So you want to start a blog but not entirely sure how to do it? Perhaps you are a little confused when it comes to picking a theme or do not understand the actual tools that will be used? Or maybe you know what you want to accomplish but aren’t exactly sure how to get there. Answering these questions is why Markus Urban created the One Week Challenge. In the One Week Challenge, we followed Markus Urban as he created an amazingly beautiful and effective blog from scratch in just one week. Follow along our One Week Challenge video series as he shows you step by step how to create a successful blog that you can be proud of, and people will want to visit.
While Markus Urban’s videos are instructive and informative, there is a secondary purpose at work here: the goal of the one week challenge is to get you blogging within a week and all of these steps should be completed in a week. So what are you waiting for? Go get started right now! Don’t forget to watch the videos and read the posts first though!
At the end of these video-guided steps, you too should be prepared to create a world-class website of your very own and start driving traffic to it immediately! Not just a trickle of traffic, but lots and lots of traffic. Furthermore, you should be in a good position to monetize that traffic if and when you see fit to do so. Please feel free to post your results and feedback in our comments section and let us know how this advice has worked for you!
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Nice idea…. Happy to follow you on Twitter and see how things go..
Hoping for some website love tips for my blog http://pglewis.co.uk
Cheers and good luck
Paul Lewis
Looking forward to the tips and good luck reaching your goal! I get the feeling this is going to go viral quickly and you’ll reach it sooner than you think – fingers crossed.
This is awesome. I will definitely follow your challenge and looking forward to see where you land within 7 days.
Good luck,
Dennis
I’ll be following keenly to see how you do/what ideas I can pinch! Hope you can drop in pointers of how to adapt some techniques for niche sites such as my soccer coaching blog.
Good luck!
Pavl Williams
Gotta love your optimism!
Be blessed…
Great idea – I’ll stay tuned.
It is very nice of you to share your knowledge with others.
Kick ass bro! I know you will rock this partay!
Everytime you give out information it’s always top-notch…especially when it comes to be awesome :)
I am looking forward to seeing how this turns out – blog on brother!
Great project! I’m excited to follow your progress.
hi Guy,
I appreciate your confidence.
Keep on working.
Next week entire blogosphere will talk abut you.
I have tweeted your posts.
Dude keep rocking it! You are the man!
Gotta love your optimism.
But it’s not going to happen my friend.
Why? Two cues -
First, you’re twitter name has numbers in it. Psychology and marketing analysis has shown that people have a hard time remembering letters AND numbers together. So I’m doubtful that you know how to pick a good domain.
Second, in your steps above you have completely and utterly forgotten about the monetization portion of your blog which is most probably going to be the hardest part. The fact that you didn’t include this essential part in your ’steps’ means to me that you have not thought this completely through and do not have a strategy forthwith.
I’d love for you to prove me wrong.
Cheers.
Can’t wait to follow you – I posted on the Hub FB page… cool shit..
Hey Markus,
This is the most refreshingly optimistic internet idea I’ve come across this month.
Great stuff & good luck with achieving your goals
Will
This is really great! I like to concentrate on giving my followers good content and this is excellent. I’m looking forward to your next great idea!
Jeff
Did this ever happen? Just wondering, I’d like to check it out if so.
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