http://aaron.panasbodi.com Aaron's thoughts on life, the world and things that are going on. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:55:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here we go... Autumn is the warmest part of the year in SF. Balance is the most important thing in life. Everything is connected - what you do in one part of your life can have drastic effects on the others. Yes, it is possible to style anime-hair. Multitasking is a necessary evil, you need ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/10/12/some-things-ive-learnt-over-the-past-couple-of-weeks/ So a little while back I did the perfect average day exercise that Frank Kern talks about. I spent a good couple of days thinking about it, and wrote out about 15 pages describing my ideal day. What I wrote down really surprised me. It didn't include: Partying in Ibiza. Climbing K2. Salsa dancing ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/08/18/what-we-actually-want-and-a-bit-on-the-meaning-of-life/ Wow, it's already day 18 of this year's Thirty Day Challenge. A quick recap of what's happened so far: Found a niche through exhaustive market and keyword analysis. Built a blog around it that provides quality content. Built backlinks by developing sites on web 2.0 properties. Written articles and submitted them to directories to build ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/08/18/30dc2008-day-18-update/ So I believe it's now Day 4 of this year's Thirty Day Challenge. The basic wrap-up so far has been: Get your tools ready. Load up Market Samurai. Find 2-3 niches and run them through keyword analysis (<50k competing pages, >80 searches per day). Analyse your competition. So after doing all this... I've settled on my ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/08/05/30dc2008-day-4-update/ ------------------------------- Warning: If you are prude, under the age of 18, don't want to read about sex and relationships or easily offended, don't read on any further. You've been warned. ------------------------------- I've decided that motivation, and needing motivation to do anything... is all a load of bullocks. To understand why I've come to this ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/07/22/im-throwing-out-motivation/ The folks over at Noble Samurai graciously let all the people on the Edge beta-test Market Samurai. After dealing with crashes, freezes while checking data and so on and so forth... I found a solution to make this ABSOLUTELY KICK-ASS research tool workable for the time being. It's so simple as well: ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/07/18/30dc2008-working-with-market-samurai/ I got this at my mailbox in Sydney. A very craftily worded scam piece from a bunch of guys called the "Domain Renewal Group". I wonder how many people they suckered into thinking that they were actually legit? Notice how they never exactly state that they are asking you to CHANGE REGISTRAR. ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/07/10/dumbest-marketing-mail-ever/ The Thirty Day Challenge 2008 starts in a little over 4 weeks, so it's time to start gearing up. I am starting a team - suitably named Team "I don't want a real job". You can sign up for the team here: http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/forums/team-talk/5875-team-i-dont-want-real-job.html As I mentioned before, I'll be blogging about the ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/07/09/30dc2008-starting-a-team/ I kid you not, here it is: The only thing I hate more than unsolicited email is unsolicited snail mail. http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/07/07/junk-mail-from-leonardo-dicaprio/ The Thirty Day Challenge is happening again this year, kicking off in August. They are already in preseason. If you don't know what it is, basically it is a 100% FREE step-by-step guide to going from zero to making your first $10 online. I'll be following along again this year, and ... http://aaron.panasbodi.com/2008/06/28/thirty-day-challenge-2008/