Welcome to my portfolio. My name is Nuno Alex Oliveira and I'm from Portugal.
My interests are: Webdesign, Teaching, Marketing, Writing, Investments, Design, Photography, Search Engine Optimization, Video, Reading, and some others more.
I'm a certified Professor but currently working as an online entrepreneur.
I'm in my early thirties but my web development work started in 1997 for a local computer company. In January 2000 I created the first website of my network: Descobre.com, one of the first portuguese portals.
Since then that site alone received millions of pageviews, it still gets xxx,000 per month, but I need to add more content soon.
Initially a hand made directory (with hundreds of sites) I then turned to Google
results (for whom I was a beta tester on their Adwords advertising program).
In these last years I've bought and developed hundreds of sites and my current
domain portfolio has thousands of generic domains. I receive many buying offers but I bought them for development, not resale. The research time I invested in them is worth much more than a quick sale, that is why I prefer partnerships.
Because I have a small company, with two partners, I have worked with people all around the word, from USA to Australia.
In terms of partnerships most of the companies I work with are from the US. All the income I earn is reinvested because the internet is still young, and pioneers have the edge on this global online market. Domain names are still undervalued and this is the time to invest, not to sell. Unless you get a good offer and you can use that money to invest in another great project...
Due to the low value of the US Dollar facing my currency (Euro), and the high cost of living in Portugal, especially in Algarve, where a normal house often costs more than 1 million dollars (sometimes much more, and the real estate crisis didn't affect this market), with our high taxes and a VAT of 23%, working online from here isn't easy. Buying anything, from a car to any equipment, is much more expensive than in the US, UK, Germany or France. Regardless of that, money isn't everything when you love what you do... and I really like my internet development work.
It's great when you don't have to be stuck on traffic jams, or have a tight schedule,
but it requires a great discipline or you will never meet your objectives. |
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