I am in a difficult position. I need a job very soon. I have plans going which will, I am sure, bear fruit in the longer term with regard to affiliate marketing and the SEO which supports the fishing shop which I am operating. No, this is not the issue. What is, is the meantime which is round about, by my calculations, now. My private resources have dwindled into the red levels and this is why I have to have a job.

The issue I have with that is that my abilities are, to be blunt, rubbish to a future employer. I have lots of them, don’t get me wrong, I know stuff and can do plenty of things perfectly well utilising the knowledge I have. The issue is that almost all of the things of which I speak is self taught and not really been used commercially. Let me give an example.

In the spring of 2010, I saw an ad at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which wasn’t something I had heard of about, but that did not matter according to the ad. So I replied and spoke to one of the directors of the company which was named Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day will never arrive when you’ll be pleased I told you that). I agreed to meet him at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we talked more and I was very pleased with the bloke who’s name is Jim Akin (see brackets above) and really wanted to work with him. I had to pay for the training (as explained in the advert 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 gave it over. And since Jim and Kalmindon (jointly owned with his brother John, see previous 2 brackets) guaranteed profitable work on completion at attractive rates, it wasn’t a gamble.

I drove back and when I got home, the instruction website was there for me and I got going. It took about six weeks to finish, a bit longer than I’d intended but as I was getting towards the end, I emailed Jim to let him know I was about ready for the 1st client he had arranged to supply. John Akin rang me a few days later to let me know that he was in the process of getting the deal in place for my 1st client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a site they’d written for a client that had gone bankrupt but they were trying to sell it and the domain name. I was happy to do that and I set about doing real world SEO.

Anyway to cut a long story short, Kalmindon and Jim and John Akin were operating a scam. There were no customers and never were, the complete point was to get people to pay for an SEO training program and fob them off for as long as they were able. But in the meantime, arriving at the point where I knew that I had been conned had taken many months and during that period I had gone through an awful lot of my own cash including nearly all of the money my grandmother had left me. I attempted to find some freelance SEO work 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.

Since this was not working very quickly I investigated affiliate marketing as a possibility and made a decision to have a go, set up a site and enrolled in several affiliate marketing programs and added firms with a tackle dangling theme on my site. So now I am doing the SEO and it is climbing rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet close to the top, so I have been doing pay-per-click advertising as well to attract traffic in the meantime.

So you see I don’t really have a lot that a potential employer would see as regards SEO and exclaim “that’s the fellow for us” as what I have isn’t real workplace experience and the same goes for php programming and web programming skills since I instructed myself when I needed to acquire them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a commercial sense and the rest of my IT knowledge base were last used so long ago as to be fairly useless now. And of course, I do not have a degree. If I did of course, there’d be no issue as naturally I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it was not important 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, get down to the harbour and work my passage aboard ship.

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