Yay

Yep I’m still here. Long story short: after uni finished I moved back in with the family on the coast and after a few weeks they decided that they were going to cancel our Net connection because they couldn’t afford it and because my younger brother and I were spending too much time sitting in front of our computers. So that was annoying.

A few more weeks later I moved into a new house back up in Wollongong with some mates and also managed to land Centrelink payments. So now I’m getting some very nice money from the government to study, which is an awesome base as I can now focus on building a business/es for the long-run without the stress of trying to magically grow money from nothing.

However we signed up with this 24mbps plan through www.letsgo.com.au which looked pretty good. The reviews I found said their customer support was horrible, there was about a 3 week signup waiting period and also the speeds and pings were slow. But for the price it was awesome. But… it ended up taking 77 days to get connected after a bunch of issues popped up. Finally got connected up yesterday!

And so I just finished sorting through about 1000 emails, most of which were SPAM. So if you sent me an email that I haven’t yet replied to, please send it again.

Now, business stuff…

Haven’t been doing terribly much sadly. pixTower I gave up on a while back and have been meaning to try and sell it on eBay or somewhere but haven’t got around to it yet. With YEBlogger I have no idea what’s happening there. The site and many other sites Daniel/akula runs have been down for a long time and I didn’t get a reply from him the last time I sent an email and PM. I’m still keen on working on that site as there is still a lot of very cool things that could be done with it. Though we were having trouble finding more YE bloggers to add to the database and so we were planning to include other “entrepreneur” bloggers. Plus we weren’t making any money from it which was a bit of a downer.

The near-future…

I’m STILL (yes I know) working on DropBuy.com.au and hope to have that working in it’s very basic form within the next week or two. The last thing I was doing for that was looking for some wholesalers/dropshippers of books, but found that rather than the industry having a few large wholesalers, it’s actually made up of all these small distributors you have to individually signup with to access a wide range of titles.

I’ve also got a niched, digg-like idea in the works which I also hope to have out soon.

Overall I think (hope) I’ve now moved past the typical stage of an aspiring young entrepreneurs’ life where they try all sorts of small, poorly-thought-out business ideas - mainly websites in my case. I’m now all about focusing on just a few big, but low-risk (at this stage) ideas and really putting a lot of effort into making them long-term successes.

Oh, I’ve also succumbed to the masses and actually half-created a Facebook profile (I also have a Studentface.com.au profile too) so feel free to search and add me as a friend.

Nathan Waters
Keeping It Real.