Hey, any time you feel you're too geeky, just remember this: I teach a course in video games (focusing a lot on those PC RPGs you're talking about). And I created it. Now THAT'S geeky.

Alex Stiner

I've been posting on the board for a while now and I think its time I formally introduced myself...

Name: Ramon Thomas

Age: 30 (till April 2006)

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Primary Business Venture: Internet Research, Marketing

Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science, and currently busy with Masters in Information Science

Years in business: Dec 2003
- Online since 1993
- Own website since 1995

Favorite Interests
- Eastern Philosophy especially Taoism, Tai Chi, Zen
- Self-help, self-improvement, motivational speaking
- Sales, marketing and the Internet

And most definitely...
- Mariah Carey

Favorite Book
- anything by Osho
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Favorite Movie
- anything with Jim Carrey (especially Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Truman Show, The Mask)
- Don Juan Demarco
- The Matrix (all)

Favorite TV Show
- X-Files
- Frasier
- currently Las Vegas

Favorite Websites
- http://www.datingbuzz.com/s/a/500
- http://www.kalahari.net

My Website(s) I wish to share
http://ramonthomas.com
http://www.netucation.co.za

Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.
- Double Your Dating by David DeAngelo
- Strategic Coach by Dan Sullivan

Who do you look up to in business (in South Africa)
- Tony Roocroft
- Arthur Goldstuck
- Heinz Buttkewits (passed away)

Hobbies
- Tai Chi
- Classical music
- watching a good film

And a few samples of my silly love poems can be read here:
http://ramonthomas.com/poems/2004.html

Favorite Quote
"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." Pablo Picasso

Name: Andy Catsimanes
Age: 44 (D.O.B. May 31st, 1961)

Location: Overland Park, KS (Temporary)

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting, Marketing
Formerly Restaurant Management, Inside Sales

College
University of Florida ’79-85
Majored in Chemistry, Economics, Philosophy.

Years in business
Restaurant Manager 1987-1996
Restaurant Owner/Manager 1996-2001
Inside Sales 2001-2002
First website 2005.

Favorite Interests
Hangin with Shawn, my wife.
Politics, Life, the Universe, and Everything
Florida Gator Football
Outdoors, Snowboarding, Surfing…(Guess why I don’t plan on being in Kansas anymore.)

Favorite Non-Marketing Books (I gotta agree, it feels “icky” spilling the beans on this stuff…)
“Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics”, and “The Dialogical Mind” by Mikhail Bakhtin
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle
“Immortality,” and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” by Milan Kundera
The Bible

Anything by Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, John Gardener esp. Grendel.

Copywriting/Marketing Books
1. Influence by Robert Cialdini
2. Working my way through “Successful Direct Marketing Methods” By Bob Stone
3. Just ordered "Breakthrough Advertising"

Favorite Movies
American Beauty
Anything by Charlie Kaufmann…”Being John Malkovich” “Adaptation,” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
“The Big Lebowski”
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”
“Grand Canyon”
“Animal House”

Favorite TV Shows
“24”
“My Name Is Earl”
“Jeopardy”

Who do you look up to in business?
It’s ok if I say M. Fortin?
Dr. Harlan Kilstein
JP, and Alan Forest Smith

Hobbies
Hangin with Shawn, my wife.
Karaoke (OK, I’ll go along with that.) I do a bitchin’ “Mack The Knife”
Voracious Reading


Favorite Quote
“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are’” Nietzsche

Name
Terry Brazil

Age
26

Location
Michigan, United States

Primary Business Venture
Guruofinfo.com - Solutions Found Here A Series of book ideas as well as a possible large amount of content. Looking to give solutions to peoples problems.

College
- Computer Science

Years in business
First year marketer

Favorite Interests
- Sales, marketing, writing copy
- Reading about marketing
- Family
- Poker
-Tattooing

Favorite Book
- Been reading so many I cant remember names and authors. Just remember all of the info I have accumulated.

Favorite Movie
- Sin City

Favorite Music Genre
-Metal all the way

Favorite TV Show
- Lost

Liked Websites
- www.ozemedia.com/
- www.thesecondtier.com/

My Website(s) I wish to share
http://www.guruofinfo.com/


Who do you look up to in business
- Phil Wiley
- Russell Brunson

Hobbies
- Poker
- Reading

Favorite Quote
"Carpe Noctum"
(Seize the Night)

I really would like to have a mentor if anybody is interested. You would not be educating a noob or holding my hand. Just need a fellow marketer that has real life experience to talk to. I have read over 30 marketing books so I have some info to bring to the table. Just need to get myself some real life experience and some money comming in now.

Thanks
d0m1n10n

Name
Carol Dorman

Age
42

Location
Sydney, Australia

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting

Years in business
1

Favourite Interests
- Writing - songs, fiction, non-fiction - pretty much anything that inspires me.
- Singing - goes with the songwriting I guess...
- Antique books
- All things chocolate!!!


Favourite Book

Hmm.. don't really have an all-time fave. Tend to like the classics though.

Favourite Movie
- Anything that makes me laugh. Not into tear-jerkers.

Favourite TV Show
- The Glass House
- The Chaser's War on Everything
(they're both local - you wouldn't know 'em )

Favourite Website
- http://www.businessmums.com

My Website
http://quillwritingservices.com.au (in the process of being revamped)

Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.
- The Well Fed Writer by Peter Bowerman

________________

Look forward to getting to know you all

Cheers,
Carol

Name:
Barry W. Morris

Age:
Older than dirt.

Location:
60 seconds from the Pacific Ocean in Aptos, California

Primary Business:
Teaching business strategies to freelance copywriters

Years in Business:
7

Personal Interests:
Sampling every Starbucks coffee known to man...every week, learning to surf...at 48...painful...

Favorite Books:
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
The Garden of Eden, Hemingway
Longshot, Dick Francis

Favorite Business Books / eBooks:
The Brain Audit, Sean D'Souza eBook
A Copywriter's Dream Business, Barry W. Morris
Yours free on my web site!
Good To Great, Jim Collins

Favorite Web Sites:
Psychological Marketing Business Tactics: Small Business Ideas
Small Business Owners: Make a profit without losing your heart
NPR : National Public Radio : News, Arts, World, US.

My Web Site
BarryMorris.com - Profitable eStrategies for Freelance Copywriters

My Life's Purpose:
Raising Justin.

Hello everyone!

Name:
Ladan Lashkari

Age:
20

Location:
Tehran, Iran

Primary Business Venture:
Infoproduct marketing, email marketing, Google AdSense

Years in Business:
4 years - since 2002

Favorite Books:
Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
Unlimited Power (Anthony Robbins)

Favorite Movies:
Big Fish
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump

My Websites I Wish to Share:
How to Find Best-Selling Product Ideas
Sales Pulling Marketing
Free Newsletter Ideas
Splendid Day

Hobbies:
Learning new things about any topic
Travelling to new places and meeting new people
Music (playing piano)

I wish everybody a wonderful day!

Welcome, Ladan!

Thank you Michel! I'm happy to have found this forum!

Name
Kimberly Webb (Kim)

Age
26

Location
San Antonio, Texas

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting and dabble in graphic design

College
- University of Texas - Associates Degree Communications, Electronic Media
- University of Phoenix- Bachelors Marketing, Business

Years in business
Hmm...lets see

In '98 (High School) I was the oldest one out of my friends- So I would buy everyone ciggs for a profit. Never took up smoking myself though, it would eat into my profit margins.

Then from 98-2001 I worked for Gateway Computers as a Software Instructor. It was there that I learned to be a mega computer geek- I can learn almost any new program within minutes and can teach it to someone else within 10. Don't believe me? Try me? If you ever have a software question, shoot me a PM.

Then from 2001-2004 I worked as the marketing assistant/then marketing director for a QuickBooks training company. The CEO could sell ice to eskimos (and I got to learn his tricks) but was a complete putz - who made me question my ethics each and every day of my employment.

2004- I told my employer to stuff it and started freelancing! I have been writing and doing graphic design ever since. I love what I do, I do right by my clients, and I sleep well at night.

Favorite Interests
- I have a four and a half month old son who is my world. When I am not writing, I am at play groups or trying my hardest to make him giggle. That is my sole purpose in life- to make the boy giggle till milk shoots out of his nose!

Favorite Book
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- Green Eggs & Ham (Dr. Seuss) Don't knock it- that book teaches you to not be afraid of trying new things.

Favorite Movie
- The Matrix Series
- Star Wars Movies
- Anything by Kevin Smith

Favorite TV Show
- Stargate Sg-1
- Daily Show by Jon Stewart
- Days of our Lives (my guilty pleasure)

Favorite Websites
- http://www.myspace.com/kimbokarriedesigns
- http://www.dirtydiapers.blogspot.com

Who do you look up to in business
-Still learning who is who in the biz, but I think that everyone brings a different dynamic to the party. We are all putting ourselves out there trying to make our own path.

Hobbies
-Changing diapers
-Making bottles
-Wiping up spit up
-Razzing my son's tummy
-Sleep

Did I mention I have a four and a half month old? (wink,wink)

Favorite Quote
"And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) Kid you'll move mountains!" -Dr. Seuss