Enserio
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- Jul 9, 2022
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Hi,
I have been 100% self employed with zero employees (by choice) for most of my career, and off-line and online marketing starting in the mid 1990's, pre-dot com boom/bust and have some decent success in B2B that lead to real early retirement. Started in DOS era as a user, never a programmer. Did those early SEO tricks like key-word stuffing and hard coding html led to 1st page rankings for many sites in my business niche which had few competitors. Then came adwords and overture to raise my ad spend overhead and was paying $xx.xx a click against one competitor. Then came the syndicator scumbags re-posting your paid links on their nothing page without your authorization hiding under whois privacy and colluding with the click-farms- until this crap was halted. It was a mess for awhile arguing with Overture. But I still ranked organically too with various similar domains and ideas in my niche.
Then as with all businesses, your competitors see your success and copy you, follow you around, and you need to stay ahead. Right? Sadly, back in mid 2000's I noticed a trend of how much things changed online with social media giving access to all. Since everyone with a smartphone increased the users in the online world, so did the nuttiness. Still to this day, I am amazed at new scams, hype and and in some respects the severe loss of business ethics. Most of those people know who they are. Some even sabotage your success with negative SEO. About this time since a certain copy cat country entered my market- it was no longer viable to compete with $1 an hour labor, so I exited and goofed off and traveled the world instead.
I've been intrigued with this shift in business ethics, yet also encouraged on some very positive developments in subjects such as Privacy, all the GIT hub contributors on various free or low cost online tutorials on YT and great tools and websites. I am grateful to all those who work hard at creating how-to information or coding to create tools to which I've subscribed. I got into Linux a couple years ago as I am against the mainstream OS's and their surveillance capitalism and "you are the product" garbage.
Back a few years I read an article highly critical of this forum, that lead me to join this forum! So made a few posts and did some business, then didn't log in for a couple years yet have read this forum from time to time. It's interesting to see the various levels of knowledge here- some quite astounding and impressive. A big THANK YOU to those who have shared some valuable information and tools.
I look forward to sharing my experience and knowledge in various aspects of doing business that I have accumulated.
I have been 100% self employed with zero employees (by choice) for most of my career, and off-line and online marketing starting in the mid 1990's, pre-dot com boom/bust and have some decent success in B2B that lead to real early retirement. Started in DOS era as a user, never a programmer. Did those early SEO tricks like key-word stuffing and hard coding html led to 1st page rankings for many sites in my business niche which had few competitors. Then came adwords and overture to raise my ad spend overhead and was paying $xx.xx a click against one competitor. Then came the syndicator scumbags re-posting your paid links on their nothing page without your authorization hiding under whois privacy and colluding with the click-farms- until this crap was halted. It was a mess for awhile arguing with Overture. But I still ranked organically too with various similar domains and ideas in my niche.
Then as with all businesses, your competitors see your success and copy you, follow you around, and you need to stay ahead. Right? Sadly, back in mid 2000's I noticed a trend of how much things changed online with social media giving access to all. Since everyone with a smartphone increased the users in the online world, so did the nuttiness. Still to this day, I am amazed at new scams, hype and and in some respects the severe loss of business ethics. Most of those people know who they are. Some even sabotage your success with negative SEO. About this time since a certain copy cat country entered my market- it was no longer viable to compete with $1 an hour labor, so I exited and goofed off and traveled the world instead.
I've been intrigued with this shift in business ethics, yet also encouraged on some very positive developments in subjects such as Privacy, all the GIT hub contributors on various free or low cost online tutorials on YT and great tools and websites. I am grateful to all those who work hard at creating how-to information or coding to create tools to which I've subscribed. I got into Linux a couple years ago as I am against the mainstream OS's and their surveillance capitalism and "you are the product" garbage.
Back a few years I read an article highly critical of this forum, that lead me to join this forum! So made a few posts and did some business, then didn't log in for a couple years yet have read this forum from time to time. It's interesting to see the various levels of knowledge here- some quite astounding and impressive. A big THANK YOU to those who have shared some valuable information and tools.
I look forward to sharing my experience and knowledge in various aspects of doing business that I have accumulated.
