It is only Day 2 into The Thirty Day Challenge and already there is problems.

Market Samurai - the much hyped, latest and greatest keyword research tool, available to the 30DC users for a month, seems to have a few issues.

I know i was warned that a lot of users of Market Samurai would have issues, but honestly, if they knew there would be issues for 1000’s of users beforehand why offer this product, if you also know most of the users are beginners?

The Thirty Day Challenge is supposed to teach you how to make your first dollar online. So here is an idea. I will make a product and try to market it. But you know what, i will make it so 1000’s of users won’t be able to use it. How much do you think i will make? Now is that a good image for the 30DC to be putting out?

Another thing i don’t understand is Market Samurai’s system requirements. You need a 2GHz or faster processor and 1Gb or greater of ram. Again, if this challenge is mainly aimed at beginners, how many beginners can afford a set up like this? My 1.6GHz with 640mg ram had major issues.

And do we receive help from the 30DC forums? No, moderators just direct you to the Market Samurai support and forum (sound familar Entrecard and SezWho members). Guess what? Another forum i have to join

But to be honest who cares, i can’t use it anyway because of my modem.

Apparently Market Samurai disconnects you every two minutes. So off to the support forums. And guess what?

Answer: Unfortunately, the nature of Market Samurai requires it to request a large amount of data in a short period of time. There is no way to avoid this at this point in time.

And the comedy continues,

Siemens Speedstream modem (which most Telstra users will be using)

In this case, you will need to contact the manufacturer or supplier (possibly your Internet Service Provider) regarding this fault.

My Answer: Yeah right, ring Telstra and explain this problem to them. By the time i actually speak to a real person i could have got the same research results using the old methods.

First thank you all for your comments on my last post Twitter Plugin. From some of the comments left it seems there is still a few who do not understand the full potential of Twitter.

Originally i was going to write a follow up post on some of the advantages of using Twitter but in my weekly scan of my favourite blogs i came across a post from Soren Jordansen titled Twitter In Plain English which couldn’t explain it any easier. Here is just a sample of Soren’s post,

Twitter is also a very powerful way to get noticed by leaders in your industry. You want to seek out people in your industry who are more successful than you are, and add them to the list of people your are following.

When they post at Twitter, you can reply to their tweets and they will be able to read it. Don’t spam them, you need to add to the conversation, offer your help on something, or post an intelligent question. If you do this the right way these “industry leaders” will start to notice you, and remember you - and trust me that’s a great thing.

Also sometimes these “industry leaders” will reply to you, and that is where the fun begins… All their followers will see that they have found you worth talking to, and they now have the chance to go check out your Twitter page and start following you. You are in other words becoming “famous by association”, and you can really pick up a lot of new Twitter followers this way.

Now you see what potential Twitter has?

If you have never read Soren’s blog you can check it out here, and make sure you subscribe to his feed or newsletter. I am glad i did, as it was how i found out about his great new Twitter plugin Tweet My Blog and receive fantastic IM tips as well.

If you are a Twitter fan you might be interested in this Twitter plugin.

Twitter is a great tool for driving traffic to your blog. You simply post a “tweet” when you have updated your blog, and all your friends, followers and admirers will be instantly notified “bang” that’s instant traffic back to your blog. And even better, people can reply to your tweet, their followers can see their reply and before you know it, you have a viral stream of traffic back to your blog.

Don’t know about you, but i tend to forget to post at Twitter. That is where this Twitter plugin comes in. The plugin automatically posts a tweet every single time you update your blog and and the best part? These tweets link back to your blog.

Just one mouse click and you will activate this powerful plugin on your Wordpress blog. Enter your Twitter log in details, and you can even set your custom tweet message. Every time you post to your blog, the Twitter plugin will automatically post a tweet, complete with the full link back to your blog.

Once the plugin is activated you will see a Tweet My Blog widget in your admin sidebar menu. This widget will pull in your latest tweets and link them back your personal Twitter page.

You can also make money with this plugin. As people join Tweet My Blog under you, they will be presented with some high converting related offers, and you will receive a cash commission when they buy!

This is the latest pre-season training video from The Thirty Day Challenge. It blew me away when i first saw it.

It’s very powerful, very new, and not many people in the internet marketing world know it even exists yet. All that is about to change.

You can check out this feature by clicking on the “Add our expertise to your Google web searches” button which we have just added on the right.

I am still playing around with this as the video is just a little teaser and you have to wait for the full traing when The Thirty Day Challenge actually starts, but i thought it was too good an opportunity to wait until then.

There is only problem i have come across so far, and that is getting my logo to show. But after searching the forums it seems a problem with Google, so who knows when that will be fixed?

So do yourself a favor and watch this video, it is only 4 minutes long.

You can sign up for The Thirty Day challenge here.