How I Made $7000 + with the 30DC

[JulieW8]

Just read your Twitter. Congratulations!

Hey - if you need an intern, I have a 22-year-old son who loves to travel.

[harmonicbarbie]

Bruce,

Just finished reading this thread and saw your post just now on Twitter that you'd made another sale to MTV...

Woohoo!!!

Congrats and thanks for sharing your inspirational story!

I'm also selling high ticket items (my father's musical instruments) so your story is especially encouraging to me. :-)

Keep up the great work, and I'll be following your continuing journey here and on Twitter.

Cheers!
Barb

[brucinho]

Originally Posted by harmonicbarbie

Bruce,

Just finished reading this thread and saw your post just now on Twitter that you'd made another sale to MTV...

Woohoo!!!

Congrats and thanks for sharing your inspirational story!

I'm also selling high ticket items (my father's musical instruments) so your story is especially encouraging to me. :-)

Keep up the great work, and I'll be following your continuing journey here and on Twitter.

Cheers!
Barb

Hi Barb, We'll I haven't made the sale, but only because it's 1 in the morning here in Rio. I'll have to wait until later to see if what they want is available. I sure hope it is!

Musical Instruments are a great product to sell. I play piano and sax, a bit of guitar and I used to work for a company called Roland, I sold lot's of high end musical products. Definitely a market for those.

What's your site? I'd like to see the instruments

[harmonicbarbie]

Hi Bruce,

Always nice to to connect with a fellow musician. :-)

Have just Twittered you with link to my sites.

Am crossing fingers and toes that your 2nd MTV sale comes through!

Cheers!
Barb

[Krystal]

Originally Posted by brucinho

Thank you Caro, It still seems kind of surreal, and I don't want to get caught up in a small bit of success, and I'm still working on the lessons, {I'm a bit behind and need to take today to catch up on day 27 and 28.}

To answer your questions
"However did you still choose keyword phrases that fitted with the criteria?"

Answer: My keywords were the same ones I've always used and my site used to rank well with these 1-5 on Google, until they slapped me in January. I re designed my site, catering to a higher end customer and did all the SEO stuff I was getting from the other IM "gurus", and my site would just drop in Google with every change I did. I was so frustrated!

"So even if your main phrase has those figures - did you find another phrase to leverage that related to your niche/offering?"

Answer: I tried to find keyword phrases that met the 30DC challenge parameters, but could not come up with any. So I decided to put it to the ultimate test and see if could pull my site out of the gutter. Which it did unbelivable well. I think in part because hardly anyone in my niche uses these Web 2.0 techniques, and it was easy for me to get ranked. There are a few sites that still out rank me and I believe I know why - (Backlinks) so I'm studying that lesson right now.

Obrigado! (Thanks!)
Bruce

P.S. People have asked, but I'm not Brazilian, I'm from the U.S., but I now live in one of the most beautiful cities of the world, Rio de Janeiro.

Hey Bruce

Eu tambem acho, cidade mais linda do mundo! Thanks for sharing Bruce.

[slevin]

*claps* thanks for the inspiration. Goodluck in the future, i hope the sales continue

[KonaGirl]

Aloha Bruce!

Congratulations for getting back on track and thank you so much for sharing your success with all of us! You are truly an inspiration to us all!

Mahalo nui loa,
(Thank you very much)

Aloha,
June

[kaicyee]

Hey Bruce,

All I have to say is that this is really so inspiring! You went for what you love and you really stuck with it! (I kinda have an idea what your blog is about! )This just makes me want to continue on at full speed. I have Big Dream's just like you!

Kai