If you want to get in on the action, too, check out:

http://www.imremarkable.com/blog

but hurry up because the IMRemarkable competition only runs through July 9, 2009 at midnight. You have a chance to roll up in style to a workshop Howie is putting on all accomodations taken care of by the business builder (not a hobbyist) himself: Howie Schwartz.

We had to choose a niche out of a PDF Howie gave out containing 36 niches he has researched over time. The PDF also shows different strategies and marketing angles for various markets.

I chose the “Quit Smoking” niche because a few people close to me smoke, so it’s a topic that’s near to me. Maybe if they read the posts and/or find my content on the net’ it will help them to quit smoking, too. I used to smoke in the Marine Corps and have since quit and my lungs are definitely celebrating because it no longer feels like a midget is sitting on my chest.

I promise to post videos going forward to make it easier to see what I’m actually doing.

So what did I do so far?

1. Set up a blogger blog at Quit Smoking Hypnosis

2. Set up a twitter account at http://www.Twitter.com/thequitsmoking

3. Added the Twitter RSS Feed to the blogger blog

4. Set up a Gmail account especially for this project at quitsmokinghypnosistips at gmail dot com

5. Created this post to document my journey to help other smart marketers just like you follow my path to success.

6. Posted the first post to the blogger blog

7. Pinged the blogger blog in Google blogsearch

8. Pinged the blogger blog in Pingoat.com

9. Added the “RSS Feed Subscription” gadget to the blogger blog

10. Linked to http://www.IMRemarkable.com on blogger blog

11. Copied and pasted the list of social bookmarking sites from socialmarker.com so I can sign up for each site to have even more distribution channels for my content

• Propeller.com
• Slashdot.org
• Digg.com
• Technorati.com
• Del.icio.us
• Twitter.com
• Reddit.com
• Tagza.com
• Fark.com
• Newsvine.com
• Furl.net
• swik.net
• Connotea.org
• Links Marker
• Sphinn.com
• Blinklist.com
• Faves.com
• Mister-wong.com
• Spurl.net
• Netvouz.com
• Diigo.com
• Backflip.com
• Bibsonomy.org
• Folkd.com
• Linkagogo.com
• Indianpad.com
• Plugim.com
• Myjeeves.ask.com
• Buddy Marks
• Connectedy
• MyLinkVault
• Tip’d (Financial)
• Google Bookmarks
• Jumptags.com
• Fetch
• OYAX
• A1 Webmarks
• Bookmark Tracker
• myVmarks
• Mixx.com
• Wirefan.com
• SmakNews (Women)
• Dizzed
• Symbaloo
• Ximmy
• iZeby
• Erollover
• YuppMarks
• Health Ranker
• Ka-Boom-It.com

From what I remember in Howie’s free training, he says to do a full promotion for one keyword, so I’m starting with the “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” keyword since we only have 9 days.

I chose this keyword because I am an affiliate for Wendi.com and I remember one of her products is exactly that = quit smoking with hypnosis.

I’m not overthinking this one, I’m going with it since it’s the first idea that popped into my head. Overthinking it would cause me to still be thinking about it after July 9, 2009, and missing out on even participating in the IMRemarkable competition.

That’s it for now, have more work to do, will post what I did and results gotten to date.

Thanks for joining me on this online marketing strategy journey and stay tuned for videos, articles, podcasts, showing you the possibilities of online marketing when you get your back up off the wall and into massive action.

UPDATE July 4th, 2009: since I didn’t post the screen shots for my initial google research, here they are:

This first google screenshot reflects ppc competition, of which there were multiple pages of ppc ads. We see local search by PowerHypnosisChicago.com, along with other ppc ads containing the city of Chicago, IL on the right hand side of the page.

We also see two videos ranking on the first page for “Quit Smoking Hypnosis” from You Tube and Meta Cafe.

More google results with an additional keyword of  “Smoking Cessation Hypnosis” to write down in the business journal.

This is the second page of google results, and the 4th entry on page two is an article from Ezine Articles.com, which also goes in the business journal as a targeted content distribution channel.