Day 18 ~ Mary K

Today has been a brilliant example of some of the benefits and challenges of working from home! You would think without the need to 'drive' to work I wouldn't be tied up for hours with CAR ISSUES!!!

Okay...so it wasn't quite as bad as that picture. (though I did have that very experience once years ago when I had taken my three little boys out to a local ice rink. We're were having a blast trying to stand on skates and suddenly noticed a commotion from the parking lot where there were flames leaping from under the hood of a car... MY CAR!!!! YIKES! :-)) However, I spent about three hours unexpectedly tied up with trying to get my car to start so that I could take it into the shop and have them figure out why my car won't start. Something is wacky with that whole scheme... ;-)

This experiment has afforded me with clarity about many things, from a keener awareness to the many interruptions that occur during my day to the clarity about my lack of discipline when I do have a block of uninterrupted time.

In all fairness I will say I am actually quite disciplined -- and sometimes I don't manage the chaos well! Perhaps it's simply that I never know when the 'uninterrupted' time will happen?

Okay...'nuff said. In addition to the tasks for this experiment I work as an Editor for a monthly magazine. The last week of the month is always booked tightly with a 'deadline' looming so while accomplished a significant amount related to that work despite the unexpected visitors and the car situation... I really didn't give the 30 Day Experiment the two hours today.

I DID make time to revise an article I had written previously and submitted it to Ezine articles. That all took me about 30 minutes.

So that's a wrap for today... we'll see what tomorrow brings.

I've gotta tell you... I HAVE made some money this month that I attribute directly to this experiment and it's no where close to $1000. But the 'learning' up to now is already worth a million bucks... so I'm quite excited! More on that when we wrap this up at the end of the week. ;-)

Prepare for success!

--Mary K

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EXPECT MIRACLES!

Bum Marketing 30 Day Experiment

Hello!! Welcome to the 30 day marketing experiment. We are Mary K, Kat and Jackie Lee, three friends and co creators who have been working online for various amounts of time and having various amounts of monetary success. We will each introduce ourselves here shortly.

We were talking and wondering what gets in the way of success online? The three of us have loads and loads of information, that can't be the problem. Well. . . maybe it is part of the problem. We have too much information.

Jackie is an information junky. She gets ebook after ebook, reading and reading, learning new things and thinking, "OH this might be just the thing I need to be successful." Just when she starts getting involved in that she learns something new and jumps ship because this might be just the thing.

She knows so much but doesn't keep at any one thing long enough to see if it really IS THE THING!!

Mary K takes an eclectic approach to everything! Vulnerable to analysis paralysis in her efforts to discern the best method, tool, style or approach she's been known to get sweaty palms at the mere idea of a 'timed' event. Will the Bum Marketing 30 Day Experiment be just edgy enough to move her toward the goal, proving that virtually anyone can earn $1000 in 30 Days, or will she cave and fall off that edge?!?

Kat is an idea machine who dives into things with out a second thought - which is wonderful and in the long run will serve as abundance machines - however, this often leaves her scrambling for much needed capital to create the next part of her masterpiece. Slowing down long enough to focus on some marketing that will produce capital now might just be what the doctor ordered.

Knowing, intellectually, that we should be experiencing way more success we decided to try an experiment.

We decided to pick ONE THING and do it for 30 days and see what happens.

We chose to focus on Bum Marketing for this challenge because

• It seems really doable, whether you are a pro or it's your first day online


• There are enough variations we could each do something a little different


• There is no financial investment necessary to get started and to follow this method

If you aren't familiar with the "Bum Marketing Method" it involves writing articles to market affiliate products.

The three of us will each be taking a little different tack to the method, and we'll see what works and what doesn't. For the first day of the challenge we will list what our daily action steps will be, and as we go on we'll be accountable to each other, and to you, to make sure we are following our plan.

You READY? I know we are. Let's get started on this

Bum Marketing Challenge for One thousand in dollars in 30 Days!!!

The 30 Karat Team