Freed from the Matrix

I was out with my friends the other day at Starbucks and we started talking about online businesses. They had each dabbled with setting up online ventures and websites but had never really gotten anything to take off yet.

They all started to ask me how was I so successful with my online businesses and I explained that there were a set of principles that were vital for people who wanted to start a successful web business.

we talked for about 3 hours and they seemed to appreciate it and at the end of it all I realized that i actually knew a lot about this industry and could help a lot of people out by sharing those principles here.

Now there are a lot of people who are extremely web savvy and have areas of expertise in web search, graphic design, search engine optimization, search campaigns, JavaScript etc etc.

I am not one of those people. I am not an expert in one field. I am an expert in many.

You see, I learned many of these areas because well, I had to.

Let me back up a little...3 years ago, I had no knowledge of HTML whatsoever. In fact I had no idea what html tags were and had never even opened up FrontPage or Dreamweaver.

I was referred to a comprehensive package that pretty much changed my life and 3 years later, I single handedly have 6 websites that attract over 25,000 visitors a day. Not bad huh?

I now design my sites, research my sites, build my sites, market my sites and profit from all my sites. One man show. No overhead.

All me.

I succeed, all me.

I fail, all me.

I like that.

Over the past three years though I have learned the ups and downs of the web world (as i call it). I have made the rookie mistakes, hired others to do things I could have done myself, paid charlatans, bought stupid e-books with no value etc etc.

But now, it all paid off and here you are reading this.

This is going to be the first part of a multi-part series I call "Freed from the Matrix"

I will walk you through the REALISTIC steps that can help you determine if

A) You understand what the various components of a successful web business are.
B) You actually like this and want to make this a hobby or business and most importantly,
C) If you have what it takes to make a web business successful.

I am not selling you an E-Book. I don't need to. I am not pitching you a product either, that's not necessary. someone took the time to help me get started and I feel like I owe it to you guys to do the same.

Let's start at the beginning,

Walk with me... (Part 2 coming soon..)