KHALID

As you may already know, I’m quite quick at building, selling and moving on and I don’t like to hang about. I always like to move from project to project but since the last sale, I’ve yet to invest in anything else.

Whilst it is quite nice to take a break and have funds sitting in the bank for the right investment, sometimes it can get a little frustrating and I often find myself feeling like I’m just sitting…waiting. I’ve followed up one or two leads for names that are sitting doing nothing but people don’t want to sell or someone has told them their name is worth £xx,xxx when it is often really worth half of that!

What is for you won’t go by you and I think that for every 100 names I research and possibly enquire about, I may only get a handful of responses. This is how it works unfortunately, but it is all part of the challenge and I love it!

I’ve been keeping myself busy by teaching kids boxing training at The Edinburgh Boxing Academy and concentrating on putting on weight after falling ill last year. Things are going well and I’ve just ordered a Cross Trainer for the house so Christy and I can train every evening. I need to work on my cardio as I have Asthma and slightly unfit!

After a month of being out the gym due to time constraints and my ill health, I visited a boxing gym on Friday with my buddy Stephen. Sean, the boxing trainer, was giving me 1-on-1 tuition in return for a website design and boy did he make us work! Stephen had gone a couple of times before and that’s how I met Sean so we decided to go together so he couldn’t work us as hard!

The one hour training regime was purely cardio fitness to shock my body back into shape. Basic, repetative exercises we completed with one minute breaks. I was sick 4 times in the hour but kept coming back for more.

Why? Well you have to GO HARD OR GO HOME. I’m a fighter and loved every minute of it. There was no personal trainer asking me how my day was whilst pushing a few buttons on a tredmill. No fancy heart monitors or lcd tv’s showing music videos and definately no posers! This was hardcore training and it was amazing.

The training made me realise that I have to apply the same technique to my ventures in order to get them out there. I need to aggressively push the idea to interested parties, market it heavily to my userbase and build strong foundations to work on. I can’t always skrimp and save, I need to take bigger risks.

I posted a job ad for PR staff for StudentsUncovered.com on Vivastreet, a free alternative to Gumtree. I got one person who wasted my time asking stupid questions and I’m sure it was the site owners themselves to keep me interested. I then paid £25.00 to post on Gumtree and got about 30 serious replies in 24 hours. This is just an example of where I need to spend in order to achieve.

I’m going to promote StudentsUncovered.com again but this time better, more information soon!

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.