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Beal High School Awards Evening 2015 By Deepak Tailor
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Introduction Deepak Tailor Founder of LatestFreeStuff.co.uk
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My School Memories
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Dragons Den
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Young Enterprise Scheme
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Start of my journey… That summer I opened my first eBay account. Started selling Poundland items and OpenOffice to make a little bit of extra cash. Ordering free SIM cards. Selling for £3 each.
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Automated Business Got bored of selling physical goods, logistics, buying/selling ect Started selling eBooks on eBay for £1 each when I started at university. Bought my 1 st website hosting package and domain name
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Growing the Website Network Started developing websites.. Hired team of developers from Philippines GetPaidTo.co.uk (Affiliate Marketing) FreeSIMCardsNow.co.uk FreePhotoPrintingNow.co.uk Ended up with network of 70 websites!
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Applied to be a volunteer at London 2012 Olympics
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London 2012 Opening Ceremony
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Story of LatestFreeStuff.co.uk Realised I need to create a mass media website, not run a network of 70 websites. Setup LatestFreeStuff.co.uk in July 2012 People were really struggling to pay their bills
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What can you get? Free food and drink Free beauty products Free perfume Free baby samples Free household products
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After a few months of collecting..
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How it grew.. Website grew slowly through search engine traffic, social media and word of mouth. Hand wrote all the content for months Worked all day/night to keep setting up partnerships
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LatestFreeStuff today.. Gets over 400,000 + visitors a month Over 1.2 million page views/month Email database of over 200,000 users Launched in the USA last year Launched our own iPhone/iPad app Never spent money on advertising
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Media Coverage
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Business Competitions Top 100 most exciting startups in the UK ‘ThePitch’ Finalist Great British Entrepreneurs’ awards finalist
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Book Launch Became a Amazon #1 bestseller within 4 days of launch. Featured on numerous magazines and newspapers
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My Final Points.. Well I was sitting in your chair 10 years ago.. Take every opportunity thrown at you. You’re at the start of your journey in life. It’s so important that you make the most of your time at school. You only get to live once.. make the most of it!
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Thank you for listening Twitter: @DeepakTailor1
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