DariaBlack: Tell me a little bit about yourself.

Halil: Halil Mandal, 26, single. Turkish origin and liveing in Germany/Stuttgart. Interested in cooking, Internet, Audio-books and networking.
Former financial adviser with sales and marketing background, since 4 month full time Internet entrepreneur.


DariaBlack: This is a wonderful idea for a website. How did the idea for Peopleized come about?

Halil: Thank you. We come up with the idea as we saw that a lot of good blogs at the blogosphere have great content but not as many reader as they should have. So we decided to start Peopleized.
The idea was a community where people interview people and share the interviews to promote each other, by using the interviews as "behind-the-scenes" tool to gain new reader to the content.


DariaBlack: How long did it take to bring your dream to fruition?

Halil: We needed about 3 months from the idea to our launch. It is much easier to launch a project then I thought, but much more difficult to start working on it!



DariaBlack: What can users do to get the most out of Peopleized?

Halil: Do a lot of good interviews and share them with other users. You can take every interview from Peopleized and publish it on your blog. So everyone benefits, You got great content for your Blog, the interviewer and the interviewed person get some link love to their blogs from you. That´s a win win situation for everyone. And that´s the way Peopleized wins too :P


DariaBlack: What are your goals for the project?

Halil: At first we want to make the basic platform work 100%. After that we want to add more valuable things for our users to make it easier to promote yourself with Popleized.
We want to serve the blogosphere and become a part of this wonderful community.


DariaBlack: Any additional information you would like readers to know.

Halil: I think there are a lot of great ideas out there you just have to start them and anything else will happen in the right way. The right persons will come together to make it successful.