How did it all start...??

I was trying Internet Marketing like five or six years ago. Money did`nt come overnight so I gave up.
And now about half a year ago I was learning stuff about dropshipping and stuff like that, when I stumled upon a video on youtube about one membership site which to be on you would have to pay 100$/month. So I wrote a letter to this guy who had this video on youtube. And after some talking via email`s he gave me his account details. I was shocked.
So i was watching all the videos and everything on this site and learning... Downloaded them all.
And after that I found this forum
And so happens that I was`nt able to find any job in my country and I went to Ireland, but all this time I`ve been learning things about IM and I will be working to get IM as my full time income source and my hobby now.
It just seems like the best thing comparing it to a job were you are working 9-5 and your working for someone else...

I came through by my interest to grow multi million dollar businesses. The model is very scalable!

I had built a website in late 1998. It was a personal site that was a collection of random thoughts and trivia questions.

I knew I needed people to see it and that led to traffic exchanges. I spent hours trying to rack up credits, just to get people to see my site. Of course, there were plenty of money making offers and that's when I got the idea that I could make money online.

My first attempt was to add a paid-to-search box to my website. If I remember correctly, I could get 3 cents per search.

Here's where it gets funny...

I figured I could search pretty fast, easily earning over $12/hour; so I did. I started making all kinds of searches, I would check my account and the money kept adding up. Any guess what happened?

Yep, I was accused of making fradulent searches and didn't make a penny. At that time, it never occured to me that I was doing something wrong.

However, after being exposed to so many scams, I branched out into helping people avoid scams, and making money ethically.

Over time my business evolved (heck, just thinking of it as a business was an improvement) and I was able to walk away from my j-o-b to do IM full time. I love it!

All the best,
Michael

I had a pascal programming website in the late nineties and started getting emails asking for homework help. I got tired helping people for free so started charging from 5$ to 50$ depending on the question/project. Now I don't recommend you do this, I was a teenager and even that little money made a difference.

Tyrus

I did the Power Seller thing on eBay for a while but I got tired of my house being a warehouse.

Well, I'm a computer science graduate so I was really into software and the Internet that is why when researching for Internet/online business, software business and other digital information business -- Internet marketing comes into the place. It really amaze me when people can sell online because no one can see you selling but only a page pure of sales talk. It's a challenge for me because I'm not really good in sales talk before but thinking of how many people goes online everyday and the number of possible visitors of my websites per day then I feel it's on the numbers and the strategy you need to make the numbers into money. So again, it's a challenge for me that is why I'm now here fulltime working for myself and my family beside me

Ross

Before the time when browsers stored your bookmarks, I created a little price of software called ClickerTX that resided in the system tray and gave you one-click access to your favourite web pages and email addresses.

You can still get it on all the best warez sites

Cheers,

Neil

Ah, those heady days when Internet Marketing meant marketing on the Internet

Cheers,

Neil

After losing a corporate politics battle (and the $75K/year job) to a moron unqualified to be my subordinate, let alone my boss; I vowedto never work for anyone else again.

While I am eminently qualified in aviation operations, the capital costs of such a business are prohibitive.

Internet marketing attracted me because the start up costs are low, barriers to entry almost non-existant and the more common business models are very scalable...and it appealed to my techy side.

I haven't totally replaced the income I once had yet but that goal is now in sight and I am gainfully self-employed.

Due this crazy economy and all the time I had been spending working my regular job, i started to hate myself and who i was becoming. I was spending 12-16 hours a day at my office. I looked around for something that could earn me money as well as the opportunity to work from home and be with my family. That is the real reason why i started in IM.