When I first started out in the online world, I knew very little about how websites worked.  The only experience I had up to this point was with my eBay business which I had been running for about 7 years.  Since all I had to do was add auctions (and this was fully automated), I essentially learned nothing about how to build a website.  Just some basic HTML coding was about all I got out of it.

Despite my lack of knowledge and experience, I did have one thing the was working in my favor;  I was very determined to make money with websites!  Simply put, I was going to make this work no matter how much effort it would take.

Although I really wanted to learn how to build websites from scratch, I also wanted to start generating revenue as quickly as possible so I could get out of my eBay business.  How could I learn how to build websites without spending months or years tinkering with things while earning no money?

Instead of spending months researching how to build websites and performing countless hours of trial and error trying to find out what worked, I figured it would make more sense to buy a site with a proven track record that I can “study”.  The first few sites