I sat here this morning in front of a blank screen desperately trying to think of a subject for my next article. It wasn't only screen that was blank, my mind started to wander away from screen and on to random thoughts about Internet life in general and peoples names and stories of how I got to know them started to pop in to my head.

When I realised here was my article with out people I was thinking about my Internet experience would be less enjoyable and less profitable.

So this is going to be my cybernet life story, life and trials of an Internet junkie.

I started same way everyone else did bought a computer with a modem. (actully I bought it with money but it had a modem installed) never used modem for nearly a year figured if I started to log on to Internet it would end up costing me a fortune in telephone charges. Only finally used it when 12 months warranty was nearly up needed to make sure it worked before warranty ran out. Guess what it had a fault manufactures sent wrong modem cable.

Got that one sorted out and then because I now had an ISP I started to use internet, well I surfed around aimlessly, and I was right cost me a fortune in telephone charges.

Then I noticed my ISP allowed me to have my own web site (free of course) so I built my first web page. What do you reckon happened next, got bombarded with spam about how I could earn 1 million in 2 weeks just by following a simple masterplan that would only cost me $50.00 if I purchased it today right now. Fell into that one several times, is all this sounding familiar getting a feeling of deja vous.

Ok now we have set scene, where does making friends come into it.

One of those emails told me about this super duper new hosting company that would not only host my site but provide me with products of my own complete with sales pages for each product. So I could start making money right away, plus they would pay me, all I had to do was get other people to sign up and I could earn a monthly income forever.

Wow lead me to it signed up right away uploaded sales pages they sent me started to send out free ads submitted to FFA pages free classified sites. Zilch, nothing, (accept a credit card bill)

I stopped in my tracks something was wrong here what should I be doing that I wasn't, this was a good product great sales pages written by experts it had to sell.

Then I noticed that one of free extras you got was membership to a marketing forum called Internet Warriors, in desperation decided to log in and take a look.

BINGO here was all information on what worked and why. What didn't work and why, I found people here who were willing to take me by hand and tutor me for free.

In real estate business, there is a concept called "farming."

An agent will pick a neighborhood as his farm and work farm in various ways. Sometimes he’ll start by mailing out an announcement to each resident to make them aware of his services, his location, and contact information (plowing up fields).

Then he may conduct a "doorknob hanger" program where he hires people to place flyers right on doorknobs, reiterating information he already mailed out (planting first crop of seeds).

The agent’s next step might be to offer to do free appraisals via still another flyer, this one sent through mail again (watering first crop).

Now he may decide to do another doorknob flyer, again reiterating free appraisal offer sent out by mail (cultivating).

Then he does another mailing to each resident, offering a free sales prep analysis to go in and personally point out things that can be done to profitably prepare home for market (fertilizing).

Then agent personally drives through his "farm," making notes of any obvious home improvements that need to be done, along with addresses of those properties.

Back at office, he then writes personal letters to each of addresses where obvious improvements are needed, if they haven’t already responded to his recent mailing (weeding).