Sounds exciting doesn’t it? The Challenge! Makes me wish that Ed Dale actually owned that website. Maybe he can go purchase it … “TheChallenge.com” has quite a ring to it. Alas, it’s owned by some … Golf Course. Argh. The humanity.
For those unknowing, the Thirty Day challenge was a thirty day, free (more or less), course you could take to build a business on the internet. I think it was started, and is owned by, Ed Dale (but there might be more people involved). Let me start by saying, I loved it, and I had many people use it, and try it over the years (and I did it the first year myself, and it worked ok).
Unfortunately, over the last two years, it wasn’t really working. I still had employees do the course (for the training), but the results were not as good as our own “home baked” recipe for success. It turned into a bit of a time waster, but still very useful for training purposes, especially for brand new internet marketers.
Now, that the course lost its Edge, well, that’s not Ed’s fault, and it’s certainly not fair to compare the course’s teachings to what we actually do in house, for million dollar basement empires. However, that being said, the changing face of internet marketing, and specifically, the length of time it takes to get websites to rank properly, has shifted greatly in the last two years. The thirty day challenge no longer made any sense because of it, and the new format seems far better (encompassing over three months), yet still, I think, may not be enough to see results. Yet, I still want to find out …
While I am a big fan of the proposed 30 minute chunks of training and implementation, as a motivational tool, I think in practice, there’s not a chance in hell it will work, and I wish Ed had made it a minimum of an hour. Really. No way in hell you can do it in 30 minutes. Sorry. Rewind. Hit delete. Try again. It simply takes more time and work than that to build a business or see results, even at an entirely surface level. That being said, to appeal to a large group, this is probably the max amount of time you can say upfront. Any more, and you’ll lose people due to perceived complexity.
All that rambling being said, good training is hard to find, and I’m going to do something special this year – I just thought of it!
First, here’s the Link to Ed Dales Latest Post explaining the Thirty Challenge changes.
First, as you know, I don’t like promoting anything from my blog, but this is a course that, while I do not use personally, I use every year in my business (usually running a contest among employees). I will do the same this year. In fact, I invite YOU to be part of it, if you want.
If you would like to be paid $8/hr for working through the challenge as an intern of MarketingCrazy. I’m actually going to let you do it.
Here’s how you apply.
Send an email to info@marketingcrazy.com, and simply include:
1) Why you want to do it
2) What you hope to get from it
3) Facebook Like or Share this Post. 
Getting paid to learn might actually be an additional motivator, and you’ll be competing against my actual employees, around the world, for some great prizes (that I have yet to come up with). Probably Ipads, computers, tech toys and such …
I just came up with this idea while writing this post, and it’s really growing on me. I hope some aspiring internet marketers take me up on this, and I can get people launched into the world of internet marketing.
Internet Marketing, or more specifically, building a business on the internet, allows you freedom to live life, be wealthy, and control your own destiny.
At the end of the day, this is the only “job” I would ever have …
