Thirty Day Challenge – Make $10 Online in 30 Days For $0

Despite having a long history of participating in affiliate programs, Google Adsense, and other ways of making some money online, last year I decided to participate in a program known as the Thirty Day Challenge.

I briefly discussed the challenge at this month’s Central Iowa Blgogers meeting on August 1st.  I told them about the premise of the idea, and some of the highlights (and lowlights) of last year, including the massive deletion of Tumblr accounts for what I still consider no good reason.

The challenge has been having what they call “Pre-season” for about a month or two, and is only into its third day of actual content.  So if you are interested in using the Internet to make your first $10, you should definitely check out the pre-season of the Thirty Day Challenge, as well as the challenge itself.   I learned a lot about some new meda tools last year, and this year they are using the flock web browser, which I have to admit I have not used before.

To find out more about the Thirty Day Challenge, Just visit www.thirtydaychallenge.com.

For me, I need to catch up on pre-season, and I’ll see you there shortly.   If you join the challenge, let me know.   Part of the challenge last year was creating some “groups” to help each other out, and I’d love to form some groups based on my actual network here.

Check it out!

Maria Bello Connection

One of my jobs as the “community manager” at Warner Bros. Online was conducting interviews with celebrities.  Most of these came from Warner Bros. type show and movies, but occasionally we did these “chats” with random celebrities… especially in coordination with the TV show EXTRA.

Since I was the coordinator of the chats, we usually had people phone in and I would both type for the celebrity, and conduct the question screening / run the event.   Occasionally we would send a crew on location, but that meant that I had to stay behind and run the fort from the office.

One of these such chats was with Scott Bakula and Maria Bello for a TV show called Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

I don’t have a transcript available, but somewhere during the call I mentioned that I had been eating orange chicken from Panda Express every day for lunch the last 6 months (our office was on Olive & Ridgewood, with the Panda Express directly below.)  It was good and convenient and I wanted to stay with something “safe.”  This was of great amusement to Scott Bakula.   I asked if I could get an autograph since I couldn’t be there, and you can see the result below.

Scott remembered the Orange Chicken but forgot my name “To Tony – no more orange chicken!”  While Maria Bello simply signed “All the best” – but got my name right.

With Maria starring in the movie “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” premiering tonight, I thought I would share the photo.  Enjoy!