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Hello everyone,
My name is David, I'm 25 and I'm from Romania. Let me tell you my story of how I got into Internet Marketing. 2 years ago I was introduced to freelancing by a freelancer friend. After exactly 6 months of extra grinding when I got home from my 9 to 5 at a gas station, I was able to go full time as a virtual assistant.
This is a picture with me in the middle and my bosses before I left. It was at the end of August that year.
I had two clients at the time, one was a Local SEO from the US and the other was building affiliates sites and he was from the UK. As a matter of fact, the latter recommended me this forum.
I managed to gather some money and I moved to another town, something that I really wanted to do for a while.
That's almost $1.000 there which was enough for me to do that.
Sorry for the low quality pics, I didn't have a good phone at the time.
I was living in a really small one room motel before, the kitchen was a shared kitchen and overall it wasn't that great.
I finally got myself a nice two rooms apartment like I wanted for quite a while.
This is the living room where I was usually working.
Things have slowly gotten better and better, I had ups and downs but the downs weren't actually downs, they were a part of my growing process. I changed clients due to a lack of synergy, I had moments when I was overburned, things that didn't go as planned but all in all I was definitely learning and getting better, professionally and as an individual.
Overall I'm doing great. I managed to pack enough value as a professional that I earn the minimum wage in the US, which isn't that great but neither a small feat looking through the lens of my fellow people. I know that with my skills, knowledge and my worth I can find a new client in less than a week. I actually did this a couple of times with ease. By this I mean that I never have worries that I won't be able to find a client, worries that I had in the past and once I actually had to rely on a 9 to 5 again for a couple of months until I got back up.
I'm still doing VA, Admin support and stuff like that but I specialized myself in SEO so I'm a very SEO friendly assistant. It just happened that many of my clients needed or was in SEO. There is always a big need for it and I genuinely like it so I decided to walk this path. I won't call myself an SEO, even if some clients do, I know what I need to achieve in order to allow myself to use that title. Build an affiliate site from 0 that earns at least $1.000 per month. This is what it means for me at least. Be able to rank something on your own and actually make it profitable.
This is also why I'm here, I'm feeling that my days as a freelancer are getting to an end and it is time for me to start doing my own things. I have great plans for that, actionable plans but the one that's most relevant to this discussion is a niche site project that I'm currently undertaking. I decided to start using my account on this forum more actively and tap into the power of communities to ask for guidance and help.
This is my introduction, my motifs and my intentions. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. It is a pleasure to meet you all, I can't wait to get to know you all better and hopefully I can too contribute back to the community sooner or later. I've read the rules but if anyone has any other advice and tips for me about this forum or in general I'll be glad to hear them. Cheers!
My name is David, I'm 25 and I'm from Romania. Let me tell you my story of how I got into Internet Marketing. 2 years ago I was introduced to freelancing by a freelancer friend. After exactly 6 months of extra grinding when I got home from my 9 to 5 at a gas station, I was able to go full time as a virtual assistant.

This is a picture with me in the middle and my bosses before I left. It was at the end of August that year.
I had two clients at the time, one was a Local SEO from the US and the other was building affiliates sites and he was from the UK. As a matter of fact, the latter recommended me this forum.
I managed to gather some money and I moved to another town, something that I really wanted to do for a while.

That's almost $1.000 there which was enough for me to do that.
Sorry for the low quality pics, I didn't have a good phone at the time.
I was living in a really small one room motel before, the kitchen was a shared kitchen and overall it wasn't that great.
I finally got myself a nice two rooms apartment like I wanted for quite a while.

This is the living room where I was usually working.
Things have slowly gotten better and better, I had ups and downs but the downs weren't actually downs, they were a part of my growing process. I changed clients due to a lack of synergy, I had moments when I was overburned, things that didn't go as planned but all in all I was definitely learning and getting better, professionally and as an individual.

Overall I'm doing great. I managed to pack enough value as a professional that I earn the minimum wage in the US, which isn't that great but neither a small feat looking through the lens of my fellow people. I know that with my skills, knowledge and my worth I can find a new client in less than a week. I actually did this a couple of times with ease. By this I mean that I never have worries that I won't be able to find a client, worries that I had in the past and once I actually had to rely on a 9 to 5 again for a couple of months until I got back up.
I'm still doing VA, Admin support and stuff like that but I specialized myself in SEO so I'm a very SEO friendly assistant. It just happened that many of my clients needed or was in SEO. There is always a big need for it and I genuinely like it so I decided to walk this path. I won't call myself an SEO, even if some clients do, I know what I need to achieve in order to allow myself to use that title. Build an affiliate site from 0 that earns at least $1.000 per month. This is what it means for me at least. Be able to rank something on your own and actually make it profitable.
This is also why I'm here, I'm feeling that my days as a freelancer are getting to an end and it is time for me to start doing my own things. I have great plans for that, actionable plans but the one that's most relevant to this discussion is a niche site project that I'm currently undertaking. I decided to start using my account on this forum more actively and tap into the power of communities to ask for guidance and help.
This is my introduction, my motifs and my intentions. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. It is a pleasure to meet you all, I can't wait to get to know you all better and hopefully I can too contribute back to the community sooner or later. I've read the rules but if anyone has any other advice and tips for me about this forum or in general I'll be glad to hear them. Cheers!