I'm new - Why I'm going to make it

I'm new here and to IM.

First I want to say thanks to the creators of this site and to the contributors.
Kudos to anyone who has arrived here on their own. It really is a tough learning experience to delve into internet marketing and persevere long enough to find any worth while information.

That's why I'm so impressed with this forum.
I plan to be an active member here.

The rest of this post is for my benefit even more so than yours and I don't want to post this to a blog or something. I don't need anyone following my journey since that would just be more of the blind leading the blind.

I recently had a pretty devastating layoff and have been trying to start over. That was followed by a series of unfortunate events that has taken a quite awhile to recover from.

I have been interested in making money online for a long time. And well, I've been interested because I'm not brain-dead. Anyone can see the unprecedented market potential online and I humbly would like to stake my claim and earn my piece. I believe I'll make it in IM (not cocky, just it's not self serving to doubt, you know?).

IM suits the skills I have as well as any other business. I was self taught DOS about 20 years ago, and have had and used several computers ever since. I'm an above average computer user, don't know how to program, but have made a couple bare bones websites in a college computer class and for giggles, family pics, etc. I know how to install hardware, etc.

I have a sales background, and have led and coached a sales/ customer service team in the corporate world. I really don't want to go back to corporate America, I'm a bit jaded from it now.

I've always considered myself a bit of a writer as well (and can use fairly correct grammar when I choose).

Plus, it's what I've decided. I want to make IM work. I want to have flexibility in my schedule, be my own boss, make a decent living, and work hard to reach my goals. I feel like if anyone can start making a living online, it's me.

I have a family and they depend on me. So I'm under no illusions, this business is tough starting. I got the IM bug though. Even if I have to return to a regular 9-5, which might happen, I will continue to pursue this thing in my free time.

Most of all, I've taken action. I started. It's not much, but I started. So far it's just a free wordpress blog with a generic name, not my keywords in it. The meager 3 articles are targeted to my keywords. It's not monetized, indexed, or backlinked yet, (although I posted 1 link into another forum.) I might have overreached with my niche. It may be too big to tackle, at least for now. Either way, I've got major SEO work ahead.

I'm also a bit paranoid. I don't want to break any rules, such as on this forum or any others with linking. Plus, if I didn't overreach on my niche, I'd hate to reveal the plan so far. Someone with any level of practical experience could take it, and out do me easily I'm sure.

Also I used Ping-o-matic, which I understood would "update the internet with my pages." I didn't realize it would post comments on my blog, and hope this isn't frowned upon when I try to monetize. So yea, a bit paranoid.

But I have started. And I think that's key. I got a Market Samurai trial, and it's pretty impressive. I might have to buy it. Then I signed up for "the challenge." These seem to be 2 great free ways to get started (This is NOT intended to be spam btw, it's just what I did).

So anyway, yea pretty long winded lol. But I wanted to introduce, say thanks, and get my thoughts out.

I'm a Warrior damnit!