Posts Tagged: The Keyword Academy

productivity — No Comments
15
Oct 10

Spartans! Prepare for Glory!

Today official marks the beginning of Fall Frenzy. Much like Summer Rush, it is a push for productivity and output through The Keyword Academy. Summer Rush had an awesome effect on my earnings, so I expect Fall Frenzy will accomplish the same. While employed full time, I managed to publish 100,000 words during the 92 day Summer Rush time period. My goal for fall frenzy is to publish 250,000 words in the 78 day period, not including those written as freelancing work.

“This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die!”

So, why the reference to 300 in the title? Well, I joined a user group called the 300 Spartans because their initial goal was to publish 300k words each during Summer Rush. The groups did a bit of a shuffle for Fall Frenzy as people set different goals for themselves and I was able to sneak into the group.

I’m pretty excited because it is one of my favorite movies. I think there are some awesome lessons and philosophies portrayed in the movie, so I watched it last night to get inspired. If I can take on some of the characteristics of the Spartans for these 78 days, then my progress should be unstoppable.

“Remember this day, men. For it will be yours for all time.”

In a semi-unrelated note, I figured out what part of my productivity dilemma has been for the past couple weeks. I had primarily been trying to use the Simple Article Rewriter to create articles in groups of five on the same subject. However, this seems to create tasks that are too large and they create levels of anxiety that I couldn’t cope with, which caused procrastination. Wednesday, I decided just to try to write five articles without the tool and I was able to get started quickly and actually wrote the articles faster.

I’m not sure if it is because the tool causes you to have to do a certain amount of work before you can stop or if just the extra forced structure was just intimidating, but I’ve been very productive ever since. I think this was my biggest stumbling block that I’ve had to overcome. I think with my new daily structure and this new knowledge of task anxiety, I should be able to reach the levels of daily output that I was hoping for.

“No retreat, no surrender. That is Spartan law. And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight. A new age has begun: an age of freedom!”

Entrepreneurship / Internet Marketing — No Comments
30
Jul 10

My Side Business and Massive Action August

Until now, I’ve been pretty quiet about what type of business I’m actually working on. Partly because it’s a tiered model of attack (and therefore can sound quite lame if I explain it wrong), but also because I’ve been too busy to really draw it out.

I mentioned back in April, that I made just over $14 that month. Well, I’m really excited because this month I will end up right near $50. I always said that if I could make $1 online, then I could make $10. And if I could make $10, then I could make $100. What’s really cool is that it is proving to be true.

So what am I actually doing? Building websites and ranking them using search engine optimization. I signed up for The Keyword Academy in the middle of March and have been steadily plugging away ever since. TKA is basically a membership site that breaks down all of the internet marketing clutter online and delivers to the point guidance and advice on how to rank a website.

They’re not made for Adsense sites though, as the goal is to add quality to the search results through information. Although it is recommended to monetize with Adsense, there are a bunch of ways to make money without it once you get traffic to your site.

Unfortunately, it is a front end loaded model. You have to put in a bunch of work at the beginning to get a site ranked. Once it is ranked, however, it is much easier to keep it there. This makes the beginning stages a bit of a struggle and causes a lot of people to quit. The people who succeed are those who revel in the little victories and push through until they’re past the initial undertaking. I fully intend to be one of the successful folks.

Although I have been seeing good results from what I’ve been doing, I need to step it up a notch. I know I will be even more motivated when I start to see bigger numbers, so I’m going to force the issue. The founders of TKA always say that the best way to move forward is with massive, reckless action. I’ve read a lot of threads on their forums from advanced members taking massive, reckless action and seeing amazing results.

August is my reckless and massive action month. In addition to my current link building campaigns for my current sites, I’m going to setup 30 new niche sites. I picked out my niches with a detailed selection process and purchased my new domains accordingly. I’m amped up and ready to go.

This will be quite a task, but I’m not giving myself the option to fail. After all, you’ll never steal second with your foot on first.