Sunday, April 4, 2010

Getting in there!

Gradually, I am getting myself into this online marketing business. I am very amazed to see how internet have changed lives of people. This is my second month in online business and what I am doing is just searching on internet that how it really works. I know that I have a long way to go but I am just familiarizing myself to this industry. Sometimes I think that what will happen if I will fail at this thing? Well, I have a Plan B for myself. I am going to spend three month on this and will see if I am the right person at the right place or not. If not, I will follow Plan B which is just to live a life as a normal employee.


Right now, I want to write something about how I get into this business.

I was working as a structural engineer at a small scale firm in Perth, Western Australia. I was loaded with work and had to do lot of overtime. Besides that, I used to do lot of reading at home about my professional field. I was putting in my 100% in this job but don't know why, my boss was not happy with my work. I wanted to quit my job, but I couldn't because I wanted to stay in Australia and my employer had sponsored my visa. So if I quit the job, I had to leave the country. I wanted to apply for permanent residency (PR) for which I had to show one year experience in my professional field. So I was just waiting for that one year to finish and here I am! I just got PR last month and quit my job. 

Before that, in April last year (2008), I came across an internet business opportunity. The webpage looked something like this. I just entered my name and email address in the given box because it wasn't going to cost me anything. I knew that I will not have to enter my credit card details. After entering these details, I was receiving emails everyday about that business like what is it about, how much you can earn, how it works and so on. However, I was asked to pay $49 just to make an application! Now I didn't want to spend this much money as I was just reading these stuff for a time pass. But still, I was thinking that rather than just visiting beautiful girls' profiles on FB or Orkut, I can do something useful to generate some income. I didn't just want to see dreams, I wanted my dream to be a reality. But I didn't know how to do it and I was curious about it. It was same as when we go to shopping mall, we see glamorous clothes, jewellery, HD TV and some other expensive stuff which we dream to possess but due to lack of money, we don't buy them. Somehow, I don't know why (may be I was so eager to know what it is), I just said to myself, "Oh come on man, it's just $49. You can spend this much money, can't you?" So I made an application with which I was getting a DVD about the business owner's struggle in this industry. But after making application, I was shown more detailed pages, links and videos about the business and I was asked around $300 to join this business. This was the moment when I stopped. I said to myself, "dude, there is something wrong. don't go for it. You don't even have time for it." And I didn't join it at that moment. Although these people were offering 1 year money back guarantee, I wasn't ready to go for it! (I was not married at that moment and I am still single while writing this.)   

It was my constant dissatisfaction from my job that made me thinking about this opportunity. I was thinking that there must be some way these all people are making these much money in such a short period. Even if it takes a bit longer to make a fortune, I want to at least try it. So finally when I decided to quit my job after confirmation of my PR, I ordered this package which cost me A$387.52.