01/20/2020
Edit: I had to clear some things up and rewrote this whole thing. Truth is Objective.
I wanted to post an update of The NearbyTechGuy, a few years after we closed up shop. As you can see, my last post was in November of 2016.
I had worked for Office Depot through college at SPC, paying my way through both school and work at max capacity. Met a girl and lived focused for a few years, living with family and getting out of college near debt free.
She went away to college which we were to do together, but my father worked for corporate America for 35 years. I had to change up the family dynasty.
I decided to stay in town, quit office depot, and pursue entrepreneurship full time.
Best decision I ever made.
I had the time to fully develop my health, daily schedule, reading, exercise, and work schedule. I was making it happen 😎
After a year or so my client base was drying up, the pamphlets and local newsletters and business cards at local shops, and coupon books just didn't cut the Mustard for growth. I was going so above and beyond for my clients, that a few visits and they would be so beyond hooked up and efficient with their technology than ever before that, after 3-5 $50 house calls or a $100 service here and there just didn't cut the Mustard for a wealthy life and changing the family status quo (which is why courses are so effecticve at scale). My parents raiased 8 kids. I should be able to take the work and focus that my parents put into their lives and create the next chapter. As my mom always told me, she wants the west wing 😁 🌅 🌄
At this time, I decided to use the money id made, and not buy something fancy or upgrade my 2000 Expedition that tan great despite the 230,000 miles. I can fix my own dang car.
I decided to do what i had dine before with the Technibble local PC Repair growth kit, and take it one step further and invest heavily in learning the Digital Marketing industry. Years of intense research, categorization, courses, and webinars. I decided, instead of trying to get caught up using this knowledge as a way to create a fully flushed out PC Repair company, which, i could do again in a few years as i instead use this to help others just the way i had learned to grow and scale my own business.
As I was ready to implement and scale The NearbyTechGuy, I realized that I had an opportunity to use my skills and knowledge to create a digital marketing agency. "The ROI Advantage" - A resource for knowledge and worthwhile courses and business opportunities for young entrepreneurs and ezperiemced professionals alike. Nah, maybe someday. "The PPC Advantage" - Developing Paid advertising strategies that achieve any level of local growth.
By this time, I had spent so much money and time on developing the back end of these companies, and plans for future growth, shops, employees, salespeople, and white label partners.
I realized in order to do this right, I'd need about 10-25k to do things the way I had planned.
It's time to practice my God given enthusiasm for helping people and sales, that working at a high Volume, potential big money dealership with Toyota would be a perfect opportunity for 6 months to 2 years.
It was during this time that I underwent a few more journeys.
1. I was suddenly blessed by God with a daughter from a woman that was told it could never happen.
2. I decided to spend what little money I had on two opportunities that would allow me to get out of a 60hr a week job that wasn't nearly the money that I was lead to believe by certain people.
3. I invested in an e-Commerce course H-COM 30-30 as well as the wealth of information and opportunities as the team at Traffic and Funnels.
"The WonderWorld Marketplace" was born before my daughter. Built every pixel and automation and product sourcing etc etc. myself.
I didn't have the money to scale this. My daughter was sick, I was missing work, then we moved to Indiana to see a specialist for my daughter.
One year in and out of the hospital. Spending my money on ecommerce was at the bottom of my priority list.
The company progress had to fizzle out.
While being awake for my daughter through the nights on the hospital, I refocused to another opportunity. Coaching or consulting solutions. DFY and DWY programs based on what I had learned in my experience.
So I decided to pursue this model in "Growth by Design".
I built everything the back end of a company like that would need. I connected with the titans of these industries across social platforms, formed connections.
Daughter 2 was conceived at the peak of recovering from that first year of chaos with my first. I moved us to a beautiful apartment on the water so that my partner and daughter could be happy.
I could pursue my businesses.
Well, we moved before I was ready to launch. The ex did not get long my parents (despite the fact that I do) and the intensity of I'll manners and improper social function, I had to move her out with the only $8k I could scrape together.
Then she couldn't take care of being a mother despite the cozy life.
I was full time dad, emotional dumping ground of a woman who'd been broken by every meaningful presence in her entire childhood.
We knew we wanted our kids to be within 2 years of eachother. It was the right thing to do and were lucky we saw that so clearly.
She became ill during the second pregnancy, and after.
Things got worse from there. I was full time caretaker of not only 2 daughters, but also a broken woman.
We moved back in with my parents despite the past.
I didn't have money, but I had every opportunity I had built since graduating high school. been building these opportunities for a decade now, I can make it happen.
Well, the past has a history of repeating. This broken woman wrecked havoc. Kicked out again, we ended up having to move into a decently nice extended stay hotel with $3k loaned from my parents as an act of good will towards me and what I could accomplish.
I didn't want to spend my only $3k on the $2k/mo hotel, I needed cash and quick.
I bought a course on sales closing. Which is a fantastic program btw.
She continued to be unable and unwilling to take care of the house qhile I drove uber and studied this course.
I'd have a quick access to stable income from sales, and we could rent a house and then I can approach my businesses again.
She proved to be an unfit mother and continuous destroyer of all things good, all things proper, and all things partnership.
My pursuit of building proper companies, it is all absolute labors of love, sacrifice, and commitment. This industry had called my name, god had shown me my path, and I'm fortunate that I decided to listen
If you have any PC repair related questions feel free to reach out, I still enjoy the work. I won't be doing any work for you, but I can point you in the right direction, save you time and money in an industry full of "experts" trying to make a buck".
For now, I need to help my friends make money with "i aaM Gaming" so that I can then hire them into "The ROI Advantage" and take over.
