In the Begining

Firstly I'd like to apologise for the delay, I said early December and now it's nearly Christmas! sorry for that, things happen you know?

Anyway, Here's how It happened for me.

I received Income4Beginners in an e-mail, I didn't buy it but I read it. I thought, "Hey, that's a really clever idea. I wonder if it works?" I had heard of Paypal in the past and knew they were respected and reliable so I decided to set up an account.

Let me tell you that takes about 2 minutes, it's the verifying that takes the time because you have to wait for Paypal to make two small payments into your bank account. Then you have to enter the values of those amounts into a form on the Paypal site and your account is verified.

Not being verified does not stop you using your account, it just puts a limit on the amounts that your account can handle every month.

I then began about 2 solid weeks worth of research, trying to learn all I could for free about info products and affiliate marketing, as well as multi level marketing. It's a huge database out there and there are hundreds of people trying to tell you how to "get rich quick."

Now like everyone else I'd love to get rich quick, but hey let's be honest with each other here, it's not likely to happen is it? If it was, everyone would do it and the world would be full of internet millionaires!

So cutting through all the hype, which is designed to get you really excited and part with your money before you ask any sensible questions, I came to the conclusion that internet marketing is exactley the same as real world marketing.

First you need a product that people will want to buy
Second you need to advertise that product where the people who want to buy it will see it!

Then I thought, "I don't really want all the email to do with advertising and products to go into my usual account." So I set up a new email address on Google (where else!)

Having hunted arround for products I discovered ClickBank which boasts one of the largest collections of affiliate products anywhere on the web. I opened an account (which is free) and trawled through a list of the products they had on offer.

I eventually chose A Very Simple Idea Which proposed to be a step by step guide in how to set up a viable internet business and actualy make some money.

My Blog- Affiliate Marketing

Ok, early this year I was forced to take a rather large paycut or lose my only line of work. Being pragmatic I took the cut thinking, "it will be ok" and "We'll make some cuts but we'll be fine."
Well here I am now in November and yes we are ok and we made some cuts and we are fine but it isn't comfortable.
So I started looking for ways to earn a small amount of extra income to try and boost the salary back to what it was. I've looked at just abouyt everything and most things seem to me to take ages to set up or require your input as often as if you were working full time.

I, like so many before me and many who will come after, fell for the old "no lose roulette" scam! that hurt, £200 down the swanee and nothing to show for it.
That was when I suppose I discovered Affiliate Marketing. On the surface it looks like the answer to my prayers. I should be able to setup a website or two advertising various items I am affiliated to and earn commission on each sale.

Now I've spent a fair while researching the arena and there is a lot of BS out there about how to get rich, so I thought I'd start this blog and list exactly what I do and what happens to me along the way. There will be no hype, no BS and no lies in this blog. If I make money I will tell you how much and how I did it and if I lose money I will do the same.

Now, I started dabbling back on the 5th of November then I was off for a week, on holiday with my misses and now I'm going to be busy for a couple of weeks with work. If I can get access to a laptop I will keep this updated otherwise there will be a delay until early December...Sorry all but thats life. I need to get my notes in order from those beginings so I can tell you all in what order things happened!

I hope you like what I'm writing, feel free to comment. I would be very interested in other peoples experiences too.