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  • Developer

  • Photographer

  • Enthusiast

  • Freelancer

A midwestern computer geek with a focus on business, marketing, and ecommerce

My family opened their first bakery in 1934 and have been growing ever since. I take the business and professional knowledge of my family and use it to pursue my own entrepreneurial aspirations, which have evolved from custom building PC’s in 2002, administrating networks and servers, designing websites and graphics since 2004, to eCommerce which I hit the ground running with in 2008.

Being surrounded by business all my life, I can confidently say that I understand what is important, what deserves the most time, and what creates the most sales from a satisfied customer base. This combination of real world business and consitently being on the ‘up and up’ with new websites and marketing techniques makes me truly a unique asset.

MyA4B7.com – My venture into niche marketing

I have done a few websites in different niches, moving from small-business local operations, to international ecommerce websites powered by Magento, but I’ve only dabbled in niche marketing specifically for advertising sales and affiliate sales.  Typically I work at the end-user’s ecommerce website, or the destination of the middle-man site.

Last Thursday I picked up a 2008 Audi A4 Quattro, I plan on modifying it and doing most of the work to it myself (mechanical, electrical, interior, exterior), and documenting it on a blog to attract potential advertisers and order from businesses that offer affiliate programs and start using only amazon affiliate network, to earn a couple bucks off of doing something that I love.  Since I’ve really buckled-down on my photography, it will be a good way to document and progress in automotive photography, just as I had done with my 5 Series.

There already is a site similar to what I will be doing, ironically named ‘Nick’s Car Blog‘, I don’t plan on copying his exact layout, ideas, or workflow, but since the car is nearly identical it may end up looking somewhat similar.  I will be going back in time and running a website dedicated to my BMW E39 as well, as I’ve spent years researching, modifying, and maintaining mine.

I believe it will be a good start to building up more SEO and honest-content websites, as google is heading more to it’s own service driven results (Google+ pages show first, Google author accounts extend the results in Google, etc.), I will learn a lot on how to stay on the edge of Google’s endlessly updating search algorithms and ways of displaying the data, going much farther than my current expertise in Local results.

I will document my experiences, both good and bad, on this blog and a few SEO-based forums.