The 5 CFT Challenge

Ed Dale tweeted a link to a blog post about the 5 CFT Challenge a few days ago, so I thought I’d add my own experience.

At the tail end of last year, before setting of the Ed’s Manchester conference I went through the 30DC process and got it down to six hours spread over a week.

So here is how I’ve got on so far with the 5 CFT Challenge, with each CFT consisting of a uninterrupted period of 25 minutes where you really go for it – Critical Focus Time, if you really want to know.

27th May – CFT 1

• Pick a market
• Find a keyword that works (but don’t be fussy due to lack of time)
• Pick some category keywords
• Register a domain
• Write the classic beginner draft

1 x 25 mins
1 x 15 mins

OK, so that took quarter of an hour longer than it should have. Bummer.

28th May – CFT 2

• Write a 5 minute articles for spinning
• Create WPD blog with plain template
• Edit yesterday’s article and put on blog
• Index the article (Twitter, Propeller, Digg, Stumbleupon)

1 x 25 mins
1 x 20 mins

And that took 20 mins longer than it should have…

31st May – CFT 3/4

• Edit AMA article and submit (Article Marketing Automation)
• Set up Google Reader to monitor the niche
• Draft article for AMA next week (CFT 6)

1 x 25 mins to edit and submit AMA article… still need to set up Google Reader and write draft article for AMA. I only signed up last week and it is a really good service. I’m not that easily impressed, but despite the sales page which didn’t really do it for me the product itself is excellent.

So, I spent 25 minutes there and I have 25 minutes to set up Google reader (2 mins) and the rest to write a draft article. Shouldn’t be a problem.It does show how fast you can research, set up and promote a website though and while 6 hours was pretty good, this should be down to around three in the end.

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This post was written by David