Blake vs Chris: The competition heats up

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The Blake vs. Chris Competition: BlakesCreditCards.com vs. CreditMighty.com

The Blake versus Chris competition is heating up. I woke up this morning and decided check my stats on the siteMighty account that I’ve created for the Blake versus Chris competition: CreditMighty.com. To my delight, I’ve earned my first $5 to take the early lead on my side of the competition. When I got in the office, I had Blake check his stats, and wouldn’t you know he’s sitting at $5 too. So, 27 days into the first month, the Blake versus Chris competition is tied.

Let me recap what is going on here:

We launched the Blake versus Chris competition on March 1, 2007. The competition consists of each of us building our own credit card affiliate marketing websites using our platform: siteMighty.com. We’ve got a friendly competition going in which we’re each building our own website and working on different traffic generation techniques to see who can earn the most through their siteMighty-powered site. We’re doing this for a couple reasons:

  1. Proof of Concept — we felt that a live blogging approach to launching siteMighty would give us the opportunity to communicate to our users exactly what siteMighty is. It’s also a way for us to “eat our own dog food”, which is a software term for using the software you’re writing. That’s what we’re going to do, we want to prove that anyone can make money through affiliate marketing by using a siteMighty website.
  2. Education — we also want to use our blogging on each of our websites to share the exact techniques that we’re using to make our siteMighty-powered sites a success. We’re blogging every step of the way about what we’re doing, and we want to build it into a valuable educational resource for other siteMighty users so they can follow it step-by-step and make money themselves.
  3. Learning and Testing our Own Product — what better way for us to motivate ourselves to make siteMighty the best it can be, then to force ourselves to use it. I already have come up with several new feature ideas based on my use of siteMighty. We’ll continually be adding tools to siteMighty to ensure our success, and the success of our users.

Our goal is to simulate the environment in which our users are building siteMighty sites. This means spending a limited mount of time, working with a limited budget, and taking a step-by-step process to success. We’re going to disclose everything we’re doing so people can learn from it. So here are the rules:

  • We each are launching separate siteMighty powered websites.
  • We’ve constrained ourselves to marketing a budget of $250 per month each.
  • We’ll blog about everything we do on our sites to share our techniques with the public.

So come check out our siteMighty Blake versus Chris competition here the two sites:

We’ll be making periodic updates here on the Idea Fuel blog to draw attention to the competition, but most of the updates will be taking place on the sites themselves. Stay tuned as we put our own feet to the fire to prove that anyone can build a successful affiliate marketing website with siteMighty.com.