{"id":1191,"date":"2016-01-04T22:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.miami.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1191"},"modified":"2016-01-04T22:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:33:43","slug":"syed-balkhi","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/syed-balkhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Syed Balkhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/syedbalkhi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syed Balkhi<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is an award winning young entrepreneur with several 7 figure online businesses. He was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by United Nations. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Washington Post, FoxBusiness, Entrepreneur, Wired, and many top publications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In 2009, he created <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WPBeginner<\/a><\/span> which is now one of the largest free WordPress resource site on the web.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In 2011, he created a site called <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/list25.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">List25<\/a><\/span>, an extremely popular site that <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">within 3 months<\/span><\/span> of launch was receiving 5 million page views per month. List25 has over 1.8 million subscribers and 340 Million video views on Youtube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In 2013, he launched <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/optinmonster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">OptinMonster<\/a><\/span>, the best lead generation software that helps businesses grow their email list. 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