It is a bright Spring morning on the South coast of England and the calm, serene atmosphere is only occasionally pierced by the sound of seagulls perched on top of the roof.
This serenity is about to be shattered by the arrival of my 11 year old son from his bedroom. Stormy, moody and sullen he's realised that it's a school day and he's determined that everyone is going to share in his misery.
After doing the necessary Fatherly duties (I am a single parent and so have to fit both male and female roles in any case, you understand?). We jump in the car and drive to his school. I feel a notable sense of relief as he disappears behind the school gate and I'm eager to return home to my 'internet empire'.
You see I have been an Internet Marketer for a while now. After gaining reasonable plaudits and forging a pretty successful career in the Computer Games business, I found myself without necessary childcare and looking for an alternative that would perhaps open new doors for me and let me work to suit the profile and demands of my life.
I arrive home and glance at the small netbook I have running permanently. This is my hobby, Forex Trading and I have several test bots and systems running 24/5 to see what results I'm getting. One of the bots in particular is looking very promising and I will transfer to a small live account soon and see what happens. I've already got a placeholder site setup (link below) that I will be publishing my findings on and promoting the ones (out of hundreds) that I see positive results with.
Next I check my emails that have come overnight. Obviously the internet is regionless and you have to be prepared to address things in a timely manner, but still with respect to your working pattern.
I note that there is a new launch coming up soon from Mike at JVNotify and so write down the details so I can consider creating a ranking review site and earn commission from that.
Next up I check my virtual assistants and outsourcers and deal with them (why do it yourself, when it's more efficient to get others to do it, I say).
We're currently about 11am now and I do my usual hour of reading through the various information mines such as the Warrior Forum. Any more and it becomes a real time-sucker!
Logging into my site backend, I check for new leads and messages from prospective team members. I've also got a 'may day' from one of my team members who has some issues with his autoresponder. I suspect something is going wrong when he's pasting the code into his page. We hook up on Skype and discuss it briefly and I arrange to remote desktop into his machine a little later to help him out.
A few invitations to webinars have arrived and I carefully select which ones make the most sense to me. They tend to take place in the evening, so I generally don't count them as part of my work regime and sit down with a nice cup of tea and soak up the new information they provide.
A bit of tinkering with some of the sites to improve their SEO, whilst munching down on lunch and we're pretty much done for the day.
It's about 1pm and I'm off strolling along the nearly cliffs, getting rid of the 'cobwebs' and seeking inspiration from the beautiful surroundings. I smile to myself remembering all the mornings and evenings sat on the M25 during some nightmare commute and wonder why I didn't do this years ago.
When I return about 2.30pm I set about preparing myself for the cyclonic force that will shortly return in the form of my son.
A few more emails have arrived including an interesting new product that someone is promoting. Looks interesting and so I might have a go at promoting it myself and will check the details on Clickbank later.
A few more tweaks to my new website promoting the vacations club I am involved in and I write up a promotion plan for it, deciding what I need to do to get it to rank in SERPs and appear in front of right audience.
My son arrives at 3.40pm (he likes to walk back from school on nice days - it's downhill and not really that far) and I've booted up Xcode and Visual Studio to work on my programming projects.
It's not because I have to anymore, rather that I want to and I've found myself more inspired over recent months because of the lack of real pressure here. I am currently working on both a new game project and tools to help my IM business - I don't think I'll ever lose the passion for coding.
5pm and I shut up shop, ready to be Dad again!
I'm at home with time for my Son, my hobbies and interests. But most of all I've had no horrible commute to deal with and what looks like a relaxed evening to look forward to. I used to finally make it through the door at around 8pm. No thanks. Not anymore!
In addition, you could only guess at the true horror that involved childcare costs for many years, not to mention that I was missing my son growing up.
There has never been an opportunity to work in this way before. The internet has opened up so much to so many and will continue to do so. Marketing is just one aspect, of course, of how you can make a living, but it has to be the most appealing to me, as you get to reach a vast audience with minimum effort.
All I will say in conclusion is that, working on the Internet. Really, 'It's a Wonderful Life!'
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