The key to any Internet marketing success is research. You simply do not go out to buy a domain, build a website around it and then start promoting it. Chances are you will be getting nowhere with it.

Ed Dale, the guy behind The Challenge, explains the importance of Internet market research:

He also mentions something about analysis paralysis, wherein most people are caught stuck in doing too much analysis without even trying it out in the real world. In simple terms, once you’ve had enough research data and analyze all of it, it’s time to give it a try.

I failed on my 30-day challenge which is no facebook for the month of July. I just couldn’t resist reading about the updates from my friends.

Does that make me feel less of a person because I couldn’t control myself with something that is deemed very easy to do? Definitely not. It just proves that I need to strive harder to achieve a month-long challenge.

I am currently thinking of what would make a great challenge for me since August is just a day ahead. I’m thinking of something I do offline (makes me feel weird to call my real life, ‘offline’).

That’s right. For one whole month, I will not log into my Facebook account and check on the updates from my friends. Yessiry, I will not.

I’ve just thought of doing this 30-day challenge just to test my self-control, if I have any. But why Facebook? I would like to try something that is a bit easier and then get harder for the next months.

I’ve been checking on Facebook every single day. Which is not good because it really eats up my time. So can I do this challenge? It’s the 3rd of July when I wrote this and so far since the 1st, I haven’t visited that site.

I’m off to a good start.