Hello from Yaro in Brisbane

[Yaro]

Well most people will no me already, I'm Yaro Starak, the author of this blog. I'm currently living in Brisbane Australia and work from my home office in West End Brisbane although I do tend to get out and about a lot during the week.

I currently run the following businesses...

BetterEdit.com [http://www.betteredit.com]
Editing and proofreading for student essays and theses.

Entrepreneur's Journey [http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com]
Blog community for Internet business and entrepreneurship.

The following are websites/businesses that are on the backburner which I may or may not ever go back to work on.

Student-Marketing [http://www.student-marketing.com.au]
Poster advertising services in Australia. This service is currently operating however I have not continued to proactively advertise it.

YoungActivist.com [http://www.youngactivist.com]
A website that I really enjoyed designing and building but never took it any further after that.

Yaz! [http://www.yaz.com.au]
The Yaz! forums are still going strong without any work on my behalf. The Yaz! site itself is currently being converted to a new business with a lot of potential, but I can't talk about it, secret handshake and all that.

HostBrisbane [http://www.hostbrisbane.com]
My last hosting website. I no longer proactively run a hosting business however I still have a few clients.

That's about it. There are a handful of other websites out there created by me that have either been sold or I'm too embarrassed to show them to the world.

Hi Yaro, I'm glad to be the first member (or at least poster) in your new forums.

I read your blog daily. Keep up the good work!

Tyler from Kansas, USA

[Yaro]

I should do an update to this list.

The first two projects - BetterEdit.com (my bread and butter income) and Entrepreneur's Journey (my fun) are the only websites I still devote myself to currently.

Student-Marketing died before it got started because I realised it would never be a very profitable business and was facing complaints from universities that I know I would have had to deal with consistently as I grew the business. At the same time as I was starting Student-Marketing Entrepreneur's Journey was starting to take off so I decide to devote myself to this website instead.

I didn't renew the Young Activist domain name so that site is no longer online. It was a fun site to build and the ethos behind it is great but that's were the story ends.

HostBrisbane is no longer in my control although I still host websites for a few people. The actual hostbrisbane site runs an adserver for MTGParadise.com and the other paradise network sites so when I sold that site the HostBrisbane domain and site went with it, just not the hosting clients.

Small Business Branding of course is now in my current projects list that I am writing for and I hope to see the traffic to that site grow as well and become a great sister site to E-J.