The Simple Entrepreneur

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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 UNBLOCK WEBSITE ON FACEBOOK

I finally managed to get the website businesslegions.com unblocked on Facebook and I wanted to share how I did this so you don't have to go through the same pain that I did. I initially discovered the website was blocked from being shared on the Facebook Page - Business Legions...

July 8, 2020 0

HOW TO ADD CONTENT TO THE BOTTOM OF YOUR POSTS IN WORDPRESS

I've been a WordPress user for over 10 years and it's a highly recommended tool for basic to advanced website owners. In actual fact, this website is using WordPress as a content management system and I've stuck to WordPress because of the versatility and plugins available to achieve functions that...

July 4, 2020 0

HOW TO TURN ON THE SPIRIT LEVELLER ON THE GOOGLE PIXEL ANDROID CAMERA APP

I accidentally came across the feature of displaying the spirit leveller on the Google Pixel camera app and was quite surprised this is something that is not commonly known. I believe this feature is only available on the default camera app on the Google Pixel phones, if you do have...

June 27, 2020 0

HOW TO REPLACE THE JABRA MOVE EAR CUSHIONS

Are your Jabra Move ear cushions worn out and flaky? Don't throw away the headset just yet. Did you know you can just simply replace the ear cushions? I know that for most headsets you can purchase replacement ear cushions and save money. In a previous post Best Running Belt...

June 22, 2020 0

HOW I FIXED MY NINTENDO SWITCH JOYCON DRIFT ISSUE USING A PRESSURISED AIR DUSTER

Our Nintendo Switch Left JoyCon (blue) controller had the dreaded drifting issue and I managed to fix it. Throughout this article, I will be using the word JoyCon instead of the official Joy-Con term. The problem started about a few weeks ago and the kids would often complain that their...

June 17, 2020 0

HOW TO SETUP ZOOM FITNESS WORKOUTS

In two of my previous posts (200 Days of running still going and Spartan Virtual race - 2020), I mentioned how I use Zoom to conduct fitness workouts with my friends. For those of you who have used Zoom for workouts know that sharing the workout screen doesn't allow you...

June 15, 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