First thing to do -- take 2 minutes and introduce yourself ...

[Femi Gbadamosi]

Hi. It's great to be in this forum.I've been here a few days now just reading up information.I must say this board is really loaded with great stuff.
My name is Femi Gbadamosi .I am trying to build a steady online business that will fetch me a good income monthly.I am a Nigerian.I've been at IM for a while, with some measure of results, but which are not up to the level of what I want.I wrote a book on romance scams,available at www.elovedeceptions.com .
I began to search for reliable JV forums in a bid to really improve and achieve a higher level of results,and that's how I got here.
Mike, you really have put in a lot of effort here,wecoming every one personally.
I hope to meet great people here,learn a lot,and really improve my level of results in internet marketing.
all the best.
regards
Femi

[Damien Ng]

Heya all!

Firstly, just wanna shout out how great and wonderful it is to join this community. This is our very own mastermind group, our first step to real success.

My name is Damien Ng, and my story's a little different.

Theoretically, I'm a 20 year old full-time student in the UK. I just started my undergrad degree in Economics 2 months and 2 weeks ago, so to speak. Note that this is in theory, to protect myself from the wrath of my parents.

In reality, I spend at least 50% of my free time building up on Internet Marketing. The other 50%, I divide just about equally between having fun, basketball and studying, but not neccessarily in that order. =)

I first got exposed to Internet Marketing barely 4 months ago, and my current vision is to establish myself as an authority in the field. I feel that I know my own fair share of the industry, all I need to do is establish myself and build my list, and empire. While I currently have yet to start generating traffic to my sites and/or build my list extensively (I have not taken any action for those), it's because I'm currently compiling a database of self-written articles and mini ebooks so that I have a firm hold in the ground first.

The main niches I'm interested in are affiliate marketing and copywriting; I've tried my hand at writing a sales letter for a friend who's a full-time marketer and it has just recently pulled in over USD10,000 in sales within 24 hours. Unfortunately, I didn't discuss any commissions with him, heh, and instead got everlasting gratitude.

At the moment, besides working on a few copywriting projects, I'm planning up a product featuring a few experts in the field, such as Ewen and Jo Han. I guess the product part isn't difficult - it's the marketing strategy that really matters. I don't have much experience in the field of Joint Venturing; are there any other forums one can visit for such communities?

Here's a question I'd appreciate answers to - if you could ask experts who have stamped their foot in the industry already, such as Ewen and Jo Han, any question at all, what would you like to have answered?

It's really great getting to know all of you and I hope it becomes very very profitable!

Cheers,
Damien Ng

[Hilma Volk]

Hi, I'm Hilma Volk,

I've been making web pages since 1998, but not money making ones. My main one is just a hobby site and I webmaster our ski club site, and the rest of my sites were kind of dudds and I quit putting any effort into them. Besides there wasn't the gun-to-the-head incentive like there is now.

I was working at a big resort as a massage therapist, but after 8 years I left. One person was making everyone miseralble and my sanity couldn't take it any longer. Sanity great, income now dropped to below outgo.

I do want to make my future online. The frustrating part has been the information overload and spending money on overpriced "mostly crap" secrets of how to make money the internet.

My current project that I am focusing all my time and effort on is in my sig. file.

[Kelly Schow]

Hi,

My name is Kelly and I stumbled on this forum while surfing the internet. I would like to start earning online but I'm having trouble starting out and I've read some tidbits on joint ventures so I thought that it might be worth exploring.


Thanks,

Kelly

[Gary Bacchetti]

My story is unique and I hope a letter of encouragement for you.

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I worked in marketing at GTE for 20 years. When GTE corporate decided to close the facility in 1993 my co-workers panicked. All employees started scrambling to update their resumes and get ready to pound the pavement.

I chose a different route. I saw opportunity not knocking, but banging at my front door. I contacted many of our customers and told them not to panic. I would continue business as usual but they'd be sending payments to me, not GTE.

I took $10,000 of my 401K - opened an office in Buffalo, slapped on a shingle, and here I am fourteen years later with $22,000,000 in revenue.

Here is how it happened:

Marketing & Advertising Services Center, a Gary Bacchetti Company, based in Buffalo, NY - is a privately held company. MASC is a complete marketing support organization serving thousands of businesses, educational institutions and consumers nationwide since 1993.

Our success the past 14 years has been built on extremely strong and consistent customer service. MASC, in addition to hosting and e-commerce, provides consulting services on marketing campaigns, accepts reservationsfor seminars and training, is an inbound telephone resource center, fulfills orders for inbound and marketing campaign materials, assists clients with pre-trade show arrangements and post-trade show follow-through.

MASC is also highly experienced in consumer "rebate management" having processed over 250,000 requests monthly for national Fortune 500 clients including Molson Breweries, GTE, Sylvania Automotive Mini-lighting, and Sunshine Consumer products.

We have also provided marketing fulfillment services for Verizon, Corning, Dunlop Tire, HSBC Arena, Bethlehem Steel, Midas Muffler, Holmes-Air, Regal, and Carborundum-Abrasives.

The company's expertise extends deeply into contemporary areas of commerce such as technology in Education, Business-to-Business e-commerce, Pay-Per-Click management, Internet marketing, web development, creation and hosting through its subsidiary, BuffNET. MASC's staff of data-literate professionals offers a rich diversity of talents, allowing us to organize services in accordance with clients' expectations and specifications.

Since 1993 we have processed tens of thousands of national and international orders on various products and services - ISDN, xDSL, Frame-Relay, Fractional-T's, Wholesale markets, and Industrial Smartparks.

Over the years, MASC has been active with its "give-back-to-the-community" program as a significant corporate underwriter for National Public Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Newspapers in Education, and the highly acclaimed weekly Internet educational radio series heard on the Entercom Radio Network, "BuffNET Presents the Internet."

Additionally, MASC, through its subsidiary BuffNET, was the Official Sponsor along with Juno for the newly formed Law Enforcement Security Council - a forum where Internet companies promote consumer confidence & trust in the Internet by coming together to address consumer security issues.

Hosted by New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, additional supportive members at the BuffNET sponsored inaugural meeting of the "Law Enforcement & Industry Dialogues" were AOL/Time Warner, IBM, Microsoft, Verizon, Prodigy, and Motorola.

I elected to become part of this community to help others with B2B marketing and for ME to learn more about B2C. My experience has been 80% B2B, 20% B2C the past 34 years.

Gary Bacchetti
President
Marketing & Advertising Services Center, Inc

[Jennifer Hunt]

Thanks for sharing your story, Gary... I am encouraged by it. I've seen my own business morph and grow over the past 3 years and I can't wait to see where I am in 14 years!

Jenni Hunt
www.huntedtreasure.com

[Erik Alburg]

Hello everyone...

My name is Erik and I currently have a J.O.B. which someday I hope to replace with my own online business. I am a self-taught web software programmer, which means my code is really ugly but also works really well. ;D So if anyone needs a programmer, then let's talk!

I am in the process of selling my first piece of software online, so I am quite excited/nervous.

Enough about that. My hobbies are sailing, hiking, camping, and anything outdoors. I live in ChicagoLand and love to eat out at the 1 million resturants! Especially the pizza joints.... If you haven't had Gino's pizza you haven't lived.

That is about it...I am looking forward to meeting everyone.

Erik

[Paul Harris]

Hello everybody,
This is Paul Harris, i am in London England. I am a complete newbie. I will come back and talk more but have to rush off now, just thought i should say hello as i have just joined.
Paul.

[Jimmy Roos]

Hey all,

My name is Jimmy Roos. I am from Namibia and I'm married with 3 daughters, 14, 11 and 10. I have been online for the past 4 years trying to make a living online, but could only land periodic sales. It is for this reason that I still have a JOB which I don't particularly enjoy. I believe that with your help and encouragement I will break through this year.

I have realized that for success "to be" or "not to be" it's all up to me and nobody else.

So thank you for everything that I'll be gaining on these forums.

Sincerely,
Jimmy
http://exclusivegiveaway.com

[Mike Merz]

Welcome ... everybody!

MAN ... I've got to stay on top of the welcome wagon! LOL

Best,

Mike Merz