Well let me start my introducing myself – i’m Josh Hawkes, i’m almost 16, i’ve helped out at YWB since we started. I’m currently studying with the Open University towards an Open degree (yes I know – starting young!). I go about YWB under the username of “Josh” (to be distinguished from Josh Smith and Josh MJ (aka Squashie)). As i’m still at home I don’t have to worry about where my daily essentials (such [...]

Contact: Oliver Neely IMMEDIATE RELEASE Email: oliver@youngwebbuilder.com  “ENTREPRENEUR CHALLENGE TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE TO WORK USING SKILLS THEY ALREADY HAVE ON THE INTERNET!” In Tough Economic Times, Young, Bright, Talented Web Entrepreneur; Oliver Neely Continues to Develop Exciting and Enticing Ways of Showing People How to Actually Earn a New Way of Living £100 at a Time. As Europe battles with record high unemployment rates, young web entrepreneur Oliver Neely has put forward a UK [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time on Fiverr over the past year, the sellers are so passionate and will really go out of their way to provide the best possible service for you.  I would say the quality of some of the gigs is often just as good as where you might pay ten times more elsewhere on the internet. Fiverr really does help anyone get the materials they need to make their online [...]

We spend a lot of time on YWB discovering and publishing ideas about making money. We share strategies for earning an income, tools for generating traffic and tactics for making the most of social media. We are here to give other young entrepreneurs some direction to set-up a business or make the most of their career. We offer what we can and we hope our members find some value from this website. What we don’t say however is we [...]

99.9% of teams put together on the Internet  are not sustainable long term. This statistic is not so much fact, as a way of emphasising how difficult it is for teams to evolve and be maintained on-line. So, to best understand why developing sustainable business relationships is so difficult on-line we have to first look at the nature of human interaction on-line. Firstly, the majority of relationships on-line are with people you don’t know. In [...]

How to Effectively Manage Your Time Online for Your Project Time management is especially important in the lives of todays digital era. With distractions like Facebook and Twitter, it’s harder than ever for young people to buckle down and get things done. If you’re struggling with time management, you’re not alone. Many Teens across the world are now struggling to keep their hand off their mouse and their eyes where they belong, on the task [...]

When I looked at the YWB web hosting package it appeared that the only negative was that they weren’t offering unlimited bandwidth and unlimited web space. But i quickly realised that this was an advantage, because people who offer “unlimited everythng”, were effectively showing that they were liars and I know YWB doesn’t want to be in that camp. Here is why people who offer unlimited webspace and unlimited bandwidth are liars and I would [...]

Here at YWB we are always dismayed to hear just how many people under 24 are out of work. In the UK alone, we have over 1 Million under 24′s unemployed. That is 1 million young and capable people just sitting around being unproductive and going nowhere. Can you imagine how wealthy our countries would be if we could take all that talent, all those skills and passions and put them to work? The under [...]

Many people who know about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) will have heard of “backlinks” but don’t know what they are or how they actually help your website’s SEO so I hope by reading this article you will gain a better understanding of how they work and how they can help your website. What are “backlinks”? Backlinks are links from one site directed towards another website, so for example on a a personal blog: John puts [...]

Why should you build a website? A website is pretty damn cheap, and if you put in time, effort and passion or just get lucky you could be seeing your project as a national service used by millions. To start with, unlike running a lot of offline business’s it is very quick to get started, and make amendments.  You can have a website up in less then 1 day after paying for the domain and [...]

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How to build a reviews website. It is a very popular model for a website, a review site is one of the easiest websites to build. Essentially you need a market, a product range, for example: Books. So you want to have a good understanding and passion for what you are going to be reviewing. You should start off with your own personal collection, find or build a theme for a CMS which allows you [...]

You may have read some of the posts on our blog, but have you registered to the forum yet? There are other forums you could join but they are out-dated boring and inactive, or filled with spam bots like youngentrepreneur.com. We use xenforo for our forum software, which is one of the most up-to date forum softwares around, making for ease of use, flexibility and functionality.  There is plenty of room for improvement but we need [...]

Some people were telling me the other day that they are going to make a lot of money on a project and they were so very excited I actually started to believe them. But before I got to over excited myself, I asked them how much money they planned to make and after a long pause they said “as much as possible”. Then i spoke to some other even more excited entrepreneurs and asked them [...]

For immediate release 22 May 2012   What is Youngwebbuilder? Youngwebbuilder is the best place for teens to go to learn to set up their own web-business.  With a culmination of money-making guides and tips, expertly written business guides and support forum, youngwebbuilder.com provides a place for those looking to build their own website online to share their knowledge with like-minded people, and get advice from a growing number of experienced individuals in seo, design, [...]

  What is WebPlus X5?   WebPlus X5 is the latest WYSIWYG web editor from Serif, it is made as a business tool, but can be used by anyone with little or no knowledge about web design, and features a tutorial for beginners as well, I personally looked up a tutorial on Youtube, and learnt through trial and error. A website can be made with WebPlus without any code at all, and it comes with [...]

Thanks to the guys over at www.serif.com we have a copy of Drawplus x5 to giveaway. If you have not heard about drawplus and you have only heard of photoshop, well. You are missing out.  Drawplus is much cheaper then photoshop and is equally if not more powerful, and packed full of incredible features which allow you to create graphics for your website, or to sell to clients on www.fiverr.com or webmaster forums etc.. Drawplus [...]

This is a pretty decent analytics tool for twitter accounts, it is not too complicated, and in-depth.  Just quick information, and is likely to include many cool features soon! You should try Foller.me and get to know more facts about yourself or another twitter account.  Foller has many features, and is being updated with lots more! You can see mentions, and all sorts 1. Go to Foller.me website 2. In the input box, type the [...]

So you want to set up a website, but you don’t know how much it is going to cost.   Do you need investment?  Do you need a loan?!  Well, absolutely not, it does however depend on what you are looking to build your website on. The best advice is to build your assets gradually.  A domain and web-hosting will only cost you $30 Or so a year, $3 per month.  And if you can’t [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years looking at ways people make money on the Internet. But more specifically,  I’ve been looking at why they aren’t making money. By understanding “why” they aren’t making money, we can draw conclusions about what they are doing wrong and from that look at how we can avoid making these mistakes and develop the correct approach to developing a website that has every chance of [...]