Entrepreneur on Fire, episode 69.

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Okay, let's get started. I am simply electrified to introduce my guest today. Rick

Dragon. Rick, are you prepared to ignite? I am prepared to ignite. Awesome. Rick

created his dream job, learning and sharing knowledge. He authored the book Social

Marketology, a deep dive on social media and process in marketing. Rick is a co-founder and CEO

of Dragon Search, a full service digital marketing agency providing service to wonderful businesses

throughout the United States. I've given Fire Nation a little overview, Rick. But why don't you take

a minute, tell us a little bit about you personally, your age, where you're from, etc.

Then take another minute and give us an overview of your business. Sure. I left because when I

look back on my own life, it is rather funny. I'm a painter and artist. I didn't go to school for

business. I didn't go to school to be an entrepreneur. I have been a painter. Like a lot of painters,

we've done a lot of things to make a living. That was my background. I've done many, many different

things. I was the curator of a library, a peculiar thing. I've done my share of old house restoration.

I did great many things until this whole world of computing and the internet came along. It

just filled a fabulous niche for me. It filled both my need to satisfy cabin fever and my need to

just constantly learn. That's pretty much where I've come from a little over 15 years ago. I formed

a company called Oxclo Workshop that did web and application development. Through those years,

of course, was also doing online marketing as it was and got a chance to work with a lot of

wonderful people, people like out of gray advertising and satchin satchy. People really understood what

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