Description: Web design and web site development, Social Media, Consultancy, Copywriting and SEO.
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This is the personal site and portfolio of Mike Morrison, e-commerce and web designer, online entrepreneur, social media guy, wannabe writer and dad. My latest CV (pdf).
Studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art in London, but decided quickly that it was the 'design' bit that really appealed to me. I did a few graphic and exhibition design jobs in London, Barcelona and San Francisco (it was more about the travel than the job seeking...) then bumped into the internet in 1999.
Co-founded up a small web design company building sites mostly with Flash, then later that year co-founded the gift & gadget e-commerce site I Want One Of Those.com with a couple of nice blokes. Launched the site in pre-crash early 2000 with only £15,000 of our own money, and left it after 7 years at which point it was making annual sales of over £6 million. It's currently doing more than twice that...