Sean Glendinning chuckles when asked what number of organizations he possesses. "All things considered, three or four, contingent upon how you check them," said the 37-year-old with a laugh.
"I possess Fitness.com with accomplices in Germany; StudentScholarships.org with my sibling, Ryan; there's Nitesco Media; and I likewise spend around 30 for each penny of my time working for Sissel in Switzerland, the organization that makes every one of those activity balls."
The work alone is a significant juggling act.
In any case, Glendinning figures out how to do it from his home office in West Kelowna with his three-year-old child circling.
"I wind up working seven days a week, infrequently 30 hours a week, now and then 60 hours a week and once in a while until 2 a.m. in the morning in case I'm helping European customers," he said.
"Be that as it may, the timetable is my own. I respect the diversion of viewing my kid grow up and I'm ready to get my 14-year-old little girl from school two days a week."
Glendinning credits his father, Bob, with persuading him independent work was the best approach.
"He generally taught both me and my sibling to be autonomous," he said.
"My father's support and my cutting edge abilities made it conceivable."
This story truly begins in Kamloops in 2001 while Glendinning was taking a single guy of innovation and figuring science at Thompson Rivers University.
He handled a work community in Kelowna at Wavefire, the now ancient web advancement firm.
An associate there was taking a shot at the Sissel account and required some assistance.
Glendinning did and it prompted some agreement work with Vancouver-based Theragear, which was a Sissel auxiliary at the time.
Sissel paid heed and he was welcome to Europe to meet wholesalers in 2004 to investigate how they could set up online e-trade shops to offer everything from those activity balls and pilates hardware to yoga rigging and back rub tables.
It transformed into the long-standing relationship Glendinning has today with Sissel, outlining the e-trade looks for the majority of Sissel's wholesalers in Europe.
Working in the realm of wellness and high innovation, Glendinning saw the chance to cooperate with a few Germans to fire up Fitness.com.
It's a one-stop online shop for wellness data, solid formulas and client gatherings.
The site is offered in English, as well as nine different dialects, including German and Spanish.
It is available allowed to people in general and is upheld by promoting.
Crisp bankrupt school in Toronto, Glendinning's sibling, Ryan, had a thought for coordinating understudies with grants.
So StudentScholarships.org was conceived, a free site for understudies to discover matches for grants all through North America.
It, as well, is bolstered by publicizing.
Nitesco Media is a web-improvement and-facilitating and website streamlining motor organization with an alternate methodology.
Glendinning selects space names (he has thousands), forms a site and gets it to a No. 1 rating utilizing forceful website improvement and several catchphrases.
He then discovers clients to assume control over the area name, he modifies the site further and has the site.
In a splendid piece of cross-fertilization, he regularly persuades these clients to set up a grant of at any rate $500 for StudentScholarships.org.
A percentage of the sites he's produced and headed to No. 1 locally are MissionCreekOrtho.com, WestKelownaOrthodontists.ca and DentistsKelowna.com.
He's likewise created ArcticChriropractic.com for the Yukon, FairbanksChiropractic.com for an expert in Alaska and various sites for Leavitt Machinery for everything from the brand name to area and hardware particular destinations like ForkliftsCalifornia.com.
Glendinning got the volunteering bug while living in Morocco in 2001.
He headed toward help Bayti, an association encourages manhandled kids, with its data innovation framework.
He wound up doing that and that's just the beginning, showing kids fundamental PC aptitudes and English.
At home, he mentors in the Central Okanagan Minor Baseball Association, shows Grade 8-9 understudies monetary proficiency through Junior Achievement and was the president of the Kelowna Jaycees, who got this show on the road progressing to end the club's men's-just status.
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