Born and raised in Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) before settling and working in Johannesburg, South Africa I eventually uplifted my family to settle in New Zealand - The Land of The Long White Cloud.

And it was here, during my struggles to continue with my career as a financial adviser, that I discovered Wealthy Affiliate, Kyle and Carson (their names always seem to appear in that order!) and Internet Affiliate Marketing - back in November 2006.

I was not one of WA's initial success stories.

But I persevered and made some good money in the golf niche - the early GPS models, using Pay Per Click advertising. It was a lot of hard work keeping tables of technology related products updated as the technology in golf GPS gadgets changed rapidly.

Now there are apps that make them available on phones - so that killed that campaign.

PPC was my most successful venture and then I got the infamous Google Slap and was banned for life because of something I had no control over.

No-one said life was fair.

So here I am, concentrating on organic traffic through the SEO methods taught here and having a lot of fun doing it.

My advice for newbies is get stuck in to the training - don't miss a thing out do everything exactly as suggested and don't be in a big hurry to get ahead of yourself and the training. Make steady progress at a pace you can handle.

And if you can - watch Jay's weekly live training, I've never missed one and always learn at least one new thing which is inevitably invaluable.

See you at the ATM ...