With a whole lot of other people from around the world, I’ve signed up for an interesting exercise, the latest 30 Day Challenge.

It’s an extraordinary event, put on by Internet marketing wiz Ed Dale. What’s more, it is free. No strings, as far as I can see, and I make that observation in the light of the fact that I signed up last year: I did not complete the challenge because of other commitments, but there were no strings then and I can’t see any now.

The Challenge is described on the website as follows:

In a nutshell… The Thirty Day Challenge is about making your first $10 online. For a full 30 days we are going to be showing you exactly how to start your own Internet business and generate your first income online without spending a dime.

You probably have to get into the Challenge to have any idea of what it is really like. Suffice to say that Ed, highly successful in this field himself, shares a huge amount of information and experience.

There are daily blog posts and instructional videos.

And there is a tremendous amount of sharing and mutual support among participants – as well as some vigorous rivalry!

I don’t know of any other program like it. Especially the free part.

The Challenge starts on August 1. People are joining now and forming teams, some locally, some internationally.

This year the Challenge is evidently going to be very much about using Web 2.0 tools.

Did I say it is free?

Tom Dean and others are blogging the experience.