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Why did you decide to work for yourself? Do you freelance part time, full time.. Do you have other independent business endeavors? What are some of the challenges that you face as an entrepreneur?
I started young. When I was in primary school, I was always getting myself into trouble for launching my own little creative business endeavors.
Looking back, I realize what that I was doing was making my own way. I came from a family that didn't have much money, and our parents blew anything we did get on their substance addictions. We got by, but if there was something that I wanted, I had to figure out how to get it for myself. Food included, quite often.
I suppose I programmed myself from a young age to be the independent self-employed type. I've always seen the value in working for myself, even if it starves me sometimes. I have a hard time working for other people.. I always want to run the show, and I always have my own ideas. 
Most of all, I want to be self-reliant. If I don't eat, it's because I didn't hustle enough.. not because someone in HR decided that I wasn't valuable anymore. It's up to me to succeed. I like it that way. It's more stressful all around, but then again I kind of feed on the challenge. It fuels my creativity. I've got to FIGURE OUT a way to make ends meet.. New ideas often come this way.
... but enough about me. Now it's YOUR turn. Let's hear your story!
Thanks to anwebservices for the inspiration! One of his recent posts made me ponder this question. Follow him. He's great!!
Wow, it only took 3 years for you to develop your strategies and start your own online business. This is very remarkable. Surely 3 years seems like a long time, but all the knowledge and experience you gained helped you to start up. *claps frantically*
Also, I wouldn't worry about that company that stopped using your company because it wasn't 10+ years old. It seems to me that you were probably really good, but they wanted their own team of experts, and didn't want to have to go to another business for their SEO work to be done.
You probably didn't need that client anymore anyways, as I'm sure by reading multiple posts of yours that you are very successful now!! :D :D
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I don't mind now, it was a learning experience and maybe that is what spurred me to start making a name for myself in the IM world Obviously "Razzy" isn't my name, but I use variations of this pen name when working online. A few places I use my real name, but not many But hey, I look at it like I paid for my education as I went through it. Now a days college kids don't save a dime and then get hit with a $40,000+ bill after 4 years of school I have no debt, I have a great lady by my side and a beautiful daughter. I don't have a college education because I decided to pave my own path and become the boss I wanted when I was working a 9-5 in order to pay my bills I think I'm almost there, maybe in another year or two I can pay my people a ludicrous amount for being so loyal to me over the years
Yeah, I look back on it a lot though since it was one of my first bigger clients :D I don't mind now, it was a learning experience and maybe that is what spurred me to start making a name for myself in the IM world :D Obviously "Razzy" isn't my name, but I use variations of this pen name when working online. A few places I use my real name, but not many :D
It took 3 years, maybe 4, but it was a hard road because I was working online at least 12 hours a day not making much. I would be happy if I broke even when playing around with my websites. I would have profited if I didn't invest my profits into books and courses to learn how to work with websites :D But hey, I look at it like I paid for my education as I went through it. Now a days college kids don't save a dime and then get hit with a $40,000+ bill after 4 years of school :D I have no debt, I have a great lady by my side and a beautiful daughter. I don't have a college education because I decided to pave my own path and become the boss I wanted when I was working a 9-5 in order to pay my bills :D I think I'm almost there, maybe in another year or two I can pay my people a ludicrous amount for being so loyal to me over the years :)
Only time will tell :D
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I love stories like these because they show your passion for succeeding when people say you can't do something. Your story is very close to my own actually. I was also lead on by promises of fancy cars, and mansions.
At first I didn't know where to start, or what to sell. I started to sell graphics, because at the time I wanted to be a graphic designer but it didn't work out. I guess I lost my edge, and that passion quickly faded away. I then dabbled in PHP scripts, and got an idea to start my own online text-based MMORPG. I then later quit that, but still started to code, and I learned more and more, and then offered social services on this marketplace and then later stopped that and now offer my own PHP scripts. :)
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happy to know that i inspired you and it's quiet nice story shared by you here.Are you sure you want to delete this post?
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I used to work at home a few minutes every day, which was only because I had very little time to spare because of my actual job. Back then I was loving that little time I spent online and hating all the hours I spent at work because of ridiculous tasks I had to do and bosses which I just could not stand. Then as time went by I started to increase the amount of time I spent online and my 'popularity' with clients increased. I got busier and had more work, and now I basically am online most of the time writing! :)
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TommyCarey
In 2004, I started to get into SEO because I now knew that I couldn't just put ads on my websites and profit, I had to bust my ass and do some work
In 2005, After busting my ass working online for my own websites I thought I could set up some test websites and hone my SEO and Marketing skills. I told myself that when I made, on average, $50 a day from sales and client sign ups, I would start selling my services to others who needed help with their rankings. After about 6 months of working online part time, I was hitting my $50 a day mark.
In 2006, I launched my own SEO and Online Marketing service and the website looked horrible, but people paid me anyways because I was quick to respond to any questions they had
Fast forward to now, I'm the founder and CEO of my company and we're going strong
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