What a fantastic week…it was! We had so many big things happen I don’t even know where to start. So I guess I will start from the beginning of the week.
1. Ed Nash, 18, UK, got his iphone app submitted for approval to Apple. Go Nashy! We also started his official marketing campaign for LamboFaces.com LamboFaces is his philanthropic endeavor where people pay 1 British Pound to upload their face on a website. The 100,000 most interesting and beautiful faces will be painted onto a Lamborghini. The ‘World’s First People’s Lamborghini’ will then be auctioned on eBay with no reserve price and the money will be used to build a hospital in a poor community in the south of Zanzibar. No idea where people think of this stuff. I swear I had nothing to do with this, lol.
Twitter @Nashy (I am not going to spill the beans on his app, but perhaps he will. I have to say it is a pretty cool concept…in a teen tech genius type of way).
2. Ben Lang, 16, (barely 16, lol) is on fire! First he did a book review on his blog which got 25+ comments. So we were able to line him up with a feature article on next month’s Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Blog which gets a whole lotta traffic. Ask and you might receive. But threaten the influential blog owner who fears the worst if he doesn’t feature your teen entrepreneur and you know something, that usually works Also, Ben got his first article published in his local newspaper. It is a multi part article and just might turn into a regular syndicated column. WHEW HEW! When I heard that, it totally made my day. He is such a giving person and is sincerely and truly deserving of it.
Twitter: @entrepreneurpro (Ask him about his new sponsored comments program, it is a really cool concept!)
Full of grace and inspiration, Danielle Herb, Founder of Drop Your Reins, the Only Official Grrrl Renegade CEO, celebrated her Sweet 16 on October 23rd. Happy, Happy Birthday to Danielle!
You could do better if you knew better….know what I am sayin’? It’s all about being present! I know that some folks in the world frown upon teens having their say, but in the world of the Renegade CEO’s it is very much encouraged. You are not inconviencing me. By supporting you, I grow as well. I hear from Patricio Quezada every single week because he wants to be looped on everything that is going on in the world of teen entrepreneurs and he wants to make sure I am looped with what is going on in his world. Whether he tweets me on Twitter, sends me an email, connects with me on skype, writes on my wall on Facebook or places a phone call I know I am going to hear from him.
So I guess it is no wonder he has been able to quickly act on every opportunity that has come about over recent months and as a result has been able to enjoy $2,995 complimentary admission & scholarship to Serial Internet Entrepreneur and Self Made Millionaire’s Yanik Silver’s Underground 5 Online Marketing Seminar, where he got to network with the likes of Bob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy.com and Tony Hsieh, Founder of Zappos.com. Then an article was picked up about him in the Washington Business Journal Newspaper. A month later he was interviewing one of his idols, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, Mike Michalowicz and in the past 2 weeks he has been featured on CNN (see clip above), in a photo shoot for a National Campaign for Teen Entrepreneurs and requested for paid speaking and workshop gigs (outside of his hometown) this summer.
We get media, sponsorship and strategic partnership requests ON THE REGULAR so if you are an aspiring or emerging teen entrepreneur let me hear from you regardless of what stage of business you are in- conceptual or operational! I am here to support you.
You already know your potential, now you just need to fearlessly grow into it.
Continue to elevate.
@teenbizcoach
Comments Off Posted by Shonika Proctor on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Teen Renegade CEO Patricio Quezada, 18, CEO of Hispanics Learn is going to be featured on an upcoming segment of CNN (in the next week). We will share the link with you as soon as the story airs. The story will air on CNN plus all its affiliates and on the web. This kind of exposure, which is free and will be in millions of homes across the globe is priceless.
The Renegade CEO’s are becoming the go to place for the hottest teen and young entrepreneurs. So make sure you are connected with us because for the past few stories we have had requests for multiple teen entrepreneurs in certain geographic regions or industries. So you never know when we are going to be seeking you out.
The CNN Producer reached out to me for leads and had considered several teen CEO’s for the story. Three days full of anxiety and anticipation would pass before I asked my teens if any of them heard anything back. Patricio non chalantly says to me ‘oh yea, she been called me back and finalized a date for me to come to the studio.’ !!!Teenagers!!!…Go figure, lol! Luckily, we have long been ‘READY’, hence, after creating a few marketing promos special to this media feature and some interview coaching, we were able to flow with the energy and bask in the magical experience of the day.
For those of you who are on Twitter, here is a great list of high profile Tweeps (people who Twitter) who often will follow you back. I recognize quite a lot of the names and they are pretty interactive with their lists. Congrats to Teen CEO @StanleyTang who made the list with over 20k followers. Insanely cool
I have done several posts on what Twitter is…but here’s the quick and dirty- it is an online marketing tool that pacificies the voyeuristic nature of people. It’s a massively huge public timeline where everyone basically answers the same question “What Are You Doing?” (in 140 characters or less). It’s hard to explain until you start doing it… Dan Hollings has a great Squidoo Lens if you want to read through quickly and see all his tips and tricks. It’s a tremendous resource http://www.squidoo.com/twittinsecrets
Patricio Quezada, Teen CEO of Duox Technologies made his online radio debut yesterday on Teenaged World of Maddy. Aside from saying ‘ummm’ approximately 437 times I would say he did pretty darn good. The interview is thorough, covers a lot of information about his company, how he stays organized, how he re-energized himself when he lost focus for a bit and at some point, he turns the table and asks the interviewers questions!
In Patricio’s interview he also talks about his new Hispanics Learn training classes and his forthcoming book The BiLingual Computer Handbook (expected release date: March 2009).
As always, the (Teen) Renegade CEO’s would like to extend a very special thank you to Maddy and Katherine, the loverly co-hosts of Teenaged World of Maddie.
Comments (2) Posted by Shonika Proctor on Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Today I found an interesting story on the web (imagine that, tee he he). It was about How to Pitch a TV Show. At first I thought it was how to pitch a TV show so that you could be on it…BUT as it turns out, it wasn’t. However, I still thought the content was useful. The focus of the article was how to pitch a potential TV show idea as in to a TV Station or Producer. Now, why exactly am I sharing this with you (you are only a teenager after all and what do you know)? [Everything and nothing at all....good answer.]
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.
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.
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.
Everybody keeps asking me what is Twitter. So this is the world of Twitter…at least according to how Shonika Explains it….
Geek Talk: Twitter is a micro blogging social network site.
Peep Talk: The concept of Twitter revolves around building a network or community (those you follow or those who choose to follow you)…I know I know it’s a bit of a vanity page
Within your network that you build along with a sort of never-ending ‘public timeline’, if you will, you share random moments and thoughts of your life in 140 characters or less (aka SMS message) hence the term “micro blogging”.
The all encompassing QUESTION that starts and progresses the dialogue in your Twitter community is:
“What are you doing?”
Need a visual/3 min video? Who can ever forget this post I made on the Tao of Twitter….
Also, Ben got his first article published in his local newspaper. It is a multi part article and just might turn into a regular syndicated column. WHEW HEW! When I heard that, it totally made my day. He is such a giving person and is sincerely and truly deserving of it.
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