Ok so I decided to not get a job and start my own business instead. Its called Wicked Cow Marketing and it has been a slow start but I've got some things in the works that will hopefully build my reputation and get my name out there to get more clients.
In other news, I just wrote a mamoth article about hitchhiking - my experiences, ideas, planning for my next trip etc. I've put it on my website but its not linked from the internal hierarchy.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Kids Parties Adelaide
I'm teaching my family to blog! So far its much harder than I thought and they haven't even written anything yet. Hopefully it gets easier from here.
The blog is called Kids Parties Adelaide and is to help promote my parent's business: Superplay Cafe in Mount Barker in the hills.
Wish us luck.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Building My Portfolio
I've started building my webdesign and internet marketing portfolio to help get a job in the industry. My first project just went online, its a website for my parent's new business: Superplay Cafe- a kid's play cafe, with an indoor playground, at Mt Barker in the Adelaide Hills.
Dad also wants me to do a website for one of his projects then I'll look to other local businesses to continue building.
The Superplay website is a simple static site but I want to build sites using a range of tools including wordpress, joomla, blogger and others.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Back in Adelaide... and a new project
I've finally returned to Adelaide after a year of gallivanting around Europe. Im totally out of money and have a hefty debt to my parents but no regrets, it was a fantastic year and now I'm ready to get stuck into making a career for myself.
This brings me to the new project. Its been something that I've been planning to do when I get back for a while. Its basically a blog/website about internet marketing with a focus on Adelaide. The website is going to have plenty of articles about internet marketing in general and about projects, websites and companies in Adelaide who are using internet marketing in interesting ways. I'm also going to create a directory of internet marketing company listings and interview local professionals for information for my articles.
The project is just getting started and I hope to see the users start to come over the next few weeks.
This brings me to the new project. Its been something that I've been planning to do when I get back for a while. Its basically a blog/website about internet marketing with a focus on Adelaide. The website is going to have plenty of articles about internet marketing in general and about projects, websites and companies in Adelaide who are using internet marketing in interesting ways. I'm also going to create a directory of internet marketing company listings and interview local professionals for information for my articles.
The project is just getting started and I hope to see the users start to come over the next few weeks.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Update from London
Just spent a minute or so before I started writing this to think of a witty title... nothing came to mind so I went with the most straight forward description. I am currently sitting on my friend's couch here in London. I have been staying with her for a week, this morning she left to go on holiday for a week so I'm staying and house sitting for her until she gets back. I've been in europe now for nearly 10 months, still exciting back quickly running out of money (just cracked open the credit card) and more frequently finding myself thinking of home.
One of the reasons I'm looking forward to getting home is to set in motion several business ideas. I won't mention all of them here, never know who could be listening, but I shall discuss a few.
One of the reasons I'm looking forward to getting home is to set in motion several business ideas. I won't mention all of them here, never know who could be listening, but I shall discuss a few.
- Adelaide Marketing Poker Game- had this idea just the other day. A way to combine my interests; organising poker games, playing poker and marketing socialising and networking.
- Company to manage my websites- set up a company owned by me that owns all of my website interests. Should make it easier to do tax and provide possible benefits. I can make some business cards as well :)
- Trending topics blogs- I'm so glad I decided to keep my Adelaide Poker blog even though I'd stopped updating it. I've now had a total of three advertising requests and made a few hundred dollars from it. I'm saddened that I deleted my Australian Blackjack blog as I could've had similar requests had I kept it. However an idea has emerged... what if I create blogs for a number of trending (up) subjects for the prospect of future gains if that topic becomes popular and people want to advertise. It could take a couple of years so it would ultimatley be an investment in the future.
6 Posts, last published on May 6, 2010 – Simply used as a testing ground for designs, themes, etc. Still usable if I need it.
1 Post, last published on May 4, 2010 – Blog website for my parents gift business back home. Hopefully I will do some more with this when I get back home.
2 Posts, last published on May 1, 2010 – I did quite a lot of research about slideshows for blogger and I wanted to make a blog to collect and display that information. Like so many of my projects, my motivation went way down and it has been left unfinished. I would like to get at least a basic form of the information up there.
3 Posts, last published on Apr 14, 2010 – Website for a internent marketing information and freeland website creation and internet marketing services. Has a few posts, needs a lot of work. Will continue it or reporpose the idea and content elsewhere at some stage, probably when I get home.
1 Post, last published on Apr 11, 2010 – Website I created for 'Le Castel,' a chateau accomodation business that I worked at for 2 months in Normandy, France.
23 Posts, last published on Jan 22, 2010 – I have already mentioned this website a few times. Currently negotiating an advertising deal which may see it updated as soon as next week. If not it should see some updates from time to time starting from when I return to Australia.
15 Posts, last published on Aug 27, 2009 – One of my first blogs to form a directory of other blogs and a community focused on exploring them. It had some traction but wasn't really my cup of tea and requires a lot of work for very little return. I don't intend to update it any more.
7 Posts, last published on Aug 26, 2009 – This blog. I intend to keep it going and would like to update it more often. Its a personal blog where I can post whatever I want and won't be looking at making money with it.
41 Posts, last published on Jan 21, 2007 – My personal poker and bonus whoring blog from when I was heavily interested in poker. I don't intend to update it any more.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Everything Up Until This Point is Absolute Rubbish!
When you read the title of this post you must do it in an Irish accent, especially the 'Absolute Rubbish' part. I've just finished watching Black Books and Bernard seems to say it quite a bit.
Anyway, I started this blog some time ago as a journal and motivator for 'The Summer of Morris,' a three month period in which I was going to better myself in a number of different ways. I had a list and everything but of course, like so many of my other projects, it fell flat on its face after just a few weeks. However, I did manager to complete 2 or so things from the list so I'm counting it as a win.
From now on, I'm going to use this blog to document my various projects and keep you abreast of life.
Luckily I just completed my LinkedIn profile which has a summary of what I'm up to...
I'm also planning on setting up a travel blog to cover my trip which will double as a web design/ internet marketing portfolio for some freelance work I'd like to do while overseas.
I've recently been contacted by someone wanting to put a banner on my Adelaide Poker Blog which I haven't worked on in like two years. I have had some requests before as the blog is a PR 2 and still has some decent Search Engine rankings and I was going to throw this one in the trash as I did with those but I just thought what the hell so I replied and it looks like it might go ahead. I'll make some time to do a few new posts and tweaks to bring the site up to date, slap up the banner and hopefully it will bring in a tidy little profit.
The other thing I've been doing lately is the Adelaide Flash Mob. A flashmob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period, and quickly disperse. We hold participatory events in and around Adelaide, mostly in the Mall, and our events could broadly be described as street performance. Check us out on the web and facebook if you want to get involved.
Anyway, I started this blog some time ago as a journal and motivator for 'The Summer of Morris,' a three month period in which I was going to better myself in a number of different ways. I had a list and everything but of course, like so many of my other projects, it fell flat on its face after just a few weeks. However, I did manager to complete 2 or so things from the list so I'm counting it as a win.
From now on, I'm going to use this blog to document my various projects and keep you abreast of life.
Luckily I just completed my LinkedIn profile which has a summary of what I'm up to...
I have recently completed a Business Double Degree of Management (Marketing) and Business (Property) at UniSA and I wish to pursue a career in Internet Marketing.
I'm taking a year to travel to Europe (Dec 2009- Dec 2010) including a working holiday in France. I'm hoping to line up an internet marketing internship in France for 2-6 months if possible.
My work experience up until now has been in Office Administration including data entry, mail outs, digital and manual filing, scanning, customer service and document processing.
In the short term, my goal is to get a temporary job to earn some extra money for my overseas trip in December 2009.
I'm also planning on setting up a travel blog to cover my trip which will double as a web design/ internet marketing portfolio for some freelance work I'd like to do while overseas.
I've recently been contacted by someone wanting to put a banner on my Adelaide Poker Blog which I haven't worked on in like two years. I have had some requests before as the blog is a PR 2 and still has some decent Search Engine rankings and I was going to throw this one in the trash as I did with those but I just thought what the hell so I replied and it looks like it might go ahead. I'll make some time to do a few new posts and tweaks to bring the site up to date, slap up the banner and hopefully it will bring in a tidy little profit.
The other thing I've been doing lately is the Adelaide Flash Mob. A flashmob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period, and quickly disperse. We hold participatory events in and around Adelaide, mostly in the Mall, and our events could broadly be described as street performance. Check us out on the web and facebook if you want to get involved.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Hello Again...
Its been 4 weeks since my last post- a pretty disapointing performance- but thats not to say that I haven't been working on my goals throughout that time. The past three mondays I've said to myself that I would update this blog but each time I just didn't get onto it, but today I thought that I REALLY had to get onto it.
There are a couple of reasons why I haven't been updating the blog frequently like I said I would. I have thought about what to write in this post many atime and came up with a standard reason to excuse my absense. This is that its a busy time of year with lots of stuff on etc etc and I didn't have the spare time to keep the blog updated. Now, while the lack of time was certainly a factor, it was definately not a large contributor.
The main reason was the same one that has been an obstacle my entire life and is what this blog was meant to help me overcome; my procrastination and laziness. I can always muster so much enthusiasm and motivation but when it comes to getting started and then continueing, thats where the problem lies.
In addition to that, I realised that the resulting benefit from doing these long 'planning' posts probably wasn't great enough to overcome the time lost preparting for, planning and writing them. However, I think that I can find a happy medium between these two forces by doing short, sharp and shiny 'planning' posts, therefore not wasting much time, but still leading to some benefit.
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As I mentioned above, just because I havne't been updating the blog it doesn't mean that I haven't been working towards my goals. Below is a list of my goals with the ones that I have done significant work on highlighted in bold.
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Below I'm going to give some brief sentences which show what I've acheived:
There are a couple of reasons why I haven't been updating the blog frequently like I said I would. I have thought about what to write in this post many atime and came up with a standard reason to excuse my absense. This is that its a busy time of year with lots of stuff on etc etc and I didn't have the spare time to keep the blog updated. Now, while the lack of time was certainly a factor, it was definately not a large contributor.
The main reason was the same one that has been an obstacle my entire life and is what this blog was meant to help me overcome; my procrastination and laziness. I can always muster so much enthusiasm and motivation but when it comes to getting started and then continueing, thats where the problem lies.
In addition to that, I realised that the resulting benefit from doing these long 'planning' posts probably wasn't great enough to overcome the time lost preparting for, planning and writing them. However, I think that I can find a happy medium between these two forces by doing short, sharp and shiny 'planning' posts, therefore not wasting much time, but still leading to some benefit.
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As I mentioned above, just because I havne't been updating the blog it doesn't mean that I haven't been working towards my goals. Below is a list of my goals with the ones that I have done significant work on highlighted in bold.
- Break bad habits ie. Fingernail Biting
- Poker- Improve online and live play
- Magic- Improve card manipulation skills and learn card tricks
- Diet- Bring diet up to healthy level
- Flash Mobs- Organise plenty as well as MP3 Experiment Adelaide
- Work- Improve productivity, speed and quality
- Clean teeth twice a day without fail
- Fitness- Get fit, improve basketball skills, maybe do weights
- Do Jobs- help out mum at home doing jobs etc
- Have shorter showers
- Take accurate phone messages and overcome phone phobia
- Improve personal hygiene
- Remember peoples names
- Read more books/ articles
- Improve vocabulary- do word puzzles in paper
- Business/ websites- launch websites and start making money from them
- Blog- maintain this blog
- Anger Management- improve
- Catch up with friends more
- Keep room tidy
- Poker- Improve online and live play
- Magic- Improve card manipulation skills and learn card tricks
- Diet- Bring diet up to healthy level
- Work- Improve productivity, speed and quality
- Clean teeth twice a day without fail
- Fitness- Get fit, improve basketball skills, maybe do weights
- Have shorter showers
- Overcome phone phobia
- Improve personal hygiene
- Keep room tidy
- Do Jobs- help out mum at home doing jobs etc
- Take accurate phone messages
- Remember peoples names
- Improve vocabulary- do word puzzles in paper
- Blog- maintain this blog
- Anger Management- improve
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Below I'm going to give some brief sentences which show what I've acheived:
- Almost all my fingernails are past the end of my fingers
- We've had two Flash Mobs this summer, and we have a related event coming up this Saturday
- I finished reading 'The Jesus Dynasty,' and am now reading 'The God Delusion.'
- I've built and launched one of the two websites and its gaining popularity. I've now made a total of US$80 from this business venture.
- Play Sit n Go's at Full Tilt and focus on playing ABC poker
- Analyse similar websites to mine and work on improving my structure and content
- Practice to overcome phone phobia
- Eat large meals to cut down on snacking on junk food
- Scout locations and activities for MP3 Flash Mob
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