So I just signed up for Tumblr. It’s a really nice blogging service that I can see myself using a lot easier than my traditional WordPress blog. I discovered the service after I read about it in @garyvee’s AMAZING book, Crush It. Seriously, if you want to figure out how to make a living doing what you love most, or if you are just curious how you can use social media to build awareness of your personal brand, check it out! I recommend reading it on Vook.com. The Vook only costs $7 and it has videos from Gary himself spread out through the chapters. It really adds a ton of value hearing and seeing Gary explain with all of his take-on-the-world energy how every person in America can “Crush It” and make a living by working hard and sticking to their passions. It’s a very inspiring book.
Before I go on, I should mention that I’m running on no sleep, and that the only energy I have has been given to me by a shot of 5 Hour Energy and a Red Bull. So this is going to be a little lengthy, but I have a lot so say.
Anyway, that book has me thinking a lot about personal branding. I’m going to be starting up an app publishing company soon with a couple of paid apps for Palm’s WebOS phones (the Pre and the Pixi so far). Since I’m known virtually everywhere on the web as rmxdave, I figure it’s appropriate that I take my meaningless prefix to my username and create a brand from it. RMX will be the name of my new application development company. Today I bought three domain names: RMX.CC, RMXAPPS.COM, and RMXDAVE.COM. Obviously, RMX.CC is a very nice domain name, it’s only a total of 5 letters long, and it embodies my brand perfectly. I’m super stoked that it was available.
What does RMX stand for, you ask? Nothing, really. About 9 years ago I was known on AIM as remixdave, because of my obsession with taking perfectly good songs and putting them into a sound editor to cut them up and create what I called remixes (which were really just more or less rearrangements of the same song). Once I started playing CounterStrike online with my friends, I shortened the name to [RMX] Dave. As time grew on I dropped the special characters and now register every site as rmxdave. It just stuck with me.
I’ve never been particularly fond of the handle, it always seemed so plain and uninspired. Lately though I’ve accepted that rmxdave is who I am online, it’s a part of me. It’s time for me to embrace my unique, quirky, and funny personality and make it known across my entire online presence. Time for me to indulge in my passions, such as music production and video blogging, social media and cell phones…all the geekery that I can’t shut up about when I’m around friends. I can’t be afraid of failure anymore.
All my life I’ve wanted to run my own business. I’m not talking like my little web design side jobs that I’ve been doing since I was 14, I’m talking about a full blown, pay the bills, put food on the table type of business. One where I’m entirely happy with what I’m doing and one that will make my family proud. I always thought that the correct route to take was to work a regular 9-5 job for 20 years, build a savings, and then carefully open my business in the right economic climate.
I now realize that I’m currently living in the best time to start living my dreams. The Internet is still young and there is plenty of money to be made. I have a lot of hard work ahead of me, and a lot of learning to do. I also have to graduate college and get married soon, too – not to mention maintain a steady day job. It’s a lot to juggle, and when you throw in my inherent desire to be social with friends and family, to still be a 21-year-old, I’ve definitely got my plate full. But I’m loving my life, and I’m loving all of the endless possibilities that God has given me. With enough persistence, patience, and prayer, I firmly believe that I can achieve anything, and the RMX development project is the first step. It’s a great way for me to be creative, which I believe is my greatest passion, and make some serious money as a result.
I know I’ve done this sort of thing before. Gotten all excited about some new idea and after a week or so I drop it. Actually the last time I stayed up all night was when I had a grand idea for a hilarious internet sketch comedy show, which fell to the wayside after a few weeks. This time it’s different, this time I actually have a plan for survival. I have a bad habit of not finishing anything I start, but this is something so important, I can’t let it slip by. I would be doing a great disservice to myself, and more importantly to those who will be depending on me, such as my soon-to-be wife and our future children. I won’t let that happen. I am going to dive in with both feet to make my dreams come true and to some day have my passion provide for my family.
This very lengthy post is if anything a permanent reminder to me of what I’m aspiring toward and how much I believe in myself. I know there will be times when I just want to give up or when I will feel like it’s too much. I’ll then be able to come back to this and say, “Gee, I guess I made sense at that point in time.” I know many of you will think I’m nuts and on drugs or something, but that’s okay. I love you all anyway.
Stay tuned, I have some awesome ideas that I think everyone is going to love.
Thanks for reading 
