Welcome to the first 30 days.

April 28. 2006
Big surprise, no list and no subscribers. :)
Although this is day 3 I have only had the time to do this:

Decide on a template for my site.
Read and learn how to build my site using Bleepsoft.
Read the updates available at ThirdSphereHosting.
Look through the forum at ThirdSphereHosting.
Write something on the main page.
Create a few extra pages (like the one you look at)
Write something on the extra pages.
Read some of the tips about what to do with my site.
Link to the new pages from the main page (index.htm).
Set up 2 emailadresses.
Backup my site.
Download several ebooks and a few videos provided for free by ThirdSphereHosting, which I for some strange reason have had no time to look at yet.

"Only" doesn't quite fit anymore does it. ;)

To start building your list you have to do a few things first. You can't expect to start getting new subscribers the first day, unless you've already done all the things you need to do.

If you've already done all the things you need to do, then you already know how to do them and don't have to learn it first.

Learning always comes first.
Learning takes time.

Highest priority:

Create a list for those that want to be notified of changes.
Create a form and put it in the webpage(s) so people can add themselves to the list easily.

May 4. 2006
I still have no subscribers. :)
Done a lot of work on the site, but no promoting yet.
Feel I need more meat on the bones here first..

Created 2 lists so far.
Made a form and put it on a page, but it messed up everything.
(Most likely my own fault)

Still a lot to learn before I know what I do.
Effectively I have spent less than an hour a day.
You can probably do everything I do much faster.

Later the same day..
I noticed a new contest at TheGoldCasino which I decided to take advantage of and see if I could get a few subscribers from

I created a new list in Automation Station but decided not to create trackers as I have no special desire to know excactly where the new subscribers come from right now.

I just want them..

So, I wrote a short messages as the 0day responce, created a form to put on a webpage (still using Automation Station), created this page
and a page where they get sent after subscribing.

You can test it yourself by clicking here

I started promoting the page (some might call it a "Squeezepage") in 4 different places so far: Clicks4U, GoBubble, Get-Surf and FortuneSurf.

The 6 subscribers I've got so far I expect came from GoBubble.
It is the one that starts fastest of the above since I did PTC advertising there for a whopping $1.95.

Main reason for promoting at GoBubble would be that I know that all members already do E-Gold. Although I am pretty sure most of them already are members of TheGoldCasino, there might be a few unregistered left.

Either way I will end up with a list of people that use E-Gold and perhaps also likes to gamble occassionally.
And now I have 7. :)

May 8. 2006
A highly successfull weekend.
Even though I didn't do much work on the website I played a lot at TheGoldCasino and won $106.80 5 times. I call it $106.80 because it was the value when the contest started. Prize was actually 5 grams of gold.

I had to change the page I used to promote TheGoldCasino now that the contest is over. I also added a link at the bottom to promote Unlimited Autoresponders which I get with my hosting at ThirdSphereHosting.

Final result for the promotion was 54 subscribers.
I mailed them a couple of times through the weekend and once when the contest was over. Very easy by using Automation Station.

In addition to being subscribers 3 of them signed up for TheGoldCasino. Unfortunately it seems that none of them won anything.

I have to remember to change the 0 day response.

May 10. 2006
Wrote a big comment in Keith Wellmans blog (post 83).
Left my url in there for some free advertising and link popularity.
Thought about making a page special for the occasion, but no time. :)

Subscribers for TheGoldCasino list is still growing, now at 62.
Emailed them again today about the new $700 daily contest.

Later I will email them and direct them here.
That way they can see why and how.
Maybe they get a few ideas too.

Because of poor planning I had to do a lot of unnecessary changes to the webpages. I also found I had made an error in several places.
Hopefully I found them all. :)

Asked for a sitereview here.

May 11. 2006
After the advice of my oldest daughter I changed color on the top and on the links that show where you are. Good idea.
She has her own site here.

Started promoting a little by using TrafficG.
TrafficG requires a full page when surfing, which should show most sites top part atleast, and recently added a "Skill Card".

Basically "Skill Card" works like this:
They show one of their own pages and tell you to click an image there. Immune as I am to everything it took me 16 views to notice it.

The new system makes people pay more attention.

Making a page that looks like the skillcard would have great effect for noticing your ad. I am not going to do it.

I found an FFA Blaster in the traffic section at ThirdSphereHosting and decided to give it a go. Thought about creating a page for it but decided for the much easier option: A tracker url from Automation Station. This way I can tell how many visitors I got.

The main advantage of using your own tracker would be that if the tracker is down, so is the site.. I have used outside trackers before and it's alway a pain in the a.. when they stop working and ruin the entire promotion.

I have to get my site listed in searchengines.
Before I submit my site (or individual pages) I need to make them ready to be submitted to get the highest possible ranking.

If you took a look at index.html, the page that shows when you go to the domain, you would see this click here. I don't even have a title which is why it says: "Untitled Document" at the top

May 16. 2006
Been back from our trip to Dortmund, Germany a day now.
Pictures from the trip can be found here
I put a tracker from Automation Station on the link above to count clicks. Fun to know how many that reads and wants to see the pictures we took. Contact me if you have any comments to the pictures.

Won another $700 in a contest at TheGoldCasino just before we left. :)
Subscribers is a whopping 68 people.

Got several ideas for new pages.
Todo list is growing.

Don't think I will get much done the next few days though.
My uncle Rolfs funeral is today and tomorrow is our National Day.

May 23. 2006
Only 2 more days before I have to summarize the first 30 days and start writing on the next 30 days. 30 days is nothing. Gone in a heartbeat.

I have too many things that I want to do and too many things I'm not finished with. Knowing this doesn't make it better.

Added a new section today: Advertising Resources
Expect it to be a lot of work, but hopefully something I only have to do once. Using them all takes time too.

Purchased an advertising package from AdlandPro which I am tracking the results of.

May 25. 2006
This will be the last post placed in 0-30 days.
I am sure I have to edit this a few times.

Purchased Keith Wellmans List FX Manual inside here.
I will be reading this and implementing it as soon as possible.
Partly entered into a kind of competition in the forum you get access to when you buy access here.

The competition is: Who will reach 2000 new subscribers first.

Actually I don't care if I'm first. I would be happy just to get there.
But posting in forums are good advertising so I entered.

Signed up for InstantBuzz  and started using it immediately.
Results will be posted regularly at a designated page later.

So far I have created 11 trackers to help me see what works.
I am going to create atleast 100 more.
All included in my hosting at ThirdSphereHosting.