Website Story - The Beginning

I woke up in the middle of the night and the name came to me. Not sure if I was dreaming about it or what happened, but I instantly picked up my phone and searched the name. VideoGameCentral.com. It was available for sale and I had to submit a bid to purchase it. I'd never done anything like this before and submitted a bid of $50. A few days later I received a counteroffer of $200. We settled on $150 if I remember correctly.

At the time, there wasn't much excitement in my life and this lit a spark inside me that had been kindled for a while. In my free time, I loved to play video games and have been playing them my whole life. I'd also dabbled in entrepreneurship since I was 25 as a full-time real estate agent so I knew how to run my own business essentially, but nothing web related. I started researching how to build a top-performing website, graphic design, html coding, SEO and more. Google told me that the best place to host a website was WordPress and I signed up. I checked out several templates and finally landed on one that I thought looked cool. Before long though, I became completely overwhelmed. My full-time job and family took up all of my waking hours and I realized how big of an undertaking building the kind of website I wanted to build would be. I wanted the site to rival IGN, Kotaku, Gamespot and all of the others I've been reading all of these years, but it was so much work. A friend of mine suggested I reach out to a freelancer and Fiverr to find someone who would make me a website and I did just that.

The pricing from these freelancers ranged from $100 - $20k, and I gave them all the same assignment. When I finally started actively talking with one of them that I trusted, he explained to me that the scope of the work I submitted was legitimately a $10k job at minimum and that I should just start small and create a blog with the site where I post my own reviews of games I've played and learn coding in between. Best advice I've ever received and so VideoGameCentral.com was launched with a single review.