What was your job or profession before starting IM?

I am an editorial photographer. I specialize in celebrity and corporate photography. If you want you can view some of my work through the link below. I still do movie set photography, usually for magazines. I have been doing it for about 30 years. I became interested in IM a few years ago when I started a web design business. I become bored with web design and just stuck with IM. I now prefer working on the internet.

Very extensive background in Sales. Inside and face to face.

B.S. Marketing, and my Sales background has had a very positive effect in my IM career.


- Robert Andrew

Before starting my business I spent over 15 years in information technology, as a web developer/dev ops engineer, I.T. manager and as an independent consultant. I've worked in government, the non-profit sector and in the private sector, including a couple of stints at internet startups. My co-founder has a background in program management and advocacy primarily in the not-for-profit sector.

Building on these strengths we've built a business that's a blend of an internet startup, an IM shop and a social good organization (though we're incorporated as an LLC not as a 501(c)3). It was a natural fit, and certainly not something most people can pull off. But to me that's the foundation of a successful business: using your skills, talents, abilities, interests and resources in a way that gives you an advantage over your competition -- not trying to repeat or replicate what everybody else is doing or following someone else's methods or business plan.

Now retired from my first career - local small business development - applying everything I know to Internet business development. Same topic, different platform.

I have a Master's degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor's in Sociology.

To be honest, success in any business is built on a foundation of basic principles that are not platform dependent.

I love the Internet, mostly because of its immediacy and its reach. Sell whatever you want, whenever you want, and get paid for it now - what a priceless concept!

Steve

Telecom sales & then a classroom trainer for Starbucks at HO in London,UK. Currently sell health & nutrition products while doing IM in my spare time.

Cheers
Barry