During the first week I mentioned that I was planning on starting a company that would provide marketing services to small businesses who wanted to take advantage of the internet for their businesses. A week or two after that I wrote that the whole thing was a no-go because I broke things off with my design team. Well here’s an update…

The game is back on! Scepter Marketing’s site should be up by Day 50 ready to start teaching the small business world how to market their stuff online. I’ll start with a simple newsletter that gives tips that I’m learning on my own journey + I’ll send them to affiliate sites that they will need for hosting services. I figure that if I can get teach 300 people to set up their own basic web-marketing system I should be able to hit my goal of $25,000 which includes ~$1700 of passive income by the end of the year. That amount includes just having those people buy a domain, hosting, and autoresponder. It’s easy to see bigger dollar signs when I think about moving into selling consulting services or my own products, or even getting commissions from referrals to web designers. So that’s the plan today, who knows about tomorrow.

BTW Creed’s new CD Full Circle is pretty sweet.

Until Tomorrow,

-Matt

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…

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

So I worked all day Monday and got pretty much nothing done but watching about 20 minutes of one of Eben’s videos…

Some days are just like that. Some days you just won’t get anything you wanted to done. The best advice I can give you (and myself) is…

Just keep on keeping on! Review your plan DAILY!! and work on getting it done little by little, step by step, day by day. Here’s a poem I wrote a while back that may inspire you. It’s about realizing that the biggest obstacle to overcome in my journey out of being financially average is myself. There is really very little competition when it comes to moving out of the land of being financially average. Almost NO ONE is doing it. Robert Kiyosaki says that about 95% of people are poor or middle class. I conclude that the biggest obstacle then… is me.

Is it this easy,
Is there no one else?
Is it only me,
That can stop myself?
I came ready to fight,
But met no opposition,
I am here alone,
So I will take position,
Everyone will watch,
As I the hero rise,
Heaven’s set my path,
I will not compromise

Have a great day!

Until tomorrow,
-Matt

PS Check out the updated people, programs, and tools pages I put up!