How did YOU get into the business you are in?

I personnelly am a Marketer (affiliate networks, and adsense).

One day, i was coding a site as a freelancer, and the person kept mentioning he needed coded in a way so he could put CJ ads on it.

I eventually looked into CJ.com and BOOM. here i am today making a lovely income from various affiliate networks.

jared

 

All of a sudden

 

Better than never

 

I was first trying my luck around HYIPS before I learned about PPC advertising and affiliates.

 

i saw a thread @ mmg of someone complaining about a bad person named 'Adsense' who banned them...i googled 'adsense' and it looked like having a couple of sites running is better than losing at hyips and autosurfs!

 

I was hired as a programmer years ago by a phone company at age 19. Got hooked.

David Beyer

 

I was working one day at a regular 40 hour job when someone said that we should start a business. I liked the idea. So I researched and it turned out that you can make money with proxy websites. I had made some already, but just to use while I was at the job and for my co-workers. So I started working on it and here I am today. Its a decent income and I am expanding from there. Just finished an ebook and then moving on to an image host and a content based site.

MAtt

 

I just wanted to save up some cash for a trip, and the UAE doesn't allow U18s to get part time jobs so... the Internet!

 

Well I started doing web hosting because I was sick of having to deal with unreliable hosts for my development projects. Now 2 years later hosts thousands of domains got staff and have the luxury of reliable hosting for my web development efforts.

 

I found something that interests me. Figured out how I could make it different from the rest. Hired a web designer and a month later my site was up and running and things are going great.

 

I started my business because I enjoy helping people, and it is something I am very good at.

 

I did the same job I am doing for myself now, for my employer in the past but he was making all the profit. So, things just didn't add up when I kept saying that to myself. Now I do it for myself.

Matt

 

What is your business?

 

Wouldn't really call this a business

 

Well mines sorta of long story but its sort of interesting.
Started off by doing my Uni course in Business, with Marketing as my major. Finished that off and went to work at an accounting firm in Melbourne. Progressively moved up there until I switched over to the investment strategies division. It took me about 10 years until I reached the head of that division. Was head for about 4 years until I broke out and started my own investment firm with my father. Now I am the CEO with a staff of 24 and serve on three other company boards. Hard work pays off!

 

Many years ago my father got a computer. This was before windows was popular. Everyone was using DOS.

He couldn't figure it out, so asked if I can learn it for him so he can play games and what not.

As soon as I got on the computer chair, it just felt right to me. It was "my thing". Eventually I told him to give windows 3.1 already because this DOS was horrible.

After messing around with the internet when it became available I got into gamming and making regular HTML sites using angelfire's free hosting. Then I got really tied into Bryce, Photoshop, and Worldcraft 3.3(now called hammer). I started making levels for video games like halflife. Some became popular so I kept at it. Later I started a Renegade clan and needed a forum so I got one free hosted from proboards, then moved to invisionfree, learning a lot of javascript, html, and Graphics.

It never clicked to me that there is money for normal people like me on the internet. I figured you needed to be huge company or something so I didn't bother until I researched into invisionfree finding out that it's just a simple script and that's how this owner got rich.

I spend about 1 year in heavy testing on SEO, hosting, domains, webmastery, keywords, adsense, clickbank, amazon, SQL, scripts, promoting, link building, etc.

Now here I am. I currently am not at a full salary online but it's happening quick for me now. I guess it helped to know a lot when I decided to try. Now, I startup sites and build their traffic up until the adsense and link sales start paying off, and I'm pretty good at it.

 

I start long time ago on Google Adwords some affiliate links promoting but no much experience that time and i lost all my money on advertising,because there was no one to tell how to set up.Then i stop it for one year and i start reading books but all books are the same and talking the almost same way.But i keep reading that books and make idea for myself to do something without Google,yahoo or any other PPC then i start business with Herbalife it was good but there was so many distributors around then no much profit for me...I stop it and one year later my girlfriend from Austria ask me to join one business that not exist in the country where i am...I accept it and join in and invest just little money every month but now getting big profit every month...The business is about some product for saving fuel and people are so happy about this and i am happy too because i was the first distributor in the country,now people can join if they want it is good if you are first in your city the money is yours...I hit the lucky star and now getting great income every month without google,yahoo or any PPC if i want to use this i can make even triple income...

 

A hobby designing clan websites turned me into a full-time designer

 

a couple of forum flippers bought the forum i was on, and turned it into a flea market of popups so I bought it from them...