Foreword

Welcome to the first book in my Income Passport series, DIY Websites.

Congratulations! You are now on your way to earning thousands of dollars each month, right from the comfort of your own home.

Upon completing this book, you will have learned all the skills necessary to build your very own, full-featured website, which is the first step toward building an online income.

This series has been written out of a personal desire to teach others how to create serious wealth on the Internet.

You see, I have been working “online” since the mid 1990s, and for much of this time, I felt like I was stuck in a rut. My roles were many and varied – a programmer, a web developer, an online marketer, and a search engine optimization specialist – but for much of this time, I was a slave to the wage. I was literally trading my time for a set wage, just to make other people rich!

Many of my clients went on to build very successful online businesses on the back of the very successful website that I had built and marketed for them. It wasn’t until a friend of mine asked how they might be able to make money online as well, that it occurred to me – I should be doing it for myself.

I realized I had been running around in circles, doing the same job over and over, and each time expecting a different result.

If I wanted to be truly successful, I needed to strike out on my own. The fact that reading this probably means you have come to the same conclusion?

That very night, I built a website; this time, not for a client, but for me. While I slept, I made my first $100 online, again, not for a client, but for me. Well, you can imagine how motivated I felt the next morning?

Since that day in 2008, I have built hundreds of websites, and I have perfected my formula for making money online.