The 30-Day Challenge

The original aim of The 30-Day-Challenge, the brainchild of an Australian fellow named Ed Dale, was to teach those of us who signed up for the program the basics of internet marketing, with the ultimate goal of having each of us succeed in making our first dollar online.

The theory behind that goal being that if we could learn how to actually move from a point of knowing nothing about internet marketing to being able to make at least a dollar from our efforts, we could continue to build on that knowledge and perhaps eventually turn our efforts into profitable online businesses.

I loved every minute of the program, although a lot of it was over my head the first time I took it. I will admit that the fact that the program was free was the deciding factor in my decision to try it out, but even if it had cost me something besides my time and effort, I would have recommended it to anyone. In fact, I did recommend it to several friends who have also found it worth-while.

The 30-Day-Challenge has continued to be free, and I try to go through it each year, learning a little more about online marketing each time I do.

My biggest problem with the challenge was that by the second week each year, I was hopelessly behind, and never quite able to catch up with the group by the time the program reached its conclusion. I finally downloaded everything so I was able to go over the material on my own at a shower pace which helped tremendously.

Apparently, I'm not the only one that found the 30-day pace a bit too hectic. This year, Ed Dale, still the main instructor for the program, has decided to stretch the class out over a longer period of time so there will be a week of instruction followed by a week off. Then there will be another week of instruction, followed by a week off, etc. until all of the material has been covered.

This change will be a real help to those who are working full time and trying to break into internet marketing, and allow time for slower learners, (like me), to absorb all the material. It will also allow a few days away for vacations or other summer activities without falling so far behind that you think you might as well give up.

In case you haven't heard of the 30-Day-Challenge, just a few of the things covered in the past several challenges are: keyword research, choosing a niche, introduction to the use of Market Samurai, analyzing competition, finding affiliate products, finding content and using it to write copy for your products, ways to use Google and social sites like FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter, creating blogs on Hub Pages and Squidoo Lenses, finding out how Clickbook and Commission Junction work, how to get your blog or webpage ranked highly.

That list only mentions about half the topics covered by the 30-Day-Challenge each year. I haven't found time to use even a fraction of all that I learned there yet.

If you have never had a chance to be a part of the 30-Day-Challenge, mark your calendar for July 1 this year sign up to take advantage of some of the best free training you will find anywhere. You'll be glad you did.

To learn more, check out:

http://www.30daychallenge.com/blog/837/the-30-day-challenge-is-dead-long-live-the-challenge-30dc/