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Archive for September, 2007

Thirty Day Challenge - How Can We Make This Truly Open Source?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
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I have a dream - and an echidna….

Watch this video

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You can download here

What do you think? Can we do this? How do we do this? Dan and I are prepared to put up the infrastructure. How do we stop it getting spammed?

You tell me - Comments below - I think this thing could be huge.

Ed and the echidna…

SocialMarker - The New Social Bookmarking Standard

Monday, September 24th, 2007

And what makes this tool even cooler was that it was developed by a fellow Thirty Day Challenger!

This service replaces socialposter and onlywire

It is a much smoother tool, and it’s brilliantly put together.

Well Done Sorin - It’s brilliant

http://www.socialmarker.com

Ed

New 30DC Lesson - How To Sell When You HATE Selling

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Hi Gang

This lesson today is a good combination of WHY and HOW - I made a massive error teaching the first two thirty day challenge. This lesson makes that right. It should also give people a lot of hope - because selling skills are not required

(BTW - I think you should learn heaps about copywriting - The Gary Halbert Newsletter is free and more importantly - brilliant)

On With The Lesson…

Here is the download

There is also a PDF Report of the slides in this presentation

The Tao Of Twitter…New 30DC Lesson

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I promised that this would be worth the wait - save yourself a hundred or so bucks and get the real secrets of twitter.

For the first time - I talk about the most powerful element of twitter…

For High Definition viewing on al those sexy new ipods you can download the presentation here

The Slides are also available in PDF format here

Enjoy

Ed

The New Lesson Will Be Up Monday

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Sorry Gang

I ran out of time this week and am jumping on a plane to London in a few hours - so I’ll upload the lesson from there.

There has been a bit of discussion over the merits of this whole web 2.0 thing

You can see my views on it

Here with Part 1

and

Here with Part 2

What’s This Then….

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

The Thirty Day Challenge Charity Auction will start in a day or so and Dan has just submitted his offer

Dan's Little SecretsHere is the Mysterious Text….

One cream envelope tied with black ribbon and finished with a gold wax seal.

The envelope contains a very special item worth over $10,000 which will change your life forever.

:)

I truly have no idea what it is

It does look very fancy pants with the whole seal thing etc…

As a reminder I’m donating “The Guitar” - the guitar that has been the “Lucky Rabbits Foot” to both Frank Kern and Myself…

Here is one of the dodgier looking pictures of me and the National Resophonic Delphi Deluxe we are calling

THE GuitarThe Guitar

The bidding details will be up soon - Challengers from around the world have donated some amazing items and all the proceeds are going to Dan and My favourite charity - Kiva (mainly, because it’s not a charity…)
Kiva - based on the micro-lending process first developed by Muhammad Yunus The Nobel Prize winning founder of the Grameen bank is brilliant and goes to the heart of what we are trying to do here. Give people a new option by having their own business.

As soon as I know the auction details I’ll let you know.

Now I need to work out what’s in that envelope - the suspense is killing me !

Ed

PS There will be a new lesson up at the end of the week and look out for a Dan and Ed Podcast live from London next week where we announce the winners and prizes for the Thirty Day Challenge

PPS There are a bunch of Thirty Day Challenge winners that have not been added to the Hall of FAME yet. I’m pretty sure something died in the office here during the 30DC and I am cleaning my office. Just be thankful they have not added smellovision to the Internet!!!