Ben began
his own business 3 years ago in September 2011. His business was originally
named Ben Media, after a while he decided to change the name of his business to
mayo magpies because he thought that he sounded a bit up himself naming the business after himself.
Ben was born
in Mudgee and attended Mudgee high school. His impression of Mudgee high was
that a school is only as good as its teachers but he thought it was a really
good school compared to some of the schools he’s worked at in the past. He told
a story about how he once had a student climb the wall in a class room and punches
a big enough hole in the ceiling that he could climb into and the student
disappeared the rest of the day. Ben much prefers TAFE though he likes the fact
that TAFE teachers only teach you things that you’re going to need in the
future for the career path that you want to take.
Ben found it
very hard to get his business up and running but he was fortunate because he
“ramped into it”. When he began his business he had basically nothing he only
had $20,000 and he regrets not putting more of that money into advertising. To this day he is still making up for that mistake. Although it is hard work
running your own business Ben would rather work 1000 hours for himself than
earn a lot of money for someone else.
In his
career Ben has worked with quite a few well known people, he did a bit of work
to help with the making of the movie The Matrix and he has also worked with the
makers of the movie hot fuzz and Shaun of the dead.
Bens first
paying customer was Mathew Reilly who is an author, ben won a competition to
design something for a website and that’s when Mathew saw bens work and offered
him some work, ben was extremely happy because he was payed $600 to do
something that he loves. 
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