Hi Ho Silver – Guru Away!
My first interest in internet marketing began in 2006 when I had been in my new job for some 14 months when the company started a head count efficiency drive as they were being put up for sale. They wanted to make the sale as lucrative as possible. Great I thought, I have only been here a short time and it’s all change again! Looks like I will be out the door. Fortunately, it did not affect me but it really made me think I cannot go through that again or it could be me next time. I was especially lucky as my job allowed me to work from home a lot between spells of 12-hour days. While it was good, well-paid job the project I was working on did not have backing from the most senior people in the company.
Some years previously I had been an agency worker job before this and had set up my own Ltd Company and was used to working for myself and thought that I had all this time and could do something to earn some more money. So I set to searching for something, I did consider MLM as I had tried it in the past but I remembered all the hassle of commercialising my friends and family relationships and a lot of those people are not always the most positive or supportive as I wanted them to be.
It just did not work for me despite putting in a lot of work and arranging meetings including doing my first presentations in front of 50-70 complete strangers. I do not know where I got the courage from to stand up there and present, as I am quite a quiet person. I think it was from my dear old mum, she was a strong willed woman, thanks Mum! RIP
Still I guess it shows what you can do if you really want success badly enough and I did felt that I was helping other people to be successful.
Why am I telling all this? Because I hope that will come to know and trust me as I am not going to give you some sob story about how I went from rags to riches as, just the truth from my reports.
Well probably like you, I have tried a number of things in the past to make money and they have not really worked very well. I must I tried 5 different MLM programmes. Most recently in 2006 I had a go at the Global domains program but failed miserably. Quite possibly because who would want to spend $10 a month for web hosting when you can get hosting for around $5 a month?
Well let’s move onto something more positive, I had all this time on my hands and started to look at the Internet for something. I came across loads of what looked like scams- make money from EBay; Earn a million dollars on line in your under pants; You know the sort of thing. I think that one of them was ED Gold or something. Well while I was tempted I did not go for it as it seemed it was just too good to be true – Maybe it is ok, but it’s not for me.
I came across some adverts in Google about how to make money and one of them was called the Ultimate Money Package. It was all about Internet marketing and came with one of those free web sites. But it was one of those sub domain sites that had little chance of being found by someone searching for info on the net. They did offer an upgrade to their hosting account and domain name service. But I did not take it up at the time, as I did not understand all this stuff.
Anyhow I bought the product as it came with around 100 off e-books and MP3’s all for $69. This was quite a sizeable product and I started to read through the e-books but thought this is all too much and cannot work! I had not listened to the MP3 audios and the money back guarantee period was fast running out and so I asked for and got a refund.
I had downloaded all this info onto my PC and did come back to it and actually began to listen to the audio files. I later learnt that the info was quite old in Internet terms; they were originally made back in 2004/5. Apparently 3 months on the Internet is the same as a whole year!
Anyway the audios were interviews with successful people who had made money on the Internet and were being interviewed by a lady called Becky Hagle for the 3 C workshop. I had never heard of the “Guru’s” before and to a Brit like myself they did have some strange names like Yanik Silver? I thought to myself Hi Ho Silver and Guru Away! Sorry Yanik, just kidding.
After copying the audios onto CD’s I listened to all the interviews on my way to and from work and as the weeks went by I though this stuff could just work. One of the interviews that stood out for me was with a bloke called John Reese (guy in American language).
He seemed to particularly open and honestly wanted to help people make money online. There was also an interview with Joel Comm, another strange name I thought!
He spoke about how to make money with this thing called Adsense. By the time I had listened to all the MP3’s I felt guilty about getting that refund, even though this info was old it still provided me with all the fundamentals that have not changed and there was clearly some value in it for me. Sorry u guys!
If this info really wetted my appetite for making money online and set me on this journey that I will share with you in this blog.
When I first started researching into making money online I decide to put up a group of content sites and makes load of money with Adsense advertising. I looked various products and chose Joel Comms Adsense template Your Own Internet Business in a box product, as he was the Adsense Expert.
I like aviation and thought that I would put up a few sites on the subject, maybe one of them about learning to fly, Aeronautical engineering and other stuff.
I bought his product but my next problem was that I needed some sort of web editing software, but as I a not a techie I wanted something that was easy to use. I had heard about Dreamweaver and thought that that was far too hard for me to get into. I then came across some soft ware called HyperVRE that seemed to be ok but in the end I chose a product called Xsite pro. Both of these products were featured in the Template product and seemed to be very good but I just favoured Xsite pro.
Well I set up a site about Helicopters, as that was one of the templates in Joel’s product and it had some pre written content. Although I later learnt that this is really only really meant to get you going in writing your own unique quality content this is required that the search engines love. As other people had purchased the same product many thousands as I have learnt all of that professionally produced content would be duplicate and would not help with what’s called Google page rank for the search engines.
I did rewrite that articles and set back and waited for the $$ to roll in. Well after a year later I made the grand total of waiting for it! Dah Diddly Dah …… $5. Yes you got it right $5 whole dollars. Obviously pathetic as I had spent money on the templates, hosting and domain name.
What can i do for You
However, the good thing here is that you can learn by my mistakes. Next I thought that I would set up a site and find a niche product and use the entire Internet marketing techniques to promote it. But all of the information in IM just seemed to be about making money online products and not suited for any particular niche.
I was about to give up when it hit me as they say when I actually got down to work and started to make it happen for me. It’s now 2009 and I have done alot research and have now spent over $12000 on products from different people and am in a position to provide info and recommend the best products and service online that I have found that would actually benefit other people.
Why would I do this you ask?
Well quite simply this is now how I am earning my living, no surprise there you say!
And other people would find value and would save time and money not making all the mistakes I made having to endlessly search for the “Good Stuff” out there among all the crap, (sorry noise).
What is all this stuff?
When I started looking for products to buy I found numerous e-books being sold on everything from PPC, SEO, Email Marketing, Affiliate marketing, JV’s, List Building, testing and tracking, Copywriting and so on. It was just a mesmerising.
I thought, do I really need to know all this…….?
Well yes i did need to know all of it and you may need to know some or all of it to make money on the web.
How Can you Trust Me?
I promise to only recommend products and services that i have actually purchased and used myself or come from a trusted source. There will be no fake reviews on this site!
~Geoff Matthews~
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