Tim Bursch

Today I chatted with local college student and entrepreneur, Adam Evers:

[Tim] Adam, tell me about your current ventures.

[Adam] Currently I am working on about four different ventures. Three of them are blogs while one will hopefully become a monthly paid premium service.

Startupstudent.com — This site is designed to help out college and university students who are interested in starting there own business. I am currently enrolled in a University which has an Entrepreneurial program but the program absolutely destroys your entrepreneurial spirit. This venture, just like any other venture, was born out of a need. There isn’t really any GOOD resources/blogs out there on entrepreneurship which will really help you to start your business. That is the goal of this venture. To help students start businesses.

Dreamweavercasts.com — I know … another blog about Dreamweaver … is it needed?  Well yes. This site has HD quality videos and goes through the basics. Our focus is for those people who are completely new to Dreamweaver. They have no idea what they are doing and need help. This is for them.

Besttimetotweet.com — One day I was tweeting away on my startupstudent account and I thought to myself hmmm. What is the best time for me to tweet? What is the best day and time for me to hit my group of followers? I automatically have my blog post a tweet when a new blog gets posted and that gives me a ton of traffic. Now if I could only focus that in when the majority of my followers are on then I have hit the maximum efficiency of my blog and my twitter account.

collegetechblog.com — I love technology. I would call myself a technical activist. I think that technology should make your life easier and can make your life easier. There is a piece of technology or something online which can solve all of today’s problems which college students face. Collegetechblog was born. I share nudges of resources and tools which I find online that I know will be a massive help to college students.

[Tim] What is your idea of a career?

[Adam] HA! A career is something which I am forced into by the man! Ok. Not really … but seriously. When you say the word career all I can think of is a cubical and a receding hair line. Neither of which I desire for my life.

[Tim] Creative income is thinking outside of the normal 9-5 job. What are you doing for creative income?

[Adam] I have four blogs that I am building to hopefully start being able to advertise on or maybe sell … who knows. I am also working on a SAAS model with besttimetotweet.com. I would love to be able to provide people with the best time to tweet via an email summary every week or something and give them more data about twitter and there followers. We would offer a premium service which allows people to get those statics weekly, daily or even monthly. If the premium service does not work out then I would just stick up ads.

[Tim] How are you connecting business and social change?

[Adam] I connect social change with business by incorporating it into my business model. Once advertising money starts to flow the plan is to give a portion of that back into the community. Currently the plan is to invest it into a fund for kiva.org which allows your money to be used exponentially. If you don’t know about kiva.org, check them out. They are legit!

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Tags: entrepreneur, student.