Day 2:30DC Cheat Sheet: Creating the Understanding

30DC Day 2
Quick Obs:
There are many helpful people in this summer camp-like gig.
Best to be super extroverted. Cold call anyone involved, but as with trad cold calls, best to do your homework ie RESEARCH. SEO is the name and the game is Web 2.0. Or vice versa. Predicting web 2.0 is like predicting the full grown size of a baby... everyone has their own learning style, accept it. The ring leaders are super tech savvy. If they were coaching soccer they'd be in the World Cup. If you're on dial up without a cell, you're not out of this. This is a marathon, not a sprint...take care of yourself. May be helpful for some to think beyond 30 days...

I found the following sites to be helpful today:
http://www.hearmyw00t.com/
sample:
11 Great ways to find niches:
1 Google Trends
2 Yahoo! Buzz
3 Lycos 50
4 AOL Hot searches
5 Ask Top Searches
6 Amazon Hot New releases
7 Whats hot at ebay
8 Google News - Whats popular
9 Google Zeitgeist
10 Barnes and Noble’s Top 10 everything
11 OK I lied, there are only 10. Write the 11th yourself and stick it in a comment. Much appreciated :).

http://kellydoesthetdc.blogspot.com/
sample:
"Kelly Challenge" is a woman participating in the Thirty Day Challenge Online for August 2007. She is going to take daily notes. You can follow her here. She's a newbie to Internet Marketing but eagerly looking forward to it! :)
*She is really boiling it down, so if you need a bridge between the tech and the reality, Kelly's got it pegged.

And for esthetics, Rob, another 30CD'ers site:
http://sonichamphotography.blogspot.com/

Quote
A top ranked SEO blog Seomoz.org has reported, "Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines." Instead, their main sources of traffic are links from other websites."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
great article btw!


PAULitical PAULicy for Day 2:
"Ignore farming at your peril. We live on food - not fine words."
"It is a poor country that depends on food from other countries."
"Make friends with a farmer, you'll never regret it."

Day 2 stats
13:04 Hours on the net(dial up)
started 1 blog, made 2 entries
signed up for 8 killer Apps
communicated with 30+ unique and dynamic individuals
As good, if not better, than any summer camp I ever went to.