I went down to Miami with my good friend Mark from A List SEO to BarCamp Miami ... I didn't have tickets to the show I really wanted to be at, the Future of Web Apps, So I figured that at least I could hang out and get to meet some people at BarCamp.

Well, meet people I did ... and a lot of them. I was lucky enough to hang out and eat dinner with Larry Masters, the master mind behind the CakePHP framework. From our talks, I am definitely going to be checking out how I can start reaping the rewards of CakePHP as a rapid application development Framework.

Some of the other great guys that I spoke with were Kevin Marks, a developer advocate from Google ... Edgar Caballero, the senior technology consultant from Altra-App ... Jason Baptiste, CEO of Publictivity ... David Di Cillo, web and print designer with ThirtyNine ... Gary Schulthesis, & Craig Agranoff from Vois ... Sunir Shah from FreshBooks ... Eamon O'Connor from Refraction Films ... Onajide Shabakaka from the Miami Art Exchange ... and many more ...

So, from what I thought was going to be a nice get away turned out to be a networking home run ... some of these guys are making really big moves in the development community ... most notably, is Larry ... if that guys team works on a web application ... you are almost guaranteed that it's going to be rock solid.

I have been working on getting my site up to a condition where I feel that it is acceptable enough to start marketing my services cold. I don't really feel that it is quite there yet. I have put in an all night run working on it and it is now 2:00AM the following day.

I have had some good responses from some people that I hope to start doing some business with. Soon, I will start to assertively market through article promotion and viral media. Coupled with a tele-marketing effort I think that I can remain afloat long enough to bring in some work that will get me back in black.

Lately I have come to the realization that the time has arrived to step up and be counted ... Win, Lose or Draw - No mind ... I have been working as an SEO for quite some time now and the results have been good at the level of commitment that I have given so far.

I need to let everyone that reads my posts know that I enjoy Search Engine Optimization ... I like working in web development ... these fields offer me a great challenge to continually learn and grow - expand my abilities - and enhance my skills in life, education, and trade.

But Search Engine Optimization is not going to be for "fun" anymore. I have a family to support that depends on my success for the betterment of their future. From this point forward, It is time to get Hard Core on SEO. This is business. It is time to treat it as such. As the "Old School" of sales used to say it's Sell or Die from this point on ...