Hey there my name is Mark Walton and I’m an entrepreneur and business coach in the online home business industry.

On this site, you will find a wide variety of content, information, tips and best practice when it comes to online marketing, being an entrepreneur and the world economy. I love being my own boss working from my home office and I get a real buzz from helping others overcome obstacles and achieve their goals.
 
This site is designed to help you make sense of all the opportunities available and help you develop a strategy for success.
 
So first a little bit about me……
 
I grew up in Warrington Cheshire UK with one older sister and one younger brother yes I was the one in the middle. From a young age I was studious and being shy and self conscious preferred my own company. I never really knew what I wanted to do in life, schools career guidance was none existent, and so at the age of 18 I drifted into a career in banking. My biggest regret even now is that I didn’t go to university. I worked hard completed my professional qualifications in record time and found myself in front line lending roles managing a team helping SME’s and exceeding targets.
 
My big mistake…….
 
Getting married and divorced in my twenties had a big impact on me and resulted in me not allowing anyone to get close to me for many years. I realise now I wasn’t ready to get married at that time although I thought I wanted the stable career and the 2.4 children.
 
My challenges……
 
I focused on my career and moved into training and coaching others something which challenged my self consciousness and shyness but was very rewarding. My most fulfilling role was as Head of Learning & Development for Africa and The Caribbean where I got to coach and develop some of the warmest and welcoming people in the world who tackled every challenge and opportunity with great enthusiasm producing fantastic results for themselves and the organisation. Outside work I pushed myself mentally and physically doing an MBA, taking on long distance races 40 miles +, learning to fly a glider, and doing a bungee jump from Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi; – given I can’t even climb a ladder without going rigid with fear; this was terrifying and will never be repeated. 
A New Chapter……
 
With a restructuring of teh Learning & Development organization, this gave me the opportunity to leave my secure permanent job and become an entrepreneur which felt like a dream come true, to be my own boss away from corporate politics and constraints. Having recently got married and with a young baby I embarked on this new chapter with some uncertainty. Fortunately I was able to secure contracts as a career coach helping others find new jobs or start their own businesses and a range of contracts including the development of a sales team for a Middle East hotel chain.
 
I was missing being at home with my wife and children so I eventually started a Business Brokerage helping people buy and sell their businesses with over £15million of sales achieved so far.
 
Hard lessons from my biggest mistake…..
 
Have successfully grown the agency business and enjoying being an entrepreneur I wanted to diversify and acquired a chain of shops – thinking this could be a staff run passive income stream. The result I ended up working 24/7 for the staff, landlords, banks, suppliers & tax man with no benefit for me and my agency business suffered. I eventually sold these shops at a big loss and have realised bricks & mortar business is not for me.
 
Going Online……….
 
When I started the agency I had no web site or online advertising using magazine adverts and recommendations to gain customers. This I realised would get me nowhere fast so I paid £’000s to a web designer and didn’t really understand what I was paying for – all very technical and mysterious. Then there was SEO or as my wife said the “Seriously Expensive Option”. But I was determined to understand what this was about and later used the knowledge gained to create and grow a web site linked to the shops which produced £70,000 per annum income and is still on Google page 1 for its keywords.
 
I have continued to grow my knowledge of the internet and how to build a successful online business, but this education has been expensive as I have sought to diversify from the brokerage and tried numerous “online home business opportunities” many of which have provided some excellent training material but didn’t give me sufficient support to turn theory into practice.
 
The future is about you………
 
Having gone through the pain and expense, spending over US$30,000  of searching for the ideal opportunity I have now found business partners I can trust and who have guided me to develop a successful online business.
 
My vision and mission now is to mentor and coach other people who are committed to starting a successful online business working from home and help them avoid the mistakes I made and create a successful long term strategy.
 
Let me mentor you to success.