Preseason Training

I found my way to the 30 Day Challenge this year the way many peeople probably would have - but having already known about Ed Dale and Dan Raine, and having an interest in the way they taught Internet Marketing.
I stumbled across Ed Dale late last year while doing research for some sort of work-from-home business that my wife could do while she was in the latter stages of her pregnancy. She had quit her job 6 weeks before the baby was due and my wage wasn't the grandest by any account, so we knew things were going to be a struggle, especially once the baby was born. We discussed buying at markets and selling on eBay, pyramid-type schemes like Herbalife, but nothing seemed to really set us on fire in terms of excitement at the prospect of selling. I continued to look at various opportunities online and came across Ed's Dominiche program. I'd actually just missed the cut off date to join by 2 days but signed up to receive his newsletter in the hope that when a new program opened up I'd beable to get in.

A couple of months later an email arrived from Ed telling me about this fantastic new site for learning the in's and out's of Internet Marketing, called The Immediate Edge. The price was within my budget at the time (the baby hadn't been born yet), so I joined up. While a member there I met alot of fantastic and helpful people, one being Caro who put me onto the previous years 30 Day Challenge blog. I'd also read through Dan Raine's own 15K Challenge and had an idea of what would be involved - basically a step-by-step instruction on the process of searching for and finding a profitable niche product and how to market it to make money. I figured I was sharp enough to be able to follow step-by-step instructions, so in part I've been waiting a few months now to be apart of this new 30 Day Challenge.

In the meantime I'd continued to learn what I could from Dan Raine's Immediate Edge program, but I was finding that with a full-time job, and now a newborn son, I was finding it incredibly hard to make time to take action. Also, because of that, I was paying a monthly subscription to this site but not able to get anything back for it. In the end something had to give and I'm sorry to say I had to drop out of the Immediate Edge program, at least for the time being. I do still thoroughly recommend you take a look over there, and take advantage of the 30 day, no questions asked, money back guarantee. There is some truly incredible content there and I plan to take full use of it once the move is complete and I'm back online.

So for now I've been going through the 30DC Preseason blog, installing the necessary software and add-ons as instructed by Ed. Watching his very easy-to-understand videos, listening to his podcasts, and scouring the 30DC Forums, learning and reading about what others have to say. Earlier on I joined a team with 4 other guys but as yet I've only heard back from two of them so at this point I'm not sure if the team is still good to go or not.

As I'll be wanting to have internet access as soon after I arrive at the new place as possible, I'm having to get my home internet connection disconnected today. It takes them 5-7 days to relocate the connection (not sure why it takes that long, maybe if anyone does they could fill me in). We're due to leave Melbourne on Wednesday, August 1st - the day the Challenge starts (although I dare say Ed will be going by US time so it will be starting on the 2nd Aussie time. That works perfectly for me, as we'll be taking the boat over Bass Strait to our new home in Devonport, Tasmania, and will be arriving early on August 2nd. With any luck my internet connection will have been transferred and I'll be straight into it.

I've been given quite a lucky opportunity lately. My wife and I always wanted to raise our son in a place with space for him to be a kid. In Melbourne it was unlikely that, with my 9 to 5 salary, we were ever going to be able to afford a place where he (our son) could do that - except if we moved perhaps further out of the city. I didn't like that idea because as it was I was away from home for 10 hours a day due to work and commuting, and I felt like I was missing out too much on my son's development. Neither my wife or I have close family here in Melbourne (my family is in South Australia, my wife's in Tasmania) so there was also the fact that we did not have readily available family support close by, just to be able to take a break once in a while (anyone with kids should know what I'm talking about). Well, luckily for me my Mother-In-Law is a very generous woman, and offered to let us live in her house for 1 year while she stayed with friends and travelled overseas. The best part of this was that she let us have the place rent-free! All we had to pay for were the rates on the property for the year - about $1500 for the whole year! That was an amazing gesture and one we simply couldn't afford to pass up. We decided early after that that my wife would therefore get a part-time job to start with, to pay for groceries and bills, while I focused my now free time on not only raising our son but also this Internet Marketing stuff that I had been getting so excited about, the long-term goal of which was to allow both my wife and I to work from home and buy a house in Tassie somewhere with plenty of space for our son to grow up (and his siblings as they came along). I actually think it may be more than a coincidence that the 30 Day challenge is due to start on the day we arrive at our new place, with our new lives ahead of us.

Then again, maybe not ;)

So anyway, as I mentioned earlier, I'll be offline for the next week (hopefully no longer) but once I'm back I'll post about how the move went and get raring to go with the thirty day challenge. Best of luck to everyone who is already involved, and to those who aren't - get into it!