Online approx 5 years, started part time, just surfing around and doing minor affiliate promoting. My first venture was Pep-ing.com (People Empowering People - Internet Marketing Group) which also host the original, Charity Traffic Auto Surfing Exchange. Which I sold after my first heart attack. I backed off the Internet for a bit recouperating, then ventured into the realm of online network marketing (MLM's), unfortunately received very poor training leading to a horrible experience in that field. But still knew the potential was there and that the Internet was the key to success for me. I then spent the next several years studing, reading surfing, reading and studing some more, aquiring more knowledge of HOW Internet marketing worked. I  pushed affiliate products, built webpages, tackled search engines, tried several turnkey type promotions, etc, simply gaining experience. It wasn't till I become involved in a program by the name of Mentoring for Free, that things started to fall together in place for my rise to success. More about MFF later.