I'm a brand spankin new to this forum and have spent the last hour or so reading many of these posts. I am a professional Offline Consultant providing Internet related services to my communities small business owners.
I also build community city portals for a living. I get a good "local" domain name and get it as close to page one of Google as possible. Traffic usually starts to come in then I advertise my site to merchants (dentist - chiropractors - ect) for them to get more business and leads. I have just recently started a few portal sites by having videos embedded on the listing, sort of like an infomercial - merchants love it since it's a lot cheaper than a tv commercial.
So where am I going with all this ?
I was told 10 years ago by too many people to mention here that all my ideas were just a dream and I need to stay working in corp America and make my living that way. I neglected to listen to any of these so called "friends and families" and proceed with my dreams of becoming an internet marketing guru. My first 3 years I made $1,033.00 (all three years) my wife supported my efforts - but then something happened, I started getting out of my comfort zone and started speaking to people everywhere I went about what I did and how they needed my services.
I teach wordpress online
I am an SEO expert
Video Marketing
Mobile marketing
Reputation management and much more! all self taught
fast forward 7 years later - well . . . . . let's just say I earn more now in a month than what most of my friends earn in a year. They all want to know how I did it and wished they could do the same and I tell them that's their first problem, they only wish things to happen to them but they sit in front of the TV all night and waste their time
Follow your dreams
Follow your Intuition
Work hard and late at nights -
Do all this without hurting anyone and you'll be a success.
What's the worst that can happen ?
Juan M. Colome, CEO
Infoseek Technologies, Inc.