Making Money Online

Internet Marketing

Making Money Online

by Ryan Ringold

It was the year 2002 when I began making my full time income on the internet. The strange thing at the time was that I had no background with computers, or any internet training, nor any website design skills. As a matter of fact, I knew very little about computers all together. Sure I could turn one on and surf the web and use some common programs like word processors or email clients, but my knowledge was very limited.

I was 30 years old at the time and I had already failed several times at starting my own business. I still considered myself an entrepreneur and prided myself on being one. It just hadn’t made me any money yet. I was over $60,000 in debt just 4 years prior and declared bankruptcy after a complete failing I had in another small business that I had started. Now, four years later, I was again tens of thousands of dollars in debt and was scraping change together to buy fuel for my car. I remember paying for gas with $2 or $3 at a time. I was so embarrassed.

The internet! The World Wide Web! What a fabulous place, or thing, or whatever it is. I had heard of people making fortunes using the World Wide Web! When I stopped to think about it, it seemed like a modern day gold rush. More and more people were connecting to the internet every single day. More dollars were being spent every month of every year. Who were the people that were throwing their nets out there to catch some of that raging river of cash that was flowing bye 24/7 in cyberspace?

How did they know how to make money? Were these people like the one’s that headed west when they heard you could find gold in the rivers? Was this truly a modern day gold rush?

All I know is that I had to try to get a piece of it. What an amazing time in history. The Internet is just getting warmed up. The advent of the Internet puts mankind at a unique time in history. The world's boundaries disappear as you chat with friends at the corner of the globe. Businesses make transactions with customers while the business owners are sleeping in the U.S. and customers in China are buying. Billions and billions of dollars change hands over the World Wide Web each day.

So how can I get a piece of it? That’s what I was asking myself back in the fall of 2001. I just wanted a piece. Any piece really! I thought if I could make $50 or $100 per month using the Internet, then I would be a real modern day entrepreneur. I could be lumped in with the few people that made money online. That would make me proud. I’d get bragging rights that I was taking advantage of the biggest opportunity of my lifetime.

So, I sat down one day determined to discover how to make money using a computer connected to this absolute incredible tool they called the information super highway. What exactly was it and where did it go? I never would have been able to guess where it would lead me on that one fateful day... that’s for sure. After 3 long months, working, researching, surfing the web for over 100 hours per week (I was jobless at the time)... I felt like I began to get a very faint understanding of possibly how some people were making money with the Internet.

I spent so much time on the computer that I had to have surgery on my elbow to relieve a nerve and now have a four inch scar that will always remind me of my journey.

Since sitting down that first day with a fire in my belly wanting to make money using the internet, I have since earned hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars using the Internet. I’ve made my full time living since the early months of 2002 using the World Wide Web and the computer in my bedroom.

As a matter of fact, in January of 2006 I launched a completely new business online and in the first 4 months it brought in $134,597.74. This is a completely new venture that I began separate from my other online business.

I'm starting this blog today to share my secrets and techniques in marketing and making money online. I'm here to answer your questions, so please ask me your marketing questions. I'll do my best to answer them and I'll do my best to answer them in a timely fashion.

This blog will be all about making money online and how to make money on the internet.