It’s August and that means it’s once again time for the Thirty Day Challenge.
This program is completely free of charge and they teach anyone who takes the class a lot about browsers, setting them up, internet tools to help you do research quickly, how to set up your first blog, and finally, how to make your first $1 online. It’s a month-long basic business course that is free and would be worth paying for, but they never charge for it.
To me, making the dollar is not as important as learning the process to make that dollar. The tools taught are free and extremely useful for anything you want to do online. From research, RSS aggregation and writing to marketing, using social media the right way, and audio and video podcasting, TDC is the place to be in August every year.
The challenge began today. Sign up if you haven’t got an account, then start doing the lessons. If you have taken the challenge before, use the same account. It’s still active. It’s worth perusing each year after you take it the first time because they update the tools and techniques that make things faster, easier and better.
It’s a fabulous homeschool project about business and the internet. I recommend it for kids 10 and over. It does take some time committment each day (about an hour or two).
I took it the first time in 2007 and took it again in 2008, and now my sites are making at least $100 a month. Sometimes more, but almost always at least $100. And I owe it mostly to TDC!
September 10th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Well, the month is over. How did the thirty day challenge go?
September 11th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
How did that 30 day challenge go?
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
DS didn’t do so well on the Thirty Day Challenge. He didn’t make any money and he didn’t complete all the assignments. He did most of it, but fell down on the marketing end of his project, using social networking and notifying his friends and family of his work. He got a 72% on it. I worked out how much there was to do and how much he finished and that came to 72% of the work.
He can finish it and I will add points, but his grade stands until he puts in the effort. I don’t plan on giving him any points if his efforts so far lead to a sale. He gets to keep the money. Getting the grade means doing all the work.
June 3rd, 2010 at 11:03 pm
How did that 30 day challenge go?
June 14th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Not so well. My son didn’t finish it, and made no money from the project. He decided to do some online surveys for money, and has been earning about $15/month.
I set up a new niche site and it is making me about $5/mo at present. From past challenges, it takes a little while to get a mini-niche to really start paying off. A site I set up in 2007 is now making me over $100/mo, but it’s been three years. You have to find a great niche, or you have to be patient.
June 26th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
While we’re discussing the Month-Long Homeschool Project Suggestion » Homeschool Your Teenager, subject, What about the “Real World”, is the question usually asked of parents who are looking to home school there children. How will they know how to accept and get along with a racial and ethnic divergent society? After all in public education they are (rightly so) tossed together for the public good. I don’t believe race or ethnicity should ever be a barrier to living. But, I do believe that misbehaved, unbehaved, need some parental counseling and the public school system will not allow this.