Tristan Crickett

I’ve decided to write a blog on this domain now, after having had it for years and done nothing with it, but leave up some random content that was no good to anyone.

In the future, I will post updates on what I’m doing with my life, hopefully they will be more interesting than simply “I had a shower today” or “I went to the pub”!

To give anyone out there a brief history of me (not that I’m sure anyone is actually that bothered, but I do need to fill this with something), I have during my time been a web developer, and had a business with my brother, Crickett Software Limited, which was successful for a few years, before we moved onto the more interesting world of internet marketing and search engine optimisation.

We had a number of websites that all generated revenues in the form of commissions payable on hotel bookings, car hire bookings, airport parking bookings, bed and breakfast bookings and one or two other things as well. Unfortunately, after a few years this business was scuppered by the search engines which deemed our websites no longer relevant and we lost the majority of our traffic (and therefore revenue) almost overnight.

It was at this point, at the age of 25, nearly 26 that I decided that it would be in my best interests, and my girlfriend-soon-to-be-fiancee at the time’s interests if I did something less risky and more stable. I opted to become a mortgage broker, I figured that with the regulation of the financial markets it should be a fairly stable place to conduct business, and though the returns would not be as good as can be found in the modern-day-goldrush that is internet marketing, at least I would have a stable income for life.

Yeah right! The credit crunch soon buggered that up, and so now I have gone full circle and am now back doing web development and internet marketing.

I write, along with my brother, a blog about financial freedom, which is growing nicely, and though is not currently making enough money for either of us to achieve financial freedom, our hopes are that in the not too distant future, it will be able to.

In addition, I have recently gotten back into weight training and fitness. I guess something about going through a breakup, pending divorce and soon to be thirty years of age, made me think I had better get myself back into shape. You can read about my exploits, and those of some of my friends on my body building and fitness blog.