As with anything new, it takes time to get used to. I knew it had been awhile, since I last logged in here to write anything, but I didn't think that it had been over two months. Oh well. I am going to get better at contributing to this blog.
I thought I would start out by sharing my beginnings into the internet marketing world; afterall, that is what I said that I would do in my first post. And would you believe I never had any inclination to do any internet marketing? Or any marketing for that matter?
Here's what happened. I saw an advertisement on tv about government grants to start a business or to buy real estate. I've alway been intrigued about getting involved into the real estate market, so I made the registration to go to this meeting for my wife and I. When the meeting day arrived, my wife wasn't able to go, so I went by myself. I really got excited about the presentors talking how there was a lot of money available from the government in the forms of low interest loans or grants. I would have been alright, if the meeting had ended right at this point. This was definitely enough to keep me busy, but there was a second part to this meeting. The second part of this meeting was this guy who told about people making incredible incomes on the internet. There was even a story about a lady in Kansas who sold tumbleweeds to people all over the world and made lots of money. I knew this story to be true, because I used to live in Kansas and I remembered the local newspaper running a story about her and her business. To top this guys presentation, he started handing out free software to give the ins and outs of selling on Ebay. I thought this would be great, so I signed us up for a website. By getting a website, this allowed us to go to a follow-up meeting to learn more about how to make money and do business on the internet. At this follow-up meeting, I got "cold feet" and told my wife that I really didn't think that we could afford to do all the things that this merchant wanted us to do to do business on the internet with getting a merchant account and everything. We left the meeting residing that we had made the right choice. A couple of weeks went by, and as you may have guessed, we received a follow-up call from a salesperson. We let him talk us into a training course to do business on the internet. Oh boy!!! We are going to make lots of money now! That's what we thought anyway. Looking at hindsight, the training was very outdated, but at the time we didn't know that because we didn't know anything about marketing on the internet. In our first business, we had good intentions and good products. We were going to market children's educational toys. Needless to say, we spent a lot of money just to keep our website up and running. After a year of determination and stubbornness, we finally closed down the website. But I was not through with internet marketing.
On my next post, I will tell what happened on my next leg of the journey toward my automated marketing business. All for now.
Sincerely,
Terry
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