After making the first post about getting started in Internet Marketing (IM), I decided to let you know where I am coming from. We all have different backgrounds and we can all learn from where someone has come from and how they think.
A Quick Bio
I knew very little about IM, however I am experienced in the area of business as I own a decent volume machine shop with a business partner. Before the machine shop, I was a general contractor working in construction, before being a contractor, I worked as a construction project manager for another company and before that I was working in restaurants. I have worked most of my life with my hands and body. I don't recommend it.
I am not college educated, I started but never finished -- so I had to do something other than work for someone my whole life at barely above minimum wage. That something was to own a business. So I started in construction because it was the only thing I knew and I could get it started for under $10,000. Actually, under $5,000 because I got a business partner to go in with me. The machine shop was an existing business that we purchased and now has become my major source of income. Buying the machine shop was an adventure. We knew exactly nothing about machining, but we were confident that we could learn. At first it was disaster -- our lack of knowledge did major damage to our income. But experience is a good teacher (someone else's experience is the best teacher) and we learned from our mistakes and made corrections and became successful in the machining business.
Now after many years of hard work trying to make a good income, I see people in IM making gobs of money with no investment, no plant or property, no risk of injury, no wearing out and breaking down of their body and basically sitting on their butt. It didn't take me long to decide to investigate this type of business. I went to a seminar that featured both Real Estate Investing , Internet Marketing and other business opportunities. It was at that seminar where my eyes were opened to the possibilities of making some money sitting on my butt also -- even though I was inexperienced in this type of business.
Now my existing business didn't really offer my any insight to the things I needed to do to launch an IM business -- hey I worked with my hands - I wasn't a techno wizard nerd (no offense meant to anyone - just trying to use emphasis to make my point) so I did my own research. I signed up for a few of the Internet Marketing guru's newsletters, blog posts, web sites and downloaded some reports some free and some I paid for. I found myself facing information overload. It is very difficult to filter through all the stuff out there and to know who to listen to when you have never met them face to face or spoke with them on the phone.
You may be thinking the same thing about me. I wouldn't blame you if you did and I think it would be wise of you to be suspicious who I am and whether you can trust the information I am putting out. Well, this is another reason for this post. I am trying to be someone you can relate to - and I hope you will relate to me. I hope we can have a meeting of the minds and learn something through this journey of mine.
While you may have a different background than me, you can be successful at IM. Why? Because with little or no money and no experience, you can basically duplicate almost everything the "big boys" of IM have done. You can get information for free and you will probably have to pay for some also. But it isn't necessary. You can start as an affiliate and start making money without risking a single cent -- I am doing exactly that (this will be the content of future posts).
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Remember experience is the best teacher, especially when it is someone else's experience you can learn from. So follow me and learn from my failures and learn more from my successes.
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"knowledge is power"Chuck
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