On today’s episode of Renegade Teens Radio, Host Patricio Quezada, CEO of HispanicsLearn chats with Bradley Will, That Gen Y Guy. Bradley Will is the Ultimate Go-Giver and Founder of Social Media Altitude. He blogs about his adventures in living the ‘good’ life with his up and coming young entrepreneurs on BradleyWill.com .

As it was a small miracle in itself getting Bradley lined up to be interviewed on the show in between his co-hosting the YES Movie Screening in Chi-Town (Chicago) and being featured on Rise to the Top TV, we are definitely going to make the most of our precious one hour with him. As Renegade Teens believe that 21 is technically ‘old’ by today’s standards, inquiring minds want to know how someone who is age 27 could possibly be considered a ‘young’ entrepreneur and how can any movie before 1990 be considered ‘inspirational and entrepreneurial’ to today’s ‘truly’ young entrepreneurs?

Get informed firsthand and be entertained as Bradley brings his midwest charm and Patricio adds his Hispanic Chispa. As always, we are looking forward to your participation and seeing what new adventures will evolve from this episode. Tune into the show tonight at 6 pm EST. www.blogtalkradio.com/RenegadeTeens

To get a feel for Bradley and why it is so fitting that his company is named Social Media Altitude…Peep his video below:

How to Level Up is the title of a cleverly written blog post that I read today on www.chrisbrogan.com For those who are not famiiar with Chris Brogan 1. If you are doing anything online or in the social media space you should be as he is one of the pioneers in that space and 2. He is a social media consultant who speaks on the “human perspective” of how you market and brand yourself in the social media space.  

Like I always say, you can’t exist ‘online’, unless you exist ‘offline’. The Internet is merely another tool for marketing and promoting yourself/your business.Unless you can create real dialogue with real people, then don’t expect to get very far.

In Chris Brogan’s blog post, “Leveling Up” refers to playing video games and essentially advancing to the next level of the game. He uses it as a metaphor for how to go to the next level in your business. His blog posts are ‘easy reads’ so be sure to check it out and let me know what your thoughts on it.

Peep the post here: How to Level Up 

On Twitter: @chrisbrogan

I tweeted Chris Brogan to tell him that I was sharing his article on my blog today and this is how he responded:

@teenbizcoach – happy to hear it. Hope it connects well with them. Heck, they could teach US all. : )

Minor detail >>>They ARE teaching us all…tee hee, you know I had to put that in there, lol.

Alright kids, until next time remember that a true Renegade CEO challenges not the limits of society but the limits of oneself @teenbizcoach

South By Southwest (SXSW) is a 10 day conference held in Austin, TX. It brings together the latest and greatest in film, music and digital media. That is an extremely oversimplified explanation so be sure to check out their website to see what they are all about.

A few months ago when I noticed that the Call for Speakers request was open I sent out emails to a number of the Renegade teens who are active online or in the film, music, media and creative space. Today, I am proud to announce that 3 of our panel submissions were selected for consideration to be presented during the actual venue.

1. The Age of Micro Business and Teen Entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/Vote4Teens (Submitted by  Shonika Proctor)

2. Horses Heal ADD/ADHD and Autistic Kids http://bit.ly/VoteDYR Submitted by Danielle Herb, 15, Drop Your Reins)

3. Teens and the Age of New Media http://bit.ly/sxsw2010panel (Submitted by Matt Pippen, 18, Teen Media Productions)

One third of the requirement for a panel to be accepted is based on votes. So if you could be so kind can you please click on the links above and vote for each one of our panels? We would greatly appreciate it.

Do you have a panel submission that you are trying to promote for the for venue? Please post it in the comments section.

Until next time…

Don’t talk about it, BE ABOUT IT!

Back in November 2008 in the Washington Post (online edition) I read a story (courtesy of Tech Crunch) about Teen Entrpreneur & Blogger Jessica Mah (and her colleagues Arielle and Andy) who launched their company which is a website community called InternshipIN. Their site matches students to Internship opportunities with start up companies. While Jessica states that there are a host of other internship companies their niche is that they are focusing on those start up companies who want to connect with university students (where larger companies tend to currently dominate that space).

Also worth noting is that her start-up costs for the business including the prototype and build out of the website totaled 500 bucks!! And being that I read about them in the Washington Post it means someone also figured out a way to get some great media exposure.

Well here we are, not even 3 months later and today on her fellow Teen CEO’s Daniel Brusilovsky’s blog is a post about Jessica participating in his upcoming Teens in Tech Conference January 31, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. She will be one of the featured speakers. How is that for kicking butt out the gate?  Just 3 months into really getting the business going and she is already out there on the speaking circuit. Talk about dreaming and doing! That is what it is ALL about (and also the premise behind my next blog post).

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(Note: This is Part 2 of 2 from our innerview 2 days ago….sorry we were having “technical” difficulties yesterday).

Here is Part 1 if you missed it: “Part 1″

In Part II of his INNERview, we ask Teen CEO “Nashy” of ClastaZ.com questions that inquiring minds want to know . These questions were asked by our Renegades Community and Teen Biz Coach “Shonika Proctor”.  Hope everyone will find this useful as you continue to push forward with your own entrepreneurial pursuits:

1. You said you have been online since the age of 12…at what age did you start your first business and what was it?

Yea, that is right I have actually been active online since I was 12 either just browsing to find ways to make money, or attempting to create my own site. Looking back I don’t think you can call my first site a business, it was a free site I set up on freewebs! The only thing I paid for was the name: www.rediz.com. It was a shopping portal that simply displayed a lot of different sites selling numerous things. I was an affiliate of all of them, so was paid on click thru and also commission if a user went on to buy a product. It actually worked out well to start with but eventually traffic slowed down and commercially it turned out to be a failure. Having said that, I was so young at the time the money it made me felt like a lot and I learned some really valuable experience on the way.

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(Note: This is Part 1 of 2 of the INNERVIEW)

And here is Part 2 if you were looking for that (you’re welcome )

With his love of music, boyishly good looks and charming ways you’d think that UK teen Ed “Nashy” Nash was bringing back The British Invasion with a modern twist. But in fact, he’s soaring up the charts in a slightly different kind of way- as a successful teen entrepreneur with his latest social media venture www.ClastaZ.com a music discovery site which is used to find new music and dig up the old.

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We got some pumpin’ jumpin’ booty bumpin’ news for ya’…..Our Teen Entrepreneur Blog got accepted into the prestigious and uber cool Alltop’s Best of the Best Blogs….And YES! It really and truly is a VERY big deal. Alltop was founded by Guy Kawasaki ….the quick and dirty if you haven’t heard of him- he is an old-school Mac Marketing Guy (from the EARLY 80’s); he currently runs an early stage start-up venture firm for innovative tech companies and he is a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. His site Alltop.com is ranked very high somewhere around the low 100k level in Alexa. You can connect with him on Twitter @guykawasaki where he has around 20k followers (yeah, no joke). So needless to say, we have been recognized by some well-connected social media guru and we legit in somebody’s book …from email inquiries to social networking friend requests to our online ranking jump, we are already feeling a small level of the fame that is sure to follow in just 48 hours of being listed :) I am so thrilled and over the top excited about how much exposure this is going to bring for my emerging teen and young entrepreneurs!

Want to get listed on Alltop.com? Approval is (usually) done via an application process. Here’s where to start along with a few tips of how to improve your chances of getting in. These tips come courtesy of Donna Marie at Indie Business.

Saw this tweet yesterday evening on Twitter: “101 Tips to Rock and Be Rocked by Twitter”.  Of course as soon as I saw the name…I just had to click through , not to mention Shama Hyder always is relevant and is putting lots o’ high quality content out there. Shama Hyder, is the blog hostess with the mostest of After the Launch.Com which teaches folks what to do once they have launched their company/website i.e. How to monetize it, get traffic and business. In Shama’s post she shared 101 fab & groovy tips about cool ways you can use Twitter whether you are the Tweet’ee or Tweet’ed It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out on Twitter or are a newbie. It is a tremendous resource.

101 Tips to Rock and Be Rocked by Twitter, Courtesy of Shame Hyder, After the Launch.

If you don’t know what Twitter is, here is my non-geek speak explantation.

Separated by 6 degrees? Make it 3 with Linked In.  If you haven’t heard of it before, Linked In is an established and extremely credible social networking site primarily for business professionals, regardless of whether you are employed somewhere or are an entrepreneur. The concept behind Linked In is that probably everybody you will ever need or want to speak to or connect with is probably separated from you by 2 levels of people within your network. Think about it this way, you probably always talk to people about common people you know even though there are few times that you would probably ever meet them unless it was a social gathering or some sort. So Linked In puts everyone in a visual format and they show who is connected to you and by which friend or friends they are connecting.

What is Linked In?

What are the benefits of using Linked In? Well there are a number of reasons, but I’ll share these for starters:

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The Top 10 Social Networking Sites for Creative People is a great list & resource that comes courtesy of Brian Clark from Copy Blogger who found the article written by Mark McGuinness of Lateral Action. He tweeted about it on Twitter today. If you have yet to understand why you should be using Twitter…this is just one more reason! Whenever you publish information of value and share it with your community, it quickly gets recycled and becomes viral. And then it ends up in the hands of a person like me who likes it so much that it gets blogged about.

In the article Mark shares a very organized and detailed list of the best sites for we creative types…yes, yes, yes, definitely myself included. The list also highlights the benefits of each site.

And now…the article:

The Top 10 Social Networks for Creative People (and why) – http://is.gd/6xmv – Not just the usual suspects.