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Hello people,
i'd like to share my situation with you jsu to knw what you think and what advice you sould give.
I am not a programmer, nor a designer. I have been a regular user of the internet for the last 6-7 years, simply reading up on stuff that i've been interested in. Mostly sport, shopping, ebay - that was the scope for my internet use.
i have a decent education and working experience within banking, insurance, legal, car hire, computer retailer, customer service environments. I am 30 years old and in a huge mess financially! don't worry people, i am not going to ask for money!! just advice!
i am in £25,000 worth of personal unsecured debt, i have debt recovery companies chasing me for money daily. Another £40,000 of finance also remains unpaid although this has assetts which can be surrendered, but due to depreciation on these assetts, the sale of them will not settle the finance in full........!
I am, currently unemployed!! no income........ other than state benefits.
i walked out on my previous employer in October of 2005 as they had failed to pay my wages for nearly six months!
My doctor has requested that i refrain from work at least until August 2007 due to my mental health...... although i admit, i did slightly exaggerate of the symptoms!!
i had decided in October 05 never to work for any employer and would start my own business, either "real world" or on the net. As internet businesses are cheaper to run, i decided this was the way to go.
Ebay was my main focus initially and found numerous ebook sellers, claiming that they make thousands a month. i jumped onto the bandwagon and created an ebook, registered a domain and started advertising on ebay, just as the other 50,000 ebook sellers were doing!
This got me nowhere, although i learned the basics of how to get a site online and the cpanel.
i puirchased (yes, purchased!!) various software, from ebay; the full adobe cs2, suite, macromedia mx suite amongst others. I taught myself how to use these - dreamweaver, flash, photoshop, fireworks, illustrator, in-design. I even spent a month bootlegging some of these "copies" on ebay, making over £3000 in a month, but sure enough that ended when paypal killed my account!!
i also purchasd and read a couple of languages, such as ASP, PHP, and extended my knowledge of the basic HTML.
just to mention that all this learning and purchasing, using of software occurred as a result of some idea in my head to make money. I thought up an idea, needed some software or script to make it work, so i went and learned it. by the time i'd finished learning it, another idea (more profitable, ofcourse!) would takeover, leading me in a completely new direction! does this happen to you too or is it just me!?
In March 2006, i came across themilliondollarhomepage and of course, i did my own - another couple of weeks gone and still no business. Then, i had another website idea which was a definite moneymaker!
i'd done it! i'd figured it out, everything was much clearer, so i got to work. Completed the website (using dreamweaver and PHP! that i'd just learnt!), registered the domain, opened a bank account!!, got an accountant!!, designed a leaflet with my newly acquired photoshop skills! got it printed with some business cards, dropped the leaflets to local businesses! waited for the phone to ring!! ......... and waited! No sales!......... plenty of visitors to the site.............! 0 sales.......hmmm!
printed some more leaflets, dropped locally, advertised in the local paper, twice - plenty of people now know about the site and daily regular vsitors, but 0 sales.
so i re-design the site believing that it needed some work! no joy!
i now figure that as i have regular visitors, maybe i can profit from adsense or other advertsing/affiliate programmes. i slapped ona couple of adsense units and affiliate banners.
the site has Commission Junction ads, Tradedoubler ads, buy.at ads, adbrite units and google adsense units. up until this day, i have made approximately £10.00 in commissionwhat gives??!
anyway..... all these failures - during the last three weeks (on & off), i have been working on another site....... a site targeted at you! the online entrepreneur, the webmaster - it's not quite ready yet, give me another ten days or so, max and i'll tell you about it!
by the way! the last week has brought in something at least! a couple of existing local busineses and two new start-ups knocked on my door to request that i build them a website! a brochure website! the start-up businesses, i was able to persuade them to allow me to design their logo, business cards, flyers, posters, door signs at a complete cost of £1500, each. i've just completed a set for one - took me three whole days - earned £1500, in three days! and they're probably gonna be back for more posters and flyers!
is this it? is this what i've been heading for?
i just needed to share that with someone and now i've done that - thanks for listening!
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to pay my other card provider at my leisure!!
hmmmm!
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