Social Engagement Inspired by Dean Holland, I’ve decided to keep all of my affiliate promotion out of any articles on the blog. So, this is the first day of a new life, I hope you enjoy it 🙂 I’m going to move a lot of the video promotion to my new site IM Video Review where I will hopefully have some product walkthroughs.

For today, I wanted to write a quick review of Chris Munch’s latest product and realised that it would fit quite well with this week’s content from Dean’s Quick Start Challenge, so here’s a review mash-up of the two.

Spokespigeon, honestly?

Chris released this WSO yesterday to the usual fanfare of promotion from a million Warriors and I bought it after reading his own description of the content. Now, I have to say that this is pretty basic stuff, but it’s also a pretty solid introduction to the use of social sites and how to start automating the way you use them.

One thing – Chris, get over the pigeon thing! Move on, do some Eagles or Hawks or Albatrosses or something (actually maybe not the Albatross!) 🙂

I confess I’m a bit of a traditionalist where it comes to stuff like spell-checking and proof-reading and it falls down on those fronts slightly, but it does not deserve the criticism I’ve seen in a couple of recent emails. These claim to be warning you that “viral” stuff is hard and doesn’t work and then go on to try to sell you other stuff. Yet another example of the depths some folk will plumb while trying to portray themselves as the “good guys”.

I need to be clear about this, Chris talks about Social Traffic, NOT Viral Traffic. One can become the other if you write something awesome and it takes off, but this is day-to-day account running to drive traffic. If you know nothing about this stuff, it’s a fine buy. If you’re an expert, maybe be more wary of spending.

The reason Spokespigeon has come at such a good time is because Dean was covering traffic in this week’s course and social traffic was obviously part of that equation. So there’s definitely a bit of synergy available in plugging some of Chris’ ideas into Dean’s framework – et voila, a traffic omelette! You’ll need to check out the Warrior Forum if you want it – no affiliate links, remember!

What has been encouraging already about the Quick Start Challenge is the level of interaction between so many of the participants. There’s a bit of a buzz about the whole thing which will make it much easier for folks to get (and stay) engaged….and I’m including myself in that category. Week 2 will see us all starting to look for traffic sources and interacting with them and with others on the course as we build out online empire. Should be fun.

Week 2 QSC Commitments

I’m going to use this post to keep updates of my activities for the week and that should force me to do stuff, so I can keep posting on here. I haven’t set myself targets for all this, do you think I should? What’s a good number of “traffic activities” per day, do you think?

Day 1

I’ve decided to add a category to the blog so I can make all these posts more accessible from the menu system, so look for it somewhere up top. The other thing I have decided is that my week’s worth of traffic generation needs some kind of focus for my visitors. It’s all very well sending people here, but what do they find when they get here?

So, to that end, I’ll be reviewing a new WSO every day (in keeping with my no-affiliate, honest as possible policy). That should give some useful stuff to my visitors.

To help me get everything done, I am going to dig out my copy of Action Machine Pro which is a quick timer application that lets you put in your daily to-do list and set times for each job. I never seem to get through the list, but it definitely helps! I may stick a quick show-and-tell video on here later if you’ve never seen it before.

My plan for today is to put in an hour for each of the 2 main methods that Dean mentioned and to start to use some of Chris Munch’s Spokespigeon stuff to start playing with the social stuff. I’ll probably also try to work out the best way of getting the blog to feed Twitter and Facebook while I’m at it. So that’s 3 hours committed….then I will shoot for a final hour of starting my Pinterest account and see what that does.

Day 2

How did I do yesterday? Well, I spent far too long building a little image signature for the Warrior Forum, so that probably counts as procrastination, but I think it looks quite good now.

Having done that, I did manage to get in my WF comments and just a few visits to QSC blogs, so we’ll see what comes of it. Pinterest never happened, but I did manage to get my WSO review up and it seems to be doing fairly well in Google for a few terms so that’s a bonus too!

Today is going to be more of the same, but I’m going to try to comment on a few forums that come with paid products – I should probably have been doing that anyway. I’m also going to hit a few of the FB and Skype rooms that I’m in, but I need to think of a way to get that link back to my blog in there.

All of this is mixed in with a normal Saturday at Chateau Percival (:-)) so I may have to do all this when the weekend jobs calm down a bit.

About Martin Percival

Martin Percival is an Internet Marketer with 28 years of experience in the IT world. He uses his technical skills to help others gain a foothold on the internet. You can track him around the internet on Google Facebook and Twitter

12 Responses to “Chris Munch’s Spokespigeon and Quick Start Challenge Week 2”

  1. Carson

    Hi Martin, I love your honest reviews – what a refreshing change. Good luck with the challenge. I think what Dean is offering is a refreshing change too.

    Carson

  2. Martin Percival

    Hi Carson,

    Thanks for the comment, it’s hard to know what folks want sometimes. I’m sure I’m winding up a load of WSO sellers 🙂

  3. Robin Danielsen

    Hey Martin,

    Really enjoy the blog! I have found that image signatures work better than text signatures, so it really wasn’t a waste of time or procrastination.

    Hope you see more results with it!

    If you get the chance I would love for you to check out my blog, I’m sure you’d like it!

    Robin

  4. Martin Percival

    Hi Robin,

    Thanks for the encouragement – it always feels like I ought to outsource that kind of stuff, but I’m sure I’d spend just as long describing what I need to the supplier!

    I’m off to your blog now 🙂

  5. Rich

    Hi Martin,

    Thanks for stopping by and visiting my site. I wanted to return the favor and see how you are doing. Great site! You seem to have fair and reasonable reviews. I like it, although I hope I’ve bought the last WSO for now in Dean’s course. Good luck going forward.

    Rich

  6. Janie

    Nice review, Martin. I almost bought Spokespigeon when it came out but was being strong on my “no more shiny object syndrome” at the time. I won’t *never* buy another WSO, but I’m concentrating on taking action of what I have just now.

    (ps. yes he should get over the pigeon thing!)

  7. James McDonald

    Martin, your website is chock full of entertaining information. Are you a professional writer? You certainly have a knack!

  8. Martin Percival

    Hi Janie,

    I’m still buying the odd one here and there, it helps for content to put on the blog 🙂 Having said that, it’s definitely a time drag (and an extra cost) when I should be out there on all the blogs on the planet making comments!

  9. Martin Percival

    Hi James, those are very kind words indeed!

    I’m not sure I’d cut it as a professional writer – there’s far too much work involved for so little cash 🙂

    Maybe I’ll work out how to change that around on Dean’s course.

  10. Jackie

    Hi Martin,
    Very ambitious to-do list! Please let us know how it goes with Pinterest and also the unfortunately-named Pigeon.
    Do you work at your business full-time? Or is this all evening after a 9-5 working day elsewhere?

  11. Martin Percival

    Hi Jackie,

    Yes, maybe a little too ambitious! I just started with Pinterest today (and pinned my week 2 video as my first pin). I need to get my head round the right sort of thing to be putting on there.

    I’m doing this as a full-time thing. Part of being on the course is trying to beat some discipline into my use of time 🙂

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