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Hello. My name is Marco and I am an entrepreneur based in Sydney Australia. I was born in Vietnam, grew up in Italy and currently residing in Australia. My passion is in the digital space and I have launched several digital products. You will find these on the portfolio page. I started this website so I could leave a digital footprint of my random thoughts, ideas and life in general. I hope this website can be an inspiration and help you in your own journey in the digital space.

Major Milestones

The start

1978 : Born

The start of my awesome life. Was born in Baclieu, Vietnam.

1978-1987 : Lived in Malaysia and Italy

Parents fled Vietnam as refugees a few months after I was born. Our family spent time in Malaysia before being given the opportunity to live in Italy.

1987 : Moved to Australia

Our family moved to Australia.

1996 : HSC

Completed Year 12 and was accepted to UTS studying Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) majoring in Telecommunications Engineering

1997 : Love

Met the love of my life

1998-1999 : Project Manager/LAN Administrator Assistant @ Transgrid

Started my first job at Transgrid

2002 : Graduation

Graduated from Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)

2004 : Graduated from Masters

Completed Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Telecommunications Networks

2003-2004 : Network Project Manager @ RTA

Project Management of various network project to specify, install, configure and commission new systems and services for the Roads and Traffic Authority

2004-2005 : Senior Network Officer @ ABC

A technical role to provide support and maintain voice and data network for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1/2006 : Married

Married to my beautiful wife Angela.

2005-2006 : Infrastructure and Telecoms Engineer @ Lilly

Managed the voice, voicemail, data – (routers, switches, VPN, firewalls), fax, teleconferencing, web conferencing, mobile phones, wireless and blackberry services and provided Tier Support for Australia and New Zealand

2/2006 : First company Advertise Me

Started my first company. Came up with an idea whilst attending a course and soon after launched Advertise Me. Advertise Me is a digital advertising company that primarily focused on the digital signage industry. The company now focuses on digital solutions. This includes custom tools, mobile applications, advertising so much more. I’ve learnt so much since the inception of this company. Visit Advertise Me

11/2007 : Son

My son Jayden entered into this world.

8/2011 : Daughter

My daughter Olivia joined our family. Our OJAM (Olivia Jayden Angela Marco) clan is complete.

5/2012 : Launched Squeak

Whilst working on a number of projects for Advertise Me we saw an opportunity in the mobile space to create an exciting app that helps consumers shop and find great sales based on their interests. Visit Squeak

6/2015 : Launched Social Wall

Our parent company Advertise Me launched a new product and website called Social Wall. The idea with this product started as we saw a need to be able to display social media posts on digital screens. Social Wall is a simple and easy to use tool to aggregate and display social media posts on any digital device. Visit Social Wall

9/2012 : Launched StinkyThePig

Helped started a cool and funky brand called StinkyThePig. I turned a friend’s idea into an actual product. Visit Stinky The Pig

1/2017 : Launched this website

Decided to start my own personal blog and here we are.

12/2018 : ePosters Launch

Launched a new digital signage solution product called ePosters. This is an interactive digital poster solution designed to be used for events, exhibitions or any location that requires displaying interactive posters. Visit ePosters

3/2018 : Vegan Journey

Started the Vegan journey. Decided it was time to move from a Vegetarian to a Vegan diet and launched a new website called Veggie Meals. Visit Veggie Meals

5/2019 : Social Timeline

Social Timeline is a new Idea for a social media application to display digital content. Created the beta version so visit Social Timeline

2/2020 : Online Hosting Solutions

Online Hosting Solutions is a hosting business and I started this because I was frustrated with domain renewal costs. I’m looking at expanding to hosting SaaS tools.

I'm still learning and growing

Portfolio

Some of the websites, businesses, products and ideas I have launched

Latest Blog Posts

The art of words is to never stop writing

HOW TO FIX YOUTUBE NOT LOADING VIDEO SPINNING CIRCLE

Last week I published a video called HOW TO FIX YOUTUBE NOT LOADING VIDEO SPINNING CIRCLE [SOLVED] on YouTube and it was related to an issue my dad experienced on his computer. He has an old HP desktop with the Windows Vista operating system. He didn't want to upgrade the...

November 16, 2020 0

HOW TO FIX OBS BLACK SCREEN DISPLAY CAPTURE ISSUE

I've used OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) for a few months now and it's been great. I'm able to record and stream videos the way I want it and I can easily change the layouts based on my requirements. In my previous post, I used OBS to actually record the video...

November 9, 2020 0

UPGRADE STUCK ON FILMORA 9 CAN NOT UPGRADE TO 10

Wondershare Filmora recently released version X (10) and when I tried going through the upgrade process it didn't work. What is Wondershare Filmora? Wondershare Filmora is a video editing tool that allows you to create amazing videos. What are the new features in Filmora X (10)? Here's a list of...

November 1, 2020 0

MY FIRST MUSCLE UP AT AGE 42

I did my first muscle up yesterday (30th October 2020)! At age 42! I surprised myself that I was able to do it. For those of you who don't know what a muscle-up is, let me explain before you watch the video. The muscle-ups require upper body strength, in particular...

October 31, 2020 0

HOW TO FIX BROADCOM 802.11ABGN WIRELESS SDIO ADAPTER NOT WORKING ON WINDOWS 10

I recently had to fix an issue on a ProTab model PTBTWXUFK10BLK after a Windows 10 upgrade. It appears the default drivers for the Wireless adaptors do not work and the fix was to install the old Windows 8 drivers. You can download the drivers from the ASUS website (yes...

October 28, 2020 0

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT TOOLS TO AUTOMATE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

There are several social media management tools I use to automatically schedule social media posts, in particular, content from my WordPress websites (this also include custom post types) to the different social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google My Business, Instagram and others. Here's a list of...

October 16, 2020 0

Contact Me

I’m very approachable and I’m more than happy to answer any of your questions. So, just send me a message and I’ll try to respond to you as soon as I can. You can also follow me on any of the social media platforms below.

hi@marcotran.com.au