Introductions Thread

Hello all,

Government employee here. 8 hours per day (but downtime is nearly 10 hours per week in my role). Rent is $500/mo (18% of my income) and I live 5 minutes from my office, gym, and grocery store. Now just need a computer. Spending enough time on here (and Wall Street Playboys) has convinced me that if I have to live in my office building, cook at someone else's house, and sleep in my Genesis coupe, so be it if that's what it takes. My time is also invested in a 12-step program that is vital to my survival (6 years clean, here).

Already exhausted myself with the time wasters of chasing women, friends, and porn. I'm not ready to give it all up today, but if I work hard enough to make a grand opportunity arise that requires enough sacrifice, I'm willing to sacrifice those. Maybe that isn't the most dedicated attitude around here, but it's honest and it's where I'm at. Nevertheless, I'm open-minded and willing to add something new to my life that will "repurpose" me.

I know zero about coding (though I used to use Dreamweaver in high school to play with CSS and HTML), and even less about back-end coding (PHP, MySQL, etc.), and even less-less about traffic, SEO, aff, arb, etc. However, I'm a God with Photoshop and InDesign. Aside from those, this is my first exposure to these things outside of vague sites like Inc, Entreprenuer, some reddit posts, etc. Very grateful to have found a community that can help me help myself rethink how the world works. Particularly interested in watching @Ryuzaki and @CCarter throughout my time here and following the examples of them and the people they offer feedback to.

Thanks for letting me share.
 
Hey guys, i learnt about this forum from a thread on wf and heard this is the new place where everyone hangs out these days. i'm a long time member on wf and hope to be active and will be sharing on here when possible.

Been pretty busy past few months thats why i had only posted on here now when my account was registered last yr
 
David, you sound like you're in a great spot. You've got three years to build out a site and begin promoting it while adding content. By the time you graduate, you should be earning some nice cash if you're not sabotaging your efforts with spam and poor on-page architecture. I'd say it'd be enough to warrant not going job hunting, despite the pressures you may receive from parents and grandparents, etc. Then you'll have tons of time to drive it home, with the huge bonus that you'll have a 3 year head start.

Hardware and Tech sites can do very well. I saw a site recently where this guy revealed all after selling it. He based his site around Routers only and started making like $10,000 a month based on one ranking alone. Of course there are a lot of big boys in the space and that one ranking he mentioned ("best router 2017" or something similar) is going to be very crowded now that he revealed its worth. But that doesn't mean there aren't a million opportunities in SEO rankings for other keywords till you can compete with the big sites, and a million actual marketing methods so you aren't sitting around waiting on traffic.

Glad to have you around. You'll do just fine with the project you mentioned as long as you're patient and don't get it banned from Google, Facebook, Reddit, forums, etc.

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Syrinj,

I'd never seen Wall Street Playboys. That was fun last night. Ended up tossing you a like and staying up way too late. Now I'm back to respond.

It sounds like you're in a great spot where you can relaxedly build without stressing about money, and most importantly you have more than enough time.

You already listed the excuses and barriers. Now you just have to destroy them and overcome them, respectively, which will be a process but easily done with time.

You're in a great spot! If you can section off some time for yourself away from fruitless hobbies (and still save some time to enjoy them too), there's no reason you can't win in this game.

Good luck, hope to see you around the forum.

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Nice, what kind of online work are you involved in, presently and historically? What are your future goals?
 
Hey Ryuzaki,

Thank you, those are some very reassuring words. I can't wait to get started!

By the way I've read your project blog and it was very inspiring. It is no wonder you are so successful. No magic, just tons of hard work and using your brain. I think a lot of people don't get this or don't want to get it because they are lazy of course.
 
Ryuzaki said:
Nice, what kind of online work are you involved in, presently and historically? What are your future goals?
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I used to and still am doing seo services but i do go by another username - eatingmemory on other forums. i also have my own sites and projects too.

I've also partnered up with my brother and few friends to launch a local startup (hope that goes well). I believe family and friends matter more than money and i'd like us all to have some success online instead of just going thru the usual 9-5 route like most people in my country do.

There's some real good info on here and alot of the members seem helpful and give insights instead of bashing people. I'll definitely be around more often!
 
Hi Builder Society,

I just joined and wanted to say hi to everyone out there getting ready for a productive weekend.

I've been lurking for a few weeks, studying and working my way through the digital crash course. Reading the collected works from the minds of the masters in the digital crash course is like the clouds peeling back on an overcast day to let a beam of sunlight through.

The knowledge, wisdom, and motivation of that section has got me set on finishing all 30 days, then re-reading and re-reading it until it's hammered into my head.

What's Fueling My Drive
My goal and motivation is to take advantage of this knowledge, put it to work and continue to learn so that I can provide for me and my family. I turned 30 a few months back and I am dead set on taking things up a notch and getting to that next plateau.

Post-College Crash and Rebound
I finished college in '10 and like a lot of others I lacked experience and struggled to find that post-college career. Two years later and I felt I had hit rock bottom. I had enlisted and sat in delayed entry for 11 months till I blew my shoulder. Unemployed, dealing with depression and all of that not so fun stuff.

I had to turn things around and so I started burning the midnight oil teaching myself html/css and working in a warehouse shipping off-road products during the day. Ended up learning that the shorts and sandals owner who owned the company got his start in SEO. He found a niche, built an optimized site and took over the country and soon had 7 warehouses around the he was drop-shipping products from.

I knew I wanted to taste success like that so my studies stepped up a notch and I lucked out by getting a job with a dental website provider sending out monthly client reports. On my first day there I read a moz article comparing SEO to RTS games, it spoke my language and helped me understand seo a tad more and I knew I needed to learn more. I was hooked on local seo at that point and doing everything I could to teach myself more. I was driven to learn and get better and within a few years I outpaced the other neckbeards and took over the team.

Opening a New Chapter
Then I happened to stumble across CCarter's big brand launch checklist and started reading everything I could that she put out. My life was changed. I tried peddling her stuff to my teammates at work but they scoffed at me for straying from the word of Rand.

I left that place and nailed a job paying 2x as much by changing my thinking and optimization practices.

Now, I've found the digital crash course and I am ready for the next level. I am stocked up on energy and ready to go all night, pulling a methender absorbing as much as I can.

To all of the authors that put in the time and effort of putting this together, thank you!
 
Thanks for your response. I am just getting back to checking this out. You gave me some hope and a friend has had nothing but great things to say about this site so, I will utilize the resource this community has created in the hopes of learning and being able to give back by assisting others in the future.
 
Hey everyone,

Name's Ryan, and I'm 23 years old. I recently graduated college with a "business" degree and got an offer from Google for a 6 digit salary. I said no. My family was blown away by my decision, but they can't understand. I figure you guys can though. I'm not content with the pennies they throw our way. I'm not content with scrambling for the crumbs, with taking shit for years just to get a tiny bonus. I want the whole goddamn pie (stole the phrase from War Dogs, watched that last night and would totally recommend).

I'm deaf, you see. I grind every fucking day of my life. I read lips, body language, guesswork, high-value context clues, even blues clues. I'm not going to take the easy way out when there's so much more to be had within being my own man. So here I am. It's 5 AM, and I'm ready. I'm new at this, but am working on expanding my knawledge. I'm doing some niche research and whatnot, and plan to start a journal when I get the necessary likes.

What drew me here, by the way? You, @CCarter. I found your digital crash course and felt something click, a pathway that leads me down the road I seek to follow.

Let's do it. Tell me more about yourselves, I'd love to get to know everybody
 
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War Dogs, watched that last night
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I watched it two nights ago. Great flick for sure. It's been a while since I watched Blues Clues though!

That's interesting that you turned down that job. As a beginner it's a toss up... "Do I take the high paying job so I have cash flow to outsource and grow, or do I jump into the trenches and grind it out myself?" Like you, I've always taken the second route. It's not glorious until you win, but then you're a god among men for pulling it off.

Looking forward to seeing you grow your operations. I hope you'll be a regular poster! Catch you around the forum.
 
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That's interesting that you turned down that job. As a beginner it's a toss up... "Do I take the high paying job so I have cash flow to outsource and grow, or do I jump into the trenches and grind it out myself?" Like you, I've always taken the second route. It's not glorious until you win, but then you're a god among men for pulling it off.
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It was a difficult decision, even the Googler was surprised. But I know myself, and I know that I'm far more capable than just a six figure job where I have to spend six hours in traffic to work a 8-10 hour job. I'll definitely be around here :smile:
 
Glad to have you around here. Will be interesting to see your progress. Also, love your username, haha. Good stuff.
 
6 hours in traffic to get to work? Yeah, fuck that for a laugh. 6h * 5 days = 30 hours a week better spent on your own project.
 
Trankuility said:
Glad to have you around here. Will be interesting to see your progress. Also, love your username, haha. Good stuff.
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Thank you! I'm determined to stick with it until things work out, so yeah. Appreciate it haha. It comes from people in high school shouting "Hey... oh" as they realize I'm deaf :D


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6 hours in traffic to get to work? Yeah, fuck that for a laugh. 6h * 5 days = 30 hours a week better spent on your own project.
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Right? Inner city traffic is such a joke. I don't know how people waste away their lives like that.
 
My name’s Kylie and I have been writing for over 3 years now.I am incredibly passionate about the power of writing. Recently one of my client recommended this forum to expand my service.
 
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My name’s Kylie and I have been writing for over 3 years now.I am incredibly passionate about the power of writing. Recently one of my client recommended this forum to expand my service.
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I'm just going to come out and say it: I'm sure you have a portfolio of some kind that you can show potential clients, but when all the info you provide about yourself, is a two line paragraph as an "incredibly passionate writer", and then misses an 's' on client and a space after a period, it doesn't really instill an insanely high trust in your capabilities.

Just sayin' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Hey Kylie, welcome to the forum. You write very well for someone who only started writing three years ago. I think I probabally started writing around the age of 7, so that gives me a couple decades experience on you. That gives you a lot of time to iron things out.

The reason you're getting backlash in this intro thread is because it's not a good look to introduce yourself as a passionate writer who wants our money* and then to have numerous errors in just a couple of sentences, it comes off looking kind of clunky. Not going to beat you up over missing a space bar, but you should really proof read your introduction post if it's three sentences and you're pitching a content writing business.

*Assuming "expand your business" means to sell content here. It could also mean that you're here to learn new techniques to market your business and to better serve your clients, and if so then hopefully this feedback is helpful just the same. (I'd suggest going with this option...)
 
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This is obvious spam, and since everyone else is already roasting you we might as well keep it live.

Heads up to the other people who've started threads like this and others who think its a good idea. We're not stupid. You're fishing for clients in your introduction thread while making a completely substanceless intro. It might not be against the rules since it falls in the gray area, but the last self-promotion rule says the mods can use their judgement. And this is pure litter.

I did a tiny bit of Googling and found that you sell your content on one other forum where you've been outed as not female and not a native English speaker.

Show all of us a little more respect the next time you try to manipulate us. At least contribute something.
 
Well Mr/Miss LinkBuilder that went well didn't it?

Kudos to the BuSo community for stopping this stuff in the early stages. I read it yesterday and thought there was no way I'd even try them thanks to the grammatical errors. This isn't some shady online marketing forum where you can get away with shoddy work so either shape up and learn or turn your horse around.
 
Just wanted to let my presence be known here. I post quite a bit on other forums but just found this one. I have tried lots of ways to make money and have seen fruits from a couple of them. I plan to start selling on Amazon. I understand the algorithm pretty well after diving into the ranking and review world. I used to make money providing reviews but have moved on from that sort of blackhattish method. Now I run a completely legit ranking service, its fairly new but a lot of buzz is going on about it. Once I get some start up money I plan to find a good product, brand it, and sell it on Amazon, where I can use my own ranking methods to make bank. Anyways, I also have some start-up capital methods which any newbie can use to get there business the funds it needs. Hope I can contribute here in a positive way!
 
Hey,

I think with your experiences and your skills in ranking will make you a great member to the forum.

I would say Amazon is a good form of marketing to get into once you get the proper research on it. I'd say look around on the forum and take every piece of information you can to.

Welcome to the forum!
 
Rosca said:
Hey,

I think with your experiences and your skills in ranking will make you a great member to the forum.

I would say Amazon is a good form of marketing to get into once you get the proper research on it. I'd say look around on the forum and take every piece of information you can to.

Welcome to the forum!
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Thanks, happy to be welcomed here by someone at least, lol.
This whole thing just kind of hit me like a train. Started on IM 3 years ago and couldn't do anything, then one day im doing 1000 dollar days consistently. But the money is just part of it, I found something im genuinely interested in. Glad it wasn't something I hate or I would probably stop doing it, regardless of the money.
 
Welcome aboard. What were you doing that wasn't working vs what was working, in general?
 
Ryuzaki said:
Welcome aboard. What were you doing that wasn't working vs what was working, in general?
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I simply wasn't making connections with people. Most of online work will be based upon who you know and the relationships you build. There are so many people with special talents. I would like to say being a sincere, nice and honest person is the first step to making money online.
 
Hi everyone.

I'm a programmer trying to get back into building things for myself. Back in 2008ish I was involved with various affiliate schemes. I remember doing PPC arbitrage, selling acai berries, and getting $3/install for pushing people to Google Chrome, ran some sites that generated revenue from ads +SEO. All gone now.

I've been working as a programmer/webdev since. I'm trying to create something that will generate revenue and I realize that I haven't been thinking about business or marketing or anything really, just the desire to have a "thing" out there that I can point at. I've been half been planning to use these things at portfolio pieces.

I've been working on apps (2 unique, ~15 derivative). Mostly a failure. I need to rank for semi-generic terms and I don't currently.

I created a ecommerce site selling art prints. Total failure, spent 3 weeks making it, my initial marketing didn't work (literally no visitors) and I got sick of working on it, then the no traffic made me feel sad.

Then I created 2 more utils, one of which is dependent on ad revenue, the other a direct push to a merchant. Mostly to learn tech, and because they were simple ideas.

I'm trying to start with the marketing first this time for my next project. And generate revenue for my existing ones. They're all capable of it, I made them with that in mind. So it's my marketing failures or ignorance that's holding my back. Or I made poor choices out of ignorance.

I'm trying to take a step back and plan out concrete action.

So I'm here to poke around and read everyone's thoughts, meet cool people and share my thoughts. :smile:
 
Hello there.

Welcome to BuSo.

Like your aspiration and skills, but you'll get flak for abandoning stuff after three weeks and one push to market.
 
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