A Bit About Me
My name is Lee Dodd, but you already knew that. I am uneducated in terms of degrees, not even graduating high school. I got married early to my wife of almost 10 years, Amber. We now have two beautiful little girls and we enjoy them thoroughly. I am a full time webmaster and forum administrator making a living from the relatively new internet medium of online communities or forums. I also derive a good portion of my income through Affiliate Marketing, buying and selling web real estate, and a variety of non-forum related sites. I currently have between 40-50 main sites in my network.
Back in 2003, I stumbled upon my first internet forum and little did I know that I would one day own 3 of the largest forums on the web. It wasn’t until almost a year later that I began my very first forum for parents to discuss child safety. This was helping a nonprofit organization to provide a medium for discussion amongst parents. This was a small attempt, but something that would drive me into the forum world on a much larger scale.
Within the past 2 years, I have started CruiseLineFans.Com and seen it grow from nothing to more than 7,500 members and 700,000 posts. I have seen SprintUsers.Com grow from 20,000 members to more than 106,000 members in only 18 months time and also recently seen ChristianGuitar.Org surpass the 125,000 member mark.
While my forums are growning at a tremendous pace, I must say that it doesn’t come easy. There have been many long days, and some nights, spent working on the web. I have spent countless hours doing research, talking to people in the know, building relationships, enhancing my boards, monetizing the traffic and so on. I soon came to realize that success brought those that were watching the growth take place. Many young forum admins were asking questions, wanting to know how I got to this point. On forums I frequent, I would receive questions in my PM box about monetization, handling community issues, ad networks. I have now set out on a mission to help web entrepreneurs in a much bigger way.
Recently, I have also teamed up with my friend, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker, to build a unique and absolutely awesome webmaster conference Elite Retreat. This is going to be huge and I look forward to the future of this great event and seeing those we help to be ultra successful in their web business.
What is Business Bushido?
Many maybe familiar with the Japanese word bushido after seeing the movie The Last Samurai. Katsumoto was in the courtyard sharing with Algren about the life of samurai warriors and mentions the term bushido there. I have always been a fan of ninja and samurai, and enjoy their history. I also love movies portraying honor, courage, loyalty, and so on.
Basically, bushido means “the way of the warrior“. It is broken down into 7 (maybe my favorite number) traits:
Definitely some of the traits I aim to portray in my business, thus Business Bushido was born!
