Thanks for taking the time to check out my story, it’s a small page that summarises my journey from how I first started out on the internet, progressed into Social Media and then found my passion for making money online.

Lets go back to 2001 when I was 15, my friend Geoff linked me to MSN messenger for the first time and I sent my first instant message, I still remember the conversation to this day; it was short, abbreviated, emotional. I was addicted. Later that year I joined MySpace, FacePic and LiveJournal and got my first girlfriend, she lived in Canada.

In 2002, I got hooked on Pokemon cards. I negotiated, swapped and took great care of my cards, selling my foil editions on eBay where I received my first American check in the mail for 23 dollars instead of 23 pounds – I didn’t care, it was amazing.

A year later I got into HTML code, Adobe Photoshop, FlashMX and started designing my friends ‘FloAtyHead’ animated avatars for their MySpace profiles. They created a small buzz around ‘the spazz’ via my secret viral HTML code back-linking embeds. They became an instant hit to my 4000 ‘friends’, I didn’t charge for them at the time but I felt like I was worth millions and that’s all that mattered. No one wanted to buy a ‘FloAtyHead’ for £5 or even donate towards the novelty avatar via a simple Paypal button that took me around 8 hours to code but I didn’t mind, I felt great. After a few months I couldn’t cope making all the free FloAtyHead’s so I stopped to concentrate on other important things like Nintendo. It wasn’t long after this when I received a monthly MySpace Newsletter, I would usually ignore these in my inbox but for some reason I scanned down the email until I got the bottom where the newsletter had been signed off by Tom with his own little head floating beside him. First of all I thought someone had just had the same idea as me but as I rolled over the graphic my heart stopped for a second as it read: ‘Me as a FloAtyHead’.

In my second year at university, I thought it would be wise to buy some MySpace T-Shirts and sell them over the social network and on my new website, myspacewhore.co.uk but soon after I bought them, Facebook took over as the new number one place to be. Goodbye glitter graphics, hello news feed. I was left with two-hundred pound’s worth of ‘I <3 MySpace’ t-shirts that didn’t sell until I decided to hit a rock-festival in the summer and sell them to kids who hadn’t heard about Facebook. I knew I was going to be ridiculed and spat on selling the tees so I wore an afro and some shades, not for comedy but to hide my face. I made £90 and failed to get a ticket, so I got drunk and crashed the festival. During the festival, I saw one person wearing my t-shirt, he bought it because it looked stupid and it did. ‘Sit on my Facebook’ tees were just everywhere, it dominated MySpace.

After graduating in Film Production with a 2.1 BSc n 2007, I left with a broad knowledge in multi-media and landed my first job as the creative director of a love, sex and relationships exhibition. It was great, I was 20 years old, in central London, sitting at an office with a different ‘toy’ on my desk everyday. I designed video commercials for billboards, graphics for tube adverts, newspapers and tourist publications. It wasn’t long into the job until I got given an assignment to work out MLM software and free auto-prospecting tools to sell products stocked in our boutique. This was my first taste of multi-line marketing, referral programs and affiliate marketing, It took a while to grasp the $10,000 web application but it opened my eyes to the huge potential of online marketing.

In 2009, I started a number of businesses online and started taking more of an active interest in social media trends, affiliate marketers and new web applications. On my blog, I’d like to share my opinions, unique findings and predictions about what I’ve learnt with an aim to recommend, teach and inspire anyone that takes the time to read what I write. I’ll share honest and transparent information on what I do to create money online and some of the best ways to go about it.

Thank-you for reading, feel free to say hi below!

Max :)