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My bio on dad.lifetips.com
I have wanted to be a dad for as long as I can remember. Most kids dream of playing pro sports or being a cop or fireman but, I just wanted to be a father. When I was challenged in school or life I would always reflect on the decisions I made and make a mental note to teach my children an easier way – I’m doing it now and have been for 6 years. I have two angelic little ladies, Isabella (5) and Emmy (3); both girls keep me very much on my toes. As well as being a father, I’m also a single parent and “figuring it out” has become a daily task. I joke with people all the time and tell them I have a PhD in “figuring it out”. I have been writing for as long I can remember and knew I had some talent when a grade school English teacher accused me of plagiarism – best compliment I ever had. Although the majority of my career has been in the business world, I have written two screenplays and directed and produced a short film. I’m a full time blogger, SEO expert and social media fanatic.
The LifeTips Story
The year was 2000. The web was young, and LifeTips was born, the brainchild of our founder, Byron White. Our mission was – and still is – to make life better, easier and more fun. Coincidentally, LifeTips was founded at about the same time as About.com. But they had big-time financing; we didn’t. We didn’t have the budget to grow through advertising, so we grew organically.
Within months of launch, LifeTips.com attracted thousands of readers and dozens of expert writers—Gurus we call them— interested in publishing tips and advice. To generate revenue, we decided to invite an exclusive sponsor for each niche topic in our network, and we signed up major clients like Circuit City, Chase, H&R Block, Petco and hundreds more.
By 2004, our organic success in the search engines was so strong that our sponsors started asking us to help them grow organically. We did just that, launching Tip and Advice Centers on our clients’ websites that help them drive traffic from the search engines and form their own communities.
In 2006, we launched our weekly LifeTips Radio Show on WebmasterRadio.FM, and it’s now one of the station’s more popular shows. That same year we also launched a book publishing division as a free service to all the Gurus at LifeTips. We’ve now published more than 50 hardcopy books, available at every bookstore worldwide.
