Name of your website?Stormynites
Your name?
Mark Hedtke
Your Location (city, etc)
Orlando
When did you start your website and why?
Originally the attempt to get the name started in 1989 out of respect to my father, who had the nick name stormy. I managed to finally acquire the name stormynites in 1997. Initially the site was to get a business presence on the internet and has gone through many phases. The phases have generally coincided with other ideas to help people. In fact the initial name was changed early on from Old Hi Skool because at one point I purchased a old high school with my father and were going to develop it into a series of businesses. Poor planning and lack of funds squashed that project. I had a brainstorm on selling truck ramps, that involved shipping ramps made in Australia, proved too costly. Eventually after having so many domain names, I settled upon offering hosting, domain name registration, ecommerce and email. I finally recognized the purpose of the name so I introduced storm, emergency and survival supplies as well. In order to market these businesses better I also helped develop an online newspaper locally and thus I was in the advertising business as well.
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