![]() I also asked if I picked up enough within one month if he would hire me. He thought I was nuts, but I asked again. He finally agreed and, after a month of quietly watching and learning, I did my first session. Everything went well and thus I started my career as a recording engineer. A few months later, a couple of very successful record producers came into the studio and heard a song I'd been working on. A few weeks later I had my first record deal and my first international hit record as a record producer." I was in the middle of editing it and they asked if they could have a copy. Rockliff spent the next ten years producing music in London. In 1978, he got invited to speak at a conference in Los Angeles. On the way to LA, he landed in New York for a layover and remembers having an "overwhelming sensation of coming home." After the conference, Rockliff flew home and immediately put the wheels in motion to move to the United States. "After I moved to LA, I got into video production and around the same time started building websites, in addition to still doing music production work and giving seminars. Almost everything I learned was self-taught. I also learned about Internet marketing and how to promote businesses on the web. In 1995, I created an online social networking community called Cybertown. Over the next seven years, we grew that community to 1.3 million members from 155 different countries. At one point, we were one of the top 2,500 websites in the world, in terms of traffic. I eventually sold Cybertown in 2002 and relocated to Clearwater. Throughout his career, Rockliff has maintained steady growth and success by emphasizing quality delivery and innovation. ![]() As Rockliff shared, sometimes doing something different from what everyone else is doing is the key to standing out. "When I first came to the states, I visited with a bunch of record companies," he said.
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