My 30 Day Challenge

Happy New Year!

2008-01-01T13:46:00.000-08:00

I will be working on BOTH my Jerky and Travel Business.

I just placed an Ad in the paper, it will go out on the January 10th Newspaper.
I will be buying ONE Exclusive Travel Lead.

I am also working on a Press Release and eBook to giveaway for Viral Marketing.
I am giving away a bag of Jerky on JackiesBizBlog.com

I decided I am going to really move my Businesses forward and put it first so I can Succeed. :)

Monday

2007-11-25T19:43:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow I am going to call ALL My Travel Leads to see where we stand with booking them their vacations.

I am also going to gather my newer-older MLM Leads that were generated so I can contact them also...

My Travel Leads are almost running out so I will need to buy some too. I do need to budget though for the Business so I know how much I want to spend a month.

FIRST Travel Booking!!!

2007-11-20T23:33:00.000-08:00

In my backoffice! : D

Tomorrow I have a Travel Lead to call going to Disney World.

Going to be working some more with the other Leads we have. :)

More Results!

2007-11-18T21:41:00.000-08:00

Well from my Purchased Travel Leads I have another Travel Booking Pending! :)

This really makes me happy! :)

I never realized how easy it is to book Travel.

I had received 2 Leads already out of the 9 I will receive total.

Still waiting for a response from my newspaper ad, I may get something next week. :)

Progress and Results!

2007-11-18T01:06:00.000-08:00

Well, I got my first Travel Booking! :D Ironically, through my warm market. Which I am not one to pursue my warm market but it happened anyway! I am very Happy about it! :) I will be making my warm market more aware that they can book Travel through me just so at least they know that I can do that.

I also purchased some Travel Leads and I have received two of them so far, we will be emailing them today and then I will be calling them Monday at work.

Still have not received any calls yet from my Ad, but Ads normally take time. The ad is to build my Team. My Goal is still to build my 1st Team.

TALLY: 2 Reps; 1 Travel Booking

GOAL: Build 1st Team (3 Reps; 6 RTAs); 10 Travel Bookings within a month.

My 30 Day Challenge

2007-11-14T21:42:00.000-08:00

Yes I know probably went way past my 30 Day Challenge but the point of my 30 Day Challenge is to keep me Motivated...that, in which it has but my Marketing Plan is still not very well thought out. I have been doing things but just not sure with what to follow there after.

Right now my Travel Blog is still in the process of being built and to get better. I need to focus on that. Its hard.

I wrote a few articles and some are being Published. I have an Ad in the paper and I do have business cards also. I will also be purchasing some Travel Leads. But sometimes I tend to be all over the place. Which is never my intention.

Marketing I will be doing:

Cruise Blog
Classified Ads
Purchase Leads

That is all I have for now...My List will grow as I get better.

Business

2007-11-10T22:11:00.000-08:00

Well I Printed off some Business Cards for both Travel & Jerky Biz

I also placed an Ad in the newspaper : D

I had joined about 5 Social Media sites and I will be renovating the ones I had previously joined plus I will be joining more.

Honestly

2007-11-05T20:46:00.000-08:00

I have been slacking and it has only been damaging to myself :(

BUT! I did have an idea! :)

Well....

2007-10-30T21:01:00.000-07:00

I will be renovating my Travel Blog
Placing an Ad in the paper Friday
Purchasing Travel Leads

Business stuff

2007-10-29T21:48:00.000-07:00

Well last night I had submitted two articles for Ezine and then today I had written a more focused Plan to get Travel Bookings on my Travel Blog. I will not be doing that much tonight because I am so tired from work that I cannot focus. But I already have a Plan in place.

Working

2007-10-26T19:32:00.000-07:00

Drafted two articles so far for Ezine. :) Unfortunately will have to postpone the newspaper ad this week as I have rent due this week :(

We will be getting Business Cards though :)

Well tonight

2007-10-24T22:27:00.000-07:00

I published an Article at Ezine and a Blog Post...BOTH pertaining to my Business. I feel accomplished. : D This weekend I will also be placing an Ad in the paper.

Tonight I am Pondering....

2007-10-23T20:43:00.000-07:00

I had revised my Marketing Plan NUMEROUS times. I need to stick with something to my Target Market and where I will get the most Traffic, Leads, Sales etc...I think I am going to stick to one thing I know BEST and that is Newspaper Advertising. It is Cheap for one and I can target my market VERY specifically. I realize also that I need to plan out my marketing for day-to-day event, especially for what I will be doing that day. The other Marketing I was looking into was purchasing Travel Leads so I can book travel as I am in the TRAVEL MLM Business! I also want to work on my Travel Blog so I can drive Traffic and increase Travel sales that way. The last thing I wanted to maybe focus on was Article Marketing. 4 things to do for Business is not bad, not bad at all. They are all Targeted, Specific, FOCUSED ways to getting BUSINESS for my Business. MY Goal is to work from home by August 2008 and I really want to get this going quickly!

I am also reading a special eBook I got from someone in the same Business as I am and so I will be taking notes from it tonight. ITS REALLY GOOD and I am excited to implement it with my Marketing techniques.

I will unfortunately not be able to work on my Jerky Business at this time as I can only Build 1 Business at a time :( But I will be coming back to it and I am sure another Contest will be around once I am ready to get into the SWING of things :)

Well off to Take some Notes and then work on an Article and Blog Post. :)

Better Marketing

2007-10-22T07:23:00.001-07:00

I need Leads for my Business so I think the best option is for me to place an Ad in the paper to build my Team. For Online Marketing I can do more Article Writing and Blogging for my Travel Business. I will also be purchasing Travel Leads to book Travel. I will keep doing Traffic Swarm for Jerky. I may hold off on my Jerky Business for a bit.

Enough about Marketing ALREADY!

2007-10-21T21:39:00.001-07:00

I feel like I am losing sight of the Business and that I need to get caught up on alot of things ABOUT THE BUSINESS. BLEH.

My Marketing Plan

2007-10-20T18:59:00.000-07:00

30 Minutes a Day on TrafficSwarm
Purchase 3 Travel Leads a week to Book Travel
Post on Craigslist for Utah area for Jerky & Travel Business
Put an Ad in the paper for Travel Leads
Post Daily on Travel Blog - Promote Travel Blog

Do this Daily and Consistently

Work

2007-10-19T20:41:00.000-07:00

30 Minutes Traffic Swarm - considering going Pro so I won't have to click everyday but I think it won't be a problem if I just use it for Jerky and Promote it the Free Way. Pro would be $30 Dollars a month. Maybe once my Checks get Bigger from Jerky I will go Pro. But not right now.

Then I fell asleep in the middle of my Clicking...but I did get over 100 Credits so that was good. I am awake again and deciding what I am going to do next. I decided to remove my YTB Lead Page from TrafficSwarm and keep Traffic Swarm just for Jerky Direct.

Write Ads for Craigslist for Jerky and Travel. (Focus on Utah) OH I screwed up! UGH frustration.

I think that is it for the day...till tomorrow...

Marketing Re-Evaluation

2007-10-18T21:01:00.000-07:00

Well today I decided to re-check my Marketing Plan.

My Original Focus I had laid out was

10 Jerky Sign ups
Build 1st Team
10 Travel Bookings

I am still nowhere near My Goal, which is fine because I just began Marketing but I have neglected to contact some recent Leads I have Captured on my Lead Capture page.

I am also looking into other Marketing options but think maybe I need do simpler things first. I may need to just focus less on the Jerky Sign ups and worry about Building my 1st Team and Travel Bookings.

Need more Blog Posts for my Travel Blog. Its a Great Niche and Google picks it up very well! Also more Blog Promotion once I start Posting Daily. I am also considering purchasing exclusive Cruise Leads to build my Travel Business. I really would like to be booking a lot of Travel and I know if I build a Team my RTAs would also want to be Booking Travel and Building a Team at the same time. I want to be Duplicable and I would also like to not only be Booking Travel but earning Bonuses for Building My Team.

Ad in the paper for those interested in becoming a Travel Agent.

Maybe I could do one simple thing for Jerky Direct like Craigslist or Safelists...possibly just Craigslist because I know someone who builds an Income with just a small Business like Jerky and only uses Craigslist.

Articles I would eventually like to do or do every so often...

I think this Plan may work a lot better.

Time to Work!

2007-10-17T20:19:00.000-07:00

30 Minutes Traffic Swarm Done
Update Safelists Done
Craigslist Done

Revise my Marketing Efforts and decide on some more Marketing techniques.

Changed my mind....

2007-10-16T21:43:00.001-07:00

Took a Power Nap and Shower and ready to continue....

Traffic Swarm Done (Travel & Jerky)
Update Safelist Ads Done (Jerky)
Craigslist (Jerky) Done - Tomorrow Travel and Jerky Posts
Blog Post at my Travel Blog Done

Work

2007-10-16T19:29:00.000-07:00

Decided I am too tired and may need to catch up on some sleep before I can work really well.

Tired from work :( , but Working

2007-10-15T20:31:00.001-07:00

Purchase Jerky Domain Done
30 Minutes Traffic Swarm Done

OMG I am just so tired! :(

Tomorrow I will do more. I am glad I at least did something.

Tomorrow

2007-10-15T00:04:00.000-07:00

Join 5 Social Networks for Travel Business and Update Profiles and such and participate.

Join 5 more Work at Home Forums and Participate.

Update Travel Blog & Jerky Blog.

Update & Read more about SafeLists. (Write Better Ads)

30 Minutes on TrafficSwarm.

Look into PPC.

Look into Lead Capture for Jerky Direct and Purchase Domain Name

GOALS by November 14th 2007

is to have 10 Travel Bookings, 10 Signs ups for Jerky, build 1st Team for Travel Business

Marketing Plan for 30 Day Challenge

2007-10-14T20:32:00.000-07:00

Surf For Credits for 30 Minutes Daily at Traffic Swarm Done

Junk Mail for Safelists for Jerky Business Done
Join 5 Safelists
Join Solo-Ads.com Done
Join AdTactics Done
Join GotSafeList Done
Join MyFreeSafeList Done
Join Herculist Done

Well I did some SafeLists and Traffic Swarm tonight. Tomorrow I will do some more.

Goals for 30 Day Challenge

2007-10-14T01:44:00.000-07:00

Goals:

1) 10 Travel Bookings on JackiesTravelTips.com
2) 10 Distributors for Jerky Direct
3) Build 1st Team (1 Rep; 6 RTAs)

HOW:

Blogging
Article Writing
Social Media
Forums
Ad in Paper
Traffic Swarm?
Instant Buzz
Solo-Ads.com
PPC
Safelists

Tomorrow (or today) I should say I will put together my Marketing Plan.

Why The 30 Day Challenge?

2007-10-14T01:21:00.000-07:00

I have a hard time staying Motivated and so I need something I can do to keep myself on my toes and get my Businesses going. I am keeping this private because I am doing this for my own sake. I do plan on Posting my Results after it is Complete.

My Goal is still to Work for myself by August 2008 and it will stay my Goal till it happens. We are in October 2008 which means I need to work my ass off. I am no where NEAR my Goal. Which is sad to admit. So I am going to begin the 30 Day Challenge and MAKE IT HAPPEN. Just Do it! Etc...

My 30 Day Challenge will begin Sunday, October 14th 2008

My next Post will be my Goals for my 30 Day Challenge.