I began designing originally as a hobby, it lead to people raving about my work and referring me to friends etc. This all in turn led to me having too much free work so I had to start charging for my time.

Eventually I designed an online portfolio website but it didn't have the right domain name so I scrapped it. I bought www.nzgraphicdesign.com over a year ago and ran it as a hobby business. I bought www.circle.co.nz 3 months ago with the intention it would take over as my online design business.

So far everything is going really well, I have done a few small projects and I currently have 3 very big projects in the late negotiation stages. One is for a NZ and Pacific business council.

I work full time and this is a great hobby to be involved in. I have a 5 year goal of having 40 maintenance paying clients which will enable me to quit my bread and butter job. So far I have two.