Gay Blogging

Recently I’ve had a few comments/emails from people asking exactly what I do and how I do it (and not referring to Mike that is). I’ll try and explain myself (I might make this into a ‘Page’ instead of a ‘Post’ – that way I can link to it somehow for guys who have recently found the blog.

Please feel free to ask questions – I do like my privacy and relative annonimity so I hope you understand if I choose not to answer questions that might change that.

OK, lets start at the beginning.

I grew up on the Gold Coast. Went to uni, at the same time I was working as a graphic designer doing websites since the week after I left skool. I moved out of home at 19. My folks gave me my secondary education but nothing other than that (incase anyone thinks I was given a ‘silver spoon’). When I was 18 I was running SwimmerBoyz.com which was originally just a hobbie and a site with lots of free photos (6,500 of them).

I think when I was 20yo (might have been a year earlier) I put some movies on SwimmerBoyz.com and then I got my first ‘serious’ server bill for $1,500. Then I had a decision to make – keep running SwimmerBoyz.com as a free site and take the movies off or charge subscription for the site. Everyone loved the movies so it was subscription.

For the next 18 months I lived on the coast and SwimmerBoyz.com grew and grew and grew. I was spending most of my spare time on it but still working part time and doing a degree full time. Then came the point when SwimmerBoyz.com would support me – not make me rich but pay my rent and to tell the truth that was about it. I made the call, quit uni, quit my job and got on a plane to Canada for my first winter snowboarding.

A pretty huge decision, I had no mates over there, no support from family but I had worked and saved hard and this was what I wanted to do. I could always go back to uni and a job if it didn’t work out.

It was the end of that first winter that I started writting this blog after a threesome in a sauna after the end of season party.

SwimmerBoyz.com is still my primary income source and have since added BisexualGuyz.com.

How much money I make is none of your business; but I pay my rent, I don’t have a credit card and I have a little bit of money in the stockmarket. My car is worth maybe $2,000 (it is nice – cars are just worth nothing these days in New Zealand). Last week I did 30hrs of work on my business and about 20hrs of design work for a friend of mine in Queenstown (pro bono).

Some weeks I work more – I think the week I launched BisexualGuyz.com I spent at least 80hrs infront of the laptop. Other weeks, when I’m travelling, I might do 10hrs of work. Unfortunately, I can’t ever really be offline for more than 3 days at a time – I can handle that though.

Hopefully that explains a few things for you guys – as for my future. I don’t know what it holds. I’m continuing to work on the business, I continue to work on my love life and if anyone wants to buy the business for a million bucks – SOLD!!! Nah I’m just kidding – I’d miss it too much… I’ve met some fantastic people through working on the blog and the pay sites – both readers and subscribers and people I’ve worked with.

Well that is enuf work for now – I’m off to the pool for a swim.