Ditta Czegel

I am known online as Cyber Granny.

As a mother of five and a homemaker, I gradually transformed into a digital pioneer and „angle-bracket tamer” — solving website and technology challenges one step at a time.

My first major successes came in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), followed by marketing automation, all achieved as a self-taught learner.

I strongly believe in lifelong learning. One of my proudest achievements came at the age of 73, when I received a Silver Certification from one of Hungary’s leading marketing technology companies, SalesAutopilot.

I have achieved significant success in building WordPress websites, and today I create and manage all of my family’s websites myself.

Ranking well for the keyword GYMSTICK (which is also connected to our contribution to the current CUBIX program) was relatively straightforward. Although there is competition, it is not considered an especially difficult search term.

(https://gymstickwebshop.hu)

My greatest SEO achievement, however, was ranking a website in 3rd place on Google within just a day and a half, outperforming long-established companies for a targeted long-tail keyword phrase.

„window replacement Kazincbarcika”
https://ablakcserekazincbarcika.hu

Today, I have embarked on a new challenge through the CUBIX AI Song Festival program.

Using a data-driven approach, I am learning how to create an AI-generated hit song by combining data analytics, artificial intelligence, and creativity.

I often say that, above all else, I am a musician.

I cannot remember when I first sat down at a piano. Music has been part of my life for so long that it feels as though it has always been there.

That is why it was quite astonishing for me to discover that, in FL Studio, music is almost „painted” rather than written. 🙂

My life has followed a remarkable journey.

At the age of 27, I was still making phone calls on a hand-cranked telephone. In the small Hungarian village where I lived, some families were still using them.

Now, in the third millennium, I find myself working with SQL databases — something I had never even heard of just two weeks ago.

Life never ceases to surprise me.

And finally, let me share my favourite quote from Goethe:

„Do you know what my greatest wish is? To leap over my own shadow.”

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Not more seriously — just a little more in detail…

Year of birth:
So long ago that the internet didn’t exist yet, and I even used a crank telephone.

I used to run around with floppy disks from place to place just to create and print a two-page Word document… and so on.

Professional Experience

  • Nearly 60 years of problem-solving
  • 10,000+ successfully survived stressful situations
  • 5,000+ cups of coffee made

Key Skills

  • Open to every new challenge and idea
  • Capable of worrying about 12 projects simultaneously
  • Can pay attention during an online meeting while doing something else at the same time (although this skill is fading a bit these days 😊)

Technical Skills

  • Marketing automation
  • Website development
  • AI usage (I even have my own AI assistant, “Csetti”)
  • More recently: data-driven analysis

Oh, and I can play the piano too…

Weaknesses

  • I can’t walk past a good idea without stopping
  • I find it hard to quit even when something has clearly become a waste of time
  • I want to learn far too many things
  • Sometimes a world-changing project pops into my mind at dawn

Life Goal

At the age of 74, to keep proving that the phrase
“I’m too old to learn this”
is nothing more than a bad excuse.

Life Events (provisional timeline)

  • Music Primary School, Kispest (Wekerle Estate)
  • Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music
    • Cello
    • Piano
  • Piano bar musician
  • Night cleaner
  • Home-based craft worker making chenille miniatures
  • Independent knitting artisan

Meanwhile, a highly multifunctional mother of five children
(early-morning house cleaning, daytime knitting, evening piano performances, weekend balls and weddings — all while continuously educating myself).

  • Tutor Training Program, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
  • Information mapping projects, organization of MÁV railway maps
  • Coordination of the County Handbook of Hungary project
  • Radio Gaga, business representative for Kisokos

Learning how to use computers and software.

Building websites — and not at a “high-school level”…

  • SEO successes that continue to this day
  • Event and sports camp organization, including full-scale marketing and the development of subscription-based systems

Silver Certification at SalesAutopilot

(Awarded by the developers of Hungary’s leading marketing automation software.)

All of the above achieved self-taught.

More Recently

FL Studio, SQL, Power BI, JASP, AI music creation — still only scratching the surface.