Hello Everyone,
Anyone can be a top young blogger,
I recently was approached by my good friend Charlie, as I am sure you
all know by now. He is just 15 years old and wants to start saving for
doing up his first car and so I suggested he started blogging
about something he’s passionate about and he came up with the idea to
create a car blog for those who want to modify their cars. Charlie has
already shown in just a couple weeks you can start pulling in traffic
and build a strong platform for a blog.
Speaking With New Young Blogger’s
On Monday Charlie and I went over to Chichister for our first of many Young Entrepreneur meet-ups I hope. We met up with one of Retireat21′s forum moderators called Shane and had a long conversation about blogging and making more money online.I asked them a few questions about how they have found creating their blog’s so young and they share with us the tips and tricks they have learn so far. I would definitely look out for these two young blogger’s over the next year because I expect big things!
I would just like to say that talking with these young blogger’s was like talking to a professional blogger, the depth of knowledge they have at such a young age is inspiring! But they aren’t the only ones, I have had over 100 people submit themselves to our top young blogger’s list and every day its growing, I really didn’t expect to see such big names and so many of them on the list! You all deserve a pat on the back.
They Will Never Have To Get a Job
What I can’t get over is how in just one generation the way of business has completely changed. These young entrepreneurs may never have to get a job, why would they if they are making at least a couple thousand dollars a month at such a young age? It is quite odd knowing that I won’t ever have to get a job, the only way for me is up! Could you imagine before the internet saying you will never get a job?The internet has given everyone the opportunity to create their own business and start making money? Or you need to have is a passion for something and that’s what you create your business about. Having never had a job has its huge benefits as Steve Pavilina mentions but it also has its draw backs, you would realise how employees think and act, for example:
- 25% of Employees steal from their work place
- Employees will typically try to cut corners, if they can get away with not working, they will!
- They aren’t your friends and nor should they!
- They aren’t entrepreneurs so for them its a means to a end and will only try so hard.
- Customers Are Usually Wrong but You Got To Tell Them They Are Right
I briefly worked for my local Supermarket when I was 16 because my dad insisted that their are a lot of lessons to be learnt. Although at the time I was earning someday’s more from my website in a day then I would at the supermarket in a month I went ahead and took his advice and got a job.
I witnessed all of the above and on a few occasions HAD to roll my eyes at customers who lacked to understand the most simplest things, didn’t usually go down well but then they didn’t come back to my till, so I was happy. It just goes to show that some customers are and always will be complete idiots and you got to cater for that on your website, you got to tell them exactly what to do, theirs no chance of you teaching them to fish, you just got to give them it.
Work With The End In Mind
When building your blog, website or business, it is important to have a end in mind, for me its selling my website’s for millions of dollars as soon as possible, for you it could be to duplicate your 9 – 5 income with in 6 months. Do you think that for all these successful entrepreneurs that it just happened? No, of course not, they thought about what they wanted and went after it, so kids if you are trying to make money online then focus, get of those computer games and get busy!It is important to write down your goals, I write down my goals every day for what I want to achieve, I also have 3 goals I want to achieve over the new couple years which I have stuck up at the back of my wardrobe to remind me every day. Ryan Allis has done a great video about working your way up and achieving those goals.
When he was 17 he wrote down he wanted to do a million dollars in sales by the age of 21, find out how he did in his video. I find that writing a daily to do list makes me at least 5 times more productive, could you imagine how much more work you could get done?! You have to make progress every day because otherwise you will be at the same place you are now in a years time and that’s not a good feeling.
Being a Young Blogger Opens Up Opportunities
Would you ever expect to be emailed by company’s such as AOL, DELL, MTV, BBC and Yahoo!? Well I have, in fact lately I was asked to move over the pond to LA to be the lead role in a new MTV show just because of my website! That’s not all, BBC have contacted me asking to pop round my house (As they do) and interview me about my business.I don’t think any of this would of happened if it wasn’t for having a website and putting my name out there so if you are young and take a picture and stick it up on your website and let the world know your young and doing big things! You have the best thing going for you, your age! So use it to your advantage and show the world and maybe this time next year you could be in a hit new TV show for MTV.
To our success,
Kingsley
PS. Who is young favorite Young Blogger and why?
PPS. What are you working towards?
