Hi,

My name is Jeffery Wood and I am certainly not a gardener by any stretch of the imagination. It’s actually not an enjoyable hobby for me for one thing. I know, I know; why then? I’ll get to that.

I like plants and flowers. My favorite flower is of course the rose, and I prefer antique roses to hybrids. My general rule for flowers are, if they look pretty but have no fragrance, then why bother?

I have studied plants mainly for the purpose of making money with them. I’ve looked at growing gourmet garlic, gourmet mushrooms, baby corn, heirloom roses, corn/wheat/soy for biodiesel, bonsai, etc etc.

Knowing how to take care of them and being able to take care of them are two different things. So I’ve rented a 20×20 foot section in a local community garden and started to document my process.

So follow along if you want to watch someone who knows little, with even less experience, attempt to grow a garden… of some sort.

I got started doing business on the internet pre-2002 (I forgets the exact year) doing primarily drop-shipping on eBay and I did okay with it. Eventually I got out of that and went into internet marketing and blogging starting with a site called Blog Like A Celebrity. Then I did a series of blog posts that showed you step-by-step, how to set up your own WordPress Blog and forum. I then took those blog posts and compiled them into an eBook with some additional content.

Over the years I have had several websites and my internet marketing blog has moved around a lot on top of that.

So keep in mind this goes back almost 20 years.

WOW!! I’m getting old… but I digress.

At first, I had bloglikeacelebrity.com because there used to be a product called Celebrity Blogging and I created the website to both promote it and to have a blog to write about blogging.

Then that became startingablog.org because “starting a blog” was (and still is I think) a popular search and it’s very descriptive of what I did, namely helping people get their own blogs up and going. The .com wasn’t available but the .org was.

Eventually, I started doing more affiliate stuff and started a business named Sweaty Shop (it’s a play on words for “sweatshop”) and I moved everything to  sweatyshop.com. And also because .org really is meant for organizations, often non-profit ones at that.

Then I wanted something that was more reflective of what I did and I did a lot of subcontracting work on the technical side of websites, I also gave a lot of marketing advice so I moved everything to jeffwoodconsulting.com.

Eventually, I went on hiatus and suspended everything.

When I started back up, I put everything under sweatyshop.com.

I’ve set up countless blogs and websites for both myself and others. I’ve also helped people learn how to use their blogs, install security packages, and keep blogs up-to-date with the latest versions of their blogs and related software. I frequently act in the roles of an internet marketer, virtual assistant, sub-contractor, coach, consultant, and…. the list goes on