Today I did some key word research using Market Samurai. I think I found a decent approach for my internet marketing company site. I’m in the process of reworking the entire site. During my first 100 days, I set up ScepterMarketing.com as an internet marketing training site that attempted to push some affiliate services. However, a few weeks ago, I got my first internet based client and my first check for $500! So I will be changing up this site to reflect all of the services that I offer which are internet marketing, website consulting, website design / development, and website management.

I have another service that I want to offer that I think is somewhat unique but is a great value. And best of all, it is a form of continuity – which is something that I’m currently studying via Ryan Deiss’s Continuity Blueprint that I got off ebay for $230 (sorry Ryan!). This content is great and it should be, after all it is a $2,000 product. I plan on signing up for Deiss’s Total Access Club soon which is a $97/mo. site that teaches the latest in internet marketing.

Shiny Penny Syndrome

I have a condition where I lose interest in ideas very quickly. Generally it takes me less than a month to come up with a newer, better, faster, idea than the one that I had been working on. So then I start on that idea. And then the cycle repeats!

So today I asked myself a question that I’m hoping will prove to be a wise one. I realized that there are people making money online that know less about internet marketing than I do. The difference is that I keep on learning and they took ACTION. So today I asked myself this question, “If I could no longer access all of the internet marketing information that I have, what would I do to get the ball rolling on my ideas?”

So I started taking action. I started doing keyword research and writing a new blog posts. I started doing. Now, it just so happens that I have 4 hours a day of data entry where I have nothing else to do but listen to podcasts, marketing videos, and home study courses but in the off hours, it’ll be all action!

Plus there’s good news! Ryan Deiss just explained a pretty simple way to get 300 extra members a month into a continuity site! I just need to save up for Camtasia and AMember and I should be all set to go!

Goals before March are:
- Write up sales letter type copy for the 5 areas of ScepterMarketing.com
- Write up a blog post targeting a “low hanging fruit”, “long tail” keyword and syndicate it
- Connect with the two potential clients that fell into my lap a few weeks ago (if things work out I’ll have enough money for Camtasia, AMember, a non-trial version of Market Samurai, and the first few months of 1ShoppingCart and a merchant account! + some!)
- Set up a blog 80% of the way on SmallBusinessTrainings.com.

Let’s get ‘er done! I gotta lot of living to do before I die and I ain’t got time to waste!

I’m out
– Marketer Matt

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been updating this blog less. I’ve moved it on the back burner since I feel its purpose has changed. I’m still learning internet marketing. I’m still working on my 100 Day challenge. I’m just not really trying to market this site yet. I think I may work on it after I get done with it.

The reason is simple. I don’t feel that I can really market what I haven’t done yet.

So where’s my focus now?…

I’m working on two things:

ScepterMarketing.com – teaching business owners how to start their own simple website on their own domain and to start marketing it via AWeber’s automatic e-mail response system. I plan to be able to teach more as I learn more.

My MLM Company – I’ve started two blogs. One to sell products and one to build my team which is TheMarketBlend.com.

I have connected with a few graphic designers that are hopefully going to be re-doing my sites soon in return for business that I send them. I’m hoping this will be sweet.

If I can help 300 people start buy a domain, get hosting, set up their own WordPress site, and start to market it using AWeber, I should hit my goal of $25,000 by the end of the year. Perhaps it will end up being more than that if I get kick back from the designers, get paid to set up these sites myself, or sell any consulting or info products of my own.

Anyway, I feel like I finally have a good direction to run in.

Plus there is TheMarketBlend and my MLM business that will hopefully bring in some cash. Plus Jason I are still (sorta) working on an idea so we’ll see where everything has fallen by the end.

Truth be told, I’d really like be successful in affiliate marketing (which Scepter Marketing will do), in an MLM (which The Market Blend and my other blog will do), but also in selling a physical product (which I still need) as well as obtaining affiliate marketing success in a few different niches as well. I know… big goals.

I’m still working to be out of debt, give away $5,000, and pay for 20 friends or so to come out to a birthday party of mine at a nice place to eat… all by the end of the year. I have 60 days so I better quit blabbing and get back to work!

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

PS I’ve pretty much stopped marketing this blog altogether until after my challenge is over and I have some use for it.