Chances are, if you’ve ended up on my “About Me” page, you have some sort of interest in my blog and making money online. So a word of advice; never quit. Perseverance wins the race.
Enough of that! I’m Ben (well, my full name is Behnam, but no one can pronounce that) and I’m a 19 year old college student and a blogger/internet marketer. I was born in Iran, and moved to Canada with my family when I was only a couple of months old. Grew up there, and the age of 15, I found out I would be moving to California due to my fathers job. I’ll tell ‘ya, it was tough moving in the middle of high school. But hey, it’s been 5 years, and I’m still alive; it definitely made me a lot stronger.
I’ve been into the internet marketing game since I was 14 or so. It’s kind of funny when I look back on how far I’ve come; I compare what I know now, to what I knew then, and it makes me laugh. I remember the first week I started up trying to make money online. I set up a free blog on blogger.com, copy and pasted a few articles from around the web, put some Adsense ads up, and sat back. Few weeks in, and I hadn’t made a penny. What the heck!?! I Thought this was supposed to be easy. Here I am now, and I can confidently say I know the ins and outs of the internet marketing game, which makes me laugh at how I was when I first started.
So, I actually launched iBlogPlanet about 2 years ago. I was fairly active here for a while, but due to some personal reasons, had to put a halt on blogging and such. But here I am now, in 2011, and I’m back! Now, I have two primary goals that I want to achieve through blogging. Firstly, I want to help others make money online. Honestly, had it not been for others, I can confidently say I would not be where I am today. So I want to give back; I want to help others succeed. Secondly, I want to use this as a journal to monitor my own success. Sometimes I find myself jumping around from one project to another, so this should definitely help me stay on track.
A little about my hobbies; well I used to play ice hockey for several years, but have not gotten back into it since I moved to California. I’m big on weight lifting, and try to get to the gym at least 5 times a week. I like to go out with friends and have fun, just like any other 19 year old, but I also put a lot of focus on effort on business. I consider entrepreneurship a hobby of mine. I actually recently started a local SEO firm (run by myself only), where I consult with businesses and improve their SEO and Social Media Marketing. My firm is called RankThatSite. I look around me, and see people come out of college, only to work for the next 30 years, only to save up and retire when they are older. Now, I am by no means bashing these people; it’s just not the type of lifestyle I want to live. I want to my own boss.
I’ll leave things at that, or else I’d probably go on for a few days. Enjoy your stay here, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
