A Little Bit About Myself
Posted by Allen Davis | Posted in Productivity | Posted on 30-01-2012-05-2008
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I learned about programming and ftp long before any of us had ever heard of the internet or HTML. I was always into technology and used to run a BBS for customer support (for those that remember what that is.)
When my wife became a Realtor in 2007 she asked me to build her a website so I learned HTML. I had my hosting through a reseller who was also a blogging coach. I was dealing with some hosting problems when I was laid off from my job so I told the coach I needed a job and she told me she would pay me to help her recruit new clients.
Naturally I had to attend her coaching to learn what I was recruiting people into so I learned about blogging. What I didn’t learn was how to make money with it.
Through her coaching program I ended up studying under someone else who was copying several other “gurus” but wasn’t making any money. What I did learn from her was that there were a lot of people who wanted to be internet marketers but didn’t have the slightest idea how to accomplish the technical part that comes so easy to me.
I decided that I would use my technical skills to help people overcome their challenges in building an online business. I believe in the Zig Ziglar quote “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ”
The first real money started coming in when I started using ad swaps to build a list. I was also building squeeze pages and back end offers for other people doing ad swaps.
After a while i lost interest in having to deal with so many scammy marketers and their brothers and wives and cousins who knew nothing but jumped on the adswap train when they saw how easy it was to make money selling worthless junk to ignorant newbies. It didn’t matter to them what kind of reputation they got because there were always more people entering the game. It mattered to me, though.
So then I was looking for other ways to find people who need help with their technical issues when I stumbled across Sweeva. I had seen a few TEs before that but they didn’t hold my interest long. Sweeva showed me that TEs could be interesting and even addicting and I went on to several other TEs from that point. I found the social interaction in many TEs was good for me to brand myself and find people I could help to build their online businesses. TEs also inspired my latest project called “Not Playing Around” to help people accomplish more in whatever online business they choose.


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