Let me introduce to you one of our youngest members … (if not the youngest !). His name is Tevin, he is French-American and with the help of his father he started www.tevin.fr, a bilingual Zlioshop he dedicated to Yu-gi-oh.
Yesterday, I was presenting Zlio to someone who precisely said to me ” I should show Zlio to my chlidren, they always want to buy everything that comes out. Instead of spending, they’ll learn how to sell !”. Tevin is a good example then !
Maybe this will give ideas to all the Moms and Dads who read this blog !
and… here comes an interview withTevin !
Could you introduce yourself ?
My name is Tevin, I’m 9 years old, I just came back from the United States where I spent several years with my parents and I decided with my father Christopher to start a Yu-gi-oh shop on Zlio which you can find at this url: www.tevin.fr
What made you want to launch the first YU-GI-OH shop ?
Like a lot of boys my age around the world, I’m a big fan of the yu-gi-oh cartoon and trading card game, so my father and I checked on Zlio if someone else had had the same idea before us. It seemed not, so then we checked on google to see if 100 % yu-gi-oh shops existed in French and since there weren’t, I decided to start my own.
How are you planning to promote it ?
Well, since I’m a member of several yu-gi-oh forums, I’ve had the occasion to mention it to my contacts.
I also have a Myspace page http://www.myspace.com/tevin_store which enables me to pitch my zlioshop to my friends.
My father bought Adwords from Google for me a few days ago, and the traffic has considerably increased since. I have about 250 single visits a day.
And… well I hope that thanks to this interview on your blog, your readers will come and visit my shop !
Do you have other shops ?
Not yet, but I will soon start new ones with the themes from cartoons I like: ed, edd & eddy, johnny bravo, dexter labotories, etc…
What did you think of the Zlio service?
Well my father and I created the shop in just a few minutes. I chose all the products I wanted to insert and I think I’d be able to create the next shops by myself.
Also, the pay per click program is a fantastic idea, it gets me commissions every day !
What new features would you like to see added on Zlio ?
I’d like to be able to add sub-categories because for the time being the categories are a bit vast. Also, if readers could develop new templates with ready-to-use CSS to pimp the pages of Zlio like on myspace (see here) that would be great !(NB: It’s available now !)
And since I’ve spent most of my life in the USA, I’d like Zlio to have American partners so that my friends can enjoy it too. (NB: well, now that’s done too 
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How do you foresee the future of your ZlioShop ?
Well first of all I wish that the traffic on my ZlioShop will increase more and more to receive more and more commissions and I’m motivating all my friends so that they can own their ZlioShop too and therefore become my referalls.
If you too wish to start your own shop for you or your kids, click here !:-)
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