Sami Ketolainen
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Today, in the beginning of the new year, I decided to publish a story how I have owned 10 online companies, become domain name investor and sold with profits without using any money to advertising and marketing - Only with costs of theme, hosting and domain name.
When I was about 20 years old, I was completely lost in my life. No future plans, no loving family anymore, used drugs, made crimes and didn't care about anything. Sad stories, yes. But everything depends what is inside in your head. At one morning, I decided that I don't want this, I want something from my life. I found a person to my life who bring me up to that person who I was before my life went bad. This is where my "Online Story" begins.
I started my journey in 2012, when I was 20 years old. I have been always interested about websites, domains etc. I started to read from Google how I can start my journey as an domain name investor, create websites and earn money in different ways. First thought we're when I read different blog posts, forum posts - This is really easy, everyone can do this. Well, the truth was little bit different. When you read things at Internet, some things seems to be really easy to learn. I'm sure everyone has been in this situation.
In December 2013, I bought my first domain names. I was so excited about my names and I was sure that they will sell for huge bunch of money. Well, when you start investing, you make rookie mistakes, so did I. None of those names didn't sell. I we're really frustrated, I didn't know what to do. I started to think domain name from different view. I started to think like an business owner, would I use this domain name for my business? Would a large retail company use this name? This was my turning point at domain name investing.Is this name perfect for real estate agency or is it too hard to pronounce? I thought like an business owner, but I was an domain name investor.
Then, starts my true online business story.
Then, I got an idea - Maybe I should try to develop one of my domains in to a website and try that. I'm thinking now that it was one of the best decisions what I have ever made.
June, 2015 I started to develop my first online business, which was a free advertising portal. I bought theme from ThemeForest, bought hosting from GoDaddy and uploaded theme to my hosting. One big journey has began. I remember when I first opened WordPress admin panel - My thought's were that this is going to be an big job and am I ready for this - Developing a website, creating a business model, launching business, creating social media accounts, doing marketing & advertising - All by myself. I have always been a person who doesn't give up, it doesn't matter how badly things are. First two weeks we're like nightmare, I was drowning to all of work what I needed to do. I thought maybe I need some help, I don't have time and resources to create what I want, then my wife came next to me and said: "Sami, don't give up, this is your thing, I notice it from you when I see you working on the website". That gave me so much more strength to continue. Finally after 3 months, I had a fully working website, looking just like what I have wanted it to be. My first online business was finally online, that feeling was awesome!
This is the point, when the hard work started. I started to create social media accounts, firstly I made only 3: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram because I didn't have time to manage 10 social media accounts. It went pretty well actually, I actively updated my social media accounts, created an calendar to myself how I update accounts:
That one small thing changed everything. I used more time to chat with my potential clients - Get known with them, help'd them and then boom. In the next month I did get over 500 registered users and the business started to roll. In the end of 2015 I did get my invested money back and I started to think, maybe I should sell this business to new owner and start a new business? I thought this for 1 week and I made my decision, I'm gonna sell. I started to sell it on popular forums, connected with investors. In 2 weeks, I did get inquiry that one investor want's to buy my online business. We closed the deal in 3 days. This is the point where my journey truly started. I used 7 months to develop this business and used 300$ money for it and now it has been sold... For 9,500$.
After owning 8 online businesses and after selling them, I bought one business for 35£. I saw a huge potential in it but I think that the seller didn't see because he sold it for so cheap. I developed it little bit, but now I did get an partner to me. That person was the best partner who you could ever have. Together we decided to make something great from this business and I think we did. We owned this business for about 2 months and we did get an interesting email, one big US TV Network did want to shoot an episode from our business because it was one of the kind. We we're excited, really excited. I planned the whole future for the business. But then, my life crashed. The most important person for my got sick. At this point, the online businesses wasn't so important to me anymore. We decided to sell this business and it was an hard decision. But there was something positive too, the invested money, 35£ did turn to an massive profits since that US TV network contacted us and wanted to shoot an episode about that business.
Now, I'm back to business, had my break from everything. Now I have new energy again to write something amazing to my story.
I have learned important lessons. Maybe the most important is that DON'T GIVE UP, THE SUN WILL SHINE FOR YOU SOMEDAY. Everyone has own style how develop their businesses or how to invest in domain names, you just have to find the best way to yourself. It is the most important thing that you know who you are. I have lost almost everything in my life but sometimes you must get up from your bed and start to make things happen. Now, when I'm almost 27 years old, I have lot of scars which doesn't ever go away, when you loose your family when you are a young kid, it isn't easy to grow up. I was 14 years old when I lived at my own apartment. My wife had a cancer, we won it. Our child died, but we have gone through from it. If you loose one domain name sale, it isn't so important. There come's always new deals, but does there come new life'ss?
And to beginners, trust to yourself, learn from pro's and don't invest to names before you have made a proper research about the name.. Imagine yourself to business - to business owner's needs, what kind of name they need. Never give up, you can write your own story. It doesn't matter who you are, you can do it. Everything depends what is inside of your head.
Today, in the beginning of the new year, I decided to publish a story how I have owned 10 online companies, become domain name investor and sold with profits without using any money to advertising and marketing - Only with costs of theme, hosting and domain name.
When I was about 20 years old, I was completely lost in my life. No future plans, no loving family anymore, used drugs, made crimes and didn't care about anything. Sad stories, yes. But everything depends what is inside in your head. At one morning, I decided that I don't want this, I want something from my life. I found a person to my life who bring me up to that person who I was before my life went bad. This is where my "Online Story" begins.
I started my journey in 2012, when I was 20 years old. I have been always interested about websites, domains etc. I started to read from Google how I can start my journey as an domain name investor, create websites and earn money in different ways. First thought we're when I read different blog posts, forum posts - This is really easy, everyone can do this. Well, the truth was little bit different. When you read things at Internet, some things seems to be really easy to learn. I'm sure everyone has been in this situation.
In December 2013, I bought my first domain names. I was so excited about my names and I was sure that they will sell for huge bunch of money. Well, when you start investing, you make rookie mistakes, so did I. None of those names didn't sell. I we're really frustrated, I didn't know what to do. I started to think domain name from different view. I started to think like an business owner, would I use this domain name for my business? Would a large retail company use this name? This was my turning point at domain name investing.Is this name perfect for real estate agency or is it too hard to pronounce? I thought like an business owner, but I was an domain name investor.
Then, starts my true online business story.
Then, I got an idea - Maybe I should try to develop one of my domains in to a website and try that. I'm thinking now that it was one of the best decisions what I have ever made.
June, 2015 I started to develop my first online business, which was a free advertising portal. I bought theme from ThemeForest, bought hosting from GoDaddy and uploaded theme to my hosting. One big journey has began. I remember when I first opened WordPress admin panel - My thought's were that this is going to be an big job and am I ready for this - Developing a website, creating a business model, launching business, creating social media accounts, doing marketing & advertising - All by myself. I have always been a person who doesn't give up, it doesn't matter how badly things are. First two weeks we're like nightmare, I was drowning to all of work what I needed to do. I thought maybe I need some help, I don't have time and resources to create what I want, then my wife came next to me and said: "Sami, don't give up, this is your thing, I notice it from you when I see you working on the website". That gave me so much more strength to continue. Finally after 3 months, I had a fully working website, looking just like what I have wanted it to be. My first online business was finally online, that feeling was awesome!
This is the point, when the hard work started. I started to create social media accounts, firstly I made only 3: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram because I didn't have time to manage 10 social media accounts. It went pretty well actually, I actively updated my social media accounts, created an calendar to myself how I update accounts:
- Twitter - 6 posts per day.
- Facebook - 1-2 posts per day.
- Instagram - 1-2 pictures per day.
That one small thing changed everything. I used more time to chat with my potential clients - Get known with them, help'd them and then boom. In the next month I did get over 500 registered users and the business started to roll. In the end of 2015 I did get my invested money back and I started to think, maybe I should sell this business to new owner and start a new business? I thought this for 1 week and I made my decision, I'm gonna sell. I started to sell it on popular forums, connected with investors. In 2 weeks, I did get inquiry that one investor want's to buy my online business. We closed the deal in 3 days. This is the point where my journey truly started. I used 7 months to develop this business and used 300$ money for it and now it has been sold... For 9,500$.
After owning 8 online businesses and after selling them, I bought one business for 35£. I saw a huge potential in it but I think that the seller didn't see because he sold it for so cheap. I developed it little bit, but now I did get an partner to me. That person was the best partner who you could ever have. Together we decided to make something great from this business and I think we did. We owned this business for about 2 months and we did get an interesting email, one big US TV Network did want to shoot an episode from our business because it was one of the kind. We we're excited, really excited. I planned the whole future for the business. But then, my life crashed. The most important person for my got sick. At this point, the online businesses wasn't so important to me anymore. We decided to sell this business and it was an hard decision. But there was something positive too, the invested money, 35£ did turn to an massive profits since that US TV network contacted us and wanted to shoot an episode about that business.
Now, I'm back to business, had my break from everything. Now I have new energy again to write something amazing to my story.
I have learned important lessons. Maybe the most important is that DON'T GIVE UP, THE SUN WILL SHINE FOR YOU SOMEDAY. Everyone has own style how develop their businesses or how to invest in domain names, you just have to find the best way to yourself. It is the most important thing that you know who you are. I have lost almost everything in my life but sometimes you must get up from your bed and start to make things happen. Now, when I'm almost 27 years old, I have lot of scars which doesn't ever go away, when you loose your family when you are a young kid, it isn't easy to grow up. I was 14 years old when I lived at my own apartment. My wife had a cancer, we won it. Our child died, but we have gone through from it. If you loose one domain name sale, it isn't so important. There come's always new deals, but does there come new life'ss?
And to beginners, trust to yourself, learn from pro's and don't invest to names before you have made a proper research about the name.. Imagine yourself to business - to business owner's needs, what kind of name they need. Never give up, you can write your own story. It doesn't matter who you are, you can do it. Everything depends what is inside of your head.
