The Faces of Blogging: Tubelounge.com
This time I’m interviewing Jeremy, an author of TubeLounge.com and other websites he’s working on. TubeLounge is a kind of video aggregator that holds and collects a wide array of various short-length video clips on different subjects (funny videos, basketball videos, cars videos, goals videos, hip hop videos, hidden camera videos, etc.). The site caters to ill-matched video buffs that will jump for joy.
1. Can you tell me a little about your personal background?
I finished my university sooner then I planned because I realized I’m not getting what I expected there. Since I was active on the web for a while, I decided to start making money on the web.
2. What do you do for a living? What do you do full time?
Besides Tubelounge.com I have several more websites I’m working on. Some of them are in the entertainment industry and some of them are pure business - selling products for a commission. Sometimes I do web design and other similar web related things.
3. What’s your university-level education? Degree maybe?
I have a BA as a Marketing Manager.
4. Why did you choose online video industry to be the major topic of your site?
At the time I started it, Metacafe.com had a great thing with giving links on each of their videos if you embed them on your site. That was a starting point for me because I knew I can get traffic from there, with addition of Technorati who sent good number of visitors then.
5. Why did you name the service TubeLounge? Has something in common with YouTube?
Yep, YouTube was inspiration, that’s obvious 
I feel great when someone types “you tube xxxxxx videos” and lands on my page. Perfect!
6. What is your inspiration to work? Or it’s your hobby?
The possibilities are enormous and that’s what’s more interesting for me. When I get a new idea, implement it and I see it works - it’s the greatest thing ever for me. It’s not just about money, it’s about making something better. When I see that number of pages viewed is bigger then usual, that’s all I need to keep pushing further.
7. How much time do you put into this service on a daily basis?
It depends. I need 2 hours minimum per day. If I want to do some sort of promotion or an upgrade, I definitely need more than that. But so far it’s easy for me to maintain that blog.
8. What is your long term vision with Tubelounge?
More content and not just videos only. If I can drive more traffic to it, I’ll develop it into something more. I want users to interact with the site and between themselves. Right now I am not focused on this site only, so it’s a slow progress.
9. Do you have any parting words?
Everything I did around Tubelounge earned me some good experience. I almost quit from it one time, but then I accidentally stumbled into great way to develop a site and make something more out of it. I’ve learned that persistence is a great ally for achieving something more.
I thank Jeremy for the provided answers!
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