{"id":2696,"date":"2010-01-05T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2010-01-05T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:47:08","slug":"repostthe-12-startup-that-was-sold-on-twitter-for-about-100000-with-sean-percival-mixergy-online-business-tips-from-successful-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/05\/repostthe-12-startup-that-was-sold-on-twitter-for-about-100000-with-sean-percival-mixergy-online-business-tips-from-successful-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::The $12 Startup That Was Sold On Twitter For About $100,000 \u2013 with Sean Percival &#124; Mixergy &#8211; Online Business Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is a story about how an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Entrepreneur\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entrepreneur\">entrepreneur<\/a> can build an internet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Business\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business\">business<\/a> on the side. The business <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sean Percival\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seanpercival.com\">Sean Percival<\/a> launched wasn&#8217;t meant to be the next <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">Google<\/a>. He was just trying to make some money and improve his business skills.<br \/>\nSean built a site that sold customize European <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vehicle registration plate\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vehicle_registration_plate\">license plates<\/a>, the kind of plates you might see on cars speeding on the Autobahn or cruising down the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=48.8697222222,2.3075&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=48.8697222222,2.3075%20%28Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es%29&amp;t=h\">Champs-Elys\u00e9es<\/a>. As you&#8217;ll hear in this interview, he spent $12 to buy the domain, customeuropeanplates.com. Then he built the site using a free <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"E-Commerce\" rel=\"wikinvest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/concept\/E-Commerce\">ecommerce<\/a> platform. To fill and ship his orders, he partnered up with a company that was already in the business of selling license plates online. And he got customers by teaching himself <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Search engine optimization\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Search_engine_optimization\">search engine optimization<\/a> and developing link partnerships with related sites.<br \/>\nHe ended up selling the business &#8212; which was profitable &#8212; after Tweeting that he was thinking of selling it.<br \/>\nWe talked in this interviewed about how he built the business, and how he built up the kind of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social capital\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_capital\">social capital<\/a> online that helped him sell his business for about $100,000 via a Tweet.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/mixergy.com\/sean-percival\/\">The $12 Startup That Was Sold On Twitter For About $100,000 \u2013 with Sean Percival | Mixergy &#8211; Online Business Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/854317dc-1c27-4a9d-a9aa-223a3dba1ff7\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story about how an entrepreneur can build an internet business on the side. The business Sean Percival launched wasn&#8217;t meant to be the next Google. He was just trying to make some money and improve his business skills. Sean built a site that sold customize European license plates, the kind of plates &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/05\/repostthe-12-startup-that-was-sold-on-twitter-for-about-100000-with-sean-percival-mixergy-online-business-tips-from-successful-entrepreneurs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::The $12 Startup That Was Sold On Twitter For About $100,000 \u2013 with Sean Percival &#124; Mixergy &#8211; Online Business Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,94],"tags":[276,312,512,636,1261,1262,1441,1475],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-startups","tag-business","tag-champs-elysees","tag-entrepreneur","tag-google","tag-sean-percival","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-twitter","tag-vehicle-registration-plate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}