Archive for the 'Web Entrepreneurship' Category
Posted by Brett on 12th, 2008
Just a quick post guys. I cam across this article at forbes.com. It’s about a teenager just finishing high school who has started flipping domain names last september. He paid $620 for the Internet domain name qsd.com and, two weeks later, sold it for $12,000 to a fellow domain trader. Now that’s profit!
Since then his fiscal year has been to the tune of $325,000. Anyway take a look at the article yourself. Maybe this is something that you could get into to make money online.
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Posted by Brett on 29th, 2008
Well I’ve been talking about it a lot these past few days and now it’s here. Blog Mastermind is opening it’s doors today at 10am (EST). Yaro Starak is an internet entrepreneur who runs this 6 month course teaching people how to approach blogging from a business stand point. He boasts an impressive minimum of $10,000 a month from his blog and has past students earning upwards of $50,000 a month from their blogs.
Blog Mastermind Cost:
Choice 1 - $97 for the first month on a trial basis. If you like it, then you continue to pay $97 monthly for the remaining 5 months (6 month course). Lessons come weekly until you graduate a mastermind 6 months later. There is an online community and membership resources which you a privy to in addition to the lessons.
Choice 2 - $497 lump sum upfront, ( $85 savings) and get download access to all the materials, resources, lessons and access to the online community instantly.
Freebies and Bonuses
Yaro has also created a video showing his money making strategies, which he calls conversion blogging. He also has released two very interesting videos all as a prelude to blog mastermind. These videos show how he makes money from his blog and how much he makes. We’re talking cheque screenshots, paypal emails, the works!
For the first 100 persons to subscribe today to blogmastermind you get even more bonuses!
Bonus 1: “Conversion Blogging Revealed” - Live Teleconference With Yaro Dissecting The Conversion Blogging System.
Bonus 2: “How To Use The Power Of Video To Market On The World Wide Web” - Live Teleconference With Gideon Shalwick PLUS six brand new videos from Gideon, the man behind the fantastic BecomeABlogger.com videos.
Bonus 3: “How To Boost Critical Conversion Points In Your Blog Business” - Live Teleconference With Will Swayne on testing elements of your blog and email newsletter to improve conversion rates.
All that said I think this is an excellent deal from all aspects. I definitely recommend signing up for the program. It may be just what you need to take the right approach to making money blogging.
Enroll at Blog Mastermind today, opens from 10 am EST
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Posted by Brett on 25th, 2008
Yaro Starak of blogmastermind has just released an interview with one of his past students, Alborz Fallah. Alborz has developed a car blog, called caradvice.com.au. This news blog has been recently valued at $5 million dollars.
That’s not a bad value in my book. Alborz has taken a serious business approach to running his blog to the point where he brought on a board of investors which has helped to scale his blog business into the 7 figure range.
I definitely recommend taking a listen to this wonderful story. If you have been procrastinating starting your own blog, this interview will act as an excellent motivator. Here is the link, give it a listen.
- Million dollar blogger interview
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Posted by Brett on 23rd, 2008
If you have ever wondered how someone makes a six-figure income online using a blog, I have a video you just HAVE to watch.
Yaro Starak, a well-respected blogger and blog trainer, released a free video that takes you inside his Internet business, which is based on just one blog.
Using his blog, Yaro generates a steady $10,000 to $20,000 each and every month.
His system is not the normal story of using a blog and sticking AdSense on it - he’s taken a much more BUSINESS focused approach. So if you want to run an Online Business, this video is also for you.
He calls his system “Conversion Blogging” because it combines a blog with an email list to create consistent income.
Inside the video you will learn -
- Why blogs are the only Web 2.0 marketing tool you will ever need
- Exactly how Yaro uses his blog to build a MASSIVE email list
- How just a blog can turn you into the No. 1 authority in your market
- What methods Yaro uses to translate his blog into a steady cash-flow stream
- How you can replicate Yaro’s methods using just one blog and get started in minutes
I have seen the video and I must say it’s very well done and contains very valuable content. Yaro takes a very down to earth and practical presentation. I have no doubt u will enjoy this and learn at the same time.
Set aside 32 minutes now, grab a drink, sit down and watch this video
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Posted by Brett on 19th, 2008
Well it’s another Monday, and time for our weekly motivational post about a young entrepreneur. I’m a little late in getting this post together, it was a bit of a hectic action packed weekend so I ended up procrastinating quite a bit. Our featured entrepreneur this week is really exceptional as well and I think his accomplishments thus far will really motivate a lot of us especially those in the field of software and publishing.
The entrepreneur this week is Ben Casnocha of Comcate. Ben is 20 years old and has already started his own software company (Comcate) at age 14 as well as written his own book! Comcate develops software designed to help local governments resolve citizen complaints.
That’s a pretty interesting niche one that can really only come from some sort of personal experience. Ben says he realised how poorly governments dealt with customer service issues from his own experience and that gave him the idea for Comcate. That was his second company.
Ben took a year off to travel and write a book, after finishing High School. He wrote about his experiences and called the book”My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley.” This is truly something this is a very well accomplished young man.
On top of this Ben has been named one of the nation’s top 25 entrepreneurs under 25 by Business Week. His blog has been named one of the top 25 in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Furthermore while running Comcate he still had time to captain his San Francisco University High School basketball team and be editor of the school newspaper.
Ben Casnocha is now enrolled at California’s Claremont McKenna college and markets himself as entrepreneur, author and college student.
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Posted by Brett on 12th, 2008
It’s yet another Monday an at developingeyes.com we like to start it off with a little inspiration and motivation with our entrepreneur of the week. In this series we acknowledge a young entrepreneur that has found some level of success in his/her particular niche. The story is meant to motivate us as young budding entrepreneurs so that we keep striving and working towards our own success as well.
This week’s entrepreneur is a bit more successful than what I’ve been writing about in the past but may still be a bit unknown to quite a few of us on this side of the Atlantic. Suranga Chandratillake is co-founder and CEO of Blinkx. Blinkx is a video search engine based in the UK and San Francisco, that indexes over 18 million hours of video online. According to their website:
Today, blinkx is the world’s largest single index of rich media content on the Web, delivering more content from a broader range of sources than either Google or Yahoo!
One of the main advantages Blinkx has over the other guys is software that turns speech into text and tells you how many times that word has appeared in a particular video. Blinkx has also taken on contextual advertising using a service they call AdHoc. Think of it as an "Adsense for videos".
The ads take many forms, clickable links that scroll across the screen, banner ads and interestingly a list at the end of the video that shows all the products mentioned in the video you just watched! This is some very interesting stuff and I think has a very good future ahead as more and more videos appear online. A story on Suranga and Blinkx can be found in the Business 2.0 September 2007 edition or on the business 2.0 website.
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Posted by Brett on 5th, 2008
Welcome readers, It’s another Monday and so it’s time for our weekly motivational story of a young entrepreneur. This week’s entrepreneur is only 14 years old and is by far the youngest I have ever come across online (or anywhere for that matter). I just heard about him myself last week, but I am sure most of you trying to make money from blogging must have heard of him before.
This week’s entrepreneur is Carl Ocab of carlocab.com. Carl is a 14 year old BOY from the Philippines. His major claim to fame is ranking number one in google for the keyphrase “make money online”. When I checked it he currently ranks fourth which is still far beyond anything I have accomplished.
Carl is really doing it big and still going to school. He blogs regularly after school and writes with great authority on his topics, much better than many of the make money online blogs run by adults I’ve come across. I think one of the things Carl has going for him is his family’s support. Many of his posts introductory make reference to his father who he says is a marketer himself.
Carl also has a free ebook called the kidblogger’s master plan, that he uses to make money online and replicates any number of times in different niches. Yes people he is 14 years old, and he started at 13. If this doesn’t motivate you to work harder I really think you should call it quits now. Check out Carl’s blog and read his posts he has some solid advice there and I would recommend subscribing to his blog and getting the free ebook.
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Posted by Brett on 28th, 2008
Good day readers, I must first apologize for my absence, I had to go away on business for my 9 to 5 job and I did not prepare adequately by writing posts in advance :s. But let’s get back to business.
It’s another Monday and we will begin our week with a motivational article about a young entrepreneur doing what we all hope to accomplish someday to some degree.
Today’s entrepreneur of the week is Brian Taylor of Kernel Season’s. Kernel Season’s began out of the dorm room of this 29 year old. The company makes seasonings for popcorn ranging from white cheddar to marshmallow chocolate. Imagine marshmallow chocolate popcorn, sounds good to me :-).
Brian says he made popcorn every night and created his own personal spice blends to add to it, his friends loved it and people came knocking on his dorm room door asking for the special seasonings.
Brian hired a team of flavour specialists to help perfect his seasonings and now has his seasonings in a reported 70% of groceries and movie theatres in the U.S.
This is some pretty good stuff here. Making money from something as simple as popcorn seasoning. You can read more about Brian Taylor and Kernel Seasonings here and maybe even try out some of his seasonings for yourself. Oh and his company reportedly made $5 million in sales in 2006!
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Posted by Brett on 7th, 2008
Hello readers, it’s Monday and time for a motivational story about a successful and young entrepreneur. This week’s entrepreneur I have lots of respect for, I really have no idea how he manages all his businesses AND still goes to college at the same time. The developingeyes’ entrepreneur of the week is the talented 22 year old Neil Patel of Advantage Consulting Services (ACS) and Crazy Egg.
Businesses
Neil Patel is an internet marketer who is co-founder of ACS the consulting firm which does Internet Marketing, Business Consultancy and Creative consultancy for businesses such as HP, Samsung, and TechCrunch to name a few.
CrazyEgg is an online web analytics application that offers a number of features for webmasters to see how their sites are performing. Users can create tests to figure out what people are doing on your website; view a heatmap which tells you what’s hot and what’s not, on your website and many more interesting concepts to help analyze the performance of your website extensively.
Time to spare
Amazingly enough, after running these two companies and going to school he still has time for a personal blog called Quick Sprout which gives good internet marketing tips on things like building your own brand. I’ve already added quick sprout to my RSS reader and I would advise others to do the same. I also recommend using Crazy Egg services, the free account is pretty extensive and can work for most of us still under 5000 visitors monthly.
Livin’ large
You’d be keen to realise that Neil is sporting the elitist invite only American Express black card in the photo above. In this blog post he mentions receiving the card as a gift from being on the board of advisors for the company known as Affiliate Programs. Just to keep the card Neil has to have minimum charges of $250,000 a year! If this isn’t large living I don’t know what is.
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This week’s young entrepreneur is Sam Altman of 
