I never know what I will run into when I go out on the weekends, but this past weekend I ran into a real life example of some good offline marketing for an online enterprise. I walked into a bar and there were about 8 guys wearing matching orange T-shirts with black text. I struck up a conversation with them they were out promoting a social networking site called Blastspot. The guy I talked at first was an investor. He had a card with the sites name on it that he handed me, and we talked for a while about the business. Its going to be a social networking site that is a combination of Blackboard and Facebook… which actually sounds like a pretty cool idea. It’s premiering here in Chapel Hill and in San Diego on Tuesday (I think that’s what he said). I missed blackboard by a year or so when I was in college, but from the limited experience I have with it seemed like it could use a lot of improvement. The idea of combining that with a social networking site is an innovative idea that if it catches on could be big business. I talked to the owner for a second and he was a fellow UNC grad.. by the name of Travis I think…. Pretty cool guy, and it looked like he had a lot of friends helping him spread the word.
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Drumroll……. This is the start of the blog about my adventures in internet entrepreneurship. I first got the dea for a web business back in 2003 when I read something about making a website and putting adsense on it. I was going to say it was Joel Comm’s Book , but looking at the publication date I got the idea way before that book was published. Adsense sounded like an easy way to big bucks, but I didn’t have the focus to seriously get into internet marketing stuff. I had just graduated from college and that anyone that has gone through that change knows (college -> real world) it has takes some time to settle in.
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