I must admit when I started the social spotlights I didn’t think I would get such a huge response.
I’m sitting here with an in box of over 35 plus social spotlight interviews.
None the less I am working on releasing them all so be patient yours will come soon.
I also wanted to say thank you to everyone that took the time to answer our social spotlight questions.
Brian: Hi Melvin and welcome to our social spotlight. Sorry for taking so long but it’s been a pretty busy month here at blogengage with our contests and promotions but I have managed to find sometime to day so we can entertain our interview. Please take a moment and introduce yourself to our community of bloggers.
Melvin: Hello everyone, I am Melvin Dichoso, 19 year old computer science student and resides in the Philippines. I have been into this whole Internet business for 2+ years mostly making money through affiliate marketing, managing several community-oriented websites and blogs and yea just plain being everywhere online.
A lot of people who read my main flagship blog @ MelvinBlog.com really don’t realize I’m under 20 and they just get surprised when they read my about page. Btw, MelvinBlog is a marketing tips blog designed for bloggers which aims to *hopefully* send out good information generally about Internet marketing and the online business thing. Fortunately for me it renders good traffic and a very nice overall community.
Brian: It seems many bloggers are starting your. I think the youngest bloggers so far we have interviewed was Corey Freeman. What I like about this is it really goes to show that anyone can blog no matter of your age. Please take a moment and explain to our readers why you started blogging.
Melvin: As stated in my about page, I started blogging because I learned that I can earn from it. My first blog was a basketball blog and like most newbies I failed miserably and learned my lessons. Luckily basketball was really a passion for me so, with money or not I decided to just continue. After a year it paid off and eventually made some good money. More than the money its the experience that helped me the most..
Brian: Melvin I must admit I’m very impressed by our honestly. Not many bloggers would admit to failure and here you are openly advertising that you failed. I want to stress to our readers right now that even though Melvin has failed in the past true success comes when you don’t give up and you try again. Melvin if there’s something unique you offer your readers or a specific reason why anyone should even visit your site what would you say that reason is?
Melvin: I really don’t know. Maybe I just speak out on a personal stand point. Most of my readers like me and my blog because they think I’m funny and my persona is spontaneous. I guess most people in the Internet just got tired of over professional blogs with super duper perfect grammar and fortunately in that case my blog is neither
Brian: Interesting concept. So when we visit your blog I’m assuming we can expect to visit a nice relaxing environment filled with information regaridng the web and everyday web usage. I like that idea you are right to many blogs are too serious these days it’s nice to have a change in pace. So tell us Melvin where do you enjoy marketing your blog?
Melvin: I enjoy mostly on forums where most people are just interactive. Any place which is easy to connect to people is enjoyable for me. Also by doing guest posts as it’s like telling the big blog’s subscribers to “subscribe to my blog too”.
Brian: Judging form your last two answers Melvin it’s clear to me you like non stressful relaxing environments to market your blogs in. Seems with both agree on that. I like to avoid anything that seems to busy or confusing. I do my best in forums and social networks personally. Tell us what are your favorite social communities currently?
Melvin: Uhm, Blogengage? Heheh, seriously I’m a social junkie guy and I get to every social community as possible. I enjoy stumbleupon and reddit for the massive traffic they send. And yea Blogcatalog for discussions (I know you hate them).
Brian: You know Melvin I actually want to clear something up. It’s not that I hate Blog Catalog but they are a greedy community. They are NO FOLLOW and share no page rank juice. They will out rank you for you keywords and take all your organic traffic. Hate is such a strong word. Let’s say I don’t agree with their practices. But surely I don’t hate them. Tell us Melvin if you were to give advice to our young and aspiring bloggers what would it be?
Melvin: Hmm, let me think. Well my piece of advice is, think first if blogging is really for you. If it’s not then don’t do it, don’t start one as you’d probably just waste your time. Most bloggers really DON’T get compensated that much for the effort they exert. But because they love blogging, they are in the blogosphere. If you’re just in the game for money then forget about it.
Brian: Melvin I wish I had your advice prior to when I started blogging. I feel under appreciated all the time. It’s frustrating and sometimes it gets me upset but I grow with it. What I have learned is to find appreciation in your own work and it helps fill that void. Things are better now but at one point I definitely felt along out here.
Melvin: I don’t know but even if I compile the best blogging and marketing tips here and the guy reading here isn’t serious or dedicated with blogging then its useless. In the end it’s like assessing what you’re goals are, if you can provide all the startup hardwork, and spend initial costs. If not, then maybe you’re better off doing other things. Things that you really like.
Brian: Melvin this was a great interview. Like I said above ‘m sorry it took so long I’ve been busy managing blogengage and my blog so it’s been a hectic week to say the least. Well that’s it for today everyone. If you have any questions for Melvin leave them below.
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My name is Brian and I’m a Graduate of Business Administration Marketing. I work full time in Sales and Marketing. I’m a young and upcoming webmaster and note all my learning’s here on my blog. I am also the owner of blogengage a social network I created specifically for bloggers and blog serp a voting based blog directory.
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I must admit when I started the social spotlights I didn’t think I would get such a huge response. I’m sitting here with an in box of over 35 plus social spotlight interviews. None the less I am working on releasing them all so be patient yours will co…
Great Social Spotlight Brian, I like Melvin blog, specially that he has this Testimonials on the side bar, maybe a good idea to include in blogEngage or Famous Bloggers
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I’m on Melvin’s blog now and I’m enjoying the articles. Thanks for this spotlight feature.
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Hey Brian thanks a lot! Its a great opportunity to get featured here and basically get new type of demographics..
Anyways, maybe next time I should’ve just used the word “despise” instead of “hate” when describing blogengage? wht do you think?
Melvin I don’t know how i missed your comment but apparently I did. Yes the word despise woudl had been better but I guess it doesn’t matter what word you use. blog Catalog is lame and full of spammy conversations. People can’t even make a reply without dropping a website url.
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Glad to see you here Melvin..kudos..
Nice interview..
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