I have been online since about 1991, starting out on a Sega
Dreamcast game system that ran off a cd. The "keyboard" was
a remote control like the one you use on a tv. It took me
about an hour to write a short email. 

So when we moved to web tv with a real keyboard I was
really excited and wanted to start right away learning how
to build a website. I spent two years on my first one and
did it all from scratch. I had a wonderful teacher by the
name of Herb Amberg who would email me and give me little
things to do and I would email him back the results and he
would "grade" me.

I've gotten into a lot of things over the years. I was in
the "site fights" which was a competition for web sites and
it was basically just for fun but it helped me to learn how
to do things a little better plus taught me how to work on
a team. 

I was also in the Mint Marketing Team for several years and
worked closely with the owner, ken Moore and helped to
build the new MMT website.

I finally got a computer a few years after getting the web
tv, and my first one only had about a 300 Mb hard drive, so
needless to say it crashed after a few downloads. I
probabaly went through five or more old junkers before I
finally got a new one. Thank God that now they're
inexpensive enough that I can afford a new one every few
years.

My main focus or my "niche" so to speak has been Newbies
for the last several years. I still remember the feeling of
being totally new to the computer, to the internet and to
marketing, and I am very passionate against how people seem
to always target newbies for business opportunities before
they know the basics about being online. So I try to offer
them my guidance and help them avoid some of the pitfalls
of online scammers and also to help them catch up with some
of the things they need to know in order to be successful
if they choose to go into online marketing.

I don't know everything by any means, and I don't call
myself an expert, but I try to point people in the
direction of those who are. Every day is a new day and I
learn something new daily, so maybe something I learn will
be useful to someone else. Who knows?

"If there is anything I can do to help you, please don't
hesitate to ask" ..has become my number one motto and I try
to live it daily. When I'm able to be online and can help
someone, it makes my day. I truly enjoy helping and it has
nothing to do with making money. But that just happens to
be a fringe benefit that I enjoy as well.

Thank you all so much for voting for me at the POTW forum.

God bless, 

Becky