Hi,

My name is Will Keane and I would like to tell you a little bit about Myself and how I have got involved in internet marketing.  I am currently running a busy village post office in the south of England and have done so for the past 10 years.  I am happily married and have a ten year old daughter, who loves to keep me busy whenever she gets the opportunity.   Now running a post office today involves a lot more work than just selling stamps and paying pensions.  I have to deal with products such as travel insurance and foreign exchange, and services such as business and personal banking, issuing car tax and other services you might be surprised to see offered at a post office. Naturally my staff and I have to deal with all sorts of post related matters which can be anything from dealing with personal mail to posting all sorts of items for our local businesses.  But one thing about this business is although it is giving me a good living, I doubt I will allow me to expand into any large scale ventures.

Because of this fact I started to look for other possibilities, something I noticed through my work is one of the biggest things to have come to the post office is ebay.  So many people have become involved with it in one form or another.  We have people coming in to post items which they no longer want and have sold them to get some extra cash, and we have also some Power sellers who have started their own businesses and are regularly selling different items every day.  I met one such power seller, (who also became a good friend), who used my post office for his posting a few years ago.  He made an arrangement with me to leave his post at the post office each morning and would return in the afternoon and settle his bill.  Over time the amount of mail he would leave with me grew and grew, and I would regularly hear him comment that there were not enough hours in the day to do all the things he had to do.  This he told me could be anything from listing new items and packing and arranging despatch of goods that he sold, or dealing with customers emails  and arranging for suppliers to keep his stock levels up for him.  It eventually got to the point that he enlisted the help of his family to deal with the dispatch side of the business.  With all this success from ebay my curiosity was aroused and I started to dabble in it Myself.   At that time my daughter was a lot younger and most of my time was spent between running the business and family life, so ebay was more of a hobby than a serious pursuit and I eventually I stopped it for one reason or another.

I still liked to surf the net as the idea of running a business on the internet still appealed to me and I saw sites where marketers were selling products as downloads for customers for every type of product you could think of.  Aha! I thought no physical items to pack! the customer just downloads whatever product they want, what could be easier! even I could do this!   Wrong! when I started to research what involved in this enterprise I realised there was was a lot more work involved than just launching a website and waiting for the customers to line up and buy the product I had advertised.  As part of my research I even went to a two day bootcamp in October 2009, and although  came away  even more inspired to start a business, I was even more frustrated about how I should start in this venture.  Over those two days I learned about search engine optimisation, niche marketing, adwords and adsense, driving traffic, social marketing, and lots more.  What I also learned, wich was more imprtant to me at that time, was I needed help in order to get the right start  and idealy follow someone who had been there and “got the T-shirt”.  Again through trawling the internet  I came across an opportunity that I first I hesistated about, an internet markerter was advertising a course as a masterclass which would be run over a number of weeks and I would learn how to build a presence and a brand that would help me to succeed.  The name of this marketer is John Thornhill and although I have only had a few weeks of his course I am already starting to plan my business quicker than I could have hoped if I had tried to go it alone.  The mentoring I have received from this helpful marketer has been clear, extremely imformative and very easy to understand and even at this stage has greatly helped in my development.