I started working online (or at least trying to) work online when one day while casual browsing, I stumbled upon this website in which this guy named C******** (privacy and ethics) said that he was living a dream lifestyle working on the internet just 2 hours a day and was earning millions and billions and bazillions and scullions of dollars online, and that anybody could do it. I thought I would give it a try. Especially since those were the days when I had started doing a part time job and had a few extra dollars in my hand to afford his ebook which he was selling for 97 dollars and which he claimed to have all the information and knowledge under the sun which was making him a lot of money.

So I bought this book and built a website on the exact same pattern as he had told me to (through his book obviously). And I uploaded the website on my server…

And bang… I would now get Absolutely tons of dollars…

ahem…Ahem..

Ahem…

No traffic…no visitors…

So I bought another ebook…this time exclusively on traffic…and then another…and now I was starting to get traffic. Like 20 visitors a day.

Then I heard about SEO…and I decided to check it out. After all this hardwork and implementation of strategies, I was not getting the search engine traffic. I needed the SE traffic. It seemed to be the be all and end all of my IM career. I worked really hard on optimizing my website. But the results were not so rewarding.

And then I heard about list building. I bought a few ebooks on list building, and started building my list. This was back in June last year ie 2007. But since I was not really getting a lot of traffic, I needed to work on that first prior to list building.

And my focus again shifted. Back to getting traffic. So much shifted that I actually forgot about the 100 people on that odd list and didn’t communicate with them. So naturally, when I started corresponding with them again, they didn’t remember my name. And most of them instantly opted out of my list. So technically I was rendered listless again.

Anyways this time I was committed. Committed to get traffic to my website. So I started looking for ways to get it. They say…

Where there is a will, there is a way

And I started discovering some real traffic systems. Some real cool concepts which changed my overall perspective on Internet Marketing. And it was when I applied them, I started making some serious income. Of course I will not mention the numbers now, since they now seem to be very small. But at that point of time, it was like…wow, I could actually replace my part time job with internet marketing. That was… just a couple of months back.

And then the best thing happened to me. I met a self made Internet Marketing Millionaire, whom I had actually known for sometime and I knew that he was a real genuine guy. He makes a real killing online. And he offered personal coaching to me… that is complete assistance and personal mentoring.

This was what I was looking for. This was what I actually needed to create the same success that many people have achieved online…that he had created online. He is actually a millionaire and it might not sound to be true but he had actually at a time worked as a postman.

So I decided to jump on the offer and here I am…Personally being coached by him. We are actually not even halfway into this coaching and I am already feeling that I know a lot about Internet Marketing…lot more than the ordinary guy or a newcomer.

I do not exactly feel as if I am an expert right now. But I do feel that my knowledge and it’s application is taking me there… at the top… where I want to be.

And that is pretty much all my story… about my IM career.

I will keep you updated about everything else on the blog through my posts.

And by the way, did I tell you, I am looking forward to quitting my engineering career as I do not really like that, and working full time as a marketer.