The Official Introduction Thread.

[rcjordan]

Hello all!

[buckworks]

It's good to see the familiar names in this thread!

I hail from a small town in the Canadian prairies, where no one understands what I do.

In previous lives I spent several years as a stay-at-home mom, and also taught at both the junior high and college level. I took time off when my parents were ill, stumbled into affiliate marketing, and never went back to the classroom. I've been a freelance affiliate for several years and also do some limited SEO and PPC consulting. Over the years I've been active on the old CJU forums, ABW, Threadwatch, WMW and a few other places.

My hat is 99% white, partly because that's the ethics I strive for, but as a practical matter I don't have enough technical skills to do anything very black! My strengths are more on the writing and content side of things.

I sold one of my sites last year for A Very Pleasant Sum but I'm still having too much fun to retire. So many ideas ... so little time ...

[Woz]

Welcome Bucky, good to see you here. 

[jimbanks]

Nice to see you here Elizabeth.

Thanks for giving me a lift to the Convention Center at Pubcon last month, much appreciated.

[robert_charlton]

Welcome to a bunch of folks too numerous to mention.  Good to see you here. 

[Rooftop]

I was hoping to just sneak in unnoticed, but got spotted by Brad and promted to post here.  Introduction then...

I run a web development / marketing agency on the South Coast of England.  This is my fifteenth year playing this game full time, so I have bumped in to and had contact with quite a few of the names here over the years.  Unfortunately I am one of those weird twitching paranoid freaks who uses different names all the time so I don't think many of you will know me. 

Over recent years we've concentrated more on development over marketing, but that is changing a bit and I seem to be getting more involved in SEO again of late.

Currently interested in automating the parts of SEO that made me switch to a more technical role some years ago. 

[Brad]

Glad you are here Rooftop.   

[littleman]

Welcome Rooftop!

[Rooftop]

Cheers. Nice to see I've now lost my "new boy" credit in the top left of screen.

[eurotrash]

I'm a bugger.  I've always been a bugger but now I'm a bugger with 2 kids and a Yank.

Nice to see some friendly faces.

[littleman]

Eurotrash, welcome.

[Rumbas]

Welcome to the show!

[Elaine]

Name's Elaine and been around a long, long time -  sufficient to say since I bought the kids a ZX81 - but only doing t'internet stuff since 2000 ish.
I'm totally fascinated and awed (is that a word?) with SEO, but glad I didn't go down that route, 'cos I've not done too bad with affiliate marketing and I'm a black belt in CCP (click, copy, paste) and knowing when to outsource the big stuff
I think I'm one of the few affiliates who've entered the on-line merchant arena (if you're an affiliate you know what sells!!)  and, with the help of my 3 kids (how's that for forward planning) have quite a successful second business.
Certainly recognize a few names and have interacted with one or two and I'm looking forward to learning more stuff, being baffled and being entertained.

[4Eyes]

Hi  Elaine

I remember the ZX81 too - in fact I once toyed with the idea of using 'wobblyrampack' as my nick   (it was a close run thing, but 4Eyes describes me better I think)

[DrCool]

Welcome Elaine. I know quite a few affiliates who have become merchants. Affiliates do have a great skill set to help them become merchants.