Greg Hartnett

This morning, my daughter asked me, “Daddy, what do you do for work?” I tried explaining to her that I work on my computer, doing a few things. Owning a couple of companies didn’t seem to quell the curiosities, so I will try to explain a bit more here.

My first company, Hotel Hotline, provides travel reservations online and via a call center. Since 1999, we have provided convenient, discount hotel reservations to thousands of travellers. We are in the process of transforming our business model, switching from a merchant provider to a comparison shopping site. Instead of competing with the big boys, we decided to service them. Cha-ching!

The other company, Best of the Web is the internet’s oldest directory - older than Yahoo or DMOZ. Since 1994, BOTW has been categorizing content rich, well designed websites, topically and regionally. We provide categorized listings of websites. Human edited, reviewed, and properly classified, BOTW takes pride in serving visitors spam-free, relevant resources.

In addition to the responsibilities that come with running two companies, I also manage a handful of blogs (currently approaching 10), and am currently involved in the production of some very cool technology (hint: RSS). A serial entrepreneur, I am always looking for the next opportunity - we are only limited by the hours in the day….

So that is what daddy does that keeps me out of the house 60-70 hours a week. Laying the foundation so that my kids can have a place to do the same in the future.