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Starting Up a Home Based Business?

I started back in 1998. I remember wondering would it be possible to actually make money online. I don’t think the idea had ever occured to me before. I can’t remember the exact search terms I used, but I think I typed the words “Make Money from the Internet” into Yahoo(Google hadn’t even been conceived) and came up with some results.

I couldn’t believe it! There were actually people claiming to be making a fortune from there own home based businesses. The first program I ever joined was a ‘Get Paid for Clicks’ program called “All Advantage”. I think the sum total of my earnings for that was around 56 cents

Then the BIG one came, I joined a program called Smallbizffa and made my first sale by spamming the Yahoo classifieds . The first sale netted me $8. I basically went through the listings of all those who had posted an ad and emailed them with my opportunity. Ok before you start building the scaffold, I didn’t know any better and hadn’t even heard or read the word ‘Spam’ at that stage.

Moving swiftly on, the first check I ever received was for $25 or maybe it was $28 from Clickbank and at that point I was absolutely hooked. You will be too once you receive that first check. When that first payment reached my bank account, the ‘idea’ to make money from home had actually become a reality. There was no going back!

I then proceeded to spend $1000s trying to capitalise on my earnings and didn’t really get anywhere, fast. Does that sound familiar?

My first big break came when I joined Stone Evans’ Plug in Profit Site. I was AMAZED at the concept of this program and in the first weeks actually emailed Stone begging him to let me copy his system. He politely refused! .

So, I was left with no choice but to promote the Plugin Program as an affiliate and that is when I started to earn some real money, and it was residual too. I would get money month after month for a one time effort. Wow!

Stone made me a moderator at his Plug In Profits forum not long after starting his program and I moved from strength to strength. I learnt more in a few months from Stone than I had learnt in years previous to that point, not directly but by following the example set by him and some other successful internet marketers.

Since then I have left my offline job as a hospital clerk and now work full-time from home. It took me around five years in all to get to that stage, mainly because I was running from pillar to post without any sensible direction .

Today, I am able to help others avoid making the mistakes I made. Starting up a home based business is doable when you are given the proper guidance. Without it you may just end up losing everything.

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