I plan on sharing the highs and lows of my attempts to make a living from the web as well as share any knowledge I pick up. But I am nervous, the learning curve for me is going to be really steep. I like to think I am reasonably smart but all of this is really is double dutch to me.

Case in point to set up and launch this blog has now taken me 4 hours and even then I am still none the wiser about half the stuff I have done – oh how easy it just to blindly follow instructions!

I plan to keep a very Bridget Jones type reporting record for my efforts, so here we go

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Clueless about the internet pretty much sums me up.  Don’t get me wrong, I can email and surf with the best of them, and I even have my own myspace page, but ask me how to set up a web page or what an rss feed is and I will just look at you blankly.  How come so many people seem to know about all this stuff?

But I want to be financially independent and I have a sense that the internet is the place to do that.  So I have set myself a challenge - can I earn more from the web than I can from the physical world?  Ultimately I want to pay off the mortgage and have an income stream that lets me live the life I want, with no boss and no office politics around me.  But is any of this possible for a complete novice……

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