Teen Internet Marketer

I’m Edward, a teenager who works on the internet. I currently make $xxx/mo online.

History

I started my career when I was very young. When I was 3, I would stuff legos into the floppy disk drive of my dad’s Gateway 2000 computer, emulating my dad. However, I quickly learned that legos did not work in a floppy disk drive.

When I was 5, my mom’s friend from work gave me her old Gateway 2000: a 66Mhz 486DX2 with 8MB of RAM. I played around with the computer, upgraded it from Windows 3.1 to 95, and logged onto the internet with its 14.4kbps modem. Dial-up. (Note: we did have ISDN at that time, but we did not have a network so I dialed onto the internet seperately). I don’t rememver what I used the internet for, but I remember Google, MSN, and Hotmail at the very least.

In third grade, I bought a Pentium !!! 500Mhz, 128MB of SDRAM, and some nice hardware from CompUSA with the help of my dad’s wallet. I assembled my first computer with the equipment. Needless to say, I was very proud.

In 6th grade, I created a simple website called “5040 games” (based on the fact that I liked factorials and 7! was 5040). It had some java and shockwave games for kids to play. After showing some of my friends during lunch at the school computer lab, it quickly overtook the school by storm. Soon, everyone played games on 5040 games. With the traffic, I tried to put up some advertisements - and used Amazon Affiliates. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any sales, but this allowed me to gain experience so that I could successfully monetize a website later.

Right after I graduated from Elementary school, I took the test to become an A+ Certified Professional - and passed on my first try. I became a A+ Professional at 11 - before I was even a teen.

In 7th grade, I created my first ever moneymaking website - Krazy Letter. I started out with a forum and Adsense. In my first year, I made $100. Not a very large sum, but enough to keep me into the process of the site. Over time, I recieved enough traffic to peak at around $4000 in one very lucky month. The Krazy Letter Forums have a combined total of over 100k posts (over the three iterations).

Probably in 9th grade, I also created a network of Proxy sites - Blockmenot - which quickly gained traffic through minimal promotion. I guess I just got lucky, but Blockmenot ended up netting me around $500/mo worth of revenue. I ended up killing Blockmenot when I expanded to two different servers and ate up probably eight IP addresses - I didn’t like basing my business model on burning off terrabytes of (cheap) bandwidth and getting IPs blacklisted on internet filters. Unfortunately, since I liked the domain names too much - I didn’t sell - which I should have.

Today, I am trying to focus more on networking and getting links across the world with other teens - one reason why I’ve taken over Teen Business Forum. I’m hoping to get a bit of traffic to it - but right now it’s not doing so well.

I’ve also been working with Steven Truong and Wes Mahler from Tracking202 to get started with affiliate marketing - so far, I haven’t earned much from my efforts, but I’m hoping to gain some experience over the next few months with affiliate marketing.

Accomplishments

I’ve won many awards over the course of my life. Here are some of them:

• I placed in many math competitions around Washington State, including Math is Cool, Washington State Math Competition, Math is Cool, Math Counts, Math League, and many more
• I earned a A+ Professional Certification from CompTIA at the age of 11
• I placed 1st in Computer Problem Solving, Cyber Security, and Networking Concepts at Washington FBLA State Leadership Conference 08
• I placed 3rd in Networking Concepts at FBLA Nationals 2008
• I received an honorable mention for my documentary on Penicillin at the Student Biotech Expo

Contact Me

If you need to contact me, please feel free to do so. Post a comment on this page and request my info, and I will get back to you. Otherwise, you can contact me on TeenBusinessForum.com under the username “Edward”.

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