Hello all,
I'll try to keep it short and mention the good stuff. A little bit about myself...I'm a 24 year old gent from Arkansas and have been a lurker on here for about 7 months.
In 2008 I started a computer repair business locally in my 2nd year of college. Soared to #1 in Google rankings for my "fort smith computer repair" and have stayed since. Earning money that came from a source other than my main place of employment...how nice it was :smug2:
I then moved into freelance web design and development probably a year later. Worked myself into a few clients and it began to become a handful with doing custom design and development so I started to get into outsourcing contractors about a year ago. It's worked well. However, I am still trading time for dollars. Still doing some computer repair as well.
Right before reading MJ's book I was also developing a blog on how to start a computer repair business. I read a lot of Pat Flynn's stuff and wanted to create something from his model. I created a computer repair business marketing + form pack kit that I sold for $30...sold about 15 so far. Time spent now for dollars in the future, now that's what I was aiming for.
So, I then stumbled across MJ's book probably 8 months ago and I have to say I have never read a book that made me feel the way it did. It was like a voice inside me that had said the same things all along for a few years, but too softly for me to listen. After reading MJ's book, it was like that voice was now roaring at me, "TAKE SOME ACTION ALREADY!!!"
I wanted to go big. Bigger than the blog at least, although I knew it was a great start. Directly after I read the book my wheels began to spin and I thought up a great need that I myself had that wasn't solved. I began the goal of creating a home inventory web app with a (soon) accompanying mobile app to help the process. I tried to keep all the principles in mind that I read throughout the whole process.
Denventory - Own what you own - Denventory | Own what you own
I just released the app today and felt I should share it with the community that got me inspired to do such a thing in the first place.
So, from November 2011...6 months later and I'm still a one man band with only hiring contractors or doing it myself. Design was pretty much all myself and the code was a group in Switzerland on Elance. I had NDA agreements signed on everything. Just this week I got my LLC.
Now it's pretty much getting the word out and fixing application bugs as I go. I know it won't all mean much unless I can land on the first page for "home inventory" or "home inventory software".
Not sure why I posted the long intro. I guess I want to show I'm here for the long haul. I'm looking for advice, looking to give advice, looking for feedback on what I should and shouldn't do. Wanting to humbly take advice from the aces who have sunk these battleships before.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading this and hope to hear your reply. :eusa_clap:
I'll try to keep it short and mention the good stuff. A little bit about myself...I'm a 24 year old gent from Arkansas and have been a lurker on here for about 7 months.
In 2008 I started a computer repair business locally in my 2nd year of college. Soared to #1 in Google rankings for my "fort smith computer repair" and have stayed since. Earning money that came from a source other than my main place of employment...how nice it was :smug2:
I then moved into freelance web design and development probably a year later. Worked myself into a few clients and it began to become a handful with doing custom design and development so I started to get into outsourcing contractors about a year ago. It's worked well. However, I am still trading time for dollars. Still doing some computer repair as well.
Right before reading MJ's book I was also developing a blog on how to start a computer repair business. I read a lot of Pat Flynn's stuff and wanted to create something from his model. I created a computer repair business marketing + form pack kit that I sold for $30...sold about 15 so far. Time spent now for dollars in the future, now that's what I was aiming for.
So, I then stumbled across MJ's book probably 8 months ago and I have to say I have never read a book that made me feel the way it did. It was like a voice inside me that had said the same things all along for a few years, but too softly for me to listen. After reading MJ's book, it was like that voice was now roaring at me, "TAKE SOME ACTION ALREADY!!!"
I wanted to go big. Bigger than the blog at least, although I knew it was a great start. Directly after I read the book my wheels began to spin and I thought up a great need that I myself had that wasn't solved. I began the goal of creating a home inventory web app with a (soon) accompanying mobile app to help the process. I tried to keep all the principles in mind that I read throughout the whole process.
Denventory - Own what you own - Denventory | Own what you own
I just released the app today and felt I should share it with the community that got me inspired to do such a thing in the first place.
So, from November 2011...6 months later and I'm still a one man band with only hiring contractors or doing it myself. Design was pretty much all myself and the code was a group in Switzerland on Elance. I had NDA agreements signed on everything. Just this week I got my LLC.
Now it's pretty much getting the word out and fixing application bugs as I go. I know it won't all mean much unless I can land on the first page for "home inventory" or "home inventory software".
Not sure why I posted the long intro. I guess I want to show I'm here for the long haul. I'm looking for advice, looking to give advice, looking for feedback on what I should and shouldn't do. Wanting to humbly take advice from the aces who have sunk these battleships before.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading this and hope to hear your reply. :eusa_clap:
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