In The Beginning .........

I've been trying to make money online for about two years now with varying degrees of success but nothing spectacular. I certainly have never reaped the rewards promised by some programmes but there again, after a while, I guess I never really expected to anyway!

The first IM programme I joined was Plug In Profit. Now, although I didn't get one single sign up to the PIP's programme I don't regret joining it because of the learning curve it put me on. The "30 Days To Success" training programme which you work through when you sign up is brilliant. I really learned a lot from it. The other good thing about it all was it got me membership to The Warrior Forum which - although a little pompous and overblown sometimes - is a really useful resource if you're serious about succeeding in IM.

So the PIP's programme which, when I joined, was made up of five individual programmes brought together wasn't an overall success for me but I did have some success with two of the programmes within it - SFI and Empowerism. In fact I'm still an active member of both although when I say "active" at the moment I'm fairly dormant really but I do take turns and do advertising spurts for them from time to time. I have healthy-ish downlines in both and I do have a regular (although very small) income from both. Generally I'm happy to continue with them so I'll be posting about them later on here.

Anyway after some time floundering with PIP's and various other programmes that got my attention along the way (or sidetracked me from what I should have been focusing on!) and that I wasted a fair bit of money on in the process in November 2006, whilst surfing one of the Traffic Exchanges, an advert for Stop Being A Victim caught my eye. At that time they were absolutely everywhere on the Traffic Exchanges so there was no missing them. So I paid my $5 for the Ebook and it was a pretty good read - depressing because I realised I really HAD been a victim and fallen for all the crap that's around about making money online - but at least now I knew the error of my ways.

Buying the Ebook also got me membership to the Online Business Alliance and presented me with the opportunity to resell the Ebook and really to start my own business up. To cut a long story short the lessons I should have learned from the Stop Being A Victim book didn't stay with me for long and I went off to do my own thing again and waste some more money on stupid stuff that was never going to deliver what it promised. That's pretty much the way it continued until last week when I decided to give common sense another try and actually commit my efforts to something positive that I had faith in.

That's where this post ends and the next one begins ........