Nedko used his SEO skills to attract potential clients that were looking for “adsense alternatives”, “where to advertise”, “best ad network” etc. Post doing SEO for clients, directly and indirectly via Marketing agencies, for about 10+ years in the first stage of his professional career, in 2012, he started working on a small PPC ad network on the lines of Adsense, with one of his freelancer friends, based in India. ‍ WHAT WAS THE NEXT PHASE OF YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY? Management, Communication, Networking, Strategy building, were the key skills he built and used in the process. Nedko also started building a remote freelance team, from countries like India, to aid the SEO efforts for his clients, which included off page techniques like directory submission for link building, whilst he focussed on the on-page optimization aspect.

He continued to grow through Word of Mouth references, getting clients across US, UK & Australia, was making enough to pay the bills and more than his peers. ‍ WHAT DID YOU PICK TO FOCUS YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL EFFORTS TOWARDS?Īround the age of 18-20 Nedko eventually decided to focus on SEO, wherein he started off with doing SEO for himself and networking on Marketing Forums, to attract clients that he could provide SEO services to. During this journey he came across Michael Lee Johnson who was kind of a mentor to him, learning a lot of skill sets on SEO, Email Marketing, PR and Google Ranking from him. This experience was the very foundation of his entrepreneurship, being inspired by how internet marketers monetized way back in the day. He met a lot of Marketers, and learnt about how to monetize traffic & make money online. His purpose in doing so, at the age of 16, was to learn English, and whilst he was shooed off many platforms because of the quality of his English at that time, he persevered, and finally got to learn English more from the internet than from school. He first started playing games on it, and as the Internet began with slow speeds back then before Y2K, he got into internet chats like mIRC. When he was around 14 years old, Nedko’s mom got him his first computer. ‍ WHAT WAS THE NEXT STEP TOWARDS PICKING YOUR PROFESSIONAL PATH IN LIFE?

Nedko started off as most of us, at a young age, when he wanted to be a professional football player, and he was inspired by Hristo Stoichkov, especially during the 1994 Football World Cup when his country Bulgaria achieved their best performance to date, being placed at 4th. ‍ WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? As part of the Startup Founder Series segment, today, we had a free flowing convo with Nedko Nedkov, to understand his journey as an entrepreneur, and share his experiences and learnings from it with the commune.

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