Keith Goodrum

On a Saturday morning in late March last year Jeff Herring, Felicia Slattery & I were on Twitter talking about doing a 100 articles in 100 days marathon challenge. And mostly from prodding by Jeff (Go figure… Jeff Herring… The Article Marketing Dude… Felicia & I are his students… we’re talking about writing articles) any how we make the decision to light this candle.

The funny part is other people who were watching this back and forth between the three of us started joining in on our little challenge. Pretty quick is seemed like we had hundreds of people tweeting about the challenge. It was going viral right before our eyes.

I created the hash tag #HAHD. This would make it easier to follow everyone’s progress on Twitter during the challenge. Jeff tossed up a website. And Felicia came up with doing a 100 Article 100 Days launch teleseminar.

It didn’t take to long to get the attention of Chris Knight

I wonder why? There were only hundreds of people tweeting about submitting an article a day to Ezine Articles…

So, Chris decided to provide some swag to anyone who completed the challenge.

The challenge ended in July, and it was a huge success. It was also fun to complete the challenge.

The 2nd #HAHD challenge started in August and finished in November. I skipped this one, and now wish I hadn’t. I had stopped writing all together… big mistake.

The 3rd #HAHD Marathon Challenge is starting today

You can get all the details by clicking here.

It’s the perfect time to have this kind of challenge. What a better way to help you with your new year’s resolution of creating more content for your online efforts. You get to have a bunch of other people helping, encouraging and participating along with you on your own challenge.

I’ve always found it easier to complete goals or challenges with a group of like minded along on the same journey.

See you on the way to 100 articles!

There’s this bloke I met from Australia named Ed Dale:

Me & Ed Dale In NYC

And every year he has this thing called the The Thirty Day Challenge. During the month of August Ed, Dan Raine and the rest of the crew put on a day by day, step-by-step training to start an online business.

It is also for anyone who has a “brick-n-mortar” business, and wants to create a online presence. There are plenty of small business owners, artisans, musicians and others who have used this training to get themselves online.

This is ideal for anyone who has no idea how to set up a business online. They take you step by step from the very beginning all the way to up and running. Now, it does require you to actually do the work they ask… but there is plenty of support from the forums, and the training is very easy to understand.

The best part? It free… gratis… complimentary. Or as Ed likes to say: “There is no charge for awesomeness!”

I’d encourage you to head on over there and join, check out the different sections and start on the pre-season. It kicks off on Saturday, and it’s something I highly recommend. In fact, I’ll be going through the challenge myself.

Here is the site again…

http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com

See you there!

A couple of weeks ago I heard Jeff Herring mention an article marketing challenged called “100 Articles in 100 Days”. One of his students/mentees took up a personal challenge in 2007. Her name is Connie Green, and she didn’t complete the challenge in 100 days, she did it in 78!

You can read about Connie’s challenge here…

http://ezinearticles.com/?Article-Writing-Case-Study:-The-100-Articles-in-100-Days-Project&id=627427

http://ezinearticles.com/?&id=584558

I thought it was pretty cool she wrote 100 articles so fast. For a brief few minutes I toyed with the idea of taking up the challenge myself… but it scared the crap out of me. So, I pushed it out of my mind & went about my business.

The problem…

This idea wouldn’t go away. I kept thinking about writing 100 articles in a 100 days, but I kept putting it off. Finally I realized the only way make myself do this me was to make a public announcement. So, where was the most public to announce my challenge? That’s right… Twitter!

OK, I went over to Twitter. Type it in, closed my eyes, held my breath & hit enter…

I was shocked to see a reply from Jeff Herring telling me it was very doable.

Now I did it… there was no turning back. I grabbed the hashtags #HAHD so others could follow & join. Then replied to Jeff that it was on…

At the same time Jeff was talking to Fleicia Slattery about her article marketing & she tweeted she was going to do a 100 articles in a 100 days like Connie Green did.

While the 3 of us were tweeting about doing this challenge, it suddenly exploded! People were joining the challenge on Twitter left & right… this was going viral. It was exciting to see so many people fired up about this challenge. It made my head spin.

That was Saturday March 21st & by Monday the 23rd I was on a kick off Teleseminar with Jeff Herring & Felicia Slattery telling how this all came together.

As of Today over 425 members have joined us on our 100 articles in 100 days marathon challenge.

I’m inviting you to join us, and create your own traffic, prospects, publicity & profits explosion today… It’s free & imagine the benefits you’ll get out of completing your own challenge.

Sign up today at

Here is a quick over view of the site I recorded on March 24th…