My name is Andy. I live in the UK, in the North West on the border of England and Wales. I am an ordinary family guy with a lovely wife and three beautiful kids. Around 4 weeks ago I started my own online home business. Before that I had no idea that you could make money online other than through selling stuff you don’t want on eBay or Amazon. I had come to the point in my career where I was finding it difficult to progress, wasn’t making enough money to cover my outgoings, was spending too much time away from home, trying to deliver something which I didn’t believe in myself to customers who didn’t want it!. I had considered setting up my own business in the past but didn’t really think such a venture matched my skills, didn’t have the capital for it, and it was all a bit too much of a risk. Then I had a brainwave – a search for ‘make money online’ opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and suddenly my whole attitude changed – there was a world of opportunity out there for someone like me to start there very own online business!
Truth is, running an online business is not for everyone. For me I believe it is. In my daily job I love the days when I work at home and have no phone calls to make. Some people love the ‘buzz’ of the office and need people around them. I would much prefer to switch off the phones and work on a spreadsheet all day, spend some time with my family in the evening and then maybe join one of my friends down the pub. This is enough for me – a simple guy at heart, and running a home-business would seem to suit a guy like me.
But a word of warning – it’s not easy money, there are shortcuts to success, but you invariably have to pay for them and they are generally short-term. It takes time and effort to build up your own business and make it sustainable. You can do it in your spare time, but there will be choices you have to make along the line as there are many different routes you can take. I am not there yet by any means, not even close, but I can see signs that things are beginning to build. I am certainly not in a position to even consider quitting my day job, but I have hope that initially I will earn enough to maybe pay for a holiday, then a car, and one day, maybe I can. All I can say at this stage is the last few weeks have given me real hope that I can do it and above all I have thoroughly enjoyed it – perhaps more so than anything else I have done in the last few years (and that’s saying something!)
If you read this and decide that starting a business is for you check out the links above – these are two quite different affiliate type programs (both of which I have signed up for). The common thread through both of these is that they give you both the tools to setup your business and the education to market it and run it successfully. They are both excellent programs.
If, having read the above you do decide to go for it – good luck!
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