13 Mar, 2008
Introducing Adam - All About Being An Internet Entrepreneur
Posted by: adam In: Interviews| business| entrepreneurs| young entrepreneur
** I am thrilled to have Adam on board. He has started a fantastic niche business with plans on launching more in the future. He is going to be starting off with the “Introduction to the Internet Entrepreneur Series!” **
Hi there! My name is Adam, and I’m an Internet Entrepreneur. From now on, I’ll be sharing my knowledge and advice of Internet Entrepreneurship with you through posts on this fabulous blog!
I’ve been in business for the past two and a half years, mainly focusing on graphic design and web development. I have been a self-taught practising creative for almost 6. I could never afford to pay for myself to go to night school and learn the tricks of Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver, so I had to resort to borrowed magazines and online tutorials. It took long and hard work, but eventually it’s paid off.
After spending the majority of my time learning the struggles of self-promotion in a competitive market, for a company name who nobody has heard of, I was on the edge of giving up. Then, slowly but surely, my phone began to ring more and more each week, emails began to creep in and I was eventually making money.
I finished up with college, focusing on my Business skills, achieving a grade A with full marks on my paper (it really paid off to work like a slave for that subject). With these newly acquired skills, I managed to apply them both to my graphics, and my Internet skills. I then joined up with an older friend, a PHP coder from the local university and together we hit ourselves an idea that we have built upon to now owning ourselves a very large, simple to run and profitable business.
We now run an Internet based Content Management System (CMS) which we sell to schools and colleges throughout England, and we have also sold to a few international businesses.
I started off generating the fund to start up my own business with website advertising, blogging and promotion.
I have a well rounded experience in business and I hope that you enjoy what I can bring to JD’s Blog, find it interesting and applicable to your own business ventures!
Adam.