OUR STORY
OUR STORY
Many digital marketing firms come across as impersonal, almost robotic corporations focused primarily on securing the largest contracts.
In contrast, we prioritize partnerships with small businesses that we genuinely believe in and want to support toward success. We’re not just interested in your business—we want to build a relationship. Understanding your business and the people behind it is crucial for us, and we believe it’s equally important for you to know who we are.
Learning about our background and values helps create a meaningful connection, ensuring that our collaboration is not only productive but also personal and transparent. So without further ado…
Howdy!
My name is Connor, the founder of A Nomad World.
Whenever work begins with a new client, my favorite part of starting the process is finding out the story behind your business. Your stories and experiences and even your personal life is what connects me to your business and finding out your needs and wants helps me become an extension of your own team.
So I think it only right that I deliver the same so that you too can become part of our team and feel connected to who we are and what it is that we do.
As I am an extremely verbose person with a ‘Gift of the Gab’ as we say in the East of London, you can fully expect this to be a much longer read than the usual ‘About Us’ that these faceless companies offer. So grab a drink and take a few minutes to find out more so you can better understand how we can work together.
THE START
Starting at the very beginning, I was born East of London in the early 90’s to a poor working class family of Cockneys. Life was bland and I was brought up surrounded by bricks and concrete and unforgiving city streets. Time was spent outside causing trouble with friends or inside reading books (LOTR mostly) and watching lots of TV.
Then one day, probably around 6 years old, my school installed the first Computers that I had ever seen and my life changed almost immediately. I enrolled in Computer Club and spent as much time as I possibly could ‘asking Jeeves’ and learning more about the world that was far out of my reach.
From my love of Computers came a desire for a collection of all the knowledge I could cram into my cranium. From this came an intense need to get out there and experience what the world had to offer.
Since then, much of my life has revolved around computers. I was coding websites and designing flyers, brochures and logos since I was 12-13 years old. The first money I ever made myself came from selling ‘Game Currency’ online and this was always invested back into bigger and better technology.
Coming from a poor background of hard working folks with almost zero technological literacy, I found myself filling obvious gaps in others skills from a young age.
My pocket money as a teenager came from helping family and friends with anything tech related. That grew an intense love and understanding of the little guys needs when it comes to the Internet.
This gave me the ability to work with those that have zero understanding of the computers and the Internet. By learning how to explain things in a language they understood and well as being able to comprehend what it actually was that those people were asking of me, by word of mouth I quickly became the first port of call from installing and repairing technology, doing peoples taxes online and informing people on what computer to buy.
LEARNING TO TRAVEL
Most of my adult life has been punctuated with a deep impulse to get out of the City and head for greener pastures. At the age of 16, the first summer I had left school, I used what money I had saved to leave home with a 25KG backpack full of everything I needed to be self sustaining.
At this point, I did not have a Passport or a Drivers License so I did the only thing I could, I started walking. Before I left, a family friend had a daughter born with severe disabilities that needed private care and surgery in the US. I decided to use my travels as a way to raise money for this cause.
I set up a GoFundMe and I purchased 1000 of those rubber ‘Live Strong’ wristbands everyone wore back then, with the young girls name and a website to donate to etched into them.
I left my front door and just started walking North. Along the way I met so many incredible people that completely changed my life and opinion on what England was and who the people were that lived there. Being so young and with a baby face, I was welcomed with open arms and with a lot of curiosity.
To cut a very long story short, 3 months later I found myself North of the Lake District. I ended up walking 300+ miles from home using a map and compass (Google Maps was not a thing back then).
My journey saw me taken in and looked after by Single Mums, Scots, Jews, Artists as well as partying with Pagans around an Ancient Stone Circle for Summer Solstice. I eventually found the nights getting cold and made my journey back to London using public transport.
Two weeks later, I’m back in the city having raised a considerable amount of money for the young girls surgery.
This is what opened my eyes to the world that lay elsewhere and what could be achieved when you want it bad enough.
‘ADULTHOOD’
Just before turning 18, I moved to Richmond, West London to find a job that wasn’t working in a bar or doing menial labor.
I found myself a job at a slightly sketchy Insurance Firm. They had me help build and test Apps they were having built by a team in India as well as build 10+ plus different websites which were essentially the same company under many different names.
This is where I cut my teeth in the corporate world and I quickly found it extremely boring and easy. After a couple of years, I desperately need a new challenge and a new adventure.
I quit that suit and tie job, grabbed my backpack again but this time with a Passport. I headed for Asia. I landed in Thailand, travelled to Cambodia, Vietnam and India and didn’t leave for many months.
After a year, I returned to London and quickly found myself a job at a Start-Up Cycling Gym based in Mortlake, London in charge of all things technology and Digital Marketing
From sourcing and installing audio and visual equipment to designing and building the website and booking system and literally everything Marketing and Branding, Social Media and Photography.
Unfortunately after a few years, the owners decided to call it a day and eventually moved with their family down South.
However seeing as the Gym itself was well love and successful and I was still keen to keep the role, one of the Head Trainers decided to take the leap and find the funding to keep the door open. Albeit in a slightly modernized form and we become strong business partners.
Once we had received funding, the building was renovated, state of the art equipment sourced and installed and a whole new round of Branding and Marketing took place. 6 years later, this iteration of the Gym is still going strong and is one of the projects I am most proud of my involvement in.
A DIGITAL NOMAD GETS ITCHY FEET
After a few years, the challenge wore down and become rigmarole and slightly monotonous and those ‘Greener Pastures’ once again started calling. I applied for a Canadian Visa, a place I had long dreamed of exploring and I was lucky enough to receive it not long thereafter.
Much to my business partners chagrin, I left London, starting my first online company; Streetcode Media. I continued to work closely with my business partner back in London and this started off my Digital Nomad journey.
My time in Canada was absolutely mind-blowing and an entirely different world for this London boy. I found myself living with a Self-Sustainable Farming ‘Cult’ out in the middle of nowhere until the weirdness and isolation got a bit much and I moved to Banff, Alberta to be around normal people again.
Not long after this I ended up working as the the Content Marketer for a Legal Cannabis company, FOUR20. This is industry that was a complete mind f*** to work in, considering England’s attitude towards to herb and how many people are still imprisoned there for a plant….
I had a great time here and learned a LOT about alternative marketing as we were unable to market in the same ways other companies were, for obvious reasons!
COVID
Then COVID hit. I ended up moving to Calgary to be closer to Corporate offices as my role unfortunately involved a lot of meetings and Zoom and Microsoft Teams was just then becoming a thing. Soon enough the difficult climate caused by COVID ended up taking that job from me.
Once I moved to Calgary, I ended up meeting a woman who would soon become my wife. Not long after being married, she fell pregnant with my first son. After the birth of our Son, we quickly decided that the life we had been brought up with, wasn’t one we wanted for our child.
COVID had changed everything, we realized life in the city can quickly change and we longed for something more secure but ultimately more freeing.
Once again I packed up everything, this time with my Wife and Son. We loaded everything into our Chevy pick-up truck and headed for the lush and fertile valleys of the Kootenays, British Columbia.
There we met up with a family with young children with views much like ours and we started to cooperate in continuing to build up there land into a working Market Garden.
For the last few years, my role completely and totally changed in an effort to give my Son a life outside of the ‘Matrix’. My days were spent as a proper Organic Farmer.
From tilling to fencing, raising and butchering hundreds of Free Range, Organic Chicken, making wine and cheese and bread and eating the best grass-fed beef I have ever tasted.
We lived in a giant 40ft Yurt and all our days were spent outside, next to a giant lake and stark mountain peaks named after the Norse Pantheon. The summers were five months of long days in 30c+ degree heat with zero clouds or rain for months on end.
The winter, the complete opposite: 4-5 months of 10ft of snow combined with temperatures as low as -30c.
Soon enough, my wife fell pregnant again. Dreading another winter, we decided to head to Thailand for an easier time. Never one to take it easy, I quickly found myself working with two Swedish chaps who were building their own 50,000sqft Legal Cannabis Facility in Phuket.
I worked with them on their Branding, Marketing as well as their Facility Tech, sourcing their genetics and even went as far as helping them write their Government mandated Standard Operating Procedures.
Before my second child was born, we headed back to Canada so that my Wife could give birth at home and soon enough we were blessed with a second beautiful, perfect baby boy.
BACK TO THE MOTHERLAND
Two young kids is HARD! We made the decision to move back to Europe. Spain to be exact. I have family that made the move to the South of Spain before BREXIT and we figured that being around family is what was best for our kids and for us.
That brings us to the current day, living in Sunny Spain where farming is very different and very much out of the question for those without large swathes and land and equipment.
So I started up a new project, a Digital Marketing company. One that will eventually lead us to be able to live a life where we are able to live more freely, hopefully Homeschool our children and show them as much of the World as is possible.
IF YOU HAVE READ THIS FAR…..
You know now everything, if not summarized, to what leads us where we are now. Back to building up a client base and becoming a proper Digital Nomad.
Being part of my journey means being part of the system that gives my family the opportunity to see that everything you need in life can be done off your own back.
They will hopefully see why 90% of Small Business owners are happier and more fulfilled than those working a job in the ‘rat race’.
I hope after reading this, you can sense the passion and drive that I have not only for my own Small Business but for yours too. My success is based on yours and while we start to grown and build, our longest served clients will become an integral part of our focus and growth.
We might be small now but the only thing that stays the same is change!
I appreciate every one of you that made it this far and I sincerely look forward to hearing you story and what brought you here.
