Who We Are

If you got to this page from another link besides our home page you should go there for the beginning of this story.

VREAds came about as a way to extend our already extensive experience with Internet business into the Internet Marketing arena. We're actually a team of four specialists with a combined 40+ years of experience in and around Internet businesses. Up until about eight months ago we were only watching the Internet Marketing Industry from the sidelines. So in some sense, when it comes to Internet Marketing we're not that much different than the rest of you who are just getting started.

What does make us different, and in several areas gives us a huge advantage is by leveraging our already extensive experience in management, site development, graphics design, and SEO management to overcome the hurdles encountered by most new business owners. By having this team in place it not only gives us an advantage but it is also an advantage for anyone who decides to follow what we are doing or chooses to work with us.

Mary is an implementation and coordination manager for a major Fortune 500 company, and is our business manager. She has been involved in two other Internet businesses over the last 5 years, one of which, her art designs,
Designs by Mel, is still in operation.

Wes is our graphics, Flash, and media specialist who has been designing graphics and developing websites since the mid-90s.
While his specialty is graphics, he also doubles as one of our three site developers. He has worked on sites for several very well known national companies such as Fleishmans’ Yeast, Ralston Purina, and Texas Instruments just to name a few, as well as many smaller companies, but all with the same attention to detail.
Many of the sites he has worked on are dynamically driven and include database back ends. You can check out much of his more recent graphic design and Flash work at brainray.com

Shawn is our SEO expert as well as the second of our three Web developers. He has built his expertise as a knowledgeable and experienced Search Engine Optimization specialist, in combination with his skills as a Web Developer for more than 5 years.
Shawn concentrates his resourcefulness and skills on the diversified aspects of Search Engine Optimization, where he's earned the distinction of consistent top rankings in all major search engines. He is consistently involved in technologies that maximize usability and accessibility when optimizing/developing websites as well as identifying problems and solutions that result in major cost saving strategies for the clients he works with.
He started out as a web developer in Cleveland Ohio where he helped two small businesses build an online presence when calling card sales over the Internet were beginning to take off.
He quickly realized that the important part of an Internet business was traffic generation and has since become one of the best in the SEO field.
For the past three years he has been working with a St. Louis area company on their e-commerce sites, and, using Pay Per Click, Organic SEO, and Datafeed management, has been responsible for tripling their sales.
"Anyone can send traffic to a website; the key is to turn your traffic into REAL results! My focus is always on making you the most money possible on your investment."

Mike is our database specialist and the third Web developer. He has been involved in database development since the late 80s and like Wes has been developing websites since the mid-90s.
He built the databases that ran the sites of the national companies listed above in collaboration with Wes. He also built intranet marketing sites for QWest and Anheuser-Busch. He strictly uses SQL Server as his database development platform.
He's currently collaborating with Shawn on the e-commerce projects he's working on.
Mike also provides a lot of the copywriting and article content, along with some help from Shawn.

One other thing that's different about us is our use of primarily Microsoft products in our web development. Even our blog was built using Microsoft technology so if there's any of you out there that have been wondering how to get started in this business using .net and Microsoft SQL Server just contact us and we'll see if we can help.

What VREAds Is Trying To Accomplish

When we put together our team and formed VREAds we all decided that our company would not engage in dishonest practices. Now you would think that that would be a given for most companies... but unfortunately what we've noticed while we were watching from the sidelines and trying to decide what kind of company we wanted to form is that there are a lot of people who will say just about anything to get you to buy something.

VREAds would rather be known for its honest marketing practices than just trying to make a sale.
Don't get us wrong... you have to sell things to stay in business, but you do not have to use misleading and sometimes just downright false advertising to make the sale.

Some of the products that we are marketing have been purchased from other companies with the purpose of reselling those products to our customers. While we make every effort to make sure that we are not making misleading claims some of the products that we sell are e-books and we may not read them word for word, so please, if you find anything in any of the products that you purchase from us to be misleading and you feel like you deserve or refund please do not hesitate to ask.

One of the areas we are developing on our site is an Honest Review section where we intend to review the products that we have purchased from other marketers. We, like many other people on the Internet have fallen for some of those... shall we say, less than honest, claims of easy wealth.

At the same time we've also been fortunate enough to find some excellent programs and bargains that have helped us get our marketing business off the ground.

One of our goals here at VREAds is to not only build a successful Internet Marketing business, but to help those who follow what we're doing, do the same.

The name of our company, VREAds, stands for Virtual Real Estate Advertising. We currently have over 80 domains in various stages of development, and our slogan of Internet Marketing and Advertising through Virtual Real Estate will begin to become clear as we finish developing these sites.

The number one key to success in an Internet business is traffic, traffic, traffic. Sure, it takes sales to be successful but it's hard to sell something before you get them in the door.

We'll be writing blog posts and articles with specific strategies to help you succeed as we progress. This is just a very small overview of what we're trying to accomplish.

A Clarification Of Your Goals

One more thing we want to touch on is the clarification of your goals and how much importance they play in the level of your success. We touched on a few goal oriented things in the opening paragraphs on our home page that led to this team page.

We want to reiterate the importance of realistic goals. Sometimes, whether it's because of that make $1 million in the next week type of e-mails that you see, or simply because you don't have it well thought out about how much time and work it's going to take to achieve the level of success that you desire, the result is the same. That unrealistic goal can at best be set a back and become a learning experience, or at worst cause total failure.

We all would like to have success come easily, but the reality is, that more times than not it takes lots and lots of hard work and time to achieve a level of success that we are comfortable with.

A great analogy is the sports world; there are many, many athletes who strive to reach the level of a Tiger Woods in golf, or a Michael Jordan in basketball, or a Joe Montana in football, but there is a very small percentage that really reach that level of achievement, and many others who never make the big leagues at all. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't have tried and it doesn't mean that you shouldn't try either. The other competitors that didn't quite make it to that superstar status have still achieved very much.

While it would be nice to be bringing in six seven or even eight figures, and there are those in this business who are bringing in those numbers, but you might have to start with $50 a day, and maybe even less. $50 a day doesn't sound like much compared to some of the numbers that are thrown around out there but just working five days a week, that would be an extra thousand dollars a month.

There really is no restriction on the amount of money that you can make in this business other than the restrictions we put on ourselves, the point is, just be realistic about what you expect to get out of this business compared to what you expect to put into this business.