About
I was looking at this page and thinking heck… that’s way too much info, so I’ve broken it up into the short story and the long story!
The Short Story
The short story is that I have a whole lot of accumulated skills and information and towards the end of last year I realised that I could help people to craft an extraordinary lifestyle. This blog is one of the ways I provide that help and my main ‘tool of trade’ is WordPress. The fact is that WordPress is so easy to install, customise and update that it is well within the reach of anyone, regardless of their background and income. I mean that sincerely. As long as you take some time to learn and listen to the right voices you have a very real opportunity of building something big, bold and very lucrative.
In the online world we don’t measure big or bold in a material way. It’s all about your ability to attract new people to your website and provide them with something worthwhile that will have them wanting to come back for more.
It sounds easy because it is. As long as you have the desire and the patience to do it right, you CAN build an amazing online resource.
The Long Story (grab your favourite beverage and read on…)
My interest in computers goes back to the late 1970’s. I was a teenager back then with an intense interest in electronics. I started programming straight away in ‘Microworld Basic’ which was similar to Microsoft BASIC though it was around several years before the MS language. Over the next 15 years (until 1995) I continued programming though I learned several other programming languages such as Pascal, C and C++.
In the early 90’s I did a university course and that was where I first learned about the internet. I also became interested in the Linux kernel and would regularly download and compile the latest version and then mess about with Unix. The whole thing could fit on a 360k floppy disk in those days. The PERL programming language was also around then as well as PHP/FI which later became just PHP. I spent countless hours creating web pages with vi (the unix text editor) and notepad (the Windows 3.1 version).
In 1995 I’d saved up a little money and decided to quit my factory job and start up an internet service. At that stage I had been running a 2 line bulletin board system. Bulletin boards were a dialup service where you could download files, play online games and participate in group forums as well as personal messages. The bulletin board was the platform I used initially. For the technical minded … we eventually ran 32 lines (with 2 8 port and one 16 port serial card) using the Maximus BBS software on an OS/2 server. Members would dial up and use Trumpet Winsock to create a connection via a SLIP program called ’slurp’ that ran on a unix user account that was created for each BBS member. We switched to ‘real’ access servers (Ascend MAX/Cisco) in 1997. The internet service is called CAS Netlink and is still running today at www.cbl.com.au. A year or so after I started the Internet service I started another business to provide internet and network consulting to local businesses. There were several other partners in that business and it is also still running today at www.computersballarat.com.au. I still do all of the technical maintenance etc for the ISP service and I’m kind of a silent partner in the consulting business.
In 2004 I decided that I wanted to concentrate on internet marketing and programming and that was when I moved my office back home. I spent a lot of time and money on various internet marketing programs and whilst I learned a lot about online marketing I found that I was spending most of my time programming. That wasn’t a problem though as programming is one of the things I’m most passionate about. In May of 2005 I started a traffic exchange service (www.whirlwindtraffic.com) and still operate that service today.
In 2006 I started working on a project for Robert Puddy. It was to be a membership script that he could use on some of his websites. Part way through the development he suggested that it instead be a script that anyone could use and proposed a partnership to develop and market it. That was the birth of loginfrequencymarketing.com (LFM) which has gone on to spawn several variations and has been responsible for a huge amount of success and income for many people. I am still involved in the development of the LFM script.
Last year I started studying personal development. It’s made a huge change for me and this site is part of my new journey. That journey partly revolves around something Zig Ziglar said – “Give other people what they want and you can have everything you want”. Jim Rohn said about the old saying “it’s better to give than receive” that the reason is “because giving starts the receiving process”. So I plan to give as much of my knowledge and experience as I can and hope that it may help or benefit some visitors to my website.
So that brings us up to today. I also should mention that I am a single parent with one daughter who currently lives here with me. She will be starting university next year and hopes to be a criminal profiler. We also have 2 cats (Crystal and Lottie).
