My History

In the beginning I couldn't turn a computer on. I literally had no idea that they used to put the buttons in the back of them and they intimidated me like crazy. I had this immobilizing fear of every computer that I ever touched because I knew they were so very expensive.

I had a very embarrassing moment during school where I had to ask another classmate to help turn a computer on, and then had to return to ask them to help me find the program that was needed for the assignment (in that case it was only Microsoft Word).

Looking back, I want to laugh at all of this. It's literally difficult to for me to understand how someone could be so terrified of a computer, or even how they could have any difficulty opening up a word processing program. Which, since then, I've taken quite a few courses related to computers and now consider myself more of an advance user.

A Little Later

After a few computer related courses: hardware, software, webdesign, and computer programming, I began to see how simple most tasks were at the time. Things are a litlte different these days, and webdesign is much more complicated than it used to be.

However, that's not the important part.

During this time I spent quite a few hours wading through different ways to make money online--most of the time, with no luck. I found program after program, course after course, promising that you could make this amount or that amount by doing this or that. Most of the time back then the programs being pitched were real estate programs, but I never fell for one of those scams. I always believed that it was possible to make money online free.

November 2008

It was the middle of November in 2008, I was just getting off work and decided to drop by my cousins house on the way home. I found him sitting in front of the computer with the browser sitting on Google.com with a white piece of paper sitting in front of him in which he had quite a few scribblings.

This was a little odd because he wasn't much of a computer guy. I mean, he's a hell of a guitar player and not a bad writer, but not much on computers at all. I asked him what he was doing.

"I'm searching for keywords," he responded. I of course shot him a what-in-the-hell-are-you-talking-about look. "[Mutual Friend] told me about this website where he learned how to make money online," he continued, "[Mutual Friend] said that he made around $1,500.00 in a week by writing articles and building small websites."

At first, I was kind of wanting to believe this was some kind of pyramid scheme or other type of similar scam, but the fact that our mutual friend was saying all of this I couldn't necesarily just rule it out at that. This friend of ours was pretty savvy, the guy owned a computer repair shop and everything, so I figured I may actually give this one a chance.

It took a short while before I actually signed up for the website that he was talking about, but I was very happy after I did because I was making sales shortly a month thereafter.

The website was WealthyAffiliate.com where I am still currently a member.

Since Then

I have been making a steady maintainable income online through internet marketing techniques learned from Wealthy Affiliate. I have quit my job, moved out of my old house into a new one, and I'm still not even among the best internet marketers that are out there--I'm sure you can probably tell this from my rather plain article here.

I just want to express to you Reader, that it's possible to make money online for free, and that WealthyAffiliate is no scam.

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