Hello,

I have to say there has been not much list building going on in my house today. The lurgy has well and truly taken hold today and no-one can be bothered to do every much at all. Fortunately we are well stocked up with groceries and medicine, and tissues!

I was thinking about how I started out in internet marketing, and wondering how anyone else came across it. I actually had an oppertunity to get to know about marketing around over two years ago. My husband is a friend of David Congreave, who is a co-author of Lucid SEO and the Lucid SEO blog. I was busy with lots of other things in my life at that time, doing some MLM and keeping up with the family and I didn’t take much notice when my husband mentioned The Nettle, the newsletter that David writes.

In the interim, we moved up here to Scotland from Leeds, where we knew David. I have fibromyalgia, and it means it’s difficult for me to comit to a job because my health can be very up and down.  However, since I am usually much better in the summer, I always look for some work I can do for the summer months. It is usually poorly paid part-time work but it did give me a sense of dignity, that I was contributing something.

Well this summer I discovered selling books on Amazon. I was very pleased to do something from home, especially as I have a little boy not at school (21 months). So I get to it and buy books here and there and some money starts to trickle in, fantastic.

Because of this though, now I am on a mailing list, and advertised on it was an ebook about Clickbank. I bought it and thought WOW! this is great, why doesn’t everyone do this? It’s so simple! (Simple is different from easy though - I hadn’t realised it yet!)

When I told my husband about it, he told me: “You should phone David (Congreave) he talks about that stuff in the Nettle.”  I phoned David and we had a chat about it, he gave me some advice, and I joined his mailing list.  Then on  the mailing list there was information about a seminar. I phoned David and he said to me “it’s not necessary to go to a seminar, but of all the people I know that are successful, they go to the seminars.”

So I took the money that I had made from selling the books on Amazon, and I booked my train and my hotel. David paid for anyone on his mailing list to have a ticket, so that was ok. It was a brilliant seminar, I learned loads and loads, and the thing that stood out most to me was that I needed a mentor.  I also knew I couldn’t really afford one just yet.

The other thing that stood out was a young welsh guy who had been to the seminar before and had paid attention and made some serious money. It was like the enthusiasm was bursting out of his body, he was nervous and Sean Roach kept saying sit down, there was a chair for him on the stage, but he was so passionate it was like he could hardly keep still. I think the audience was more nerve-racking for him standing up so he did sit down and told us about what had happened to him, including the Oil Rig Illustration. Of course, it was Alex Jeffreys.

I went home with renewed enthusiasm, I worked hard and tried a few things that I learned on the course, but at the back of my mind I knew I needed a mentor. I thought about it and decided the one thing I knew I could make some money with were the books and eBay. So I kept on with that, and kept busy, still reading anything I could lay my hands on about internet marketing. I read all the emails from all the gurus that I had subscribed to, and of course I read David Congreaves emails too.

And that is how I got a copy of Gurus Dream - I saw the picture and thought, hang on, I recognise that guy. When I read the report I mailed Alex and told him I thought it was great, and he mailed me right back. I was impressed with that - here was a guy that responded to my emails. That got me on Alex mailing list, and that is how I knew when the mentoring became available. By this time I was convinced that Alex was genuine, and I signed up as soon as I could.

So that’s how I came to be on this course. Many thanks to David Congreave - check out his blog here - TheLucidBlog.com.

Ok, so that’s my story, what about yours?

Best wishes,

Ruth