Where does one start describing what has been a fascinating journey?  Maybe a bit of background information would help.

I am a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) by qualification and experience - over 30 years of experience plying my trade.  Being a CFP entailed dealing with people on a daily basis and selling them an intangible - a promise of some future event.  
In many, in fact most, cases it was providing a service that people needed but didn't want.  My life consisted of cold calling and forever trying to obtain new referrals and new clients.  It was never ending and I did enjoy it and the money was good. Like all occupations the longer I stayed in it the larger my network became and the easier the job was.   We, my wife and I, decided to emigrate for the sake of our children.
This was a huge move at age 44 with  a very successful business to leave behind.  But .................. the decision having been made there was no turning back.
Starting over in a new country where I had no contacts and far less energy than when I was 25 was tough.  I had lost my enthusiasm for the business in a country where people very much rely on the Government to look after them in  times of need!  

I tried selling real estate as I had made some money dealing in property.  But that too needed time to build up a network - time that I just did not have as the bills came in like clockwork - although this particular clock seemed to tick very quickly.  I bought lotto tickets every week.  I tried Multi Level Marketing with some success through Sky Biz (later shut down because it was deemed to be a pyramid scheme) and Melaleuca.  The latter is a great company and has been going for 26 odd years.  I know lots of people who earn good money selling Melaleuca products.  It is hard work and ongoing.  The structure of Multi Level Marketing companies is such that you need to keep at it, attending meetings and recruiting new members in order to ensure you continue to receive your monthly checks.  It was not for me.  I could not with conviction sell something that to me appeared like the emphasis was on the business side of things and not the product.

Then came the second  life changing decision.

On 26th November,2006 while surfing the Internet - to check if my lotto ticket had won anything (believe it or not!) I spotted a little Goggle Ad that said:


For $29.99 per month I was prepared to give it a go - after all I was only committed to one month.  I didn't know then that this decision would change my life.

I was overwhelmed when I first joined Wealthy Affiliate - this was a whole new (and foreign) world to me.  I had no idea what it was all about and even though the WA University has changed a great deal since I joined back in 2006, it was still hard to take in the quality and volume of  the training resources made available to members even at that time.   I spent my days reading about stuff that sounded like Greek to me.  But there were others in the WA community that were just as ignorant as me and yet others that had been there only a while longer who were already making a few sales despite being in the same boat as me only a few short months earlier.

Then there were the expert marketers that appeared to be on hand whenever I needed them...I was  in awe of these highly successful people, and was amazed that they even wanted to speak to me! But they did, and it soon became apparent to me that Wealthy Affiliate was a community full of helpers. To this end I am eternally grateful to Travis, DaveB, Thad, Hugh, Pot Pie Girl and a host of others as well as Kyle and Carson themselves.

Finding my first niche and making my first sale was the hardest part for me.  many a time there was when I thought I was not going to make it but I persevered.  In truth I had no choice but I also desperately wanted to succeed at this.

Eventually that first sale came, then the second - much quicker, then the first $100.00 day.  That was an awesome feeling - to know that I could make sales which could generate $100.00 in commission in sales to people I would never meet.  People that lived in America or the UK or Australia and who had been to my business and felt confident enough to buy the product I recommended.

It is truly an awesome feeling to open up my stats every day and see commission I have earned in this way.  I never tire of it and each day is a challenge to make each campaign just a little more successful.  That means finding out a little more about my clients and their needs or dreams and helping them find it.

Many people assume that there's some big secret when it comes to generating a full time income online, but I believe it comes down to just 3 things - good training...good support...and EFFORT.   I was lucky I found Wealthy Affiliate Univeristy from the start.  With  the support and training that is offered I was able to persevere in the knowledge that success was inevitable - as it is to anyone.

That brings me to the "effort" part, and that is where YOU come in. If you want to change your life even half as much as I did when I first joined, there's absolutely no reason why you can't.  Just give it a go, ask questions and persevere.  I won't tell you to have fun because that is a given part of this business.

This truly is a long term and satisfying business and I have Wealthy Affiliate University to thank for it.

Why not do yourself and your family a favor and take a look in side Wealthy Affiliate University to-day?  You won't be sorry.

Meet some of the $300.00 a day Affiliates here!

I look forward to chatting to you in the forum and seeing your success in the success forum!