April 26th, 2008 by humbrol Posted in Day to Day life, Freelancer Work blog
While i was surfing the blogs today found this blog EagleHawkOnline. So i think once a week or more often I will try to bring other blogs i find here for you guys to go check out =)
April 26th, 2008 by humbrol Posted in Day to Day life, Small Business Woes, Web hosting
Went out to dinner tonight to celebrate yet another happy customer. Its building a lot quicker than I imagined it would, i am to the break even point now, so if i can keep the customers coming in at this rate I will be very happy, I wont be getting rich doing this but it lets me do something I love to do, which is teach, help others out with tech questions and web hosting and provide great customer service. Word of mouth is really helping me out, a friend of mine is graduating the milw institute of art and design and is telling alot of his friends there, so far him and one other student have signed up, but more are talking about signing up, so it will be a good week =)
April 13th, 2008 by humbrol Posted in Day to Day life, Small Business Woes
The struggle these days is finding a good work/life balance. I am investing so much time in this business and my primary job that my family is beginning to wonder when they will get some time. They are great at understanding what I am doing but I know that eventually I will need to delegate out and hire someone to help me with this so that it can grow like it needs to.
April 10th, 2008 by humbrol Posted in Day to Day life, Small Business Woes, Work
Ok, now that I have the business up and running comes the hard part, finding a way to attract quality clients and get them in the proverbial doors of my site and purchasing hosting and domain names. I know this is going to be a long haul, and I am one that likes to be able to see results right away, but this is going to take time and patience, both of which are skills i just recently acquired and am still learning to use =). I am going to dinner with Jon and his dad to talk about small business items . His dad is a inspiration, he owns a rental unit, owns his own successful small business and is overall someone I look up to and respect.
Also in the market for other small business ideas, due to my schedule a second job is hard to do unless I can work strange hours but since i make enough at the primary job, leaving it isnt an option right now, it pays for everything else. So if anyone has any ideas, im all ears =)
April 3rd, 2008 by admin Posted in Day to Day life, Small Business Woes, Web hosting, Work
wow my roommate is driving me nuts,, but aside from that.the server is up and running smooth, my 7th website is signing up tommorow and things are going well. My roommate might move to chicago so that means in the near future i need to start looking for roommates. I could cover the entire place myself but id be nice to have 1 good roommate and cut my rent in half.
Work - on the plus side my pay raise at work was better than i expected, i got almost 800+ dollars a year more than i was expecting so that means my checks are going up a tad more, which is a nice supprise. Hopefully we can start bonusing out soon so i can raise that up, last year i got almost 6k of bonus money,, after taxes i see about 3k of that, but thats still 3k extra a year income.