Hello Everyone, I am Lakshman Teja(@lakshmanteja) and I am new member of the Steemit Community

I came to know about Steemit recently from @firepower & @nirmal. After knowing about Steemit and having heard many amazing reviews about the platform, I registered an account here and It is finally approved.

As this post is going to be an introductory post about myself, I will be covering some of the important aspects. I am 22 years old student who completed his graduation recently. I started blogging or Internet Marketing career back in 2013 and till now everything is going well.

There is a famous quote - "All you need is a cup of coffee and a fast internet connection to change the world". Yes, it is quite true and It helped me change my world. I never thought I can afford a Macbook or iPhone and blogging made all the difference. I have gone through many ups and downs during the journey which I like to list down.

Initial Days of my Blogging Career

I used to browse the net from a local net cafe who charges around 0.5$/ hour. Initially, there is no motive and I used to watch all sorts of things over the internet. At this point of time, I didn't know that one can earn a living with the help of the internet and Once I came to know about the same. I started searching aimlessly for different ways to earn money online.

I stumbled upon many pay per click, survey sites and I tried each and every one of them. After trying them for months reality hit hard and came to know that most of the sites are a scam which caused a dent to my confidence. This went on for a couple of months and I finally started a blog on 6 July 2013.

Initial days of my career are the hard days, I didn't have the slightest clue about domains and hosting stuff. All I know is the blogger platform which I used to create sites on which I usually copy and paste content from other sites. Facebook helped me a lot in those days as I have made many real connections who helped me learn about WordPress and the most important aspects of blogging as well.

I used to post mostly about rooting and Android How-to guides on my site which later I sold for about 1000$ You won't believe me that I don't own a computer and I did the work from a local net cafe.

Image Credits:- Google Images

Can you imagine that I used to work from a plcae like the one in the above picture. I used to work for 5-6 hours straight and used to get all weird looks from other people. All of them thought I was either watching porn or wasting time on the internet. No one believed me except my parents that I am actually working and making money with the help of internet.

Second Phase of my Blogging Career

This is the most crucial part of my career where I realized that I can make serious money by flipping sites. I started building sites and flipping them for good profit. My parents gifted me a laptop in July 2014 which made things even easier. After getting a laptop I experimented and even tried "Event Niche Sites" and succeded in ranking them.

Image Source: UberFlip

I am doing blogging simultaneously with my graduation and it helped me a lot. During this phase, I learned a lot of new things and came to know about three hats in SEO Black, White, and Grey. Blogging needs one to keep on studying and it is good one too. All the methods which work now may go outdated so one needs to keep himself educated all the time.

I even neglected to maintain the blogs due to studies as I failed in most of my subjects. I dropped many blogs and only maintained two important blogs during this time.

What Am I Doing Now ?

I recently completed my graduation and chose Internet Marketing as my career. All the ups and downs I faced in my career helped me to learn a lot and even helped me make some real connections in this virtual world. I can't even imagine what I would be doing right now If I didn't think about earning money from Internet.

Indeed Internet is a beautiful place where you can learn many things, enhance your skills and with the help of it, we don't need a degree to do our dream jobs. The one thing I learnt in my 4 years of career is results take time to show and One need to wait patiently. Success needs a lot of hard work and dedication & IT won't happen overnight.

That's all about me and I am looking forward posting more on Steemit :) I will be updating the post frequently and Sorry that I am unable to include any pictures for now.