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Thirty Day Challenge TV Show Postponed… but not for long

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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Sorry Gang

Due to circumstances completely in my control - I won’t be able to do the show Sunday night.

I am a total numbat and am very sorry to stuff you around like this. Despite rumors to the contrary - It’s not because of the trauma of having my iPhone die and then resurrected thanks to my mad hacking Skillz (not to mention the contribution of team Twitter) on the weekend.

I’m aiming for Tuesday night US time but need to confer with team edge to make sure they are cool

With that I’ll leave you wiith some random youtube dude playing a John Mayer Song.

I like the  idea of randomly freaking somebody out with a sudden burst of traffic :-)
Speak Soon

Ed

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Eating The Elephant…Why..What’s the Elephant done to you….

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008


You can check out seesmic by clicking the link

Ed

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Video Comments Now On The Blog

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Hi Gang,

Dan here and I just wanted to tell you about a new feature that I have just added to the blog and that is Video Comments. All you need to do is click on the leave a video comment option below the standard comment box and assuming you have a microphone and video camera hooked up then you can leave a comment.

Don’t worry, you get to preview it first before it goes live and you don’t need to register for Seesmic to leave a comment, just hit the anonymous button.

You can check out my test comment here. Best video comment on this post get’s a copy of a recent article I wrote for the Immediate Edge on starting a Internet Business in a weekend. Have fun.

Dan

Preseason - Google Reader - the COOLEST lesson of all

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Thirty Day Challenge Preseason - Google Reader

This series gives you the most valuable gift of all…

TIME

I have been BUSTING to deliver this to you

Enjoy!

Ed

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Firefox 3 In The Thirty Day Challenge?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

There has been a lot of questions about the use of Firefox in the Thirty Day Challenge - Given there world record breaking effort yesterday with the number of downloads…

I thought I would do this video to update you

Just wait till you see the next lot of pre-season training….

Ed

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Music To My Ears!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Thisguydoug is a self-confessed newbie to the Thirty Day Challenge….

I’ll let “thisguydoug” tell the story…

Hi all, I’m a newbie to the whole 30DC thing. I still don’t understand all the power of Twitter or even the right way to use it to my financial advantage (yet), but I thought I’d share something I found interesting.

I downloaded and installed Flock according to Ed’s videos, got the extensions, got Twhirl, started to blab a few random things on Twitter.  Here in Idaho Falls, we have a horse racetrack called Sandy Downs, where sometimes they have outdoor concerts.  Friday night on the 10PM news, they announce that rock legend Alice Cooper is going to perform at Sandy Downs on August 13 with tickets going on sale June 21.  I’m a big fan of his music and showmanship, so I Twitter something about it, not thinking much about it.

(Yeah, I’m thinking most of Twitter is comments like “I like soup” or “took a nap” or something equally brain numbing.)

Today, I tell a friend of mine at work about this upcoming Alice Cooper concert, but I can’t find this tour date listed anywhere on the Interweb to confirm it.  But my searches in Google bring up MY FREAKIN’ TWITTER ABOUT IT!!!

As of right now, 6:37PM Monday June 16 2008, if you Google “alice cooper” “sandy downs” as one search term (yeah, I put the quotes around each phrase just for my search earlier, kind of a hybrid exact search), it comes in at #1.  If I just type in the four words, alice cooper sandy downs, with no quotes, it shows up at #4 on Google.

It might have showed up sooner.  I don’t know when exactly.  But I Twittered this stupid concert comment on a Saturday, and it’s at #1 and #4 on Google two days later.

Now what if I had put an affiliate link in there to sell tickets to the concert (or something similar)?

Are you starting to see the power of this?  I sure am!

(Well, Flock me ’til I Twitter.)

ThisGuyDoug
Twitter / thisguydoug (http://twitter.com/thisguydoug)

And remember - you have not seen anything yet!!

Ed

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Thirty Day Challenge Preseason - Twitter and Twhirl - Lesson 5

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Thirty Day Challenge Preseason - Twitter and Twhirl

Here is the Link For Lesson 5 of theĀ  Pre-Season

Ed

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Dan Raine’s New Car

Monday, June 16th, 2008

You know it had to be done…

Thanks to the Donal for the initial tip

Car thong - A gallery of funny pictures images and photos on Best Pic Ever

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Pre-Season Lesson 4 - Signing Up for Twitter

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Twitter has got to be one of my favorite Internet marketing services.

Lesson 4 on signing up for Twitter and using it inside Flock is locked and loaded.

Check out Lesson 4 here

Ed

Lesson Three UPDATED! - With Bonus PDF and new video

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Lesson Three has been updated with a new video on the add-ons we will be using in the challenge

For the first time we have also got a downloadable PDF report - the cool thing about this report is that the links are clickable - to get the add-on you want - just click the link in the PDF report and you will be taken straight there!

Pretty Spiffy!

Click here For Lesson Three

Ed

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Pre-Season Lesson 3 - Getting Some Add-Ons

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Today we show you how to install and setup add-ons for Flock, and have a look at our first add-on, the very cool Piclens. Remember, 98% of add-ons created for Firefox work on Flock, and all the add-ons we show you work.

There is also a great speed-up tip that you need to implement especially if you have high speed Internet

Watch This Lesson Now

Thirty Day Challenge Publicity

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Hi Challengers,

Ed here and I just got an email from Pete Williams who is head of the Thirty Day Challenge Street team!.

Check out this video he did on YouTube

Here is what he said in his email:

Hey All.

Just to summarize what I said in the video; We are looking for two groups of people to join the inaugural ‘30DC STREET TEAM’ - and yes, in true ’street-team’ style there will be baseball caps and stickers for all members.

GROUP 1: PUBLICITY HOUNDS

If you (or even a distant cousin) has any relationship with the ‘real-world’ media please get in touch with me (via 30DC [at] preneurmarketing.com)

We really want to get the word out about this years challenge through radio, print and TV all across the globe. So if you have any connections at all, please make contact… as we really want to get the video of Dan in a thong on Oprah.

GROUP 2: BOOK WORMS

Yes, it’s official - We are turning the Thirty Day Challenge into a book… and it’s going to be a real book, not an ebook… One you can touch and feel and give as a Christmas gift. The Thirty Day Challenge has grown into the biggest ‘Internet Marketing’ program held online, and we now want to make it the biggest selling ‘Internet Marketing’ book of all time.

So what we are looking for initially is anyone with connections to the publishing industry - be it a ghostwriter, editor, type-setter, printer or obviously, publisher.

We already have some irons in the fire with various publishers, but no ink has touched paper - So if you are in the book publishing game at any level please shoot me an email, (via 30DC [at] preneurmarketing.com), as we’d love to have a chat.

And for everyone else in the 30DC community, we will be after your help at various stages of the process so don’t think you got off that easy…

We will need success stories, book title ideas and we might even run a cover design contest. So stay tuned.

Thanks,

Pete Williams
(Preneur)

p.s. Oh yeah, the 30DC Auction is going to be bigger and better this year as well. Announcement soon.

Cool huh? Think you can help…send Pete an email.

Ed

Lesson 2 - Where To find Flock Options on the PC

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Lesson two is now live in the pre-season section of the site. As you know - I use a Mac (as do FIFTY PERCENT OF YOU - a stunning change from the first challenge!!). Flock for the PC works exactly the same way BUT to find the options -you need to look in the options section of the tool menu.

Everything else works exactly the same way.

Have Fun

Ed

Pre-Season Lesson 1 - The Flock Browser

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Today we start the official pre-season for the Thirty Day Challenge 2008.

This will be a huge year, and the first step in that is making sure you have the right browser for the job.

And that browser is Flock. Forget Internet Explorer or Firefox, Flock is the best web browser or internet browser that you can download. Watch today’s video, and get started on familiarising yourself with the Flock internet browser today.

The recording from the launch show and the flock training can be found here

Pre-Season Begins Tonight

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

That’s right folks, pre-season is starting tonight and kicks off with a live TV show which starts at 8PM EST. So make sure you head on over to ThirtyDayChallenge.TV to watch this years Thirty Day Challenge begin.