The catch was that participants had to be FREE members/free account members, share with Tony Tezak on how and where they are promoting/trying to get referrals, and to keep in touch via Skype - (in a limited time Skype room that will be shut down after 30 days).
I kept some journal notes about the experience and share the highlights below:
Week1: This week was brought to you by Dual-boot system Linux (Crunchbang + Manjaro)!
I had a few software glitches with skype and browsers so I surfed a LOT of different sites in the browsers that were working best (Firefox, Chromium). I was sure I needed to build up credits for my TTP links in a LOT of sites even though Tony Tezak advised that we focus on a group of 5-6 sites for surfing. The reason I was sure I needed to use more sites was because I was a free member everywhere except for Shockwave-Traffic and at my Tezak Traffic Power account.
Week2: This week was brought to you by Manjao Linux, with intermittent spells of Crunchbang for surfing just a couple of unfriendly sites that Manjaro didn't like. (Skype on Manjaro rocks!). During this week, I filled mailers with promo text for promoting TTP. This took a little while but setting up mailers was a worthy activity because after the text is saved, future log in and mailing requires one or two steps (re-send saved email).
Week3: This week was brought to you by Manjaro, again with intermitten spells of Crunchbang surfing and an attempt to get Netrunner to triple-boot on my system. Really, messing around with my operating system was more a cathartic kind of sorting out my thoughts thing. By Week3 I'd learned I was using WAY TOO MANY sites and had learned WHY I don't get good, active referrals. (I don't spend time building a list, prefer anonymity of online reflinks plus luck to actually being a responsible marketer and doing some things that I am nervous about). Week 3 realizations and details require a blog post to cover. To sum up - the computer didn't really crash - I almost did...disappointment and info-overload got to me. I am so glad I loaded up my mailers 'cos I had a couple of days of wanting to quit the case study...
Week4: This week brought to you by Manjaro, soon replaced by Deepin...........wooooot, and what a surf friendly distribution of Linux, too! By week 4, I had about 4 referrals - then 5, and noticed my refs weren't very active - two confirmed accounts early in the case study, back in December and I never saw a login from them again. This brought me back to my inherent weaknesses pondered upon in Week 3 - I don't LIKE responsibility and contact with people where I might not have reasonable control of the topics, etc. In other words - what if a contact emails me with questions I can't answer?? What if my ref messages me and asks, "How do I do this?" and I don't know everything about doing that? Concerning responsibility: I learned that I have to be AVAILABLE all the time (OFTEN) if I am online marketing, I have to answer emails from people who might not be very happy about a program I am promoting or something I said or did. I have to be responsible to update blogs more than I currently do, make a real life schedule for BOTH my real life activities and my online activities and NOBODY ELSE is going to decide this. I have to and if I don't... I will just keep clicking thousands of links per month and get one or two $10 payments per month - forever. I'm worth more than twenty bucks a month and my time and energy is worth more than that but I have to set myself up properly and then maintain my online presence... this sounded like a LOT of responsibility to me during weeks 3 and 4 but I started building confidence in Week 4 and kept on going.
In weeks 3 and 4, I remained in the case study/30day challenge only by striving to BALANCE real life home and online activities and by forcing myself to BREAK online promo activities and work methodically through some tutorials, marketing videos, read pdfs and ebooks on branding, marketing tools, list-building, etc. I realized I have an online presence but it's not exactly what I want it to be so I resolved (along with New Years Resolutions) to work on developing myself as a list-builder, promoter AND someone who stays more focused so I can help my referral people when they ask me difficult questions.
I ended out the case study with 5 referrals, only two of whom actually showed any real activity after joining TTP via my referral links.
I OWN my mistakes now after this study. My refs didn't surf 'cos I didn't give them reason to, didn't make the right kind of or use the right kind of pages (capture pages) so that I could coach them after they clicked on a page and decided, "Yeah, I'll join TTP." My referrals did what the page allowed them to do - not what I wanted them to do. They joined. I wanted them to surf!
Now I'm working on answering my own questions, creating marketing and promotion plans that will work for me, and I'm moving forward to building the physical responses to the questions:
- What do I want?
- What do I want my referrals to do after they join?
- What kind of referral people do I want?
- Where am I going to look for these people?
- What kind of marketer do I want to be when I grow up?
Signing out... from Deepin~~
January 10, 2015.
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