I have been on the internet for about 2 years now and I love the idea that from my geographical placement I can create a shop, website or business that can be accessed from all over the globe. The whole concept still fascinates me.

Just over a year ago, I became interested in how the whole thing worked (that was when I joined Wealthy Affiliate, which I highly recommend!). Earlier this year I got excited and joined a course that shows you how to build yourself a shop online and all the techniques needed to make it successful. The thing I like about courses like these is that there is no pat on the back at the end with a certificate, the prize is a working online product, which you have built up yourself!

The course is run by a company called Prosper, who are based in Utah and run distant learning courses on all kinds of new wave subjects like Stock Trading, E-commerce and Real Estate.

The main reason I am writing this post, apart from the obvious about multiple streams of income (hence my e-commerce mission) is for a tribute to my course Tutor. He got thrown in the deep end with me as my first one left the company and he had no background on what I had been doing. The main reason I want to write this is because everytime I get off the phone I am geared up. He doesn’t even try to push me or motivate me, it is just the way he is and the things he says. Basically, he seems a great guy all round. Tbh, we spend a lot of the time laughing!

If, by chance, you want to enrol with Prosper and do the E-commerce course I would suggest asking for him by name to be your tutor. His name is Beau Graves.

Just to show you the progress of what my course is creating I have put an image link at the bottom of the page so you can have a look!

Enjoy

One way of creating yourself a second income is the Internet Marketing route. You can affiliate yourself to other peoples companies and products, or you can gain exposure for products that you may sell yourself. Either way, the internet is becoming the place to shop and you may well be missing out on a truck load of revenue.

I started Internet Marketing a year or so ago and had some success, but never really maintained my level of pursuit in it. What I did come across was a great training site for budding IMers, which starts you out from the very basics to some really complex stuff, it’s called Wealthy Affiliate.

Don’t get confused with the title, thinking that it is solely for Affiliate Marketers as the methods learned can be for anyone marketing on the internet.

Personally, I have just started an online shop, TheGeekPolice, and the knowledge I acquired at WA a year ago is helping me promote it. I have always maintained my membership with WA as it is a great reference guide and is constantly updated with new info.

Plus there is an added bonus of offsetting your monthly subscription by becoming a WA affiliate yourself. All of that, if you are unsure what it means is expained in the start-up 8 week action plan.

Just something you guys might want to take a look at, certainly one way to increase your earnings while still in your dayjob!