Well it’s been a full week since I started my Sixty Day Challenge. Last week I announced, right here in fact, that I was going to create a $4,000 business in 60 days without a business plan or any ideas. How am I standing a week later I hear you ask? To date I have been focusing on creating both a plan and the very first assets that shall ‘hopefully’ allow me to complete the task within the alloted time. Though no money has yet been made I have so far a fully active website collecting users that already has reached #1 for it’s name and the first few pages for it’s secendary keywords.
I thought that with one week past it would be an interesting idea to share with you all a few tools that have helped me get through this week and to where I am right now. So without further ado:
The Top 3 Tools of The Sixty Day Challenge (So far…)
- A4 Sized Notebook – You may start giving me funny looks right now or be wondering where I’m going with this. Funny it should be that on a challenge announced and being performed online that my number one tool be offline. The reason being I just can’t seem to create as freely on the PC. Whilst there are many things I am more than happy to do with the PC I feel that the initial stages of a business plan, creating mind maps and writing lists are all easier to get my head around when written with good old pen and paper. Of course tasks later get added to my iPhone app and initial ideas may be expanded digitally. I just find the paper gives you more freedom to think than staring at a blank glaring monitor.
- WordPress – This is the platform not only used to create and manage this blog but also my new website that I’m working on. The features are so intuitive, customizable and perfect for the way I work online. With no other CMS ( Content Management System ) can I get a site fully up and running so quickly and easily whilst also meeting my preconceived ideas. I am referring to the self-hosted version here as well for clarification as you get free reign to edit it to your will and add any number of widgets and alterations.
- Twitter / TweetDeck – I had to think about this one as I didn’t want everyone thinking that I was just jumping on the vogue. I really am appreciating the power of this whilst working on this project. I can use Twitter for research, acquiring feedback, networking and updating people all under one roof. Yet with the power of Tweetdeck I can achieve all this without overlap. For a service as single focused as Twitter, that is a great achievement and I thank the creators of both.
So there you have it, the top three tools of my first week in the Sixty Day Challenge. I’m guessing as I’ve already named this part 1 there will be more of these to come throughout my experience as my tasks and needs change focus.
Until then:
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