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Those where just three of the top programs I was in back in 1999. This was all right before the Dot Com Boom and when I was still in high school. I once won $1000, had a referral downline of over 5,000 people and was making pennies every hour! Boy did I think I was living the life back then. If you don’t know how those ‘paid to surf’ programs worked, you basically had to download a toolbar onto your computer and run the bar when you surfed the internet. Every hour you surfed you would get credit. Advertisers would pay the company to show their ads, which then they would split the profits with the people. This kind of advertising would never work, because ‘forced’ advertising will never work, not then, not today and never in the future. Ads that I saw never interested me so it was just a waste of money for the advertiser, the biggest reason why those programs all failed during the Dot Com Boom.

Right after I made about $2000 doing nothing online I started looking at other ways to make money. I looked at starting an online store (which failed because I knew nothing about what I was doing). I also looked at selling on eBay, which took off and did well for about two years.

What I did not know back in those early days was that they would lead me to where I am now. From making money online, ‘paid to surf’ sites, affiliate marketing, ebay, forex and now ecommerce and small niche sites that make me money, I have been doing this for years. I have learned what works and what does not work. I am no geneous and definitely no guru, but if you do listen to me and follow me I will try to share my wisdom about making money online.

I believe the internet levels the playing field and that anyone who puts time and effort into making money online will eventually make something. I have learned that the more time and effort you put into building a business online, the more you will succeed. I dabbled in Forex for about a year and was on a crazy roller coaster ride with it. I eventually realized that I wanted my life to be more stable than the ups and downs to forex trading. I made money and I lost money with Forex.

I now own a few online stores, a few small niche sites in the tattoo market and this blog. The online stores pay the bills and the small niche tattoo sites are being built to pay for a car and house. One of the first tattoo sites that I built back in 2006 has been making between $400-$800/month since 2008. I plan on sharing everything I know in this blog so that one day you can also make money online, just like me!