About Alek and his blog

Hey,

Thanks for stopping by my page!

My name is Alek Stanojevic. I’m 40 years old and I live in Belgrade, Serbia.

Alek Stanojevic profile pictureI don’t know how you found me or got to this page, but I really believe that there are no coincidences in life.

If you got to this page you’re probably like me – an ordinary person with extraordinary dreams, who realized that working as an employee couldn’t give you the dream life of having both, time and money.

I wanted to get more out of life, but just couldn’t find the right vehicle or system to pay me what I was truly worth.

I know we are all taught to get a degree and that will land us a great paying job. Here I was, following this road we’re all taught – go to school and get a “good job”.

After 11 years spent in construction business working as an architect, at the age of 38 (better ever than never), I realized that there was no such thing as a “good job” (one that would pay me what I was truly worth).

What I also realized was that the majority of people who followed this path retire broke. It seemed, everyone I knew fell into two categories:

  • They had lots of time, but no money (99%), or
  • They had a lots of money, but no time (1%).

My “ah-ha” moment came when I read the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki. I realized, I needed to have something I could control and call my own and most importantly provide for my family in the event something happened to me.

It’s been almost a year and a half that I start thinking about creating a web site and get involved in internet marketing to try earning some additional money and, perhaps to change my life for the better.

During that time I have been reading many e-books, reports and guides, watched hundreds of webinars and videos, listened to great amount of interviews with experienced web site owners, bloggers and internet marketers.

After several months, I realized that the best way for doing that is to have my own web site. I also realized that if you want to set your internet business properly you need to invest some hard work and some time.

That way I could have everything under my control.

That sounded really good to me and I was ready to start. With all the information on the internet I thought it would be easy to accomplish that.

I was AWFULLY wrong!

It was completely impossible to find an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’s guide with all necessary steps explained for an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER to create a FIRST BLOG in one place.

Just to mention that by saying ABSOLUTE BEGINNER, I really mean that – someone who DOESN’T know what the following are:

  • what is a blog
  • a difference between a web site and a blog
  • a domain name
  • a web hosting
  • an autoresponder
  • how autoresponder works
  • domain name servers
  • a difference between wordpress, joomla, drupal…
  • URL
  • HTML
  • FTP client
  • HTTP
  • RSS
  • feed
  • feed reader, etc.

At that time I had only two options: to give up and continue with my ‘lovely’ job or to continue further.

Just like Sir Richard Branson gave a title to one of his book, I sad to myself…

SCREW IT, LET’S DO IT!

Again, I started reading e-books, watching webinars and videos, listening to the interviews… but, this time I started to write my own notes about everything I read, listened to, and watched.

I wrote 11 notebooks with more than 600 pages.

I spent another 4 months to find out what it was all about.

The most important thing was that I started to IMPLEMENT those things one by one.

At last – I taught myself the BASICS of how to get a blog created and online.

This is how this blog was “born”.

Today I have several web sites. Two of them are my personal blogs where I write about internet and affiliate marketing. The other ones are niche sites where I use internet marketing techniques to sell some stuff.

Enjoy!

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