About Myself

Hi, its Michael Field-Dodgson here, I trust you are well. People call me Mike FD for obvious reasons!

I am a bit older than most of you at 69, and for about a  third of my career I was a scientist, about another third a businessman in the corporate rat race have and the last third a part time builder and internet marketer. Oh I also trade forex.

I have been married for 45 years and have two daughters elsewhere. We live on a small farm and my wife is “Horsey”.

I guess I am jealous of anyone who is younger, because building an internet marketing business provides you with all sorts of freedom!

I have been involved in the earning money side of the internet for five years now and developed a broad understanding of what is good, what is bad, what works and what doesn’t work.

I started in 2015  and things were pretty rough. It wasn’t quite the wild west days of the early 2000’s,  but Google was still tweaking this and tweaking that to give the user a better experience. In the last six years the Internet Marketing environment has really settled down meaning you have a more stable environment to build an internet business long term.

I mean in the early years there were large companies employing hundreds of people and turning over millions of dollars who basically disappeared overnight because they had been “gaming Google”- using methods to rank their client’s sites that Google didn’t like.  So when Google changed (improved) its ranking algorithm, these companies were “caught out”, their client’s sites disappeared off the SERPS  which meant these companies had no income anymore.

Now, building a stable income on the internet is a real and positive option.

1. We don’t need a large capital outlay or money to invest.
2. We can do it from home or anywhere that has an internet connection.
3. We can do it in our own time.

One big thing though……it is not get rich quick. Shall I repeat that – it is not get rich quick. Just like anything else in life, if you want to be successful at this internet business thing you need commitment, perseverance, focus, and a dogged determination to win.

I can tell you that at times you will feel the whole thing is a big con and the odds of winning are against you: Stuff won’t work,  you feel so out of your depth etc., and progress seems impossible. BUT and it is a big but. If you ask questions, do what you are told, focus on ONE thing at a time (very,very important), and put in the time required you will succeed.

 It won’t be this week or next week, or even this month or next month, but the trickle of dollars into your bank account will steadily increase to a flood – If you just stick at it!

I first started in the internet as an Amazon affiliate selling products listed on Amazon and getting a commission from Amazon whenever I sold something. I tended to specialise in the sort of about home niche – both inside and outside. I still have  sites but don’t work them as hard as I used to. They provide me with an income, but the trouble is I am always working under Amazon guidelines and rules, especially the commission rates, which they could change whenever they felt like it. This happened just recently.

So the idea is to develop a business as independent as you can be. You will always have to rely to a certain extent on the Googles and Facebooks etc., but keep them at arms length as they say.

 I have diversified, just as you will,  so that my income stream comes from a number of areas and I am not reliant on, say, one organisation to  provide me some dollars.

There are a lot of  methods to make money online and a lot more niches out there to use those methods. It is a process just like any other, but one big advantage of building an income online is that we are able to take advantage of the developments and advances being made in this area of technology.

It seems to me that the future of online marketing looks very promising indeed.