Video interview w/ Young Internet Millionaire- Matt Mickiewicz

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Hey guys,

Last week Yahoo Finance had a story on the front page about "Young Internet Millionaires". One of the entrepreneurs featured was Matt Mickiewicz - founder of SitePoint.com, Flippa.com and 99designs.com.

I just did a video interview with Matt to discover how he has started and grown not just 1 but 3 successful online businesses. We go over how to get business ideas, how to drive traffic, how to provide value, how to grow your business by selling info products and more.

Matt Mickiewicz Interview - 99designs, sitepoint & flippa

It was great to learn the secrets of someone mentioned in the same breath as Michael Dell (Dell Computers) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook).

What do you think about Matt's advice?

(here's the link to that Yahoo finance article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work...rklife_balance)
 
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Anyone able to decipher the landing page design resource he mentioned? Looks like the transcripts missed it as well. All I heard was 'Adbumb.com'
 
I enjoyed that. He's a properly likeable bloke. It's a shame there's not more nice guys and less people acting like some bad attempt at an Alan Sugar cliché.
 
GREAT interview - worth hearing. Many guys get the $$$ in their eyes and forget that real money and satisfaction in life comes from providing value. No way around it.

Sucks my outsourced worker emailed Matt personally somehow, over 20 times for link building offers.

Matt didn't like it very much. Sorry Matt. LOL

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seanyg said:
Glad you guys all enjoyed it. Matt is awesome!

What was the biggest point you took away from the video?
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Seems as though he very quickly experienced success back in '98 when he built his first site, receiving all of that exposure shortly after launching. I'm not sure what he did exactly to receive all that exposure, but it seems like that was the momentum that fueled all of his future success.

Launching a product is easy (99designs/Flippa) when you already have a massive following of targeted traffic.

Not a bash or anything, but just a point I took from it.
 
My favorite part is how he said that he looked at his analytics, and found the most printed page/section. Then, he made a POD book of it and sold 20,000 or so copies fairly easy.
 
dreamache said:
Seems as though he very quickly experienced success back in '98 when he built his first site, receiving all of that exposure shortly after launching. I'm not sure what he did exactly to receive all that exposure, but it seems like that was the momentum that fueled all of his future success.

Launching a product is easy (99designs/Flippa) when you already have a massive following of targeted traffic.

Not a bash or anything, but just a point I took from it.
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I agree. What I took from the interview was:

WebmasterResource.com keyword stuffed back in 1998, got some media exposure, it blew up.

Turned it into SitePoint.com.

Branched out two sub forums on SitePoint.com into Flippa.com and 99designs.com.

If you want to be successful online, then you should provide value to the internet and in return you will get traffic and monies.
 
dreamache said:
Seems as though he very quickly experienced success back in '98 when he built his first site, receiving all of that exposure shortly after launching. I'm not sure what he did exactly to receive all that exposure, but it seems like that was the momentum that fueled all of his future success.

Launching a product is easy (99designs/Flippa) when you already have a massive following of targeted traffic.

Not a bash or anything, but just a point I took from it.
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I read some research that compared qualities of successful businessmen and one common quality was a big success early on that gave them freedom to operate after that. I'll see if I can find the link, it was a good article...
 
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