My name is Dan and I've lived in Oregon for almost 33 years after being raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino and San Jose.
I was a mental health professional for almost 11 years before I retired in December of 2025. I worked for the largest mental health outpatient clinic in my area. I was an employment coach. I helped severely mentally ill adults find and keep employment.
I loved what I did and was really good at. I did all aspects of career coaching: getting to know my client, resume and cover letter writing, interview preparation and practice, online job search, online applications, introducing my clients to employers in hopes of getting an interview.
I got my start in internet marketing (IM) back in 2002 by doing research on how to make money online and by joining one of the largest IM discussion forums in the world where I learned a lot.
I started writing ebooks, learned copywriting and wrote all my own direct response sales letters to sell the ebooks on the forum in the sales section. I estimate I wrote and sold around 25-30 ebooks about how to make money online, how others were making money online, about selling on eBay, about making money blogging and as a freelance writer, and many more topics.
I got heavily into SEO and started providing SEO services to brick and mortar business owners who hired me through my Craigslist ads. I also wrote and sold several ebooks about SEO and how to do specific techniques like onpage SEO and building backlinks. I wrote and sold an ebook about how to write a romance novel. This was back in 2006.
I have bought and sold a few domain names and currently own about 80 domain names that I want to sell. I have monetized and sold 2 websites selling my own ebooks. In 2014 I decided to go back into the 9-5 world, started my job search and landed my last job in 2015. The rest is history and history in the making.
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