About

Hi! I’m Chris Bloczynski. I’m a manager for a small hotel, and an aspiring entrepreneur and webmaster. I started this website to be a resource where entrepreneurs and bloggers can learn about doing business on the internet.

My early history

I graduated from high school in 1997, where I competed as a runner on the cross country team in the fall and the track team in the spring. I was also on the photography staff for my school yearbook and newspaper (my photos were featured on the front page of several issues), and I sometimes participated as a guest host on the school’s daily video news production.

I started my first job as a busboy at a local steakhouse three months before I finished high school, and I worked there full time over the summer after I graduated. In the fall I started school again at a technical school where I studied Offset Lithography, and specialized in electronic pre-press functions like computer design and layout. I continued to work at the steakhouse waiting tables through school, and in 1999, I got a two year technical degree. Before I could search for a job in the design field, however, the steakhouse I was working at offered me a management position. I accepted the position and worked full time as a restaurant manager after I finished school, and I never, ever ended up leveraging my degree into a job in the field.

Beyond school

I was only 20 years old at the time I started my career in restaurant management, and although I was young, I was thrilled at the prospect of being promoted at such a young age. I quickly found difficulties in working with a staff who were sometimes more than twice my age, but after four years of work, I found a groove and learned important skills as a front-line manager. When the building lease expired for the location I was managing, the company chose not to renew the lease and the operation closed up shop in 2003.

After leaving the restaurant, I spent two years sampling jobs in a few different industries, working as a limousine driver, a sales coordinator for a home alarm company, a night club promoter in Las Vegas, and private landscaping while I gathered some new business experiences with a popular network marketing company, where I learned tough lessons about mentorship.

A new start

I finally found a comfortable home as a resident manager for a small hotel in Seattle, which is where I currently live and work. My situation at the hotel is ideal, because I’m paid a full time salary, and I don’t pay rent for the 1100 square foot apartment I live in. My boss, the hotel owner, owns multiple other businesses, so he divides his time between them and gives me a lot of freedom to run the hotel however I’m comfortable. I became interested in internet business and started to study different websites. I taught myself HTML programming and brought back a basic recollection of graphic design and image manipulation.

My current projects

Besides writing and developing this blog, I own over a dozen keyword driven websites that are fed by organic search engine traffic. I also test and market affiliate offers with pay-per-click advertising, and I’m developing a membership site that will teach people how to build and manage a multi-dimensional internet business like the one I’ve built. I’m also putting the finishing touches on my first ebook, Core Habits for Internet Marketers, which should be available on March 1st, 2008.