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Progress? What Progress?
April 28, 2005
Nadev has a great post (with a great title) over at WebSiteNights. He starts by saying:
It’s been a long time since the last update. I have to be honest here and tell you what I think happened: The basic fact is that I did not expect this site to be so popular. More and more people are coming everyday to view my challenge updates… and as the popularity grew the more I felt I had to provide you with better and better content.
I started thinking 3 times before every word typed… and this had led to some sort of blog paralysis.
Well, as a lot of you know already, I'm not one to suffer from blog paralysis. Give me a keyboard and I can run off at the mouth with the best of them.
But reading Nadev's post made me realize something. I see that I'm approaching the $100 Challenge very differently. For me, it's been mainly an exhilarating motivational ride. The motivation was actually why I signed on.
Being a Challenge Participant has made me really start implementing - and implementation has always been my weak point. I've done so many things ever since becoming a participant that I am sometimes awestruck when I look at my "I finally got a round tewit" list.
So it was interesting to read Nadev's account of how he ended up veering off course and working on his blogging and content sites, instead of focusing on his original PPC gameplan. I agree with him totally - blogging and content sites are long-term strategies.
Where does this leave me, then? I'm not going the PPC route (although Adsense arbitrage definitely sounds interesting ...). Not only that, I'm playing with low-value niches and two new "branded" sites that literally bring me small change a day. I'm also in the process of launching three more sites which will ultimately be my "authority" sites, way down the road. I haven't even gotten my main affiliate sales Challenge site up yet - I've just been snowed under with so many other ideas and it's still patiently sitting there at the top of my to-do list.
And even when I do get that site launched ... I honestly don't think a site will start chugging forward on its own steam until it's matured itself out of the sandbox.
I'd say Nadev's PPC plan is probably one of the best gameplans around for getting ahead in three short months.
So for those of you following along on the Challenge updates, don't get taken in when I report on my progress.
For me, putting up all these sites, formulating a cohesive plan, getting all my research done, sticking to my guns - for me, it's all progress. I'm pretty pleased at how the $100 Challenge has really pushed my buttons, so to speak, and made me actually start doing a lot more of what I kept telling myself I was going to do. But in terms of actually reaching that $100/day goal, well, all I can say is that it will happen, but the "when" is iffy. It's not likely to be anytime in the next six weeks, that's for sure. (Well, unless I succomb to the lure of Adsense arbitrage. Then I might have a shot at it.)
You know those happy campers who cross the marathon finish line after 10 or 15 hours, totally exhilarated even though the winner breezed through about 15 hours ago? That's me.
Update: Well, wouldn't you just know it. I write this nice long post about the $100 challenge being my motivation but really, it's the motivation I'm aiming for ... and now my one "true" challenge site is actually making money! It's not a lot, and it's Adsense (but then again, the site only has Adsense advertising on it, although I am scouting around for some appropriate merchants, too.). Still, it's been consistent, so I guess I will have to eat my words. Maybe I will glimpse that Challenge finish line a lot sooner than I've been thinking I would!
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