Initially, I was planning for this blog entry to be about how I decided to incorporate dot-city into my logo. The more I thought about it, I realized I love to use Adobe Photoshop but I never opted into the subscription model that they now currently offer. I miss the days of being able to buy a software product where I owned the product outright and didn’t have to worry about spending money on it over and over again. Call me old, but that model works in the customer’s favor better, versus the infamous subscription model that every vendor is forcing customers to partake in.

There was a sense of pride being able to buy a tangible product. Obviously, the days of CDs and DVDs are over but the best product purchase I have ever made was Adobe Photoshop CS6. I still own the product in its original packaging to this day and have created countless projects using it. That logo you see above in the top right of my blog was also made with it. I take pride in not only teaching myself how to use Adobe Photoshop at a very young age but I also take pride in being able to gain access to it when I was in my exploratory stage.

See, a great deal of us would never of had the opportunity to use earlier versions of Adobe Photoshop if it hadn’t been for the so called, FREE VERSIONS offered online. When you are young and you barely have enough money to call your own you start to look through other avenues to gain access to what you need. I don’t condone piracy but I do understand it and if it hand’t been for it I would never of gotten the experience that I truly wanted with Adobe Photoshop and not to mention when you get to try before you buy, sometimes you actually buy the product.

In my case, I wanted to buy the product because it had completely changed the way I looked at the digital realm. A piece of software that helps you create is one of the most powerful things you can have access to these days. I really hope Adobe will stop putting profits ahead of impact. You have unlocked the potential of many digital entrepreneurs, but they need your help more than ever lately. Don’t force them to look for old copies of Adobe Photoshop on eBay. Give them the opportunity to earn their own weight to buy your sofware outright. Don’t just offer the subscription model. Bring back the perpetual model and unlock the world’s creativity once again.

As a Sales Engineer, sometimes perpetual pricing is needed. Businesses of all sizes are struggling right now and gouging them with the subscription model doesn’t do any justice for anyone. So say it with me, BRING BACK PERPETUAL PRICING ADOBE! You owe it to the creative community to do so. They are by-far being impacted heavily during these times.

Let me start this first post by saying that I have had several different blogs over the years, but I consider this my first PROFESSIONAL blog. I say this because I made a great deal of amateur mistakes with the previous blogs and became focused on the wrong things at the right time. I say right time because I was able to create a healthy stream of income from my previous blogs. I always pressured myself into writing for profit, these days I could care less about that. Profit is fun, but I’d rather write with passion versus writing to maintain a sponsor or publishing a daily expired domain list riddled with domain auction affiliate links. Making a quick buck is fun, but I’m here to create something that will last for decades to come.

My name is Jason Thompson and I am almost 40 years old. This blog was created to help some of you keep from making some of the mistakes I have made in the first part of my life as a internet entrepreneur and has also been created to share some of my experiences over the years. On a personal scale I have launched this blog to keep track of my progress. I am one of those entrepreneurs with a day job and it is easy to get lost in collecting a paycheck for the rest of my life.

I have never liked being comfortable. Some of my best work has been done when I was financially strapped. I operate well under pressure and that is one of the reasons why I chose Sales Engineering as a career. I have been an SE for almost 5 years now and I’d like to say I am a fairly good one. I care about my customers and I have always enjoyed making sure that I equip them with the right security products for their business needs.

I firmly believe in creating multiple streams of income and fortunately I already do that with real estate. The barrier to entry in real estate is a little obscene these days and writing about it just won’t seem feasible for the majority of you out there. Since that is the case, I wanted to cover the areas that all of you could get into and that consist of digital assets like domains and digital properties like websites. The combined nature of the two topics will lead to one explosive blog. I’m looking forward to sharing all of these experiences with you regardless of how positive or negative they are. If I can arm you with just a slice of experience to help you with your own journey, then my job is complete.

This is my first of many blog entries and I look forward to you counting me as part of your daily reading intake. Let’s make this a great year, regardless of the whole Covid thing!