Earning money online takes a lot of hard work, patience and a little bit of luck also. Today, I am going to share an inspiring story of that person who is the winner of Blogging.
Pete Cashmore founded
Mashable (a Technorati Top 10 blog worldwide) in
2005, when he was
19 and lived in Scotland with his family. Today, the social media news site does more than
50 million page views per month. Let's start reading this interesting article:
About Mashable
Mashable, a website that covers news about social media and technology news. The site is now celebrating a cool
alexa rank of
358, with millions of unique visitors a month.
Mashable is now headquartered in
New York City, Palo Alto, California (Corporate), U.S and also has an office in San Francisco.
Pete Cashmore and His Early Life
Pete Cashmore was born on 18th September 1985. He grew up in Banchory, and founded his blog "Mashable" in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2005 at age 19. Reason of his success is surgery of vermiform appendix at the age of 13. Because, he didn't go to school for complete rest. At home he just started learning from computers. He subscribed to so many blogs and started learning. The idea that you could change the world from your bedroom was pretty compelling to Pete.
At First, He Didn't Told What Mashable Was to His Parents.
Because of his illness his parents never asked him about what he was up to all day long. His parents never compelled him to go to university or whatever. They predicted was that he was busy in something and wanted to earn money with online websites.
Cashmore Hasn't Slept At Nights Since A Long Time!
He got amazing response from his own country (Britain), but soon he realized that targeting Britain not enough and for that he made a different strategy. He decided to targeting visitors from America too. If you are a pro-blogger, you can understood his logic behind doing so, hard time really good! He used to sleep only few hours in the morning at 6:00 AM or 7:00 AM. By mid day he woke up and started writing again.
Success In 18 Months!
Finally, After 18 months struggle Pete Cashmore's Mashable blog got so much popularity around the world. The website gained unique visitors almost every week. There were about 2 million readers reading his blog's articles per month.
Mashable - Employees
Pete has now
80 employees and taking a reasonable share in the returns. Today, more than 23 million people a month read Mashable.
So, that’s the story of successful Pro-Blogger, He is really lucky man on earth who find their talent at initial stages of life and learn how to make money online.
Amazing study about the Mashable and author. "I was quiet to study but cant be silent without keeping a comment" - Teckop
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