Hi everyone.

My name's Ian, English guy, late 40s. I live on an island in Thailand where I have a guesthouse, a couple of dogs and a laid back lifestyle :-)

I've set up two successful websites over the years, one is 15 years old, the other 11 years old. And both make pretty good money through the selling of services rather than actual products. This is despite me knowing very little about marketing, and despite them not being set up with a specific aim of making money. But I know how to write informative and amusing content, which is what people seem to enjoy reading and Google likes ranking.

I've never tried making a site who's aim is specifically to sell a product. In the past couple of months I've been looking around at ways to begin the process of learning about how to do this. I looked into Black Hat sites and was tempted but I know from my own experience that putting time and effort in and building a site up slowly wins in the long run.

So, having spent a bit of time Googling it seems that Wealthy Affiliate is the way to go. Why not give it a shot? I signed up for WA to see where it leads me.

I figured the worst case scenario is that I learn something I can apply to my existing sites to make them more profitable.

Day 1 . . 17 Nov 2014 . . .Here goes . . .