Everything I have learned, and everything that I talk about on this site, has all been learned from one place – The Keyword Academy. This is a community of budding Internet Marketers that all share a similar goal of freedom, and are all using Internet Marketing to reach that goal. The site is run by Courtney Tuttle, a well known and well respected figure in the Internet Marketing community, and also has members like Grizz, who is famous for turning a Blogger blog into a money making machine that earns him thousands every month.

The Keyword Academy is first and foremost a learning tool. Courtney has set up a series of video tutorials that takes you step by step through every facet of Internet Marketing. It’s as easy as following the bouncing ball. His no nonsense, step by step approach, means that anyone can succeed in this business, with no prior knowledge of the business needed. By signing up to the Academy, you receive instant access to all these videos.

The videos aren’t the only reason to sign up though. Membership includes full access to a private forum packed full of like minded people, from complete newbies to seasoned travelers willing to give amazing advice to members. If you have any prior experience with Internet Marketing forums, you will know that the majority of them are full of spam and very little help to anyone. The Keyword Academy forums are nothing like this, they are full of people who are serious about succeeding, and happy to help others. The forums themselves are designed to highlight members that are succeeding, so you can be sure that the advice that is given is coming from someone who knows what they are talking about.

There are many other reasons to join up, including access to a tool recently purchased by the Academy called “Connect Content”, which takes all of the hard work out of finding people within your chosen niche to network and trade links with. This tool on its own is worth the price of admission. Access to the Academy costs $1 for the first month. That $1 gives you complete access to everything for 4 whole weeks. If you decide that you don’t want to continue your membership after that month, all you have to do is log into your Paypal account and cancel your membership. There are no hidden tricks. If you do decide to continue your membership, the price is $33 a month.

I will be talking a lot about the Academy and it’s methods on this site, but no amount of rambling from me will replace the benefit you gain from signing up. For $1, you would be mad not to.

Stick with us and we’ll try and help you through these hard times.

The first thing you need to ask yourself is “What skills do I have?”.  A lot of people get stuck at this very first stage, because they are unable to recognise just how resourceful they are. They tend to think of their skill set as being limited to what they did for a living. For example, a friend of mine was just laid off from a major supermarket chain where she was working behind the checkout. She’s interested in fending for herself, but she said to me “What am I going to do, set up a cash register on my front porch and wait for people to start handing me money?”. Of course, this is ridiculous, but I assured her that her knowledge was surely not limited to pushing buttons on a cash register.

What are you doing right now, this very instant? Reading this blog, right? What skills does it take to do what you’re doing? Sure, you need to be able to read, but you must have booted up your computer, fired up your web browser, maybe you went to Google and searched for “make extra money from home” and ended up on this site. Perhaps you’re using Firefox and you downloaded and installed it yourself. Maybe after visiting here you are going to head off to Facebook to catch up with your friends.

An important thing to keep in mind when researching ways that you can make money from home, is to make sure that you don’t fall into the trap of running down the miriad of rabbit holes that the internet offers you ove and over again. While looking around, you’ll see surveys, “get paid to” ads, get rich quick schemes, multi level marketing programs and competitions and freebies. It’s easily to get overwhelmed by all the choices out there, but we will hopefully show you that it really doesn’t have to be that difficult.

All of these activities are based around a skill set that you can use to create income. All you need is a little direction, and hopefully we will be able to point you on the right path. You’re not going to become a millionaire overnight (you may never become one), but at least you’ll be able to get through these times with the knowledge that you were able to help yourself, instead of relying on others that may not be there when the hard times come.