Adopted Child Grows Up To Father 1,000 New Joomla Sites A Day – with Gary Brooks

Gary Brooks, CloudAccess, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Sell Your Business

I wasn’t sure whether it was appropriate to even ask Gary Brooks about his childhood, but he reassured me in our pre-interview that as a member of the open source community he wanted to be open about who he was.

So you’ll hear why he was adopted and how his new family changed his life. And you’ll hear the clever ways he got customers for the bootstrapped internet service provider that he launched as a teenager, and sold 3 years later. And you’ll hear how and why he spent all his money after that.

And you’ll hear how he got a fire hose of new customers at his current company, CloudAccess.net, by offering to create a free demo web site for anyone who wants to try the Joomla platform.

Gary Brooks

CloudAccess

Gary Brooks is the CEO and founder of CloudAccess.net, the company that hosts demo.joomla.org and launches over 1,000 sites a day.

 

Three messages before we get started. First, copy this Facebook idea for your business today. See how they make it super easy for their users to import their contact from AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.? Well, you can add that functionality to your site today using CloudSponge. By using CloudSponge, your users can easily import their address books into your service and invite their contacts to use your site, and if you use the discount code “Mixergy,” you will get a couple of months free. CloudSponge.com.

Next, if your friends want to set up a store online, would you please tell them I said Shopify is the easiest way to set up a full featured store? Then you can show them who created a Shopify store. Companies like Tessla Motors, Pixar, Amnesty International, Foofighters, and others. Shopify stores look great and generate sales. Shopify.com.

Finally, who is the lawyer that tech entrepreneurs trust? Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law. Neil Patel,...

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Published: Feb 8, 2011