What I do
- Film making
I’m currently only making small home movies, but I really love it and plan to take it this hobby much farther. I’m going to start making documenteries, movies I aim to change the way the world thinks with. I’m planning on going to UCLA or AFI once I graduate and take it from there, where I’m surrounded by the right resources, equipment and people. Peter Jackson is one of my role models, who is of course from New Zealand, where I was living for 8 years until may of 2007, when me and my family returned to Wisconsin. It’s really exciting to be back home. And here in the U.S. there are a many more opputunities for my movie-making interests too.
- Website design
I became interested in website design the day my dad told me all about Google Adsense and how it works about two years ago…. My dad, Stephan Spencer, is the owner and founder of Netconcepts, so he knows all there is to know about SEO. He told me about one of his websites, Innsite, that makes thousands of dollars just by people clicking on Google Adsense ads. And I thought, hey, now that’s an idea!
So I made a website on the world famous “Neopets”, an ultra-popular virtual pet site, now owned by Nickelodeon. I thought since Neopets was one of the number-one kid sites in the world at the time, and thousands of fans are looking for cheats and hints, and also since I was quite an expert on it, I’d make a ‘Neopets cheats site’. And now, my site NeopetsFanatic.com, is one the most popular Neopets cheats site on the net! My site is getting more and more popular every day, and is making me more money than I would ever have thought! It’s been over $1000 every month before!
And just recently I launched a new site, QuizFanatic.com, but it’s a work in progress; I’m still building it. Quizfanatic is going to be a site full of fun personality quizzes for teenagers, with results as graphics you can copy and paste onto your Myspace page, personal website, etc. I create all the quizzes myself, and it’s actually a lot of fun. In the future I plan to put Adsense ads on it and start bringing in money from both sites.
I had never imagined that this is what I would be doing at age 16. It’s amazing how success just hits you, especially when you’re least expecting it. I’m so thankful. =]