Exclusive Interview With Greg-J, Founder of MySpacePros.com

Money Making Entrepreneur Interviews

At the age of 27, Greg Johnson lives on his ranch in Southern Oregon with his wife Mary and their two children where he enjoys the benefits that working online have to offer.

Derek: I know you are the owner of myspacepros.com, what other websites do you own?
Greg: I own a number of websites at any given point in time, so it’s hard to give a list. Obviously myspacepros.com is what I’m known for, but I am also a majority shareholder and the acting CEO of MY EEOS, INC which owns and operates myeeos.com an up-and-coming social network backed by all the site owners that have social networking resource sites.

Derek: When did you start making money online? What drew you to the Internet?
Greg: Answering this question could take up this entire interview so I’ll try to keep it short and to the point. I made the decision to never work for someone else again in 2001. At that time I wanted to build computers so I opened up a small boutique PC shop. I went to have a website made and after getting 4 and 5 digit bids I figured I could do it myself so I learned html. A week or two later I took my completed website to the developers who I had gotten the bid from to ask them for their advice and they told me it was better than they could have done and I was out of their league. I’ve always been a quick study, but It was then that I knew I had a knack for this so I became a web developer. It wasn’t until some time in 2003 that I stumbled across this industry and by 2004 I was taking only the odd web design job.

It’s been 3 years now and I haven’t looked back since. What keeps me here is that the industry evolves on a daily basis. I’m only confined to how creative my ideas are and I have spent more time with my wife and children in the past couple years than most men get to in a decade of working a regular job. How can someone not be drawn to an opportunity like that?

Derek: How much do you make online yearly?
Greg: I make 6 figures. How much someone makes is irrelevant in this industry. What matters is how much I keep and I keep enough to live comfortably and everything else gets re-invested.

Derek: What would you consider your most successful project? Why?
Greg: MyspacePros.com by far. It’s a fantastic story. I took the support forums for a single product and turned it into a fledging online community for web masters. It has come so far from what it was yet there is so much potential for new things. When it’s all said and done myspacepros is going to change the way the industry operates. It may not be called myspacepros, but just keep an eye on it. Some exciting things are coming around the corner.

Derek: What did you do before building websites?
Greg: Before working for myself I couldn’t hold a job for more than 3 months at the most. I’d find something that interested me and once I learned the trade I would be too bored with it to stick around. I worked in food service, construction, corporate sales - you name it.

Derek: What would be your advice for people new to making money online?
Greg: Don’t do it if all you’re here to do is make money. Chances are you’re going to fail. If you want to be successful, and I mean truly successful. The kind of success you see from the ones in this industry that change it - you need to love what you do. Love what you do and the money will follow. The 3 things that matter most to me are persistence, persistence, persistence.

Derek: What publisher programs do you use to make money? Would you recommend them?
Greg: Obviously AdSense. I’ve used AdBrite, ShoppingAds, AuctionAds, YPN, ValueClick, Commission Junction, you name it. I would suggest
trying them all. The ones I like are ValueClick, Tribal Fusion, AdSense and AdBrite. I would not use YPN (Yahoo Publisher Network) though.

Derek: What do you focus on when building a website/product the most: SEO, Promotion, Design, or is it something else?
Greg: Usability and Interface.

Derek: What do you plan to build in the future?
Greg: I’m not a domainer but at last count I had over 330 domains. Every one of those domains were purchased with a business plan behind it. I’ll never get to them all and I come up with new ideas faster than I complete projects. My next project is something that I need to keep under wraps until it’s ready for release though.

Derek: Is anything else you would like to let our readers know?
Greg: I’m always looking for partners and investors. As I said above, I have more ideas and business plans than I’ll ever get to complete by myself and it’s important to play off your strengths. One of my strengths is bringing people together and collaborating with them to succeed, so if there’s anything to be gotten by giving you this interview, that would be it. If you would like to get in contact with me, you can reach me by going to Greg-J.com.

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Posted in: Blog, Entrepreneur Interviews, Make Money Online | Date: November 17th, 2007 | Posted by: Derek |