I am in an awkward place. I have to get a job very urgently. I have plans on the go which will, I am certain, bear fruit in the medium term with regard to affiliate marketing and the SEO which supports the fishing website which I am operating. No, this isn't the problem. What is, is the meantime which is round about, by my calculations, now. My private finances have shrunk into the red area and this is why I require a job.
The issue I have with that is that my abilities are, to be brutal, hopeless to a prospective employer. I have stacks of them, don't get me wrong, I know things and can do loads of things perfectly well utilising the knowledge I have. The challenge is that practically all of the things of which I speak is self taught and not really been used in anger. Let me use an example.
In the spring of last year, I saw an ad at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which was not something I was aware of about, but that did not matter according to the ad. So I answered it and had a chat with one of the directors of the business which was named Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day won't come when you will be glad I told you that). I consented to meet the guy at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we chatted more and I was extremely impressed with the man who's name is Jim Akin (see brackets above) and really wanted to work with him. I needed to pay for the training (as explained in the ad which was 2500 plus VAT but since[ I had some money left to me from my late grandmother's legacy, I borrowed the money, met Jim again at a Job Centre in Leamington and passed it over. And since Jim and Kalmindon (jointly owned with his brother John, see previous 2 brackets) guaranteed paid clients on completion at good rates, it was not a risk.
I drove back and when I got home, the teaching website was available for me and I got started. It took about six weeks to finish, somewhat longer than I had anticipated but once I was coming towards the finish, I emailed Jim to let him know I was nearly ready for the first client he had guaranteed to supply. John Akin rang me a few days later to tell me that he was in the last stages of putting the contract in place for my 1st client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a website they had written for a client that had gone bankrupt but they were attempting to sell it and the domain name. It was no problem to do that and I went about doing real world SEO.
Anyway to cut a long story short, Kalmindon and Jim and John Akin were doing a scam. There were no third parties and never had been, the entire scheme was to get people to pay for an SEO training programme and fob them off for as long as they could. But in the meantime, getting to the realisation where I realised that I had been conned had taken many months and during that time I had used up an awful lot of my own resources including the majority of the money my grandmother had left me. I tried to get some freelance SEO jobs for a while and promoted my own website that offers SEO, affiliate marketing services as well as IT support and software consultancy to small business in the Wolverhampton area.
Because this wasn't working very fast I had a look at affiliate marketing as a possibility and decided to have a go, created a website and enrolled in several affiliate marketing programmes and added companies with a fishing basis on my site. So now I am creating the SEO and it is scaling rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet close to the top, so I have been organising pay-per-click advertising as well to bring in traffic in the meantime.
So you see I do not really have a lot that a possible employer would look at as regards SEO and exclaim "that's the fellow for us" as what I have is not real workplace experience and the same can be said for php programming and web building competencies as I instructed myself when I needed to acquire them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a commercial setting and the rest of my computing skills were last used so long ago as to be totally distant now. And of course, I do not have a degree. If I did of course, there'd be no problem because naturally I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it wasn't critical in the mid-80's. All I can offer is experience and knowledge. If there's no alternative, I'll have to go on the game, go down to the shipyards and work my passage on board ship.
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The issue I have with that is that my abilities are, to be brutal, hopeless to a prospective employer. I have stacks of them, don't get me wrong, I know things and can do loads of things perfectly well utilising the knowledge I have. The challenge is that practically all of the things of which I speak is self taught and not really been used in anger. Let me use an example.
In the spring of last year, I saw an ad at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which was not something I was aware of about, but that did not matter according to the ad. So I answered it and had a chat with one of the directors of the business which was named Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day won't come when you will be glad I told you that). I consented to meet the guy at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we chatted more and I was extremely impressed with the man who's name is Jim Akin (see brackets above) and really wanted to work with him. I needed to pay for the training (as explained in the ad which was 2500 plus VAT but since[ I had some money left to me from my late grandmother's legacy, I borrowed the money, met Jim again at a Job Centre in Leamington and passed it over. And since Jim and Kalmindon (jointly owned with his brother John, see previous 2 brackets) guaranteed paid clients on completion at good rates, it was not a risk.
I drove back and when I got home, the teaching website was available for me and I got started. It took about six weeks to finish, somewhat longer than I had anticipated but once I was coming towards the finish, I emailed Jim to let him know I was nearly ready for the first client he had guaranteed to supply. John Akin rang me a few days later to tell me that he was in the last stages of putting the contract in place for my 1st client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a website they had written for a client that had gone bankrupt but they were attempting to sell it and the domain name. It was no problem to do that and I went about doing real world SEO.
Anyway to cut a long story short, Kalmindon and Jim and John Akin were doing a scam. There were no third parties and never had been, the entire scheme was to get people to pay for an SEO training programme and fob them off for as long as they could. But in the meantime, getting to the realisation where I realised that I had been conned had taken many months and during that time I had used up an awful lot of my own resources including the majority of the money my grandmother had left me. I tried to get some freelance SEO jobs for a while and promoted my own website that offers SEO, affiliate marketing services as well as IT support and software consultancy to small business in the Wolverhampton area.
Because this wasn't working very fast I had a look at affiliate marketing as a possibility and decided to have a go, created a website and enrolled in several affiliate marketing programmes and added companies with a fishing basis on my site. So now I am creating the SEO and it is scaling rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet close to the top, so I have been organising pay-per-click advertising as well to bring in traffic in the meantime.
So you see I do not really have a lot that a possible employer would look at as regards SEO and exclaim "that's the fellow for us" as what I have is not real workplace experience and the same can be said for php programming and web building competencies as I instructed myself when I needed to acquire them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a commercial setting and the rest of my computing skills were last used so long ago as to be totally distant now. And of course, I do not have a degree. If I did of course, there'd be no problem because naturally I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it wasn't critical in the mid-80's. All I can offer is experience and knowledge. If there's no alternative, I'll have to go on the game, go down to the shipyards and work my passage on board ship.
20110201
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