Why you can trust a stranger from the internet with your customers.
Use this as an excuse to grab a coffee.
- 1.
I started as a welder.
Started life as an apprentice stainless steel and aluminium fabricator at Gold Coast City Marina.
Long days, hot steel, and a healthy respect for people who work with their hands for a living.
When I say I know how a tradie operates, I mean I have been the one on the tools with a phone ringing in my pocket that I couldn't answer.
That's me! Safety was not our strong point, but we lived. - 2.
Then, I built rockets.
Eventually, I decided to study Mechanical Engineering at Griffith Uni on the Gold Coast.
After graduating, I started work as a Propulsion Engineer building Australia's first orbital launch vehicle.
I was responsible for the design, build and testing of the vehicle's 400 kilowatt electric hydrogen peroxide pump.
If you want, try Googling 'Rocket launch from bowen', that was us!
Blowing stuff up is a huge part of bulding rockets. Kinda cool to get paid for that. It also teaches you to test everything before you trust it.
I still work that way.
I'm in there somewhere. We blew this rocket up too. - 3.
I quit a six figure job because of ChatGPT.
Sounds stupid, but it's true.
Late 2022, ChatGPT dropped and I could see exactly what was coming. I sold my shares in the rocket company, quit, and started building things on the internet full time.
Most people said that was dumb. Four years later, here we are!
Every day I wake up excited to get out of bed. I love building.
- 4.
My first dollar online came from a blog.
It's called rareconnections.io, and it was my first win. I grew it from nothing to about 500 visitors a day in a few months, purely by understanding how Google ranks pages.
It's still up, and my email still lives there. So if an email from a rareconnections.io address brought you here, that was me.
- 5.
I've grown other people's businesses too.
As Head of Growth for a US content company I signed up over 400 contributors and took their blog from zero to nearly 60,000 visits a month in nine months.
The chart below is their Google Search Console.
Zero to 60k clicks a month. - 6.
I build AI agents every single day.
Not as a hobby. It's my actual job.
I design and run complex OpenClaw and Hermes agents that do real work for real businesses. I've done it long enough to know the tricks of the trade.
A chatbot that books a plumber or recommends a tent is a relatively light lift in comparison.
That's why I can do it faster and cheaper than everyone else.
It's also why yours will actually work.
- 7.
I'm in Queensland. You can call me.
Not an overseas agency, not a reseller, not a faceless Saas, not a call centre.
Same time zone, same slang, same understanding that 'yeah nah' means no.
I answer my own email, usually the same day. If you want to hear a voice before you trust me with your customers, say so and I'll call you!