Hi Everyone,

Exciting Times!

I have been up to quite a lot recently. For example, I have traveled to the USA for Yanik Silver’s Mastermind meeting and to interview Gary Vaynerchuk. Additionally there has been some exciting developments here at IncomeDiary.com plus I attended the Entrepreneurs Bootcamp in London last weekend.

Firstly, as some of you know, I have been to the USA recently — there was two reasons for this;

1) Yanik Silvers Mastermind Group

As some of you know, my dad (Barry Dunlop) is a member of Yanik Silver’s Millionaire Mastermind group, and I was fortunate enough to go along as my Dads Guest to the latest Mastermind Meeting on the 21st and 22nd September.

There are many definitions of a Mastermind Group, but one that I like is:

A mastermind group is a group of people who come together to mutually assist each other in their pursuit of success

Getting a chance to spend 2 days in a closed door room with some of the coolest internet entrepreneurs on the planet is as you can imagine something very special. Also because of the closed door environment and the knowledge that what is spoken about remains within the room these entrepreneurs are very open with lots of sharing of information – in particular share what is working for them right now and also what is not working right now, or what they need help with.

I even got to present to the group and get their feedback on what I was doing – AWESOME!

At the presentation I mentioned that one of my sites ranked #9 in Google for search term: “Yanik Silver” – which is interesting as I haven’t even interviewed Yanik so far. (But watch out for a Yanik Silver Interview coming soon) It was quite funny, when I mentioned my ranking for “Yanik Silver” because then Carrie Wilkerson followed by Ryan Deiss mentioned how I rank first page for their own names also.

At the end of the Mastermind Yanik mentioned to me that he is considering doing a pre-day to his next Underground Online Seminar which will focus on young entrepreneurs and how he would like me to be involved. Now I know I have a lot of young readers, so I would like you guys (young or older) to suggest anything you would like to see in an event aimed at young entrepreneurs. In particular, suggestions for Speakers for Yanik Silvers potential Young Entrepreneurs Pre-Day are most appreciated.

Expect to hear me speaking more about this event in the near future.

2) Meeting Gary Vaynerchuck

After the mastermind, my dad and I went to New York to interview Gary Vaynerchuk for his soon to be launched book “Crush It” which comes out Tuesday (October 13, 2009). We met Gary at his NYC office and interviewed him on camera about business, blogging and passion which you guys can see on Monday. We came prepared with a great camera and recording equipment but when we heard Gary does everything on his flip camera we decided to just switch to that and it came out great! I am including a taster video from the interview here — but look out for the full interview on Monday.

When we arrived at Gary’s Office I spotted Carrie Wilkerson and Perry Laurence who were also there seeing Gary, so after I interviewed Gary we all met up for lunch at this New York sandwich shop nearby which was really good.

Also, here is a short Video from our interview — Gary talking about his two passions, Wine and The New York Jets

FULL INTERVIEW TO COME NEXT WEEK

New Releases Coming Soon

You may have noticed I haven’t been around so much, well I have been working on a few really cool things and today I’m going to give you a little taste of whats to come.

Rich List – Our most popular posts are always our lists so in the last month we have been working on a web application which is a list of the richest internet entrepreneurs and has a wiki style page on each one of them. Very cool stuff that I hope you all enjoy and help spread the word about.

Make Money Blogging Book – We spent a week turning my email eCourse into a PDF for those who wanted it all at once. At first we had planned to charge $47 for it as it did take some time and money but in the end we felt it was best to just give it away free so I could help even more people.

Forums – For a long time we have had major issues with the forums here on IncomeDiary, getting around 50 new spam bots register daily. Finally I sat down and did some reading and after 5 minutes made some small fixes that has cut it down to 2 or 3 a day which is hardly noticeable now. We really are looking to push the forums hard now so would love to see you guys join me on them!

Gary Vaynerchuck Interview – As mentioned above, I met Gary and interviewed him. We will be publishing his video, audio and transcription on Monday morning so look out for that and buy his book. We may even be giving away a Crush It wrist band or two

Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, London, 2nd and 3rd October 2009

I attend several seminars every year and I was pretty excited about attending Andrew Reynolds Entrepreneurs Bootcamp in London last weekend. You see my father has always credited attending a workshop Andrew organized featuring Bill Myers way back in 1999 – as one of the pivotal moments in his own online career.

The event was at the O2 arena in London which was the Millennium Dome back in the day and it is a very big place, with something like 7000 entrepreneurs attending. By far the biggest event I have gone to.

Now for those of you who are not aware, most seminars these days (especially the low priced or FREE variety) are what I would call ‘Pitch Fests’ — basically speakers pitching (selling) their products from the stage.

This Entrepreneurs Bootcamp was relatively inexpensive (and indeed the cost of the ticket was donated to the Make a Wish foundation) — so I was not surprised to discover most speakers selling something. Nothing wrong with that of course – but I did wonder about some of the speakers products – and the value in them. One speaker in particular was speaking about his product and was saying how he had this revolutionary way of making money that he came up with — but when he went into it in a bit more detail, he was basically describing what I was doing.

Of course there was some great speakers and some good worthwhile products — but for me at least, some where being “Over Hyped”.

FOWA (Future of Web Apps) after-party

Also, when I was in London I got to attend the FOWA (Future of Web Apps) after-party. (Gary Vaynerchuk was at this event last weekend – but not the party). At the party I also got to meet up with Grant Bell who ran the young entrepreneur event that I spoke at a few months back and I also to meet up with Josh Buckley who I first interviewed nearly 2 years ago when he sold his business at 15 for around $100,000 I believe. The FOWA (Future of Web Apps) after-party was a very good laugh. It was basically 300 or so programmers in a night club all speaking geek and drinking alcohol. (Try imagining that!)

All in all a very busy 2 / 3 weeks – learned a lot and had fun as well – my favorite combination.

To Our Success,

Michael Dunlop

PS: Really going to be working hard on promoting my rich list application so any help you guys can give me will be really appreciated!

PPS: Suggestions for Speakers for Yanik Silvers potential Young Entrepreneurs Pre-Day are most appreciated — plus I am always looking to interview Young Entrepreneurs

Women more so than men I find do not measure success by money alone but by a lot of things such as happiness, love, friendships, family and the list goes on.  So in recognition of the great numbers of female entrepreneurs out there and in particular those who are active online I have decided not to rank the 30 women listed below by wealth alone but simply  as my list of the “30 Top Female Internet Entrepreneurs”.

It is very notable that the majority of these top female entrepreneurs are bloggers and in fact some of the top bloggers in the world. No matter if you are male or female, you should definitely check out my FREE eCourse to creating and making money from blogging. Perhaps you could be added to a list like this one day!

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30 Female Entrepreneurs Making Money Online

Name	Company	Founded	Why She Matters
Amanda Marcotte	Pandagon	26-Nov-01	Amanda runs one of the most talked about feminism and politics blogs. Marcotte shot to fame when John Edwards asked her to run the presidential blog.
Ariana Huffington	Huffington Post	09-May-05	Is perhaps one of the most successful female Internet entrepreneurs ever and is the founder of the top blog in the world according to Technorati!
Ashley Qualls	What Ever Life	2004	Attracting millions of monthly visitors earning the 18 year old 7 figures a year.
Barbara Feldman	Surfnetkids.com	29-Jun-05	Founder of Surfnetkids, the website attracts more than 600,000 visitors a month, her newsletter lists are over 80,000 strong, and her self-published e-books are sold on dozens of sites.
Carrie Wilkerson	The Barefoot Executive	2007	Carried founded The Barefoot Executive on August 27, 2007 and has gone from being in debt to being a 7 figure Internet entrepreneur with over 100,000 followers!
Caterina Fake	Flickr	26-Jun-05	Caterina co-founded Flickr with Stewart Butterfield which was later acquired by Yahoo! for a high 8 figure deal.
Catherine Cook	MyYearBook.com	27-Jun-05	Start 4 years ago when she was 15, MyYearBook has grown to 3 million members worldwide and rakes in annual sales in the seven figures!
Cyan Ta’eed	Eden Creative	2006	Ta’eed is the co-founder of Eden Creative Communities which attracts over 10 million visitors to their blog network every month earning her 7 figures a year.
Eileen Gittins	Blurb	26-Jun-05	Elieen is the co-founder and CEO of Blurb, a print on demand publishing service. The company’s revenue grew from $1 million to $30 million in two years.
Elaine Wherry	Meebo	01-Sep-05	Elaine co-founded Meebo, a instant messaging service you use in your browser. Meebo attracts 40,000,000 monthly users.
Erin Jansen	NetLingo.com	21-Jun-05	Founder of an Award-Winning Web Site since 1994, Erin is a Internet entrepreneur veteran.
Gina Bianchini	Ning	01-Oct-05	Gina is the Co-founder and CEO of Ning. There are 1,000,000 social networks on the Ning Platform, growing at a rate of almost 4,000 new social networks each day.
Gina Trapani	Lifehacker	01-Jan-05	Gina Trapani is a technology blogger, book author, and programmer. The founding editor of Lifehacker.com, a daily weblog on software and personal productivity, Gina authored a book based on the web site which is in its second edition: Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better!
Heather Armstrong	Dooce	01-Feb-01	One of the biggest mommy blogger’s out there attracting millions of readers to her blog and has recently passed 500,000 Twitter followers.
Juliette Brindak	Miss O and Friends	22-Jun-05	Juliette came up with the idea for Miss O and Friends at just 10 years old, now 19 her business is worth over $15 Million and is visited by millions of girls every month.
Justine Ezarik	iJustine	27-Jun-05	It all started with a 300 page iPhone bill, now she is a social media rock star with millions of YouTube views and over 500,000 twitter followers!
Kim Polese	SpikeSource	25-Jun-05	Kim Karin Polese is CEO of SpikeSource, and was one of the most prominent Silicon Valley executives during the dot-com era. In 1997, she made Time Magazine’s list of “The 25 Most Influential Americans”.
Lisa Stone	Blog Her	01-Feb-05	Lisa is the founder of BlogHer which reaches more than 14 million women monthly through its conferences, Internet site and publishing networks.
Lisa Sugar	Pop Sugar	April 2006	Lisa’s blog network is funded by Sequoia – the guys who funded Google and Youtube. Now one of the biggest celeb blogs on the net, Lisa sure is a top female blogger!
Louise Wannier	MyShape	26-Jun-05	Louise runs an online women’s apparel retailer that finds clothing for women based on their physical measurements and style and fit preferences
Maria Andros	Social Media Traffic Blueprint		Maria helps people create a buzz with social media. Recently she took 100 people into her mentoring program for $2500 each.
Meg Frost	Cute Overload	2005	Although she hasn’t got a pet herself, attracts 100,000s of visitors daily to her cute animal blog.
Meg Hourihan	Blogger.com	21-Jun-05	Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google for for a 8 figure deal.
Mena Trott	Six Apart	23-Jun-05	Mena is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad.
Michelle Malkin	Michelle Malkin	June 2004	Michelle blogs about news and politics which attracts nearly 200,000 visitors a day to her site.
Penelope Trunk	Brazen Careerist	March 2006	With multiple start-ups and over 30,000 RSS readers on her personal blog, Penelope is one female to follow.
Nancy J Price	she knows	1999	Nancy co-founded SheKnows which attracts 7.5 Million Monthly Unique Visitors and 76 Million Monthly Page Views!
Natalie Massenet	Net-A-Porter	22-Jun-05	Eight years ago she’d never even been on the internet. This year Natalie Massenet turned over £37 million with Net-a-Porter, the fashion website that has become a global phenomenon.
Rachna Kingston	Entheos	30-May-08	Is a pregnant work at home mum who runs a web design resource website that attracts over a million visitors a month!
Xeni Jardin	Boing Boing	22-Jun-05	Xeni is the editor of one of the top 5 blogs in the world, Boing Boing.

To our success in 2009,

Michael Dunlop

PS. Who is your favourite female entrepreneur and why?

Also, don’t forget to check out my FREE eCourse to making money blogging once you are inspired!

30 Quotes To Motivate The Entrepreneur

The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing – Carrie Wilkerson

If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken – Gary Vaynerchuk

Go Big, or Go Home – Eliza Dushku

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure -Napoleon Hill

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work – Thomas Edison

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it – Ryan Allis

He who begins many things finishes but few – German Proverb

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it – William James

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance – Derek Bok

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t – A student in Warren G. Tracy’s class

Lend your friend $20, if he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent – Ted Nicolas

Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one – Bill Gates

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead – Quoted by Tony Hsieh on Retireat21

Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse – Unknown

When you go to buy, don’t show your silver - Chinese Proverb

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission – Grace Hopper

To win without risk is to triumph without glory - Corneille

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing – Abraham Lincoln

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company – Booker T. Washington

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great – Mark Twain

There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way – Christopher Morley

You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car – Unknown

Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese Proverb

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching – Mooie

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve - Dr. Napoleon Hill

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work – Thomas Alva Edison

If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough – Unknown

What is not started will never get finished – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking - William B. Sprague

When you cease to dream you cease to live - Malcolm Forbes

My 5 Favourite Quotes From Films

Shawshank Redemption

Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

American Gangster

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room

When Huey Lucas flaunted his Nicky Barnes-like superfly outfit at a nightclub, Frank stepped in and dressed down his dressed-out brother. Frank told his brother he was “making too much noise” by wearing a “clown suit” that acted as a billboard to the police advertising, “Arrest me.”

Catch Me If You Can

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.

Forrest Gump

My Mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.

To our success in 2009,

Michael Dunlop

PS. Whats your favourite quote or advice?