The Challenge
The Challenge Training

A Brief History of The Challenge

    May 2005 found Ed Dale sitting in a New York coffee shop. During his stay, Ed was exposed to the National Novel Writing Month, an intensive month long program during which people write a novel. At this point, Ed's business was creating quality niche websites and he had the process down to a fine art. Something caused Ed to link the two together.

    The seed was planted. Create a training program that taught people how to find a niche and create a website with the goal of making $1 in thirty days. And the whole thing would be free to participate. It was the perfect way to introduce people to Internet Marketing and get them started online. From that simple idea the Thirty Day Challenge was born.

    Back in Australia and motivated to give back to the community that had served him well, Ed convinced GuruBob to come on board and in July of that same year the very first Thirty Day Challenge took place. In that first year, just over 1000 people participated.

    The Thirty Day Challenge has run every year since at around the same time of the year and has grown exponentially every year. In that time, Dan Raine has become part of the team, as well as a number of people in the background as the scope of the program grows.

    The Thirty Day Challenge has continually evolved and has kept up to date with the changes taking place online. In 2010, the Thirty Day Challenge has been rebranded as 'The Challenge' and has been restructured to take place over a longer time period. There are now seven training modules, each of seven days duration, with a week off between each module
    (7 x 7 x 7).

    To date, over 150,000 people have benefited from the Thirty Day Challenge training. It has been, and will always remain, free*.

The Challenge Principals

The Challenge - Overview

    Run over 7 modules, and 16 weeks, The Challenge is without doubt the best free internet marketing training available online. Each module covers a specific aspect of Internet Marketing and is delivered by a range of experts and experienced marketers.

    The Challenge training is available year round following the official live training period and is updated every year.

The Challenge - Training

    The Challenge training is published daily at 9am EST (US) during the module days. Participants are notified via email and a blog post on The Challenge blog, so please ensure you are subscribed via email and also subscribed to the blog RSS.

    Videos and PDF transcripts of the training content are available via a variety of methods, with the PDF transcript becoming available approximately 24 hours after the new content videos are published. The content is available via the module training pages (accessible via the training index page), via our official 'The Challenge' YouTube channel, and via our iTunes feeds. The iTunes feeds can be found on the training pages themselves or on the iTunes store.

The Challenge - Blog

    The Challenge Blog is updated daily with each new release of daily module content. The blog is also frequently updated by Ed. GuruBob and the team with other relevant Internet Marketing related news and information so is well worth visiting frequently.

The Challenge - Forum

    The Challenge Forum is our community portal that requires a simple registration in order to participate. The Challenge has a very strong community that is always willing to help out. Any questions or queries you have, you'll always find someone on the forum willing to help. While being a brand new forum for 2010, The Challenge Forum is growing rapidly and is already proving to be a valuable resource.

The Challenge - Job Board

    The Challenge Job Board is something new. It will be a place where people can come to if they're looking for some help and are willing to pay for it, be it technical work, creative work or other jobs related to Internet Marketing. It will be a place for people with a good skill set in any area of Internet Marketing to earn some extra cash. They can post their resume for people who are needing work done. People who are doing The Challenge should not use this job board as a way to get other people to complete The Challenge for them. As the old saying goes, "give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.."

*The training materials are completely free, however, participants are strongly recommended to purchase a unique domain name and web hosting that may lead to a small cost.