Announcing the One Week Blog Challenge: Follow Me as I Build a World Class Blog from Scratch in Only One Week

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Follow me as I Start a Blog – and Take it from Zero to Awesome and Build a Profitable Kickass site from it – in 7 days (with very little money).

Today is Monday December 14, 2009. This week I am taking everything I know and have learned over the past 8 years about web design, development, promotion, social media, and marrying it with a passion of mine – photography – to start a website from scratch with the ambitious goal of going from zero to:

• 100,000 visitors
• 5,000 subscribers
• 1,000 twitter followers

…in 1 week!

I will be sharing EVERY SECRET I KNOW – every tip, trick, everything -  no holds barred. I will take you through every step that it takes to create a blog and effectively promote it. I’ll be posting on this website along with videos, screencasts to show you exactly how you can do this yourself.

Have I ever done this? No? Do I think I can? Yes! My goal is to show you that you too can do this – create something fun and sustainable from something you’re passionate about.

I could be charging a lot of money for this information (and in the future I might), but this is a chance for you to see every step it takes to build a successful site practically overnight (well, over 7 nights) and how to Crush it (to use Gary Veynerchuck’s favorite quote) within the following week.

The best way to follow along is via Twitter – I will be tweeting about it all via @markus941. I will also be posting updates here to this page below.

So come along and join me. It’s Monday afternoon, December 14th, 2009. Let’s get it on!

Update: It’s Saturday December 19th – the website for this project Hot Shot Photo is almost ready to go. It’s setup, hosted, designed, and almost ready for prime time. I will be launching it Monday December 21st, 2009 with the first few articles and that’s when the fun officially begins.

Here is the play by play:

Here’s a running list of badass resources that I recommend for building a kickass website (I’ll be adding to it time to time as I go along in the series).

Article by Markus Urban

A serial entrepreneur behind AU Interactive with an interest in travel, photography, and social media. Follow me at @markus941.

Markus has written 15 awesome articles for Art of Blog.