Now beating 64,990 other results.

Just a quick note of success here from my Street Article efforts, and I'm pleased to say, this stuff really works. By "this stuff", I mean the Getting Started training. In fact, done well, I'd venture to say it 'overworks', or that you can actually do better than you might expect or might be led to believe.
Case in point. My latest Street Articles article was approved this morning. Although I did Twitter it twice, it's already received 22 views (though compared to the average for street articles, I am not sure whether that's amazing or just average).
However, when digging into the stats for it and then doing a few google searches, I noticed that I was coming up on the first page of Google for a keyword I didn't actually expect to rank that well for due to competition.
My target keyword for the article was one with only 390 indexed results (as mentioned per the training guide), but the keyword I'm coming up first for has 65,000 indexed results - it's the kind that usually you'd stay away from due to competition. So that's pretty exciting! Of course, who knows how long I'll stay on the 1st page. But I'm encouraged right now!
So, yay for training - and as a note to myself and anyone else - just gotta stick with the program. It works. No need to go buy anything else - just focus effort on what you gotta do, and the results will happen.