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Interview with Mark Mcdonald - Copywriter, Middleman and Product Creator

Some fantastic answers - like:

I understand at just 13 you made your first $1000 online in a weekend with what you call “International Outsourcing Arbitrage” tell us how you achieved this.

Basically this is similar to the middle man strategy.

I figured that if I was going to make money, I was going to do it using my brain not doing manual labor.

If I know one thing about money it’s that the rich don’t get rich getting their hands dirty and actually doing the work. They spend their time doing high leverage tasks like marketing and strategy.

With this method you need to get in front of local businesses and offer them services such as web design, search engine optimization and things like that. You can then go and outsource this work to places like India.

Big name law firms do this all the time. They get a $50,000 contract – outsource it over to India for $5,000, fix a few things up and then make the cash in the middle.

Interview with Mark McDonald - Copywriter, Middleman and Product Creator

To find out more about Mark McDonald and his ventures visit www.MarkMcDonald.name

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Interview with Brian Prince - Founder of BOTW.org

Some fantastic answers - like:

13) What advice would you give to a Young Entrepreneur starting their first business?

a) I would suggest choosing their business niche and model wisely – most importantly is it something you are truly passionate about?  Passionate enough to spend 18 hour days for years on end to drive success??  The amount of work it takes to create a successful business is enormous so be sure you like what you choose and don’t under-estimate the commitment it entails to be successful.   The hardest working people I know are also the most successful – so be prepared.

b) As you grow your business, surround yourself with the best people you can find.  Find great employees – they are the lifeblood of your business.  We are fortunate to have a team of all-stars working for Best of the Web, and it resonates with our customer loyalty and dedication.  Go the extra mile and look for “stars” – your chances for success are exponentially better if you have truly great people working with you.

Interview with Brian Prince - Founder of BOTW.org

To find out more about Brian Prince and Best Of The Web visit www.BOTW.org

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Interview with Matthew Mullenweg - Founder of Wordpress

This is an awesome interview. I am most impressed with Matt’s candidness - clearly he has not let all his success go to his head. Matt is clearly a no fluff kind of guy -  look at his powerful / to the point replies to our questions. Sort of explains why he was responsible for creating one of the simplest, easiest to use blogging platforms in the world. Lets face it - we all love WORDPRESS!

Thank you Matt, we appreciate you taking the time to help out usaspiring young entrepreneurs.

Interview with Matthew Mullenweg - Founder of Wordpress.com

To find out more about Matt and Wordpress visit www.ma.tt

Earlier in the year I interviewed a very successful 16 year old entrepreneur called Donny Ouyang who at the time was earning over $6,500 a month! Last week he emailed me that now is the perfect time to launch a product and I asked him why was that. He then went ahead and emailed me a new product hes launching called the “All-In-One Product Sales System“, I naturaly checked it out straight away and I was blown away by what this young entrepreneur has achieved! The product is ramped packed with some great resources that would cost us thousands of dollars to set up ourselves!

Cool Features Such As:

- CMS/Squeeze Page so you can customize your sales page from a simple form! No programmer skills required!

- Autoresponder built in to email Sign ups

- Billing System

- Product Delivery Software

So what I have here is a complete system, ready to go. Fully split tested for best conversion rates on the static site elements, and a free bonus service that includes web hosting, free setup/installation, and coaching from people already successful.

So basically, this takes away the headaches and blind investments of setting up a business from scratch, so anyone can get started selling and making money online. You could literaly launch products with just minutes of work!

Donny’s theory as to why most people would whip up a website and put adsense ads on it is, well, it’s hard to set up a sales funnel that allows you to actually start selling and start making money. I know from experience, and from a good marketer friend of mine who polled his list, that the biggest problem for new/rookie marketers in getting started is setting up a business.

Donny has uploaded a great 30 minute video where he shares his experiences on making real money online which he offers lots of great tips and suggestions. Also make sure to check all of the cool bonus’s on the Sales Page!

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Interview with Kieran O’Neill - Founder of Playfire.com

Some fantastic answers - like:

I also understand that you raised over $1 Million in venture capital investment for Playfire, a lot of young entrepreneurs come up with BIG ideas, what advice would you give a young entrepreneur trying to raise capital for their business?

I’d say try and do it without rasing capital first. It made sense for Playfire as the founding team had a track record, and were building out an initial version on our own. However, if there is any way you can execute the idea without raising money - do it. It takes a long time, and is the most expensive form of capital available. Also, you have to give up ownership, the most important thing there is, to people you don’t really know.

If, however, raising money is the only way, then I’d say:

- Do as much as you can first, especially things that show initial traction or a scalable revenue model

- Talk to angels and other successful entrepreneurs. They’re genrally more receptive to early stage deals versus the VCs who tend to prefer more developed companies.

-Get introduced to investors by pepole they respect / entrepreneurs they’ve previously invested in. Much better than going cold. Therefore, your strategy for meeting investors should be to meet funded entrepreneurs.

Interview with Kieran O’Neill - Founder of PlayFire.com

To find out more about Han Sup Yoon and Zuneboards visit www.PlayFire.com

Yesterday I went up to Surrey a town around 2 hours drive from my house to see a couple young entrepreneurs called Mark and Alan. I have known Mark for a few years now because he is a family friend, over the last year or so I have talked with Mark a few times about each others internet business and when I went up to to see him it gave us a great opportunity to brainstorm some ideas for his new Online Clothing Store called Bespoke Clothing. Mark and Alan have managed to get hold of brand which is super popular called Apple Bottoms which hardly any other website’s in the UK can get which gives them a great opportunity to make a lot of money, I asked Mark and Alan to do a couple short videos for Retire at 21 readers to talk about their success so far.

Before launching Bespoke Clothing Mark had sold 1000s of items on Ebay and has been earning a full time income from it in his spare time. After our brainstorm I asked him to show me around his stock room with his business partner Alan

If you have any questions for Mark or Alan then please leave a comment bellow.

To your success,

Michael Dunlop

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Interview with Han Sup Yoon - Founder of Zuneboards.com

Some fantastic answers - like:

What advice would you give a young entrepreneur trying to make money online running community driven websites?

You can’t set up a forum, invite people over, and expect it to flourish. Be unique, and think like a businessman. Ask yourself questions. Why do people sign up and leave? Why are people not posting? Do something UNIQUE that makes guests WANT to stay. Strategize on how to be successful. ZuneBoards was established months before the Zune itself was released, because I knew it’d give us a head start on search rankings. We recruited hackers before the Zune was released, and as soon as it was released, we released a Zune hack within days. That Zune hack was our huge “breakthrough,” as we started to receive tens and thousands of hits, and hundreds of registrations in a single day. We continued to release these types of things often, and we, ZuneBoards STOOD for something. It wasn’t just another place to talk about zunes, it was a unique place to discuss the modding of the Zune. But don’t just stop there. Continue to seek more and more ways to make your community stand for something. Monopolize, outsmart your competition. As soon as Zune Games were confirmed, we immediately started setting out plans on how to dominate in that category. We set up forum categories for Zune games (note, that this is still months they were actually released), and immediately started SEO work, and set up a plan of what exactly to do as soon as games for the Zune were released.

Use your resources. Use your staff. Use Digg, Reddit, and other large sites. If you have GOOD content, then Digg, Reddit, Engadget, Gizmodo, and other mega-sites (depending on the niche), should have no problem featuring you.

Don’t overdo your ads, it will turn people away. Try your best to stay away from annoying flashy ads, and those that expand over your content. Depending on your niche, some ads will do better than others. Play around with ad sizes, colors, and types. Don’t make your revenue stream dependent on one network, use a variety of them. You will notice that during some seasons, some networks will do better than others. Try playing around with both CPC, CPM, and even CPA ads. You’ll be surprised to see how well they work together.

Interview with Han Sup Yoon - Founder of Zuneboards.com

To find out more about Han Sup Yoon and Zuneboards visit www.HanSupYoon.com

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Interview with Stanley Tang - Author of eMillions

Some fantastic answers - like:

I understand that you will only earn $3 per book sold, why did you decide to create a printed book rather than a eBook which you could of sold for $67 per eBook sold?

Yes indeed. I get 20% royalties from the profits and the price of my book is $19.95 (remember there are still costs) so you can work out how much I make per book. I don’t actually make most of the money from selling the book, but instead, using the book.

Let me explain:

David Hancock, founder of Morgan James Publishing, once said “An Entrepreneurial Author is an author who knows that they will make the most money from what their book does for them—not from the royalties of that book.” For example, you use your book to help position yourself as an expert in your niche and build credibility. Another way is to use your book as a frontend and help drive the backend sales (which is what I’m doing here with my eMillions book launch). A book is a perfect lead generation tool to attract people into your marketing funnel.

Interview with Stanley Tang - Author of eMillions

To find out more about Stanley and eMillions visit www.eMillions.com

If you would like to ask Stanley a question, she is answering them on the Retire at 21 forum now!

On Wednesday I did my 5th big list and decided to have another go at hitting the front page of Digg. Last time I hit the homepage of Digg it helped me rank second for the term “Young entrepreneurs” in Google so it was well worth a try! Unfortunately I didn’t quite reach it this time with only 177 Diggs which use to be enough. I also didn’t realize that it was Thanks Giving on the day we tried to get on the Digg homepage which is most likely why I didn’t get so many Diggs.

Benefits of creating lists

I love making lists, you don’t have to have any knowledge at all in your niche to create one! For example, I could create a list about “Top 20 Best Looking Footballer Wife’s”, I don’t know of any footballer wife’s right now but all I would need to do is create a poll on a popular football forum or search the internet. Lists also bring in so much more traffic than another blog posts, In fact the last few days I have brought in 21,098 more visitors then last week just because of this list!

Creative Content Ideas:

“10 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Get Married”

“6 Quick and Cheap Ways To Get Drunk”

“20 Coolest Houses in the World Ever”

Twitter Effect

I haven’t ever used Twitter much for driving traffic but I did find it very helpful to gain Digg’s and Stumbles for my post. I also found that once one big name mentions it on twitter so did everyone else! Here is a list of clicks from the top 10 Twitter users, a lot of the clicks would of come from the homepage instead of their account:

Traffic Analysis

Traffic shot up by nearly 1000% as you can see my the bar chart bellow. Whats also great about Top Lists, they are actualy great content and its not a 1 hit wonder where you get a huge spike of traffic for one day but it carrys on for ever. Retire at 21’s most populer page is our Top Young Entrepreneurs page which receives more views then the homepage itself!

I am always looking to do new Top Lists and if you have any suggestions the please recommneded them to me!

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Interview with Rachna Kingston of Entheosweb.com

Some fantastic answers - like:

A lot of young entrepreneurs have decided to start their business online, where would you recommend them to start? What do they need to start a successful website online?

I would recommend new Net entrepreneurs to start by building quality content for their website.  Google loves content.  Don’t focus on making money online in the beginning.  Just focus on writing quality content for a few months.  Once you have at least 25 pages of relevant content on your site, you need to promote this aggressively.  Promotion is easy if you have good content as people will want to link to your website if they find the information useful.  Promote in tutorial sites, directories, write to the webmasters if they can add your site in their link pages.  I remember when I launched Entheos, I spent the first year just writing content and submitting my tutorials everywhere I could find.  You can add Google Adsense to earn revenue from your free tutorial pages.  Once you have good resources and promote aggressively you will see the results come in.  This increases over time as your ranking gets higher in Google as domain age comes into effect.  You will see a snow ball effect over a few years.

Interview with Rachna Kingston - Founder of EntheosWeb.com

To find out more about Rachna and Entheos visit www.EntheosWeb.com

If you would like to ask Rachna a question, she is answering them on the Retire at 21 forum now!