About Me
Author: MikeWelcome to i am Mike Smith, a blog that has been started to share my knowledge on business and marketing.
My name is Mike Smith (as you can tell from the title of this website) and I am a small business owner who works solely online. Over the past few years I have gained a vast amount of knowledge on the things that work and don’t work with marketing and running your day to day business. This blog is a growing resource of this knowledge so that you may benefit form the pitfalls I have already been through in order to ensure that you do not make the same mistakes I have made.
From nothing to something
When I first started working online, I went with my original passion in life; design. I started a blog design company in October 2007 and had zero contacts within the online world. I knew about the internet and I knew my fair share about web design from the years passed when I did it only as a hobby, but as far as marketing my business, growing my client list and building a sustainable online brand, I knew zilch.
Since the day I started working online, I have worked with over 200 clients, built hundreds of websites and wrote and published over 200 articles on various blogs, with topics ranging from Freelance tips, to Guerrilla Marketing, design resources, showcase, and tutorials.
Why am I starting this blog?
Besides the fact that I felt I needed an easy to remember domain name when talking in general conversations with people, I started this blog to showcase some of my knowledge in the marketing and small business scene online in order to provide the readers of this blog with a great list of resources to better benefit their money making endeavors online.
I also love working with people and helping them grow their own passions into profitable businesses online and offline. I have a creative mind that seems to always run on full speed and have a couple moleskin notebooks to prove it. During the last few months I’ve really dove deep into the social media scene and have fallen in love with marketing all over again. You can find me on places like twitter during all hours of the day.
Some of my credentials
Because everyone needs to toot their own horn a little bit, here are a few credentials I have picked up along the last year I have been online.
- Hit the Digg front page with my guest article at Freelance Folder: Biting the Bullet: 5 Reasons why arguing with unruly clients will get you nowhere
- Had 170+ comments on my Top 12 free content management systems article.
- Received over 600 tweets for the 10 things you must do before starting a new blog or website article on Spyre Studios.
- Made popular on Stumble Upon with my 50 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics article at Bootstrapping Blog
- Interviewed on Fuel Your Creativity by Adelle Charles
- Was a part of the 7 questions, 7 designers, 7 days series on Echo Enduring.
- Was a part of the Ask A Web Designer: one essential for designing a website article on Helikopter
- and many more (Articles I’ve Written Elsewhere has a list of the articles I’ve written on other blogs)
If you would like to know more about what qualifies me to write social media, blogging and marketing articles on this blog, feel free to contact me and I’ll answer any questions you have.
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