The 30–Day–Challenge–Chronicle

In these next two Thirty Day Challenge lessons Ed gives us a guided tour of his Friendfeed and emphasizes that with Friendfeed – you really do need to know how to drive it. It is important to take it all very slowly – and not try and just consume from it .. because the sheer volume it sends out will really get to you. He goes on to say that in truth – it is not that volume it sends out but your ability to create conversations around bits of content which is important. It is here that Friendfeed excels .. by achieving what many folk try to achieve on Twitter, even though Twitter was designed to be a micro-blogging platform and was never designed as a conversation platform like Instant Messaging, Skype, Friendfeed or even blogs for that matter.

Ed explains that Friendfeed can take any piece of content and provides a mechanism for us to filter and stream and then allow people to vote on whether they like it or not and it also allows people to comment on it, in a central place. We are taken by the hand and shown how to filter and dice and slice content to provide just the information that we are wanting our niche to see.

Friendfeed takes content from a whole bunch of different places and then provides a feed of everything we are doing. So, when someone is following you on Friendfeed they are seeing pretty much everything you are doing .. whether you might be using Flickr, YouTube or ‘Stumbling Upon’ a piece of useful content. The feed can also be imported into Google Reader.

The more contacts you can have with your market in a non ‘in-your-face’ way – the more successful you will be and in this regard Twitter and Friendfeed are two of the most powerful tools which have been implemented in internet marketing, this year, for fulfilling that exact purpose.

The ‘rooms’ functionality is going to be very useful for this years Thirty Day Challenge. Already our recently formed 30DC Kick-Ass Kiwi Ockers group has a room set up .. and I sense that it is going to be set a buzz.

The launch begins with great fanfare as Ed Dale launches the TV broadcast of the 30 Day Challenge and we receive an explanation of what pre-season is all about. The shows are being recorded and made available on YouTube as well.

A hubbub of chat goes on in the side panel with a few selected folk keeping an eye out for any questions to put to Ed.

Ed explains that pre-season was created so he can show us the marketing specific tools that we will be using for the 30DC and that it was more sensible that this not be done at the same time as the marketing. He goes on to say that this shows us a different way of using the internet which is much more efficient, more colorful and much more broad .. all at the same time.

If we were all stoked on last years Challenge then he assures us “we havn’t seen anything yet!”.

This week the focus is on two very cool technologies .. – the web browser – a very important ‘part of the whole production’ and this year Flock will take pride of place. We will also be shown the right way to communicate with Twitter – the most important thing to happen to marketing in 2008 – both amazing for communicating within teams – and for communicating with our market places.

The 30DC pre-season is 60 days off from the start of the Challenge – so plenty of time is left to do the work .. and we need not feel pressured.

The way the content is delivered will be very different. Ed emphasizes how he will be able to teach in ways he has not been able to before, thanks to the wonderful technology called Screen Flow.

The different modes for downloading of lessons are also discussed depending on one’s requirements, with streaming being handled by YouTube. Ed hints at a technique coming out which will just ‘blow your mind’ and which will add a huge amount of value if you are in a particular niche.

An announcement is made that the 30 DC has just produced its next millionaire although Ed is quick to point out that this is not what it is all about .. the 30 Day Challenge is all about making that very first dollar.

We learn that if we participate in a team we are much more likely to complete the Challenge and go on to succeed online. Creating an internet business online in 2008 is a team based sport and this years Challenge will place a lot of emphasis on the team based nature of what we will be doing.

We are encouraged to get our friends on board with the Challenge and to refer back to the website at 30 Day Challenge – and in particular the blog for announcements.

Well pre-season for the 30 Day Challenge 2008 has commenced, and I start to pick up on this blog post about half way through – so for those of you looking to earn and learn while you work from home , then this should provide you with a good overview as to what we are up to.

It will also help document my own progress throughout the 30 Day Challenge and my interactions with the 30DC Kick-Ass Kiwi Ockers group.

Hoping you that this will inspire you to take up the 30 Day Challenge yourself. The challenge is all about showing you how to make your first dollar online, so that you can earn and learn at the same time .