About

My name is Zee, I live in the UK and this blog offers an insight into my webmastering experiences online.  The focus and content is 100% related to what I personally do online, offering case studies of my own projects aswell as general articles on web development, marketing and web design.  Although I don’t publish very often I do try to put out a new article every month. 

What This Site Isn’t

Indirectly this site covers the subject of making money online but my intentions are not to talk purely about the money aspect. Why ? Well my personal view is that talking exclusively about how much money I’m making online or how much money you can potentially make online is a complete waste of time. In most cases the motivation the reader receives is short lived, and in the long run he or she receives no real substance or guidance on how they can develop their own web prescence online. 

This blog therefore is an avenue for me to offer a collection of articles that real webmasters will appreciate and find beneficial. Some webmasters build sites to profit, others build them out of passion, the point is my articles should offer something for everyone. 

At no point in time will I ever show you how to make money online, you’ll have to figure that part out on your own. However I’m pretty sure most of my articles will give you some great ideas and real substance on how to get started and develop your own online business. The web is a great medium to share ideas, develop contacts and of course learn from others and this is my only reason for starting this blog.

More About Me

Although I’m not a big fan of writing about myself im sure a little introduction into what I’ve been doing and how I got to where I am might be interesting for some, so here it goes.

After graduating from university with a bachelors in computer science like most people I went out looking for a job. My working life started back in 2001 when I joined the gradute programme for a pretty decent investment banking firm. I spent 5 years there, working in a mixture of technical roles.  

Now don’t get me wrong, working for others is great and early on it’s a great way to skill up but after 5 years working for others I was really desperate to try something on my own.

So back in January 2006 I handed in my resignation and stepped into what must honestly be said is the unglamorous and often over rated world of self employment. For the next two years my activities comprised of buying and selling radio controlled toys, and imported gadgets on eBay.

This was a great time for me, I was working from home, playing video games during work hours and the income was pretty damn impressive too. Unfortunately like all good things about 2 years into my success on eBay things started to change. 

The fun, open marketplace which was great for finding anything and everything online was now so tightly policed that it became a little too cramped for my style. Combine this with continuous policy changes, fee hikes and a general increased favouring of the buyer over the seller forced me to finally sell up and move into full time webmastering in 2007/2008. (I can go on for hours talking about eBay and how it screwed up things but I won’t bore you with that aspect of my life)

Present & Future

So that’s where I am now, I run a small but growing portfolio of sites, some of them developed from scratch, others purchased after being seeded by others. The work as you can imagine is varied and taps into a number of key skill sets including web design, programming, seo as well as the general marketing and promotion side of things.

Despite the wide range of tasks the sole objective of this work remains the same and that is to create and deliver quality sites with useful content and features. If people don’t enjoy or gain anything useful from a site then it has no value. Any site that fulfils the above characteristics is bound to give you a positive return of income in the long term which is what site flipping and this website are all about.

Other Stuff

Ok so I develop, invest and flip websites but other than that from time to time I also work for others via my operations at creative9.com.

As well as paid work I try to spend some time releasing free wordpress themes every year. Wordpress in my opinion is one of the greatest CMS’s ever to hit the net, so releasing free themes is my way of giving something back.

Well that’s about it, if you still have any questions for me, drop me a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.