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.

Who’s on the move you might ask? Me! Last night was great and I feel like I’m making some serious progress towards my goals. I set up yet another blog last night to function as somewhat of a squeeze page between those people that would like to buy my products and the corporate website that I’m allowed to have for my MLM company. I also went to a meeting last night for my company. If you know anything about MLM companies you should be familiar with their meetings! Anyway, I stayed for only half of it but it was inspiring and informational, plus I got some product to try for myself and some information to listen to.

Last night I also spoke with my friend and soon to be business partner Jason about the idea that we’ve been working on together. He had another great idea of how to implement some things. We may end up trying to go to an event in November to really figure out where to take this thing – if we can gather up the cash that is. And because of that, I need to get to doing some real work…

BTW… I’m realizing that internet marketing, if you do it yourself, is a whole heck of a lot of writing. Writing blog posts, sales letters, ads, comments, web content, and e-mail responses it seems that about 80% of internet marketing is writing and 20% maybe is actually doing something like creating a product, planning, or whatever. Just an interesting observation.

Anyway, Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

Day 34 Cont…

Today I wrote 4 blog posts! I feel like I’m finally breaking through to something substantial! I wrote a review to post on this site which I will use to help draw traffic to this site and my build my image of a competent internet marketer. I also wrote another post for my other blog that is targeting network marketers which is to ultimately promote my network marketing company. I wrote a theological oriented post on my facebook too. And lastly, I updated my journey with Day 34 and Day 34 Continued. Anyway, I’m proud of myself.

I’d say 7-10 days is a great goal to have published 5 articles or so for each of my two blogs that I can then start sending to sites like hubpages, squidoo, ezinearticles, etc. for SEO purposes. The engines of the rocket are started…

I’ve been out of commission for about a week due to work and a conference that I went to in KY for a few days. But I’m back now and ready to continue on this journey!

The rest of this week will be devoted to preparation towards my two-fold plan of marketing this blog and marketing my multi-level opportunity. The agenda for the week is this… to create some incentives for people to join my newsletters, create a series of letters to send to them automatically, and, in the case of my multi-level opportunity, to create another blog that functions as a squeeze page for products which I can hopefully also market and get ranked decent in the search engines. In the case of this site I also need to figure out a few things to write about to begin to draw traffic.

I’m excited to finally have this breakthrough, now I’m just trying to keep my head in the game and not get distracted with all the other things that there are to do. I get offers to try this program or that program or for a new internet marketing tool in my inbox several times a week. I’m trying to ween myself off of “shiny new object” syndrome As I said, this week is preparation week, next week I’ll dive into actually working the plan. I plan to do that for two solid weeks to get it rolling before I add something else like the 30 day challenge I spoke about before.

Well, I have work to do

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

Today I read back over my blog posts where I had outlined my thoughts on strategy for my 100 day challenge. Some things I’ve scrapped. Some things I’ve kept up with. Most things I’ve gone around in circles with having accomplished nothing. However, I think that today I’m finally on my way out!!

Here’s why…

I spent a good portion of the day just pondering what to do. I prayed and then thought for a ridiculously long time. I felt that I still didn’t really have a direction that I was taking with internet marketing stuff, so I felt lost.

I finally concluded that the best thing I could market at the moment would be my network marketing company’s products (duh!) so I’m going to start doing that. Plus I’ll start marketing my own system for doing so to other network marketers via my new blog TheMarketBlend.com. I think it’s an improvement over Plexus Nation. You can still check out Plexus Nation if you want. I’m thinking about using it for a crowdsourcing site as you can see. I’m going to have to be creative with selling the products because of their compliance restrictions that require that my only sales be through them. I’ll be going through their compliance training very soon.

Tomorrow I’m going out of town for 3 days so I’ll probably get nothing done internet marketing related since I gave my laptop to my brother for his wedding present and haven’t gotten a new one yet. I plan on that being one of my rewards for the success of my 100 day journey!

Sometime over the next two weeks, I should also be having a phone calling session with Eben Pagan’s “senior marketing consultant”. I sent him my business goals and I get a free 90 minutes to chat with him about my ventures. I’ll keep you posted on that.

I also talked to Jeremy about one of his business ideas that I plan on doing some marketing for. It’s good stuff.

Well, that’s about it for today. I have a long day tomorrow so I’m out like a computer in an electrical storm…

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

Today is a day of resolution. I have resolved to continue this project and to hit my goals in internet marketing by the end of the year. I have resolved to use this blog more for personal use and not for marketing. I don’t want to try to market my marketing skills without having marketed anything but my marketing products. That’s circular and seems a bit dishonest. Therefore, I’ll be using this blog to track my progress and for some experiments but not much else. Cool? It thought you’d like that.

Eben Pagan’s videos that I started watching today are going to be awesome! I like his stuff a lot.

I’m still looking for something to market. I’m waiting for my MLM company to get back to me about how to get an “approved” site so hopefully I’ll get that figured out asap.

I’ll probably get with Jason in the next two weeks and start marketing a website for that idea which I’m still loving!

I also thinking about how to market myself. What do I have to offer people? Who would want some of the ideas or knowledge that I have? I’m tempted to try to shortcut the growth process by teaching stuff before actually doing it so I’m trying to stay true.

The 30 day challenge is talking about finding a niche and writing about it and then selling affiliate products on a site – so I’m trying to find something that I’m decently passionate about. We’ll see. I’m not giving up on this project.

This video depicts as much.

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

I started using Market Samurai as I mentioned in Day 19 as part of the 30 Day Challenge that I joined up with to help me on my 100 day challenge. It’s a sweet program and I’m glad that I don’t have to bother trying to download all of Google’s search results and export them to excel spreadsheets. That would suck.. royally!

Things are working out well, I got Market Samurai as a part of my StomperNet membership so it’s cool that the 30 Day Challenge people are using the same program!

Keyword research isn’t the most fun part of this process so far but I have started to understand how Google works a lot more since I started doing it. Hopefully, in no time, I’ll start to have my blog ranked for solid keywords!

Actually, I think I was ranked on the first page of Google for one word a few days ago! There’s NOTHING like seeing your very own site ranked on Google! Yeah it was for a crappy keyword but it was there nonetheless! It’s only a matter of time before I figure this thing out and “stomp” the search engines as StomperNet calls it (thus the name “stomp”ernet!)

I have a lot to study still tonight so I’ll make this one short!

OOH, I almost forgot to speak out the good news that I mentioned in my e-mail earlier today. One of my friends is going to be working with me to design a brand for myself. I’ll be branded across various social networks and this blog. It’ll be sweet!

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

To be honest, this last week has been a bit discouraging. I was feeling like I wasn’t making much progress… because I wasn’t, and that I had no definite direction to roll with. I also nearly doubled my hours at my second job from 10 to 20 leaving me about 4 hours a day to live, learn, implement, etc. It got to be a bit overwhelming that I “lost the plot” as they say – I sort of lost what I was doing. But I thought and prayed a lot over the last few days and I think I’m back on track and ready for the next 80 days! Here’s why…

Training Acquired:

Today I found a site called ThirtyDayChallenge.com. It’s phenomenal! It is a completely FREE 30 day course on internet marketing by one of the guys who is on the Internet Marketing This Week podcast named Ed. I signed up and went through the first day and into the second. The point of the class is to get a newbie to the point where he or she has made their first $1 online by the end of the thirty days. Perfect! I figure I’ll try to speed up my pace since I’ve been learning and try to do in 10 what they do in 30 since I’m not a TOTAL newbie.

So far the site has been fantastic. It explains one of the tools that I got free with StomperNet called Market Samurai in a way that makes a lot of sense. I’m looking forward to doing this hard core over the next 10 days and making my first dollars online.

In addition, today I also received my Guru Mastermind Home Study Course by the prince of internet marketing, Eben Pagan, It is a 3 -in-1 training on how to create and market info products, how to market and sell online, and how to attract customers online. The value of the course is said to be over $3,000 and I got it for free through signing up for StomperNet through Eben. I also get a free ticket to a live event of his and a free 90-minute coaching session.

Plan of Action:

I know that my plan of action has changed about 5 times already but I’m strangely comfortable with it. I thought A LOT about it today and I think I’ve settled on a pretty solid plan. The major questions I’ve been asking myself this week is “Who is Matt Hall?” and “Who is my audience?” I’ve come to the conclusion that I am an internet marketer, entrepreneur, and just an overall cool guy and that therefore my audience will be made up of internet marketers and entrepreneurs (both beginners and established) as well as those who just think I’m a neat person.

OnlineSuccessIn100Days (this blog) will be for my personal journey in the world of internet marketing and I will market it to internet marketers, especially aspiring ones. However, I realize that some people might just find this type of journey interesting so I’ll try to cater to them too.

PlexusNation.com will be my blog for entrepreneurs. I’ll set it up for entrepreneurs to learn, grow, and find out about new opportunities.

My social media presence, therefore, will be an attempt to cater to all three types of people, internet marketers, entrepreneurs, and people who just like me. Fortunately, internet marketing and entrepreneurship overlap quite a bit so I’ll probably make 75%-90% of my content tailored to them and the other 10%-25% of the my content tailored towards people in general.

Whew! Glad I got that straightened out.

Projects:

1) 30-Day Challenge: I’ll use the 30-Day challenge to pick a niche and start marketing in that niche for the next 10 days in addition to this blog. I plan to make my first $1 in the next 10 days!

2) This Blog: First of all, I’ll get back to marketing this blog. If you read yesterday’s post (Day 17-18) I had thought that I would pretty much stop marketing this blog. But I’m going to market it, and as I said above, I’ll market it mostly to aspiring internet marketers. This means I’ll start hitting Yahoo! Answers again and other forums, Facebook groups, and other stuff again.

3) Social Media: After I focus on project 1 and make some money, and then project two so that I’m writing about it and marketing my blog about it. Project 3 will be building up my “YouInc” business model that I spoke about back on Day 7.

4) PlexusNation.com: After I’ve sufficiently begun to market the onlinesuccessin100days.com blog I’ll begin marketing PlexusNation which will be more about entrepreneurship in general.

5) E-Commerce: I have an idea for an e-commerce site that I might start.

6) Project S: I’m keeping this project low key for now until it becomes more solidified because I think it could be a game changer.

Anyway, I feel good about this plan of action and I’m ready to rock it out starting tomorrow with Days 2-3 of the 30 Day Challenge! I also have some exciting news that I’ll be sharing with you all tomorrow!

Tootles,

-Matt Hall

I met with my friend Jason again. We’re in the research stage of this new idea so I won’t say much about it until we have things a bit more solidified but it’s going well.

In the meantime, I just got confirmation that Eben Pagan’s Guru Homestudy Course has been shipped to my house!! It has hours and hours of content on how to develop information products and a bunch of other stuff. I got it for free for signing up with StomperNet as part of Eben’s promotion of StomperNet. I’ll also get to go to a live event of Eben’s and get a 90 minute call with a mentor-type person that can help me with a company! Needless to say that I’m excited to get this $7500 worth of stuff for free.

So I’m stoked about learning. I also realized that I have NO idea what exactly I’m doing with this blog yet so I’m trying to decide who I’m writing this to or for. Right now, it’s going back to be just for me and my few loyal friends and fans. I need to answer the question, “Who is Matt Hall when it comes to the internet?” That’s not to say that I’m someone else offline, but just that I need to decide who my audience is and then what they want so I can tailor an approach to them. I think there will be a week or two of thinking and planning that goes into this so we’ll see what comes out.

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

(Yawn) I feel refreshed today. Despite another setback with the internet marketing website that I’m working on getting created, things are looking up. Yesterday’s rest is doing me much good!

Tonight at work I had a guest come in who is a regular. He ended up tipping me about as much money as I walked out the door with in total on Monday. I was grateful and said so. He replied by saying that he knows what its like to do what I do and that he just enjoyed “paying it forward”. Pay It Forward is a great movie by the way, I recommend it, and it goes along the same lines of what this guy was doing. It’s refreshing to see that there are still some people out there who are just generous and caring even to people they don’t know. This guy even picked up the tab of some of his friends who were in for a birthday party as well. It made me think about what generosity looks like and challenged me to think about what to with the resources God has given me. Paying it forward is definitely something I want to do more in my life whether in finances or in other resources…

So here I am Day 14 on my journey and God is good! I’m learning a bit slower now than I did last week because I’ve been working a lot more. It’s coming though. I’m realizing that this journey is more of a life overhaul than it is just a walk in the internet marketing world. I’ve started working out again (gonna be sore tomorrow!), I did some cleaning, and overall I’m just getting my life more in order. It feels good. And on top of all that it turns out I really like internet marketing.

I’m still going through 10 hours or so about SEO from StomperNet and the videos that Mike Dillard just put for his course that I’m going through. I’ve started to utilize the knowledge in marketing this blog and like I said on a previous day, I’m starting another blog called PlexusNation.com. That one is more about entrepreneurship in general and for the purpose of building my network marketing business.

I should have a schedule written up for tomorrow to post laying out how I’m managing my social media stuff too. But that’s it for today!

Twitter Followers: 883
Number of people to view this site: Around 100
In addition over the last few days I added a few people to my e-mail list and a few new marketing/business friends on Facebook!

Until Tomorrow,
-Matt

I think I forgot to mention it but last Thursday I got together with a group of guys to talk about business and life. It was great! There is something about being around a group of like-minded individuals that is inspiring and motivating. We’ve agreed to meet once a quarter for now to give everyone enough time to make progress in their various ventures.

So what is a mastermind group?

A mastermind group is a group that meets together for the purpose of helping and encouraging one another in their various projects or businesses. It is a safe place to let out your ideas because you are among like-minded people who are there to support you. It was actually out of one of these groups that this idea even came to me to do this 100 day journey!

You may be thinking, “Why would I want to tell anyone my ideas?” The wisdom in doing is as old as the Bible which says, “Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory” (Proverbs 11:14). Other people will see things that I don’t see in my business. They will question things that I may have overlooked or haven’t thought out well enough. They will help me pick apart my business ideas to make sure they are actually plausible and workable. Some mastermind groups are also for the purpose of learning together and/or networking which gives an added benefit.

Nearly every successful person I know meets in these types of groups no matter what field they are in. I, myself, am involved in 3 of them! If you want to be successful, I highly recommend that you involve yourself in them as well! If you don’t know of any then start your own! Find some friends who are on the same journey you are on or want to be and start meeting with them once a month or so. See if it won’t do wonders for your progress!

Resources:

Here are some more resources that I have found that you may want to take advantage of in the near future.

- Internet Marketing This Week – this is a radio show that you can get podcasted or in pretty much whatever other form you may want. I have found it very useful for keeping up to date with breaking news in the internet marketing world as well as for finding out about new useful tools that may help me.

- TweetLarge - I used this program once to help me gain some Twitter followers… to be honest, I don’t know how it works but I gained a bunch more followers. On the one hand, I don’t know how useful those followers will be as far as marketing goes. On the other it doesn’t matter if it helps you gain a look of credibility. It actually DOES give you some extra followers and I think it is an important thing to have the number of people that are following you significantly higher than the amount of people you are following.

- SamePoint.com – This is a search engine that is apparently better to search conversations that are happening across social media platforms. If I remember correctly this is because it searches dynamically generated pages, meaning pages that are created when somebody sends you a comment on facebook or similar things whereas other search engines don’t pick up (index) these pages. I have only played with it a bit but I wanted to make sure you guys got your hands on it. Let me know what you find. You can actually get an RSS of this stuff to your browser or wherever you read your RSS so you can keep tabs on information easier.

And that’s about it for this day. Post a comment, or send me a Tweet and let me know what you think!

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt