Adtastic was formed a little over 9 years ago from a $300 investment. Actually I had been doing what we do now even before that but that was when it became serious. Mostly, before that it was just a little here and there for friends and family that asked for help about internet stuff. The Internet was still an everyday business for me but the bulk of my income was from running affiliate programs with the likes of yahoo and other companies offering internet related services.
What caused the official formation of the company was so many people kept asking for help and one day one of them said I should do this for a living. I thought about it and went out that day and purchased me another computer in a pawn shop for $300. That was my first official “company asset”. My office was a small desk in a corner of the living room back then and I subsisted mostly on designing small websites.
Today there are 7 computers and various office machinery and my office is in one-third of the 2400 sq ft house I live in alongside a lake. Its a separate section of the house that used to be two large bedrooms and a private bathroom. And now we do everything from website design to ecommerce to our specialty which is search engine marketing (SEM) and web page optimization (SEO).
Over the years I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to build a business from nothing, survive and grow it. With any luck maybe I can pass on some of that here on this blog, we’ll see.
