Today ended a four-day weekend In LA for Veecon 2024. For the past four nights, I slept on a couch in an Airbnb in the heart of West LA that I shared with 10 other people I met for the first time.

Shoutout to Kshove, the man who brought 10 strangers from around the world together for a weekend.

This weekend was really fun. 

It was a bonding experience with new friends and a reminder to have fun while building a business. The latter being something I’m actually really bad at.

Veecon, the event itself, was alright. I listened to Codie Sanchez, Bobbi Althoff, Nick Canon, Howie Mandel, Stanley Tang (Doordash) and Adam Richman speak.

The big takeaway I got from their talks and watching them operate is to be yourself. Follow your gut. Show up everyday, longer than your competition. 

But as always, the real stuff happens outside of Veecon (except the T-Pain concert was amazing as the ending act of Veecon. 

Outside the conference I went to cool things like a Bored Ape event at the cannabis cafe, Kshove’s networking event, taking over a bar in downtown LA and watched the largest meteor shower of the year an hour drive up the Angeles National Forest mountains.

Seeing people I recognized from the years before was fun too. There’s always so much to talk about after a year of not seeing someone you vibe with. 

I think before this event, I was feeling closed off and a bit lonely on this solo journey to building my career. Actually, the last two weeks before Veecon I’ve been lazy as hell. But after this event, I’m realizing that I’m not the only person carving my own path. Plenty of people I met this weekend are pursuing their “thing” full-time. Whether it’s art, which I actually have a new-found appreciation for, or marketing, web design, content creation, or whatever someone’s thing is. It’s tough. Loneliness is definitely a big problem. It’s inspiring and comforting to know that there are people out there with similar values taking similar risks as you.

Okay, now I want to mention a very real observation. The difference between this Veecon and last Veecon is SEO. I didn’t really share much in public about SEO last year, because I was honestly too new at it.

But now that I’ve tweeted about SEO, shared some news about my websites publicly on X, I noticed how many people are actually seeing my content. And, SEO is so freaking in-demand. Like it’s actually crazy.

Everyone wants to benefit of SEO, but no one wants to learn it themselves. 

The idea is simple: If I can learn SEO by doing (AKA creating websites), then I can be in a very solid situation where SEO can be a viable business.

There’s two things I need to learn if I wanted to make an SEO business – 1) E-commerce SEO and 2) How SEO agencies typically package their services

The second thing isn’t as important, or depends on how big I want this SEO thing to be. But there’s no doubt, in the words of Stanley Tang in the early days of Doordash, “there’s something here”.