What Else I’m Working On

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What Else I’m Working On

By Deb Gallardo

I’m part of the totally fre’e ThirtyDayChallenge.com Internet Marketing experience for 2007. Anyone can sign up by heading over to the link above and becoming a part of this learning competition. It’s not too late to get started. Plenty of time to catch up, as Ed Dale and Dan Raine are taking this nice and easy. No pressure. This is also supposed to be FUN!

We began on August 1 officially, but we received LOTS of pre-launch information and instruction the two weeks prior. We’re divided into teams which we found or started ourselves in the forum. Our goal is make $10 in 30 days (technically 31 days in August, but we’re not quibbling). All of the software and services we’ll be using are 100% free, and we will be using Web 2.0 social communities to drive traffic to our sites.

There’s a lot of excitement within the forums and people are enthusiastic. Considering how many people are frustrated because they haven’t been able to make money online, the enthusiasm isn’t a surprise. People are actually hopeful, because $10 seems brain dead easy to achieve in a month. Someone even wrote a song and made a simple music video of it. Cool!

Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eX0_EEvUWE

Does this seem far-fetched from writing and story ideas? Not a bit. We’re learning how to find niches, which is not so different from finding story ideas.

Even more pertinent, however, is the fact that writers need to know how to promote their own work, as publishers only go all out to market their bestselling authors. How many books do you suppose Scholastic rolled out the same time they were hyping the Harry Potter series? Who got the lion’s share of promotion? Yep, the very book that was already selling itself. So Internet Marketing is crucial for writers, too, once we have something published (someplace).

I’ll try to keep posting about the Thirty-Day Challenge throughout the month. It may get crazy, but I’ll do my best.

Coming soon: Writer Sparks.com Your source for finding story ideas and inspiration.

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