Gumroad.com is running a cool 30 day exercise for building an online business using their service. Gumroad is a platform that you can use for hosting your digital products. They take care of all the back end, the e-commerce stuff and the downloading. We just make and sell stuff they do the rest. The challenge is giving us lots of tools to help with that. I am a big fan of Gumroad and have a number of products there. There is also a matching Facebook group that looks excellent. They are also releasing a new feature for collecting followers called Audience
You can follow me on Gumroad at https://gumroad.com/bjdesign/follow
The Thirty Day Challenge, the calendar
Day 1. Start Creating
Article by Sahil Lavingia the founder of Gumroad.
Day 2. Getting to Know Your Audience and Finding Your Niche
Tools for Getting to Know Your Audience (Part 1)
Google Keyword Tool
Google Trends
Google Alerts
Picking the Right Niche
Big Fish in a Small Pond
Day 3. Building Your Landing Page
Landing Page Tips
A good example of how to set up different product packages by Caleb Wojcik DYI Video Guy
https://www.calebwojcik.com/diyvideoguide/#packages
Day 4. Audience Tool
Building a tool to gather followers
Day 5. Building an Audience
Making the Lead Generator
Day 6, Auto Responders for your List
Automatic Updates
Day 7 Free Give A Ways to Build Sales, This is a good one, come back to it, make some samples
Use sample to build an audience
IDEA: Build out a sample pack form the individual pdf map collections that people can download for free and it also gets gets sent out to anyone who buys a pdf collection. Link all the collections together, also offer a discount for the other pdf packs. Include a pdf with images of all the other collections, put live links in the email to each one.
Day 8, Connect with your email
Put a link from your email signature to your business landing page
Naming your product
Day 9, Building Your Content
10 Steps of Content Marketing Checklist
Day 10 Content
Pick one form of content to produce, master 1 and then add
Day 11, Do Something Small Every Day
http://austinkleon.com/2013/12/29/something-small-every-day/
Day 12 YouTube Annotations,
Every piece of content leads back to your website or Gumroad but somewhere where people can connect with your or buy your stuff. Click for Article on Gumroad on linking
Day 13 Using high quality content to build a following
Interview with Pat Flynn on building content.
Day 14 Sending Updates to Your Customers
The Update page, send an update
Day 15, Writing email subject lines
Email subject lines
Day 16, More social media connections
Find audiences on Reddit, Dribble, Facebook Groups, and Hacker News
Day 17 Knowing Your Audience
Part 2, Tools for Knowing Your Audience, using Facebook, Twitter, Buzzsumo
Day 18 Using Twitter and photos
Twitter and using images
Free photos at Death to the Stock Photo
Day 19, Twitter, Instgram and YouTube, lots to learn here
Day 20 Be part of the discussion
Google Alerts, Buffer news and articles
Buzzsumo, great ways to find influencers
Day 21, Look for opportunities where you can guest blog to a similar audience
Day 22, Reach out to these Bloggers and offer some guest blogs on their topics
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