It's a frightening statistic, but only about 5% of people trying to make money online actually do so.

I know I tried for a long time and part of the problem for me was a lack of time. I had nearly a two hour commute to work and again traveling home. This left me little time in the evening to make progress and I was often too tired anyway.

In spite of this I kept working at it.

My first real attempt to make money online was back in 2008. I set up an...

Since being made redundant, I had planned to spend a lot more time working at Internet Marketing, to try and improve my income. I have to be honest and say that I didn't spend as much time as I hoped. The sudden change in my circumstances and all the time that was now available to me lead me to start enjoying all the free time I had so I lost a lot of focus.

Eventually the reality of my situation started to bite and I began to focus more on my online income efforts. But I still suffered...

I have spent my entire career in Information Technology. I started during the 70's as an operator doing shift work on an ICL 1900 Computer. This computer comprised a very large cabinet that was housed in an air conditioned computer room. Today your laptop has more memory than the memory available in that old machine!

After about a year I was asked to do an aptitude test to see if I could train to be a programmer. I managed to pass this and so my career moved into the programming...