Personal Bio
Hi my name is Bradley G. Smith. I realize you may not know who I am. So if you have a minute, please allow me to bring you up to speed.
I live in Indianapolis, IN. I have lived here ever since I was 9. At one point, I lived a block away from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but I have never actually been to an Indianapolis 500 race.
I graduated high school in '99 and went to college in Florida for two years. When I transferred, none of my 69 credits or 3.91 GPA transferred with me. It was an unaccredited college. Whether it was a mistake going there or not is debatable, I learned a lot while I was there. I then transferred to a private college here in Indy. This was definitely a mistake. At the time, the price was $8-9k PER SEMESTER and I didn't have the money to pay for it. I couldn't get transfer scholarships because none of my credits transferred and I couldn't get freshman scholarships because I wasn't a freshman. Enter student loans. I went there for two years. I'm sure you can do the math.
When I came to my senses, I transferred to IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis). After drilling out a long three years and racking up more student debt, I graduated with my B.S. in Business Management from the IU Kelley School of Business in May of '07.
How I Got Into Web Design. After going to the private college here in Indy, I sat out a year trying to develop and run my own insurance and investments business. I had some success but in the end I had to get a part-time job to make up for the lack of clients and sales. At this point however, I knew I wanted to be my own boss and call my own shots. When I transferred to IUPUI, I wanted to change majors to computer information systems. You know, get on the forefront of technology and the internet. I ended up not changing majors because it was going to add even more time to the three years I had ahead of me.
But in September of 2005, as I was in the school bookstore getting books for the upcoming semester (which, by the way, the student book market is highway robbery), I noticed I could get a copy of the Macromedia (at the time, now Adobe) Suite for $25 as a student. I jumped all over that opportunity. I began studying Dreamweaver and reading documentation on how to use it. I put up my first site, eyoucandoit.com, which at the time was dedicated to showing people how to create wealth through real estate *scratch my head*. Book knowledge is a lot less useful than practical knowledge.
At this time, I reached a turning point. An internet marketing newbie, I was trying to learn how to get traffic to my site. Enter Mike Filsaime. When I searched for "free website advertising" at the time, instantbuzz.com came up. And after I got on Mike Filsaime's list, the rest is, as they say, history. He introduced me to Michael Cheney, Brad Callen, Andy Jenkins, Brad Fallon, Mark Joyner, Joel Comm, Sterling Valentine, Jonathan Leger, Kelvin Hui, Anik Singal, Keith Wellman, Michael Rasmussen, Codrut Turcanu, Cody Moya, Jeff Walker, the list goes on. Who am I forgetting?
As I quickly learned more through my studies about web design, I changed eyoucandoit.com to focus on web design. I also began developing adsense sites and blogs right at the point when Google, rightfully so, made it more difficult to create "spam blogs" and "spam websites".
As I spent hundreds and thousands of dollars over the last couple of years learning internet marketing and failing and getting back up and trying again, I also continued to develop my skills as a web programmer and designer.
And recently, I reached the point where I can develop scripts for myself that have been useful for internet marketing. And it has even got to the point where when I think of a new idea, I can just create it. And, aside from being a huge visionary, I am an idea man. I have a million ideas a minute. Having ideas and being able to create products is good if you have JV partners or can drive traffic to your sites (whether through paid advertising, free advertising, or search engine optimization).
ENTER Internet Marketing Generation 2.0 (read my post about Internet Marketing Generation 2.0 for more details)
I live in Indianapolis, IN. I have lived here ever since I was 9. At one point, I lived a block away from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but I have never actually been to an Indianapolis 500 race.
I graduated high school in '99 and went to college in Florida for two years. When I transferred, none of my 69 credits or 3.91 GPA transferred with me. It was an unaccredited college. Whether it was a mistake going there or not is debatable, I learned a lot while I was there. I then transferred to a private college here in Indy. This was definitely a mistake. At the time, the price was $8-9k PER SEMESTER and I didn't have the money to pay for it. I couldn't get transfer scholarships because none of my credits transferred and I couldn't get freshman scholarships because I wasn't a freshman. Enter student loans. I went there for two years. I'm sure you can do the math.
When I came to my senses, I transferred to IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis). After drilling out a long three years and racking up more student debt, I graduated with my B.S. in Business Management from the IU Kelley School of Business in May of '07.
How I Got Into Web Design. After going to the private college here in Indy, I sat out a year trying to develop and run my own insurance and investments business. I had some success but in the end I had to get a part-time job to make up for the lack of clients and sales. At this point however, I knew I wanted to be my own boss and call my own shots. When I transferred to IUPUI, I wanted to change majors to computer information systems. You know, get on the forefront of technology and the internet. I ended up not changing majors because it was going to add even more time to the three years I had ahead of me.
But in September of 2005, as I was in the school bookstore getting books for the upcoming semester (which, by the way, the student book market is highway robbery), I noticed I could get a copy of the Macromedia (at the time, now Adobe) Suite for $25 as a student. I jumped all over that opportunity. I began studying Dreamweaver and reading documentation on how to use it. I put up my first site, eyoucandoit.com, which at the time was dedicated to showing people how to create wealth through real estate *scratch my head*. Book knowledge is a lot less useful than practical knowledge.
At this time, I reached a turning point. An internet marketing newbie, I was trying to learn how to get traffic to my site. Enter Mike Filsaime. When I searched for "free website advertising" at the time, instantbuzz.com came up. And after I got on Mike Filsaime's list, the rest is, as they say, history. He introduced me to Michael Cheney, Brad Callen, Andy Jenkins, Brad Fallon, Mark Joyner, Joel Comm, Sterling Valentine, Jonathan Leger, Kelvin Hui, Anik Singal, Keith Wellman, Michael Rasmussen, Codrut Turcanu, Cody Moya, Jeff Walker, the list goes on. Who am I forgetting?
As I quickly learned more through my studies about web design, I changed eyoucandoit.com to focus on web design. I also began developing adsense sites and blogs right at the point when Google, rightfully so, made it more difficult to create "spam blogs" and "spam websites".
As I spent hundreds and thousands of dollars over the last couple of years learning internet marketing and failing and getting back up and trying again, I also continued to develop my skills as a web programmer and designer.
And recently, I reached the point where I can develop scripts for myself that have been useful for internet marketing. And it has even got to the point where when I think of a new idea, I can just create it. And, aside from being a huge visionary, I am an idea man. I have a million ideas a minute. Having ideas and being able to create products is good if you have JV partners or can drive traffic to your sites (whether through paid advertising, free advertising, or search engine optimization).
ENTER Internet Marketing Generation 2.0 (read my post about Internet Marketing Generation 2.0 for more details)
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