{"id":349,"date":"2015-06-26T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/?page_id=349"},"modified":"2019-04-02T03:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T03:42:41","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi- I&#8217;m Mark Buchanan born and raised Los Angeles, CA &#8211; now residing in Riverside, CA. My former employer was Warner Bros. where I last worked as an Analyst in Home Entertainment. Working for Warner Bros. was one of the best jobs I ever had, my career there expanded over 24 years.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-615\" src=\"http:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mark-Buchanan-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Buchanan\" width=\"142\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mark-Buchanan-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mark-Buchanan-768x894.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mark-Buchanan-880x1024.jpg 880w, https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mark-Buchanan.jpg 1034w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was there, during the last couple of years of my employment that I stumbled upon internet marketing. In part, because my job could no longer sustain all the expenses I was incurring each month, so I began seeking additional means of employment to supplement my income. And after a couple of years of trial &amp; error, I am finally reaping the benefits of becoming a successful entrepreneur through perseverance and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being an entrepreneur, I have other interest which includes traveling, sports, and entertainment. Coincidently, my passport is up for renewal this year&#8230; rest assured that is one of my top priorities; my passport could stand a few more stamps before this year is out. Although golf is one of my favorite hobbies (need to work on that slice) basketball is my favorite past-times. Having said that, music and entertainment is what I live for&#8230; besides having a successful dj business I run as well, I&#8217;m actually flirting with the idea of starting an independent record label (more on that later).<\/p>\n<p>Like I&#8217;d mentioned earlier, I was employed by Warner Bros when I started Internet Marketing, and one of my goals was to become successful enough so that I could leave my job and become a marketer full-time. However unbeknownst to me my job had plans to downsize, and as a result, I was laid off in November of 2014 which was actually a bitter\/sweet moment for me. It was bitter simply because of all the friendships and camaraderie I&#8217;ve acquired during my 24-year tenure with the company. On the other hand, it&#8217;s sweet because now I don&#8217;t have to waste several hours a day commuting back and forth to work every day. &#8220;My commute to work each day was 2 hours long.&#8221; What makes even sweeter is that I now have every day to fulfill my goals. &#8220;I have no excuse not to succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi- I&#8217;m Mark Buchanan born and raised Los Angeles, CA &#8211; now residing in Riverside, CA. My former employer was Warner Bros. where I last worked as an Analyst in Home Entertainment. Working for Warner Bros. was one of the best jobs I ever had, my career there expanded over 24 years.&nbsp; It was there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-349","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-buchanan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}