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Retiring at 21 sure has a nice ring to it, but unfortunately for us we’ve passed that opportunity quite a few years ago now. Nevertheless, it doesn’t hurts to keep working towards an early retirement, and in these golden days of online opportunities, really anything is possible! The boys over at retiredat21.com are quite aware of this and they have bundled their strength as a team to share not only talk about their experience of online marketing - they also just do it, making it an interesting read for anyone that’s interested in following and learning of other successful entrepreneurs online.
Perhaps the name ‘Dean Hunt’ rings a bell, he’s managed to have several guest posts written right here on JohnCow and those buzz marketing articles were well received by the majority of our bovine blog readers. Big names such as Darren Rowse have mentioned his articles and Dean has a knack for getting just about anything that he touches viral and popular on sites like Digg. What a guy to have on your team!
One thing that pissed us off a little - about two weeks ago we had a great idea. We figured we’d go around and email all the top users of stumble upon and see if they were interested in getting featured in an interview for JohnCow dot Com. So halfway through the time consuming process of finding the right person’s profile, sending them a personalized note and awaiting replies, we found a link to retiredat21.com in one of their profile. Guess who had beaten us to the punch! The clever buggers managed to secure a whole lot of interviews with the top stumble users and this basically means there’s not really a need for us to do it anymore 
The blog is filled with all sort of tips and tricks. With buzz marketing in mind, its actually packed with 90% stuff that has some viral potential. An excellent hang-out spot if you’re looking for some linkbait inspiration or clever tricks to gain better rankings in Google.
One thing that strikes us as odd is the fact that the entire blog has not a single ad unit on it. The design isn’t very appealing either, not a piece of blog eye candy in sight, which we’d expect for a site that holds a plethora of potential link bait material. Perhaps the Retired at 21 team isn’t looking to monetize on this specific site and they might have other projects in the background that do make them the big bucks. If a different approach of SEO would be used, those articles on there will get more organic traffic and without a doubt you’d get more Stumblers on there too, boosting the site’s exposure. It could become a great leverage tool if handled with care, to successfully promote any other online money making activities. We might be wrong, but with Dean actively posting on retiredat21.com, we’re pretty sure that more exposure is what you guys are looking for. Pay some more attention to SEO and keep posting what you’re posting, we see tons of potential! And perhaps find a hot wordpress theme to dress up a little 
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I’ve seen it before - looked nice and clean. Ah well
i’ll be happy to retired at 41
Keep in mind that’s it’s also run by a young boy :P. I’ve been a member of the site since there were literally only about 5 members….and it’s gone through A LOT of changes since then, and in a short period of time. I’ll admit I stopped going to the site because there wasn’t much going on with it, but that’s all changed recently, he’s gotten smart and has tons of great articles and interviews to read. Anyways, props to Retireat21!
Wow, what a really great site - good stuff on there