Hi, I’m Sean. Thanks for stopping by.
Life IS better with the right words.
This tagline, conjured without much consideration the first Sunday after I started this site, now defines my online existence.
I’ve been a serial entrepreneur most of my life. My first small business was running candy bars and comic books behind the enemy lines of my elementary school at the age of 12, though my first real business came six years later when I bought a small flower cart in a bustling shopping district of Long Beach, California, which quickly expanded to five locations in half as many years.
After running one of the city’s most successful flower shops; dealing with brides, purchasing premium roses from some of the world’s finest farms and helping run day-to-day operations, it was time to move on. Though I loved working with flowers, I was a father with a toddler and a newborn.
Days were quickly disappearing, and I considered my children’s first five years of life as sacred. I wanted to miss as little as possible.
I sold my stake in the business and opened a pre-school with my wife Cindy, a teacher of 20 years. We bought an old Victorian house in the historic district of our city, where we lived upstairs and ran our preschool on the bottom floor.
Somewhere in the midst of reading a million children’s books out loud, I realized I wanted to be a writer. Though I’d always been a heavy reader and fluid communicator, and despite Cindy begging me to start writing for twelve years, writing always seemed like a spectator sport to me.
But soon enough my daughter was starting Kindergarten with my son a beat behind. The band was getting back together, playing its entrepreneurial beat in the back of my brain. I wanted to write, and looked toward the limitless potential of the Internet as the place to point my focus.
I launched Writer Dad as my first online endeavor in July of 2008. Though I didn’t really know what I was doing, I was passionate in my ignorance and established an immediate community in the comment section of the site while landing guest posts on A-List sites such as Copyblogger, Zen Habits and ProBlogger.
I spent that next year making a million mistakes, each one teaching me to tighten my game and sharpen my focus. There are an endless number of things one must learn to make a living online.
Fortunately, I love to learn and used every opportunity to absorb and apply the basics of marketing and direct response copy, sharpening my skill set over the course of 18 months alongside my creative partner, David Wright.
Eventually I met Lori Taylor and became Creative Director at REV Media Marketing. I’ve now moved to Ohio where I’m closer to my team and able to tap my full potential.
The future is bright and the story still being written.
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Sean
