Business Thoughts

I’ve never seen myself as an entrepreneur even though I obviously am an entrepreneur. Was thinking back on my life and it’s surprising how long it took to start my first real business (~28 years old).

My business and work history

My elder brother at school age worked on a milk round and sold scratch lottery type tickets door to door. At around the age of 13-14 I also sold the scratch lottery tickets door to door and would make a few quid a week. Interesting fact: I realised the winning lottery tickets had print errors (the winners had all been printed on the same machines ) and I could pick out all the £1 and £5 winners out of the packs I sold!

As an online business owner I’ve been hit by the recession, fortunately I’m in a niche business (search engine optimization services) where I’ve been turning potential clients away for years: I don’t run an online SEO business just to make money, I want to enjoy what I do so I’ve been very picky with which businesses I take on as clients and I’m very good at what I do, so there’s always been more potential SEO clients than I can cope with.

Read a very interesting news article today on Reuters news Britain lures talent: sci-tech entrepreneurs move in

LONDON (Reuters) – It took only a few weeks of research for Romanian entrepreneur Emi Gal to decide where to base his digital media firm, and his choice confounds a fairly enduring set of stereotypes about Britain’s global appeal.

As my regular readers know I own a number of websites including one on the 2010 UK General Election where supporters of a fringe right-wing political party, The British National Party (BNP) are consistently arguing ALL immigration is bad for Britain (they want to close our borders and pay legal immigrants to leave!).

Well it was 3:30am in the morning and I’m just about to shut my PC down for the night and go to bed, when I get the following virus warning from Avast:

C:\Program Files\Spybot – Search & Destroy\SDHelper.dll
Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]
Trojan Horse
091203-0, 03/12/2009

As soon as I realised it was SpyBot Search & Destroy I almost crapped my pants in panic! If that’s infected it must be a really BAD virus infection!!

Avast wouldn’t delete the file because it’s running and after scanning the Spybot – Search & Destroy folder with Avast I got multiple warnings of the same Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj] trojan virus infection!

Was reading a blog post titled If You’re Reading This Blog Post… You Could Get $100,000 Worth of Coaching and Products From Me.

Basically you answer three questions to win some business coaching and products from Rich Schefren. Inspired me to write a post as it hit home to a problem I’ve been having for going on two decades!

1. Do you know what your single greatest constraint is right now? If so, what is it?

My biggest constraint is a physical disability, while at University in my early twenties (studying genetics with an aim to being a research scientist) my lower back got so bad I couldn’t complete my three year Bsc degree. After dropping out of Uni I couldn’t work due to back pain whilst sitting/standing (had to claim government benefits on medical grounds).

My name is David Cameron Law, I was born in a small town in the UK called Swanwick in Derbyshire (East Midlands) on May 19th 1970 which makes me 38 years old.

I’ve always believed (in fact assumed) that one day I’d be a multi-millionaire, well so far my assumptions pretty much falls within the saying:

When You Assume, You Make An Ass out of U and Me

So this site is hopefully, no scratch that WILL document my journey to becoming a millionaire by the time I’m 45 years old.