One More Year, Many Successes

Ha ha. Almost another year went by without me checking in and writing in this blog. Well, now I know better and it's about time I caught up with the SEO.

I guess I better fill in on what has happened over the last year. DVD Your Memories has continued its success. Of course by the end of the summer of 2008, the economy went down, but it wasn't until the day I left for Thailand (September 14, 2008) that the shit really hit the fan. It was a very weird coincidence that this happened at the same time. I remember being at a diving resort in Ko Tao and finally getting the chance to see the news. It seemed like as soon as I left the country, WWIII happened. But enough about that.

Needless to say, September and October were scary months because no one knew how bad the economy was and when it was going to rebound. We ended up having a fine holiday season. The last week I was in Thailand, I spent by myself contemplating what to do with my life. Go back to school, go travel, work another job, sell the business, or grow the business. Well, I decided during that week to grow the business. I felt like DVD Your Memories has an enormous potential and I have a matching enormous ambition.

So I decided to open up another store in Orange County. It was close to home and I though it would be a good market for family media transfer services. So I ended up purchasing most of what I needed by the end of 2008, which not only helped to lower my taxes, but it also allowed me to focus on starting up the office after the holiday season.

DVD Your Memories Orange County opened in March of 2009 in Costa Mesa, CA. Richard became the manager up there and I moved up with him to help start up that store. On June 30th, the store was successfully and profitably running on its own!

Furthermore, we ended up landing a huge (for us) contract with the City of Irvine to convert all of their city council meetings for the last 40 or so years. We all worked very hard on our proposal (Brandi, Bryan, Richard and myself) and with some great references that really sealed the deal.

So now here we are, working on the City of Irvine project and growing the company. The immediate growth of our company will rely heavily on SEM. We have always worked on PPC and have become very good at that, but SEO has been always lacking. That is my next big project.