How the Internet Has Changed My Life: a True Personal Story of Building a Home Based Business

How the Internet Has Changed My Life: a True Personal Story of Building a Home Based Business
by Charles Kiyimba

For quite a long time I have been longing to own a home based business but I could not get the right ideas. While working in Gulu, in northern Uganda, with a reputable child development organization, I developed an idea of making office stamps to sell to schools, hospitals, local government, NGOs and businesses with an aim of supplementing my income and growing my own home business as well. I was inspired by the fact that all the public offices I visited, the stamps used on important official documents were wooden with poor impressions.

In 2008, I made my business plan and even managed to secure a short term loan to purchase a computer, a stamp-making printer, designing software (CorelDraw Graphic Suite X4) and blank stamps imported from Dubai. When I finally started my home business of making stamps in 2009, I got so motivated by making sales I least expected. My stamps appealed to everyone for they were forge-proof and of good quality. I made sales right from the beginning and I still continue to make sales now and again.

Since I was working from home and only in the evening, I found it tiresome to get customers and to deliver the stamps to them. My customers started calling me from time to time for my services. I found it bothersome yet I still had to concentrate on my official job. I decided to employ a salesperson, who disappointed me by not making any sale in two weeks. Do you know why? She lacked marketing skills.

I thought of having my own website with an aim of receiving orders to make more sales. Some young man came to my office, marketing his web designing and computer maintenance services. I picked interest in web designing and he asked me to pay an equivalent of USD 1,300/- to have my website designed and hosted. He gave me a business card, which bore all his contacts, including his web site address. But when I tried to access his web site on the internet, I realized it was hosted with a free host. Besides, it made me feel that he was not an expert.

Eventually, I opted to design my own website. Luckily, I chanced on Web Design Mastery e-books, which I immediately purchased online and started reading. It cost me some good amount of money to print 15 books in color and to bind them. Hmm… buying the e-books was easy because I had the money. But when it came to reading them and understanding the HTML language, the language used in web designing, I was really lost. I almost gave up. But since I had spent some good amount of money and that I was enthusiastic about having a website for my business, I had to persevere. I read, read and read until I started understanding the various HTML codes.

After three months of reading, I started designing my first web site, which I hosted with Hostgator in June 2011. The actual designing took me three months. I designed, designed and redesigned many times. I spent sleepless nights and people around me started complaining. I got stressed up due to too much sitting. My eyes started having a blurred vision caused by being on the computer for long every day.

When I finally launched my web site, it was real relief and happiness to see it working properly, thanks to the very good tutorials of Web Design Mastery. Shelley Lowery is my living hero because he opened my eyes to the internet world, where most rich guys have accumulated their wealth. Before I learned web designing, all what I knew about the internet was to surf, receive and send emails. But now, I have known much about internet businesses and marketing as well. Isn't that great!

The reason why I refer to Shelley as my living hero is that in addition to being a good teacher with her e-books, she introduced me to two other web sites in one of her e-books. This is where I had an opportunity to read about Steve Evans' programs, which inspired me to start yet another home business with his Plug-in Profit Site. This further widened my understanding on how I could easily accumulate wealth by just promoting other programs.

Promoting other programs needed a lot of internet marketing skills, which I got to learn one by one every day and for many days. I am now one of the upcoming online marketing experts. My life has changed since then. I always thank God for giving me that vision of learning to design web sites, which opened my eyes to the internet, where the richest guys in the world have accumulated their wealth.

This is my living testimony and I wish I could easily change the minds of others. I would make everyone on earth to learn web designing and to join programs from which they can earn commission by promoting other products online. But because I am a normal human being, I can only use a pen to reach many people through the internet and through this article of testimony. I therefore appeal to whoever chances to read this article, to understand that by promoting other products, you will not only discover the secret of making money online, but you will also learn some good marketing skills, which have changed my life.

If you learn how to market products online, you will not only make money from your home and market other people's products, but you will also learn how to market your own business, which is a great way to accumulating a lot of wealth by using your computer. I now use my web site to receive orders and to provide my customers and visitors with information. I no longer move up and down to pick orders. I use a local courier to deliver the stamps to my customers wherever they are. Do you see the power of the internet?

I count myself a lucky person to have multiple streams of income: my full time job, my stamp making business and my marketing business. I would like everyone not to be left behind in this era of information. Internet users are increasing everyday and they are all looking for information to better their life. This is a great opportunity worth grabbing.

Charles Kiyimba owns http://www.CashWithGoleza.com where popular home business ideas and opportunities are tested rigorously to find out what works and what doesn't. Visit today for more info or check out the site's #1 home business at: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-31747

Charles Kiyimba may be contacted at http://www.cashwithgoleza.com or charles@golezadesigners.com

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