About

About One Dumb Aussie

My Life in One Sentence before I had the Internet.
Left school, became baker, became car salesman, bought a bakery because it was cheap, did OK No Life worked 7 days.

January 2004 Sold My Bakery had a Holiday and started surfing The Internet Regularly.

Sometime mid 2004 first joined emailcash (Now rewards central) and promoted to my friends etc. I made $15.75 after a few months work. I now use this site for a completely different reason. (Free ads)

End 2004 – April 2005
After Researching my arse off and failing at a few things I tried (details in other articles) I decided to become a drop ship Mobile phone and digital camera supplier. That allowed me to start for NO MONEY, they had the products I just sold them for a bit more and they mailed the stuff to the customer, A Great way to get started by the way. BUT Read on…..
Found (What I thought at the time) was a suitable company after much research and emails and generally pissing off the admin departments of a few companies.
Put products up for sale at auction sites. Sold STUFF all really. I made 2 or 3 sales a week and eBay made more than me. Doing auction Listings is the most boring crap I have ever done.

This is where it went Pear Shaped! This is the short story.
Decided to supply eBay sellers by Drop shipping BULK Lots of phones and electronics. Used $150 that I made on Auction sites from sales, bought a store Learnt how to use it and loaded the products. Put a few Crappy ads at Cracker etc. Took 3 weeks or so.
And then………
A week or so after full launch, I got an order for around $500, went fine Made about $40 clear. (Figures are from memory)
Next day…………
It was 7 or 8 Orders for about $4600, Went fine, getting excited Made about $350 Clear.
Within Just One week……….
Had over $12,000 in orders, I don’t know how, it just went MAD!

Within a month we had turned over in Excess of $40,000!
In the next three months we did mid $50,000 each month. (Turnover not profit)
 I was Really happy, I even started Looking at Boats.
But THEN…….

One order didn’t go through as scheduled……
Then Another………
Then a BIG order for over $5,000 never showed at the customers address.
Support Stopped returning email. Website went down, no phones being answered NOTHING.

The pricks Disappeared overnight.
It cost me everything I had made plus $2,000 or so on my credit card to pay everyone back.

I was called a thief, liar, Motherf$%ker and worse, one guy showed at my house!
It was Bullshit Scary. In The wash up it turned out there where about 40 of us all up and we lost over $100,000 between us. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

BAILED out got a job as a Baker at Coles, I didn’t even have an Internet Connection for nearly a year.

That was mid 2005.   Haven’t been Near Internet Business since then really. More looked at traditional business opportunities and managed Car Yards for a living. Used cars and Volkswagens

Late 2008 I Started Looking again after running into an old friend from the Mobile Phone days on a social networking site. (Yes I kept most of my friends cause I paid them Back) The Bastard got me going again on Making Money at Home instead of going to a J.O.B.

This time I have been a lot smarter in my approach to setting up a Business Online. I spent 4 Months just researching and learning. 4 Months from January 2009 Until April 2009 Just looking at forums, reading as much as I could, getting my head around this whole web 2.0 concept and trying to keep my wallet intact from all the offers I saw.

When I finally took the plunge at the end of April 2009 I made ONE rule that I stand by:

RULE 1: Spend $100 of my own money and that is it. Any other money I needed I am going to make the internet give me. I refuse to use my credit card or any of my savings. I am am going to be a Tight arse and still make money.

Fastforward to the present I have built an Income while not mind blowing, pays the bills. I used only that Initial $100 and every other cent I used I amde the internet give it to me first. In some cases I had to put things on hold while I waited for a cheque to arrive from the states and clear in my account. I could have ‘borrowed’ the money from savings but I didn’t. I waited and it has started to pay off.

Now I stay at home each day and see the kids off to school, I am here when they get home as well. 6 Hours is plenty of time to do what I need. I do a lot more fishing and my stress level is way down. My income is not where it was when I was sales manager But I not that far off.

If you are in a position where you want an Internet business but do not want to spend or risk any of your own money then this is the perfect site for you.

I can show you how to start with $0 and turn it into an income. It is not that difficult but it takes time and some work. The more work you put in the faster it will happen, the more time you invest the more money you will recieve in the long run.

Join Me in the private area or just have a look around the site, it is all about leveraging your time into some money, then using that money to build a business you can be proud of.

I look forward to talking to you in the private area and I wish you every success.

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve”
Dale Carnegie

Take Care

One Dumb Aussie

Tweet This