had numerous pop-up beachfront offices in
bars and restaurants all over South-East Asia
although these locations usually made it very
hard to actually get work done”, he admits.
Crasey’s talent for social media became
more apparent through his recent
development of the phone app ‘Fravo’, a
source for easily finding drink specials
based on location. “I wanted to pick up
some beers, but didn’t have the newspaper
to see the best specials”, Crasey maintains.
He thought, “There must be an app for
this.” As it turns out there wasn’t, and a
year later, Fravo was born.
CHRISTIAN
GORNALL
entrepreneur started out his career in a
small business in Cairns and moonlighting
as a DJ - earning himself a reputation
synonymous with knowing how to throw a
party. Little did he realise the career path
he was paving.
Social media feeds reveals all kinds of
people, but there’s one type that always
seems intriguing. They’re the same ones
whose posts you often like, but can’t
possibly imagine what it would be like
to live that life. While the majority of us
balance security and monotony in our
desk-bound 9-5 job, they will hashtag
#myoffice on a photo of sunset beach
party in Thailand with Singha beer in hand.
Welcome to Christian Gornall’s life.
To put it simply - he likes to have a good
time, and likes others to do the same. “My
love for travel was the drive for the creation
of Rad Travel, but I also needed to make
money”, Crasey explains.
Known to most as “Crasey”, this
Crasey has been living the dream. Literally. “I
Rad Travel is an Asian based tour company
- not dissimilar to Contiki, but think smaller
scale. For now, at least. In the first two years,
Crasey expanded the company’s Instagram
presence from 0 to over 40,000 followers.
Now uniting his love for social media
with his background in party planning,
he has started an online vendor database
for events and weddings called AllGigs,
which focuses on weddings to concerts
and everything in between. The other large
chunk of his time is devoted to his media
company ‘Crasey Media’ where he works
with businesses to expand their social
media presence and build websites.
Cairns has been Crasey’s muse. Growing up
in a tourism-based town exposed him to the
industry and assisted his thought process
in establishing a career that isn’t location
dependent, allowing travel to remain a
huge part of his lifestyle.
Perhaps we could all do with a little bit of
Crasey in our lives.
WORDS: Liz Yelaska
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