along to a video this morning a thought jumped into my head – You know when you see two kids snogging (just kissing!) on the bus and someone shouts GET A ROOM!- well I did, have you? - Groobers
I thought it looked like he was in court holding exhibit A..... "Mr Dale can you show the court just how you were holding the camera when the police arrested you?" - Tim Brennan
Nice one Tim, not the usual cheeky monkey look I must admit, why was he arrested?.... something involving a mankini? - Groobers
Get a room Groobers, or shout get a room?! - san
I was at a wedding (My Brothers to be exact) and my 17 year oold goddaughter said it was a cool myspace shot!!! - Ed Dale
In my opinion as far as advice from a 17 year old goes, it always pays to listen to what the market leaders of tomorrow are into. - Groobers
Frank Donnelly
Just looking for a blog theme, there are so many, what do ye look for in a theme?
You want something that is crisp and easy to read by your readers - forget for example the black backgrounds and white or coloured text. Test have shown these types of styles retain more readers and lessen page bounces. - Mark McGimpsey
I've be looking for a theme on renewable energy but can't find one, can you change the picture on particular themes or would it be easier to go with a theme with no pictures? - Frank Donnelly
It's easy to change the header pictures. Just crop one to the exact same size, name it the same as the header in the images (or img) file and overwrite the original by FTPing it into the folder. - Mark McGimpsey
I'm not a teckie so I might continue looking through the themes. - Frank Donnelly
Frank, you might like to look at the following (if you haven't seen them already): NT-greeny (nice photo, 2 columns), Mob Nature 1.0 (nice photo, 2 columns), LivingOS UPSILON 2.0 (has a slide-show at the top which you can replace by your own images, and you put your own links in them, 2 columns), Waters Edge 1.1 (quite nice photo, 3 columns, but categories possibly illegible). More... more... - Isha (Marysia)
Mary Pelling
How My 6 Year Old Son Started An Internet Business By Mistake! - http://internetwealth.com/trainin...
Must be something in this blogging thing, don'tcha think?!! - Mary Pelling
Mark South
Note of the day... Give a (wo)man a fish (s)he eats for a day, teach a (wo)man to fish (s)he eats for life. Ed Dale thanks for teaching us to fish
Elizabeth likes anything that makes her giggle;) - Kenneth Hamilton
Exacly :) PS: I like the use of (wo) & (s) i hadn't thought of that lol - Jayen from twhirl
Oh, am I that transparent ;-) Laughter to me is the key to life!! Gotta have giggles for sure! - Elizabeth
Jorge Blanco
Allison
Interesting (and fun) post and also interesting comments. Thanks for the link Allison. - Isha (Marysia)
Steve
Just thought I'd point out a secondary benefit of 30DC, & that is the network of friends & like-minded people made whilst 30DC-ing on ff, Twitter & 30DC Forums. Invaluable
Networking contacts is highly underrated, you never know, you could be forming relationships with the next Yanik Silver, or Donald Trump even! - Steve
So true Steve. :) - Mark Strickland
Mark South
I learned a valuable lesson today... if you are going to accomplish two things yard work and write another article... it helps to do the yard work first (while it is light out :-)
lol. Wise words Mark - Jorge Blanco
Mark Strickland
I'm so Happy right now, I'm Confident enough to sell this pizza the delivery guy just left here and be Successful in making a profit!
Please elaborate a lot. Is this a result of the 30DC or were you already a marketing guru? Tell us everything. What are your successful actions? - Russ
This is a combination of things, Ed Dale & Dan Raines the hosts of the 30DC are providing me with deeper business building knowledge and the proper tools and step-by-step education and workings of Network/Social marketing. http://budurl.com/httb The Happy, Confident, Successful mindset is Wendi Friesen's doings. Wendi is a CHT, Certified HypnoTheripist. http://budurl.com/x8dz And the pizza delivery guy didn't buy the pizza back but a neighbor did. :) Stick to a proven system that works for almost everybody - Mark Strickland
I'm crying I thought your confidence was based on results. Please don't tease me. - Russ
I'm not teasing Russ. I've landed a very nice position with a very prominent Internet figure that will bring me much exposure and income. I will also continue building my future. My results are from following a proven system, consistence and meeting people. - Mark Strickland
Mark in my other post you say you are going to have your very first $1000.00 month (after 10 years). You're kidding right? That won't pay the rent (unless you live outside the US) - Russ
Russ, where do you live? NYC? - LJF Wolffe
It pays my rent and I live in Florida. lol Everyone has to start somewhere. You'll be one h*ll of a marketer and possibly a little disappointed if you expect to make anything like $5k a month starting out. If that was the case then I'd have my Maybach for New Years. lol - Mark Strickland
LJ I live in LA. Mark sorry to rain on your parade but yes I have to confess I was expecting 5k. Not sure what a maybach is but I guess the point is I better not quit my day job. Thanks for your honesty I will continue IM as a hobby only. - Russ
Russ, treat it like a business if you want it to be a business. It will remain a hobby as long as you treat it as one. And I'm not saying that YOU couldn't make $5k in a month but you'd better know some people in the right places. - Mark Strickland
LA? Eep. Being up here in Oregon, I'm sure my rent estimations are _really_ off for where you are. 8-} - LJF Wolffe
"I'm Confident enough to sell this pizza the delivery guy just left here... (this is the equivalent of "he can sell refrigerators to Eskimos") implies one is doing EXTREMELY well. Nothing wrong with idle conversation but I thought it meant something sorry. Where I live we need a little more income to survive. - Russ
Mike C. Steinberg
I feel like I am standing in the shower, and talking to myself on Twitter and Friendfeed. Damn if I can see how this is going to make me wealthy!! Unless Ed can explain it a little better. Maybe their's 999,000 of you out there (ed) reading this, and ready to buy my first item for sale.
I know the feeling....and sorry, I haven't a clue what you are selling anyway! :0) - Lewis Evans
Bridgett Raffenberg
A caution and word to the wise... I decided to go ahead and try out adwords (well into lessons 18-21). Caro recommend putting in a high daily range limit for what you want to spend so that Google sees you as a serious advertiser. I did what she said ($100/day limit) and quickly racked up $60!
Now it's great to have traffic but keep an eye on it. When I do it over again I am going to put in a lower limit - one I am actually comfortable spending. Just thought I would pass that along to those of you that haven't watched the Adwords part yet... - Bridgett Raffenberg
Karen Riedl
I cannot resist posting this, It is WAY WAY cool. We all need fun..there is more then enough work. 30DC members take a look at this - Karen Riedl from Bookmarklet
Karen - Liked it the first time but I made the mistake of watching it with my 4 yr.old and she HAD to see it 5 times!!! - Elizabeth
Class - That song is like my head at the moment....thanks for sharing - Groobers
Groobers
@ElizabethDunphy I hear you and agree, must switch off PC,go on you can do it,no I can't,yes you can,STEP AWAY FROM the PC, few done it byee
Allison
Dave Louden Sr
Hi everyone, sorry for not writing sooner but have been visiting the doctor plus trying to work on new blog check it out and tell me what you think at http://www.howtorepaircars.info/how-to-...
I love the picture and the look of the site - way cool! - Elizabeth
Great article Dave. We just recently changed mechanics in the past year because of the same thing. We used to use big chain company. It was convenient (next to work.) But when oil filter almost fell off one car (huge oil spot on driveway) and drip pan plug stripped on another, we changed. Love my new mechanic. Small two man shop, not convenient, but well worth money. - davidraffenberg
That's my hubby! putting your many years of knowledge into this one was a fabulous idea. I love it! Gotta love the car too.....but it needs your mechanical touch LOL - Cheryl Louden
Groobers
To twitter to tweet, to fickr to flock,it's not "to be or not to be" it's "to sleep or not to sleep"..
so true, so true but it doesn't make me blue LOL - silliness abounds :-) - Elizabeth
Nothing wrong with silliness - love silliness! - Groobers
Ditto!! - Elizabeth
Ouch Craig! :) - Isha (Marysia)
Ed Dale
THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOL - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Fundamentals are called that for a reason - thanks for the timely reminder, Ed - Can I still be excited about getting a Mac Book Pro? It should arrive Saturday...Wish I could be at #OTE2 - maybe the next one... - SteveH
Used those very tools at 3am - Just can not seem to switch off these days! #30dc Get out of my Head! - Groobers
yes indeed - isn't that how J.K. Rowling started Harry Potter? On a bar nap no less! - Elizabeth
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