My Story
Welcome to Kanoobi, the personal industry blog of Iban Vermeulen.
I started my career in 1999 completing my first web design certificate course which at the time gave little work opportunity. So, I enrolled in a creative arts college where I completed a 4-year diploma course and lectured for another 3 years. During this time I also became a systems engineer completing my MCSE.
Even though I had completed all this training and covered both the creative and technical skills that I need, I still did not seem to find the satisfaction in what I did, until I was offered a front end developer job for Pam Golding Properties Pty. I loved my job! PGP is the largest and most awarded estate agency in Africa. My job was to design marketing websites for the largest property development portfolio in South Africa and I loved it!
Today VC Marketing has evolved into a professional marketing agency with many professional services and we also manage the largest marketing portfolio of fitness brands in Africa. Our fastest growing trend is currently in the E commerce market.
Professional attributes and skills:
- Marketing Strategist
- Digital Marketing Strategies
- SEO Specialist
- Brand Specialist
- Business Coaching and Leadership Development
- Front End Developer
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
- HTML & CSS & JAVA SCRIPT
- Sitefinity CMS Development
- WordPress Advanced Development: Multi-site systems | E-commerce
My why?
MY VISION IS TO HELP PEOPLE BUILD THEIR DREAM BUSINESS AND LIVE A FUN LIFE!
My Mission
TRAVEL AND LIVE A FUN LIFE!
Personal and Family Life:
I love my family and we love doing life together. As a family we love to travel. The kids and I are keen fishermen and we love the outdoors.
My Hobby
It is quite funny when I share my hobby with people because it is my absolute passion to rank websites and drive traffic! I mean why not, SEO is free, just hard work. Everyday I spend 1 hour in training to improve my skills of SEO to keep it current and fresh.
My current studies are focused on voice search and how to incorporate digital story telling for businesses. How to rank your blog and earn an income blogging online?
You have got to keep up with the current trends and equip yourself with the technologies of the future. Why? Because I need to keep my clients at the fore front of tomorrow.
My personal slogan is Teach | Trend | Travel
– To teach, you need to equip and train
– To trend, you have to keep with what is coming tomorrow.
– To Travel is what I love doing!