Introductions Thread

Hey welcome to the forum.

What type of small business do you have?
 
Kid EH said:
So I'm going to do this myself. And eventually crush those motherfuckers.
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Amen. It's like working as a developer and being paid a salary. Sure you can get a nice salary, or you can do the work directly for those clients and get compen$ated a lot better.

If you are doing IM for your own small business, boy would that be satisfying! Anyway, goodluck matey :smile:
 
Potatoe said:
Hey welcome to the forum.
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Thanks!

Potatoe said:
What type of small business do you have?
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Local services cleaning company

Michael said:
Amen. It's like working as a developer and being paid a salary. Sure you can get a nice salary, or you can do the work directly for those clients and get compen$ated a lot better.

If you are doing IM for your own small business, boy would that be satisfying! Anyway, goodluck matey :smile:
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Thanks - That's where I can see most of the value being added
 
With it being local too... the competition is so much lighter. Is it local or are you driving leads nationally? I guess I'm asking, are you brick & mortar with employees or is this a lead brokering type of biz?

Glad you've joined and are being active.
 
It's local. Very much a localcasestudy type of business.

And that's my third post. Time to move this over to the Lab.

See y'all there.
 
Nice mate. Glad to have you on board. Local SEO is a lot of fun (I run two local lead gen sites) and depending on your location, it can be easy to rank. Stick to it and you will crush it.
 
Hey, I'm Kris.

Recently came across this site and liked how active it was and how much good information there is so decided to jump on board.

Currently got two project sites going, one in the VR gaming niche and another in the automotive area.
Doing this part time at the moment while I work full time in IT at a bank. Plan is to keep hammering away improving my sites and get them to a point where I can do my website work full time at home.
 
Nice, welcome to the club. Are your two sites showing potential to the point you feel confident they could free you from the tyranny of the 9-5?
 
Hey Everyone,

Hopefully I can provide as much value as I can give.

I currently run a small digital agency.

Im also building software on the side.
 
Hey Gregg, nice to have you aboard.

What kind of software are you working on?
 
Welcome to BuSo! Always nice to see another dev here. Would love to hear more about the type of software you're building and tech that you're into.
 
Thank you Ryuzaki & SmokeTree for the warm welcome!

Me & my team built a property management software (it's in beta, still needs UX improvement & bug fixes) http://www.cazaloop.com/

As a far flung idea, I'm also testing/validating a software that would allow Facebook marketers to download the competition's most profitable ad campaigns.

So if you're running Facebook ads regularly, let me know if that would be valuable to you. Bare minimum website here http://sentientadtech.com/
 
I would be interested in th fb ad software. Especially if it's able to show the type of targeting used, like if it was a retargeting campaign, based on friends of friends, etc.
 
Gregg said:
Thank you Ryuzaki & SmokeTree for the warm welcome!

Me & my team built a property management software (it's in beta, still needs UX improvement & bug fixes) http://www.cazaloop.com/

As a far flung idea, I'm also testing/validating a software that would allow Facebook marketers to download the competition's most profitable ad campaigns.

So if you're running Facebook ads regularly, let me know if that would be valuable to you. Bare minimum website here http://sentientadtech.com/
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Crazy, like 6 months ago I got super interested in property management software after seeing https://www.onerent.co/

Also, your FB sounds interesting, submitted my email
 
Hey all,

Affiliate marketer from the UK here, been working at this 'make money online' game for about 5 years now, 2 of which have been full-time with my own business.

Spent WAAAAY too much time providing client SEO services and not enough time working on and growing my own projects.

I've been a lurker here for quite sometime, I come here for the different attitudes and approaches I see so many of you have. I 'don't do' much social media or many (if any) forums and I prefer to sit back and think quietly in the background until I see something I can provide value on.

It's been quite some journey over the last few years leaving the corporate world was a tough decision but not one I regret. I've got to the point where I am making more in 2 months than I did for an entire year at my old job.

Above all, I'm here to learn and looking to progress myself, business and skills into the next tier (and help out where I can of course!).
 
Lewis said:
Spent WAAAAY too much time providing client SEO services and not enough time working on and growing my own projects.
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I hear ya on that one. It was when another client made themselves a nice 'never work again unless they buy 2 757s' type sum a couple of years ago that I finally got the message and went back to building stuff and putting 1/3 of my time into my own projects.

It's been an interesting learning curve. Turns out, for me anyways, it's harder so far to build something from scratch than it was to turn someone else's profitable business into a beast but I'm learning quickly.

Looking forward to seeing your contributions here - wherabouts in the UK are you?
 
Steve Brownlie said:
It was when another client made themselves a nice 'never work again unless they buy 2 757s' type sum a couple of years ago that I finally got the message and went back to building stuff and putting 1/3 of my time into my own projects
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Another Brit here, now in Canada though.

Me and Steve met up a few months back and this was actually something we talked about for quite a while, both of us do pretty well in this industry - him with an agency and me with investment. But both of us had a realization that we wanted to get back into building, not just for fun but because we were seeing the value we were adding for other people.

Due to that realization I started another business in the summer and although it's hard to see the progress at 1/4 time, I know that's all I can dedicate to it because my primary business takes up a lot of my time and provides 3x the return.

When I'm back in the UK (likely Q1 2017) I'll organize a BuSo meetup and we'll have everyone swing by a hotel for the day.
 
Hi everyone, Joe Wee here. I am working on a project right now that's taking me more than 6 months of pretty solid work between reading these threads and trying to implement the best practices.

Unfortunately I'm not getting to page 1, but I found a test niche I'm working with and hopefully it works out! It's nice to meet you all.

CCarter, much respect for all you've done.
 
Lewis said:
I've got to the point where I am making more in 2 months than I did for an entire year at my old job.
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That's incredible. Good work and congrats on that!

Thanks for signing up. I like your type... it reminds me of my heritage. Not speaking until the time is right and then packing as much wisdom and power into the most concise statement possible. My grandpa used to hit me with those Zen moments like once every 3 years. It'd send me through the five stages of grief in a matter of days.

Anyways, what kind of projects are you working on? What angle has provided the most success and which have been complete wastes of time for you? I personally prefer the big authority publication path, but I've built at least 100 micro-niche sites in my time too.

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Welcome to the club.

I wouldn't chase any specific ranking so much as I'd chase a huge group of rankings over a much longer period of six months. And I really wouldn't chase any rankings. I optimize each page for a set of terms for sure, and I do track the rankings. But that's passive.

What really moves the needle is to then forget about off-page SEO and become a marketer. For me it boils down to two tactics:

1) Making the most attractive content possible related to my vertical that anyone on the planet can enjoy, and then getting that in front of as many eyeballs as possible, as in millions of people.

2) Making the highest quality content possible for the passionate folks in my vertical and then getting that in front of their eyes, whether that's 100 people or 10 people.

Both end up resulting in tons of links, social shares, traffic. and income. Then the rankings take care of themselves since you did your on-page SEO.

Best of luck. See you around the forum.
 
Hi. I've been here for a while now, and finally got the courage to introduce myself. I'm Rick, all the way from the Island of Borneo. Been into IM since early 2000s (spamming keywords :tongue:), got into 9-5, and back to IM part time since 2012 with little luck. Hope to step up my game and go full time.

Thanks lot for all the great, inspiring reads. Lot's of golden nuggets here.
 
Hey @rick you're not wrong, you can learn so much from the many threads here, some of the real veterans are willing to share almost everything. What's your game plan for 2017 to step things up and make a breakthrough? Looking forward to hearing more what you're up to.
 
There are lot of helpful, knowledgeable people here, but Ryuzaki deserves special mention.

I've been on a lot forums (too many), and he's easily the friendliest, most helpful person I've seen on any of them.
 
Steve Brownlie said:
What's your game plan for 2017 to step things up and make a breakthrough?
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Honestly, I have been all over the place, not really sure which path to take. I started a handful of websites years ago, with still very few content, and thinking of turning them into authority sites for the years to come. Kind of a long-term plan. But in the meantime, I want to get as much knowledge and experience as I can. This forum has been great to me. I was on WickedFire, but could no longer read the posts there, unless I pay, which is a bummer :( . Hope to gain more knowledge here.

Jared said:
There are lot of helpful, knowledgeable people here, but Ryuzaki deserves special mention.

I've been on a lot forums (too many), and he's easily the friendliest, most helpful person I've seen on any of them.
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Yeah. Hope to learn more from the Masters.
 
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