I love hearing stories of of young entrepreneurs and so today when I came across 12 year old ProBlogger David Wilkinson whose Web 2.0 blog is Techzi I was over the moon.
Here’s a young guy who has recruited a couple of friends (one is 12, the other is 11) to help him write his blog and who in a recent interview at Repliqa answered the question of ‘Are you making any money blogging?‘ with:
“Yes, quite a bit actually. I could definitely live off $500 a month until I turn 14, by which time I aim to be earning more, by experimenting in Internet Marketing.”
David and his co-bloggers are currently running a fundraiser to raise enough money to transfer his blog from Blogspot to a hosted WordPress blog and he’s already over the $1200 mark (make a donation below).
David was recently featured on the BBC and sounds like he’s becoming quite the local celebrity.
What I love about his blog is his style of writing. He’s actually a great writer (you’d never know he was 12 most of the time) and that he writes with an authentic voice, humor and having done some good research. While he’s only been blogging for 6 months he does at a standard that is as good (if not better) than a lot of more experienced bloggers twice (or thrice) his age.
I’m looking forward to watching David’s blogging in 2007.
About Darren Rowse
My name is Darren Rowse and I’m a full time Blogger making a living from blogs like 
I’m start blogging at 21..He start at 12.it’s backward…I wish i start at 12 too but that time internet just start..I’m start blogging with blogspot at first,only on 2006 with WP blog.I just paid about $15 per year for domain and hosting.It’s per year not per month..
I think it is awesome!
My only question is concerning that rule with Adsense that you must be over 18 to have Google Ads. Is that correct?
The kid got sleazed on wanting to use the .com address for his blog, but instead fought back with a .net domain! David, good luck on your blog as you continue to grow!
Thanks everybody!
The really odd thing is, where does the domain Techzi.com redirect to?
My very own Techzi.net! I’m not sure if they plan to pretend they are my blog and stick AdSense at the top or something… O_O
And no, you don’t need to be 18 to have AdSense. Not if you’re not the one who signs up at any rate. ;)
The new website on WP will be ad-free. I think I prefer the domain ‘Techzi.net’ too! Thanks you guys, you rock!
I think adsense wants the payee to be 18 but I suppose any SSN would work. I don’t know, I didn’t put myself down for it, though I did for amazon affiliates.
Sam,
AdSense is being ditched on the new site anyway. We’re taking up Amazon and Text-Link-Ads instead. It will be interesting to see how profits compare.
TLA is nice… I want to be in the program but they keep rejecting me because they don’t like my inbound, apparently. Now that they have their blog-thing I’m hoping maybe they’ll take better note (my T-rati isn’t bad) but it’s obnoxious because, for reasons I fail to understand and which TLA hasn’t been able to enunciate, other sites started after mine with less traffic were admitted but mine was not. Not fun!
I do worry about those rumors that the naked referral links to the advertising sites could impact rankings negatively, though?
This child is awesome. Even with a income of $500 from various freelancing he is requesting $5,000 in donation to create his new wordpress powered blog site. What a genius, use other people’s money to build something. Compare to him I am a fool for not thinking of this, how can I use my own money to finance my blogs, when I could have ask for donation.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but this kid is going to be big in the future. I can see it now, he is going to take financing for his blogging empire and than eventually sell it to some media company.
In all sarcasm aside, very nice word David Wilkinson, I will be following your site and maybe ChipIn something with my upcoming Adsense check.
when i was 12, i was playing with dolls!
no wait, not dolls
David is an incredibly smart 12-year old. I have spoken to him several times and he is wise beyond his years. I can see him becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg.
Thanks for the kind words Nate! Also, Techzi.net has sorta gone live now. You can check it out. Just need to implement the template now!
David Wilkinson
http://www.techzi.net/
hay hay i blog alot now this is the first time goin to this web site so far i like it i have a myspace i dont think its a good or bad thing b/c im turnin 13 in october soo see and i also want to let u on a web site that is so kool its called stardoll its kool and u dont have to put ur real pics i also want to no peeps on here soo ttfn
yes. This David is a genius. He became the first person to chipin his paypal for my wedding blog. Go have a look. Thanks
I am looking foward to starting a blog and I wanted to know what are some popular blog topics and what advertising network would you recommend Iuse? If you dont mind telling me, what advertising strategy do you use, and how did you get to the level that your at in just 6 months?
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At $500 per month I recon he’s in the top 100 world blogger list in terms or earnings. Well done !
It’s amazing how young kids can do these days compare to the old times.
I am really admired of your talent in this young age.
Hmmm. Daivd’s site appears to be no longer in existence. I found it’s cached site, but otherwise, he’s either experiencing technical difficulties or he’s now turned his interest to girl and/or sports.