Archive: Jan 2009

1. Interview with Jason Pereira (Founder of The University Kid)

   January 31, 2009 12:00 pm 1 Comment

   Hello,
   Have you ever heard of Jason Pereira from The University Kid? I expect so. Well I have been in contact with him so asked him for an interview. I hope you all like it!

   Firstly, hello and thank you very much for agreeing to this interview Jason.

   Could you please give us some information about your life and who you are?

   My name is Jason Pereira, I am 17, I was born in India but currently I am living in Dubai. I am a university student and my favourite hobby is internet marketing. I started using Internet Messaging in 2007.
   How did you start in this online career? Who gave you your inspiration?
   I started during the summer of 2007 because I had five months off studying and was bored so I looked for ways to pass time online which is when I found out about paypal etcetera. I started by freelancing at $2 per article and soon moved on to domaining and website flipping. My inspiration was people on forums that were doing very well.

   Did you believe back then that you would be as successful as you are now?

   I had absolutely no idea! At the time I was just looking to make an extra $500 per month to use as spending money for parties and such.

   Did you at any point have any “failures” which you then managed to learn from to become successful?

   My biggest problem was that I wasted time on many projects that ultimately didn’t convert. I was also scammed quite a bit due to being naive early on – including over $650 for a site sale. This taught me a lot and from then on I have been much more careful about what I do with my money.

   What advice do you have for those that are currently in the position you were in then?

   Make friends early on with those that are more experienced than you, you’ll learn quicker and get scammed less as they have a lot to teach you. Also remember, joint ventures save time and make more money. As for best advice, probably creating sales pages for products… this saved me a ton of time and made me thousands.

   Do you have any plans for the future?

   Not really, no. I am currently very busy with exams then I am going on holiday in the next couple months. I will see about Internet Marketing after that.

   Ok, thank you very much Jason.

   I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! Do you have any opinions or questions that you would like to ask Jason?

   Thank you,
   Shane

2. No More Messy Inbox?

   January 30, 2009 12:00 pm 3 Comments

   I have had many people email and twitter me asking how can I subscribe to so many blogs? It is simple! Do you use Firefox 3? If not then you should. If you do, you should know of this feature already but many do not.

   Live Bookmarks

   It is as simple as that. Instead of bookmarking a website, you are able to bookmark a feed. This creates a menu in your bookmarks for each rss feed. I find this a massive problem, as it is no different than having loads of feeds in my email inbox! So instead, I have created a folder that lets me only view the feeds when I want to. I find this very useful, hopefully you will too once you have watched this very quick video (The video is fairly low quality as I have a very slow connection to the internet. It should however provide the information you need. I will try to update the video when I can).

   1. Choose a feed, for this video I chose CopyBlogger.com
   2. Create a folder, I called it “RSS Feeds”
   3. Click Add.

   It really is a simple as that and it is so much neater than your inbox isn’t it? Have you used this method before? If not try it, I recommend it.

   Thank you for reading,

   Shane Hudson

3. Neat Niche

   January 29, 2009 12:00 pm Leave a Comment

   Today I have an interesting subject for you! As you know, I am very interested in phrases and quotations. So today I would like to introduce you to a phrase of my own.

   “Neat Niche”

   What is a ‘Neat Niche’?
   

   Simple yet catchy. Some of you may be able to easily figure out what it means, some of you will not be able to. I will start off by giving you a definition of the word ‘Niche’.

   “A niche market is a focused targetable portion (subset) of a market.”

   www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_(industry)

   Most business and website owners understand the word niche and use it very often. One of the biggest blog niches is “Make Money Online”, which is no suprise considering the state of the world’s current economy.

   Now I am going to try to explain the phrase ‘Neat Niche’ if you can think of better words for it, please let me know!

   Neat Niche – A website or business that is apt for it’s niche.

   How close to your guess was that? Probably fairly close indeed. This is all well and good but what is the point of the phrase?

   Why Do We Need Neat Niche?

   Sorry, it is not meant to sound like I am selling anything! I am not. The reason I use the term Neat Niche is because so many people create websites that are just not correct for the niche they are in. I was extremely guilty of this when I ran Lonely Designs and many people think I am guilty of it with Success Circuit. My niche is fairly wide as it includes everybody that are wanting to be successful in life or business. So in theory, everybody!

   There are some sites that promise a certain niche but tend to go off subject often. This is not only common in blogs but also in websites, business and life itself. I often look through blogs and straight away come up with my opinion as to whether it is a Neat Niche or not. I also find this term very useful for reviewing websites, though I do not often actually write that it is a Neat Niche but it is always going around in my head.

   I believe that I am the only user of this term up until now, but if you have heard of it before… let me know! Also, I know I have been doing quite a few of small posts so the next few will be fairly large.

   Thank you for reading,

   Shane

4. How To Be Inspired

   January 28, 2009 12:00 pm Leave a Comment

   Time and time again I hear people say, and say myself, “Oh dear, I cannot think of any ideas for my next post!” or “I am trying to paint a picture but cannot find any inspiration!” Well, my advice is simple, look around. If you do not understand then do not worry, I shall explain it. What do these pictures all have in common?

   

   That should give you enough of a clue to what this article is about. Inspiration. Nature. Take a look at anything that nature produced, does it look special? If not look harder, because everything is different and should be able to inspire you.

   Now for the game. I have shown you that nature is special and should be able to inspire you. Unfortunately, nature is so inspirational that it is extremely hard to decide in what way to use it. So I devised a method, inspired by a game we often play with my brother (aged 5).

   Word Association

   Many of you may have realised what I am trying to get at. Basically, you start with an element of nature and write down words than spring to mind. A good way to do this is in a mind map. I shall give you a few examples, although I shall not upload any mind maps. I shall probably be using these sort of mind maps in another articles, so shall leave them for now. Instead I shall use simple text diagrams.

   Spider – Spider Web – Climb – Ladder – Success

   Yellow – Sand – Grain – Wood – Forest – Wildlife

   Water – Droplets – Rain – Flood – Disaster – Poor

   There are hundreds of thousands of different combinations you could choose, and I recommend you take them as far as you have time to. As you should be able to see, the choices you choose are almost infinite. The further you take each line, or mind map, the easier the writing will become.

   Have any of you tried this before? Do you find it works well? Please discuss it as I am very interested in your opinions.

   Thank you for reading,

   Shane