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Author: Aron Prins
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When I was 6…
I was 6 when I first saw the internet. It was 1996, I came home to my Dad and he showed me a big white screen with an even taller big white box next to it:
“Aron, this is a computer. It gives us access to the internet!”
He connected to the internet via a dial-up modem and he fired up the Netscape internet browser:
“Type in anything you’d like to know!?”
Being 6, I couldn’t come up with anything better then what would be on tv, which back then was unheard of (if I’d had only seen the potential then, hahaha!) so he showed me some results he came up with, making me realise immediatly that this was going to be big.
At 7, I was introduced to a friend of my Dad, still remember: Fred Philippo.
I have no clue what he did at the time, but I remember him as my Dasd’s cool friend who had a ton of games and software, computers galore, and an entire room dedicated to it all.
Fred was awesome enough to introduce me to CoffeeCup, one of the first HTML editors online. He attempted to teach me basic HTML and showed me how to make a web page.
No WordPress. No Themes. No Plugins.
I had 0: a blank notepad file with some weird scribbling in it which at the time… Didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Fast forwarding: gaming (Wolfenstein 3D, Tomb Raider I and Max Payne), my Dad passing away (I was 14), making ny own websites since 8 years old…
I picked up the art of magic, and was able to get in touch with a magician in the USA. He was one of the many magicians creating his own effects and selling them on his website.
I bluffed myself into making him a site, to become friends with him and work together.
Thats when I learned determitation: I had just bluffed myself into a job and the client accepted!
I had to learn HTML, learn Photoshop, and create a full blown website that would actually be a complete site, blog, webshop system and e-mail system in one installation. It’s one of my specialties by the way but anyhow…. I did learn it all doing it with little bits of PHP, HTML, CSS, and some tables xD
He thought me magic for free, he got a cool website! He was selling via PayPal at the time, and all was running smoothly.
He teamed up with other magicians:
“Need a website? Aron’s your guy!”
Since then, and still I work with a group of magicians and cardistry artists ( click that link, you’ll like it. Promise 😉 ) and maintain their sites, and sometimes even host them through our hosting company.
I got into internet marketing around 2010, being introduced by a vague (dutch) video that promised something along the lines of: work 4 hours a day and get $2500 a week… An impossible promise that simply couldn’t be lived unto, unless they have a magic machine that generates a product, website, converting sales copy and of course, please don’t forget: The traffic, that needs to be of such quality that it actually converts with the offer… In just four hours a day? And btw that’s just the beginning of starting your own product and services.
I had my own physical phone repair company with a friend, which we ran out of my home.
All said and done, we ran it for a year and a half and decided it was best to part ways. Had a lot of fun, but for some reason it just wasn’t profitable -> Should write a story about this xD
From there I started to figure out how to work online from home, and came to the conclusion that it was best to run SAAS services: Products that require such software that fills a gap, something someone might need for their business, and a product that you can charge monthly for.
Each customer you rake in, you can bill monthly as your product offers a service which needs high maintenance for example.
Servers, domains, support, interaction, finances and so much more that comes around the corner when you have your own business.
So when I started out, I got with a shared hosting package for all my sites. They where good, cheap, and charged me per year at a fair price. Had a bunch here and there, and built up a product the published at a social network.
I charged monthly for it, and offered a free version to test out.
Doing all this at being 22, I considered this “easy”. I setup PayPal recurring billing, created a nice big clear buy button ($1 Trials!) and did some SEO work – If you want my exact methods, hit the contact method above – and landed on the first page of Google.
Traffic came in organically, people where LOOKING FOR MY PRODUCT……………………. which was of course the best situation to be in as a seller.
I even got word around town, and I guy came up to me asking me if I could create a poker website for him. He was paying too much renting a script then if he’d let one be made. I offered him to partner up and together we started pokersitesnamehere.nl 🙂
Thinking about the site I had made a few weeks later, I considered the fact… What if I sold this site… I could create unlimited duplicates of it, license them and charge them X amount to run the script.
So back to the hosting 🙂 I met Sharon after creating my initial product, and together we started looking at ideas, domain names and so much more an registered them with various hosting and domain registration companies.
We’ve done a lot of things together already, and we’re now proud to introduce you to Cloudustries, our hosting and domain registration company! -
Predicting The Future
In this post we’re going to predict the future: Bots for Messenger is going to be one of the next biggest selling platforms that will be available to the general public.
It could be used to generate income online more easily than ever.
The simple fact alone that you can now auto-reply to a Messenger message is going to absolutely change the game:
Imagine being able to predict the question that the customer will ask you, and auto replying to that within just five minutes.
But not only that the: Facebook API is now allowing you to build your own custom bots.
What we’re planning to do is create an application that allows to define keywords and based upon those keywords you’re going to be able to auto-reply a Message to your potential customer.
Once this is done we’ll release a beta version to the public where people are able to get in for life and get limited updates, support, feature requests and so much more.
Imagine the ability to create an autoresponder for your messenger app…
That’s all we’re going to say about it though because we’re already working on a platform for you to use… We’re looking forward to inviting you soon to what we predict is the future of online selling.
Cheers,
Aron & Sharon -
Busy planning & the future.
The last couple of weeks Sharon and I have been very busy with planning. The future, how we’re going to duplicate what we have accomplished so far but most of all: how can we give back?
We’ve been very fortunate to launch our business and within a year be fully independent. By independent, I mean no third party stuff. We do it all ourselves, in-house.
Exciting times are ahead, and we can’t wait to share what we have coming. For the past 4 months, we have been very focused on building our own blogging platform, creating training courses and converting received feedback to reality, and creating what is in demand.
Stay tuned, we have some awesome stuff to share with you very soon.
Take care,
Aron