It seems like a crazy thing to do, but it turns out that I have launched my blog just as I am headed off to a remote part of Spain (with almost no chance of internet connectivity).

Before I head out, though, I wanted to see if my experience of learning about Internet Marketing is echoed by others. It seems to me that there is a necessary evil that we have to put up with, in order to get up to speed on all the ways to make money online.

That faustian bargain is the way your email fills up as more and more folks add you to there list.

So, hint number one: Build an email address that you will only be using for your early learning phase. That way, you will be able to work out who is for real and who needs to be avoided without having to filter your main email – a process which never quite works the way you want it to.

However, I’m not going to suggest you skip this step completely, you may find some emails and long form pages that impress you so much that you will want to emulate them.

If I have the chance I will muse for longer from Spain….but I don’t hold out much hope for a conenction.

Strange how the default page in WordPress echoes the sentiment so well.

Welcome to martinpercival.com. Heaven only knows what you were expecting when you jumped here. Irish dancing perhaps?

Well, I’m afraid I’m not that one. Maybe you were after some HR advice…..well, strike two I’m afraid, although he may get a mention again in a while.

This Martin Percival lives in London, in the UK and this is his place on the net. Along with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and a score of other social media websites. Maybe that’s how you got here, in which case thanks for taking the time to follow through.

What then is the purpose of the site? It’s going to be a bit of a sounding board actually. My goal is to sort out a way for me to get engaged with the world of making money online. I have spent my life helping others to get large IT systems up and running, or keep them running, or sell them, or evangelize them and who knows I may do that again.

In all of that time, I have been privileged to work at the front of the IT industry; messing with minicomputers when 4 Megabytes of memory was a really big deal, playing with Unix when it was up and coming and toying with the internet when you had to compile your own browser.   Despite all that, I have never once grabbed the technology by the throat and made it pay me directly.

So, that is about to change. I’m committed to turning all this “knowledge” into something that buys my bread. This is made all the more poignant by the fact that I am currently “between jobs”, as actors say. So branching out may be the thing which means I don’t have to wait expectantly for agencies that no longer haunt my phone day and night.

So, welcome again, join me if you wish and I promise to give you a load of pitiful puns and as much fun as I can squeeze in along the way. I can’t promise to provide another serious-faced business blog but I want to get to my end goal and have someone say “we had a laugh” along the way.

Martin