Interviews make for absolutely brilliant content. From years of experience of developing media websites, I have found that interviews never fail to bring the readers in. Why is that? Well, interviews are exclusive content, unlike alot of content, interviews aren’t recycled junk and provide your readers with something that is worth reading. However, just because an interview is exclusive, that doesn’t mean it’s absolutely just worth reading. To write an interview, you have to consider a [...]

Oliver:  What inspired you to launch “Shuffle My Life” and Findsociety? James: With Shuffle My Life, it’s kind of a long story. I’m an avid reader of the website ‘Reddit’ and on a quiet day after lectures, came across a video about a man called Jerry Gretzinger with a fascinating hobby (http://vimeo.com/6745866). He had constructed an entire model city based on tiles; the contents of which he was building, changing and destroying based on chance [...]

So you’ve done it. You’ve managed to get that all important interview with the company of your dreams. You have beaten hundreds of other people to get this opportunity and now you just have the final push – the interview. The problem is – you don’t have much interview experience. Or sometimes your nerves get to you. Or you fail to think about something important before the big day which leaves you unduly stressed. Well worry no more, this article should give you everything you need to help you out.

Today I am interviewing Josh Moorcroft-Jones – a technology and video games journalist from the UK. Josh is the founder of NintendoFeed.com and has been developing websites and blogging since he was just 12!   Oliver:  Tell me a bit about yourself and how you got started on the web.  In simple terms, how did you get to where you are now and what are your biggest achievements? Josh: From an extremely early age, technology [...]

There is a very good reason I put #Bizitalk and not “Bizitalk”, you might have heard of it before but if you haven’t Bizitalk is a Twitter hashtag phenomenon launched in March 2012 it was trending in just 11 days and generates 1000s tweets every day promoting small businesses in the UK.  I thought Adrian would be the perfect person to ask questions about the relationship between Twitter and small businesses and how you can get your own [...]

The video is quite long, but it’s worth watching because you’ll learn a lot from Katie/”Kymmypops” about how she was a waitress, college dropout and she discovered she had a talent to offer on Fiverr. Now she is a top rated seller and has pulled in several 1000 sales in the last 8 months. Katie even uses her Iphone and you can’t knock the quality! Fiverr is the site that lets you sell anything for [...]

If you ever create anything online, graphics, games, music, software, pictures, films, whatever! It even comes with it’s own fancy short url. Read on to learn about how Ameya build the site on his own!       What is Nuubuu, is it your first venture? If not what have you put into Nuubuu that you learnt from other ventures? nuubuu.com is a simple way to sell your digital creations online, like ebooks, music, movies, stock [...]

Want to start your own online store?  Stephen is the founder of www.gameseek.co.uk and has been on the net since 2000, still going strong today! But how did he last so long?   Read on to find out how..   Can you tell me a bit about yourself and your web business background? Sure, i work hard and play hard. Set up GameSeek over ten years ago now selling video games on the internet using [...]

I took some time to talk to Danielle Morrill founder of refer.ly, a revolutionary new website that will smash all of those GTP sites out of the water.  I will let you into a little secret.  The way to make money with Refer.ly is to create “collections” for example, “80′s memorabilia”. The main idea of the site is to shorten and share links to products/services and you get paid for it!!! PLUS you don’t have [...]

Today I had an interview with the co-founder of new game development tool Spriter which aims to be the best tool for creating animations, characters and assets for game developers and animators.  The game tool was 200% funded on kick-starter so they got double what they set out to get!  Edgar’s co-founder Mike is a vetran of the games industry with 8 years professional experience working on AAA titles.  Check out the site and features here, read [...]

Today I am interviewing Aaron Wall, founder and author of SEObook.com.  The site started in 2003 as an ebook teaching people SEO methods, it has now grown into one of the most respected SEO learning websites on the web, SEOBook is now a subscription based SEO learning website however there are plenty of great resources including Free SEO Tools, their blog and lot’s more. It has a community of leading SEO analytics and practitioners to network with, [...]

Today I am talking to Tonu Runnel, co-founder of Edicy web-builder which lets you create a website in minutes. All Edicy themes are optimised for mobile out of the box! As well as SEO optimisation out of the box.   So, let us now a bit about yourself, what do you like doing? I’m a multi-instrumentalist. I’m a designer and CEO of www.edicy.com, who has BA in law and have hobbies from an infinite variety [...]

I caught up with David Johnston creator of “Adventures of Shuggy”.  Shuggy is a vampire who adventures through puzzling landscapes and battles with many a foe.  Dave talks about indie development life, tips for making and publishing indie games.  To see his site and games visit:  http://smudgedcat.com.     Oliver: How valuable is social media in marketing indie games Dave – Extremely valuable, I can’t imagine how different things would be if I didn’t have my Twitter [...]

You want to be a Movie director? star on the red carpet?  Your name in lights, well here is your chance to do just that.  Thanks to Staffan and Linnéa, developers of “Pixely People, Making Movies” on IOS.  I caught up with them to talk about how the game was developed and how other people could make such a game.  Awarded “new and noteworthy” on the Apple App Store, Pixely People has launched very well [...]

If you want to see some pretty looking sites, kyle’s are some of the nicest looking I have ever seen. Kyle is 25 however he has been developing games and websites since he was a teenager.  You can see his personal website here: http://kpulv.com/. You can see one of kyles games which is available on steam, and the website here. http://offspringfling.com/. Oliver: Your sites look incredible, in particular kpulv looks amazing. Did you design it [...]

Interesting interview!! Check it out, this is not our interview. Theo Paphitis is a successful entrepreneur and investor on the UK series of Dragons Den, where business persons pitch their business in the hope to gain investment from one of the “Dragons”.  Theo is not an online entrepreneur, he made his money through retail, and other business’s however this is not to say that his words are unimportant.

This is an interview with, young entrepreneur now 22 Jess Ratcliffe, she is the founder of www.gaboomswap.com.   She is from the UK, and is a passionate gamer!  She has also had the opportunity since starting her business to attend several gaming events such as EuroGamer, let that be a lesson to you! Business is not always boring! Actually, no Euro-Gamer is very boring, you would’nt want to go.  (Build a business based on your passions and you [...]

Oliver: Your a freelance games journalist, what inspired you to take this step. Josh Brown: Well as I’m sure any serious gamer pondered the thought at some point in their life. We’ve all been playing since very early ages no doubt and for some it becomes more of an obsession than a hobby, healthy or unhealthy. But after years and years of playing you start to follow the news stories and the comminty behind it. [...]

Dillon Brooks is a successful young web-builder with a large array of sites he has built, he is also the owner of www.adminpeak.com which is a successful webmaster and forum management discussion site. Can i ask how old you are? I am 17 years old, 18 in June. How long have you been running websites? I have been running websites ever since I was 10. How many websites do you have right now? I currently [...]