Several years ago, around early 2004 I had just start my online home business working from a friend’s Cyber Space. At this time I have no Internet connection and no PC. I started promoting affiliate programs as it is the easiest and cheapest way to start. After all it was the only way available to me to test the online business.... After six months of hard work I made my first check. It was $34.35 and I was quite happy. Why? Because I have seen that making money online is a reality.Few days after receiving my check I picked up a computer and got an Internet connection and started marketing seriously.
Most of you will be surprised to know that. Yes, it is the pure reality! You can in fact build an Internet business and start making money even if you don’t have a computer and Internet connection. What you need is willingness to succeed and the right guidance!
After five weeks or so of marketing online my income covered my expenses; and after four months from getting my first check I made my first $1000! How I did it? This is what I’m going to share with you in “How I Started Making Money Online” articles series.
So, let’s go back and start from the beginning; even before I had created my first website to tell you everything I learned about Internet marketing and how I started making money.
I had no idea about computer, Internet or anything related as I said it here. When I was trying to find out how people make money online I found Sitesell. I remember very well it was from Allan Gardine Associateprograms Website. I subscribed to affiliates.sitesell.com to get access to their stuff (free ebooks, videos, articles, forum, ecourses, etc...) and started receiving the Affiliate Masters Course by email (Now it’s available as an ebook) as Allan Gardine suggested. I was lucky to find site sell. From there I learned every thing for FREE! It's not often that killer-info becomes available without having to empty your wallet for it.
Anyway, I followed the step by step instructions provided by Site Build It! Action Guide to create my home business. Before that I have learned so much from forums, newsletters, reports, ebooks, etc…I had an idea about nearly everything; but what I lack is an action plan that takes me trough the process. Really I was lost! I didn’t know from where I have to start, how to proceed, where to end, etc….
I followed the 10 days courses to create my first website using FrontPage. You may understand why I have used FrontPage and not SBI!? If no… I had no money to invest! Otherwise I didn’t spend more than 6 months to come up with an ugly website. Hey, it’s an ugly website for sure, but using SBI! Action Guide principles makes it doing pretty well!
When reading SBI! Action Guide and Affiliate Masters Course the idea for my business “Strategic Internet Marketing" was born. It is teaching people about something that I love and have expertise on it which is “Building an email list”. The idea became soon clear and the subject of this interesting subject had potential. There's no better way to build a flourishing, profitable small business on the Net.
It wasn’t easy…. But I would say Ken Evoy and his Sitesell have given me the information I ever wanted to create my home business. Without them, I would have been doing all kinds of "stupid" work to make some extra money to help my family. What I can say is thank you Dr. Ken Evoy you made my life easier and better.
What I started doing is writing about the Internet marketing industry; adding more and more content to my website. I present articles to help people make money online and promoting quality products with recurring commission as an affiliate such as Sitesell products, Aweber autoresponder, Infogoround, Adminder, etc… Now I’m making good bucks from these sites every month for a work I did one time and my checks increase month after month. This why 2 tiers affiliate programs is a must for everyone wants to make good money from affiliate programs.
Now, I suppose you are convinced that making money online is a do able. If I do it you can do it too! You have no excuse for not starting a home business.
If you want to save money, shorten your learning curve and avoid big mistakes I made to start your home business from scratch do one of the actions to read the complete articles series and more: