Hi Fergal,

I've been here a short time now and I haven't seen you before (I don't think) anyway, good informative update and good luck. Steve

I've been doing local search SEO for businesses for almost four years now. Rank and rent model is attractive. Maybe we can swap stories sometime. :)

Wow that's cool... thnaks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing. I wonder why so many humans are attracted to Thailand? Anyway, your story is inspiring, all the best:)

Hey Fergal!

It sounds like things are going well for you! Congrats on what you have accomplished to now! Thailand is a wonderful place to start and start cheap! Ireland has the better beer (that is all relative I guess!).

BTW, I have a pretty strong connection to Thailand as well...We have a warehouse operation about 30 KM outside of Bangkok from which we support our eCommerce stores and our Amazon product sales to Asia addresses from...

Completely understand you migrating back to the EU (Ireland) however...As beautiful as Thailand is, and the many nice things that you find there...

Personally, after more than 40 years parking in Germany while raising a family and using it as a base, I have not given up that long and strong connection to this day...

Regarding business, we also have a second warehouse in Bavaria that supports our EU area sales, Plus there is the friends, and business partners, etc...

The beer is pretty good there too, BTW!

Cheers and best of luck going forward! 8 years is a lifetime in the internet world! Keep it up!!

Dave : ).

Hi Fergal,

Nice.....not that far away:-)
Dublin here.

That is an amazing accomplishment.

You have a year and almost a month on me! You are probably one of the earliest people to join my Buddy List! If I had joined the first time I saw WA (which I would have if I had the money!) you would have had only about six months on me!

WA has come a long, long way hasn't it? Yet though different, it's got the same community, the same objectives and the same pay-it-forward philosophy.

It always puts a spark in my heart when people like yourself pop up like you have :)

I've had my best days at WA but I'm hoping this isn't it. I was very active but that dropped way off. I felt it was my time to go the way most people go and disappear. Sometimes I have mixed feelings about that, lean one way and then lean the other.

Today I am involved in too many projects that have taken me away from online marketing, but I stay here because these things are not going to go on forever.

About half way through my stay here, I wrote an article that hit just at the right time and place! I was doing launch jacking and BAM! I began getting sale after sale! I was never ever able to repeat that again, but it showed me the potential. I have never lost that.

Even after being inactive here and in my campaigns now for well over a year, the income has dwindled, but it has never stopped and since those days, I have never had a month without WA income!

August 2016 will be no different! It has been how I've been able to stay here all along. I'm hoping this scenario will become life-support in place of the intensely physically-laborious earned income that I have fallen back into.

Just having you suddenly appear here today, showing us what's been going on with your business, is incredibly encouraging to me!

Daniel Euergetes

Congrats to you my friend and I hope nothing less than the best for you always

All the best Fergal :)