“Moving out” today. Really just staying at a friend’s place to get work done. I’m starting two new companies, and my goal is to have them up and running by the new year. Gonna be close, but I’m gonna #hustle!
Still excited for Vegas next month, Affiliate Summit!
I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Time is just flying. Where did this year go to?
Anyway, I was gonna be out of here in January, but I got some legal issues that might take a while. So I may be stuck in the US for a little longer than I wanted.
I’ve been busy enough to keep my mind off it anyway. I’m trying to start all sorts of things and they are all going well. Among them a premium WordPress theme store, which I am SUPER excited for.
I did list a site I made up on Flippa, hate to see it go to waste just sitting around on my hard drives. https://flippa.com/auctions/113590/ParcelProxy-com—Business-ready-to-go
I’m thinking about opening a gameroom here in GA. What is a gameroom you ask? Think video slots, but legal. Dun dun dun. I may be spending a lot of time with lawyers if this idea does pan out.
Working on my offline hustle a bit more too. Got some postcards made up, found out Word ’07 mail merge is a pain so I haven’t had the chance to send any out yet 
I’ll keep updating when I remember, but it looks like I wont get out of here till March or April, if everything goes right, and it never does.
I was going through some of my previous posts and noticed this one entitled Money and Ideas.
- I want to move into an apartment in a city. I have found cheap ($400-$500/month) 2-3bedroom apartments in the college town nearby, about 30 minutes. This alone would do drastic measures for me.I absolutely loathe living in the middle of nowhere.
- I want to start an internet tv show. I have plans brewing, so it will happen.
- Learn more Asterisk. I want to set up a phone system for some use.
- Set up an LLC for all my projects.
My jaw dropped when I read this. What was I thinking? The first point is completely moot and makes no sense. Why would I want to go spend more money when I’m trying to save money? I don’t know what I was thinking.
Number 2 is a lot more work than it sounds. Getting people to help you is completely crazy. I had a meeting with Chris Cree (of Success Creeations) and we had talked a bit about an upcoming project the company I am working for is releasing. It’s about video editing and publishing, but struck me more than anything was this: he said is that most people just don’t like to get in front of a camera. I haven’t really thought of this before, but man, it rings true. This idea is kind of stagnant at this point in time, but I will be revisiting and rethinking it for sure.
Numbers three and four are still ongoing. I haven’t thought of a biz name for all my projects yet. I have the money and legal understanding to form a company (this will be number 2 or 3), but I’m just hung up on a name.
My Asterisk learning is going ok, though I wish I had more time to read and play around with it .. heh, just need more time! More time and clients to get my learning on. There maybe a job yet to use my skills there. Just trying to figure out whats going on.
I guess I should say, uninterrupted time! There’s some GREAT information in a book I just got done reading called ReWork that talks about startups, similar to Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
(which is also a great read and is on my bookshelf). At least in the last half of ReWork, they stress having alone time/quiet time/uninterrupted time for work. Which I know all about. It’s something I need to do better with.
I think I actually did a review of Guy Kawasaki’s book over on my main personal blog here: http://www.riscit.info/2009/09/the-art-of-the-start/ It’s short but well worth the read.
I think I finally have a date-range when I should be able to get out of here.
I have a friend still in uni and he would like to complete his last semester abroad. He asked me if he should go back to Thailand or go to Japan. To which I commented if he goes to Thailand I’ll come with him.
Probably would end up there at the beginning of the next semester (in January). So now I have a target date at least!
In other business news, email lists are extremely fascinating. I offered something for free until Monday (tomorrow) and I’ve gotten an overwhelming positive response. It’s definitely driven traffic and sales my way.
I am using MailChimp to handle my email newsletters, and so far, they are fantastic! I would definitely recommend them if you are looking for that service.
Android mobile development is also coming up. I am in the middle of redoing a corporate web site (which is a lot more work than I would have thought), so when I am dome with that I am gonna start doing some development with my Droid X. I believe I will start off using the Titanium development environment. It seems easy to get something up and running pretty quick.
I got to attend the first WordPress Wordcamp here in Savannah, GA. There were a few of the core developers in attendance, including Jane Wells (lead UI, she redid the UI for WordPress 3.0), Matt Mullenweg (founder of Automattic), Andrew Nacin (core developer), Mark Jaquith (core developer), and Daryl Koopersmith (core developer), to name a few. It was great to meet everyone there and quite astonishing at the turnout. I think there was just about 200 or a little more in attendance. It was a great time.
I have acquired a consulting position with a local voip company that is a little bit past it’s startup (they started in 2006).
This gives me some regular income to save up, woohoo! Just what I needed. Also gives me a chance to build and enchance my skillset with a few things I’ve been needing to do (namely Asterisk and UI design).
Monthly income allows me to stretch it into other projects of mine to get those started. I’ve been so busy this past month it’s insane. I haven’t had a lot of time for my big hobby of homebrewing.
